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Just added to Uncommon Knowledge – ‘In Praise of the Primal Lifestyle‘, in which Mark Tyrrell takes a look at the movement towards ‘paleo’ living and how it might help us all be healthier and happier in a time when many of us have strayed far from our ‘roots’.
Published by roger.elliott January 20th, 2010
in uncommon-musings.
3 story generating strategies to boost your therapeutic effectiveness
The right story at the right time can facilitate psychological and even physical healing. It’s possible that the ancient traditions of storytelling so rich and rife in all cultures may have been the earliest form of psychotherapy as well as vehicles for passing on patterns of wisdom.
Using stories for therapy isn’t new, but it’s becoming more popular again. Dr Milton Erickson used to tell his patients stories from his own and other people’s lives, as would the late great family therapist Virginia Satir.
Read full article: How to create stories for therapy
The story of depression
Once upon a time… there was a very unhappy wo/man. S/he had become withdrawn and stopped speaking to friends. S/he continued (unwillingly, unhappily, less and less effectively) to work, but colleagues couldn’t help noticing that dark gray cloud, and the absence of any smile. In spite of long hours in bed, s/he always woke up exhausted, thick headed, anxious and miserable. Nothing was any fun anymore. It looked like nothing ever would be fun again…
A tragic story? Not necessarily.
Our lift depression fast online course will teach you everything you need to know to understand – and change – the story of depression. And quickly. Therapeutic stories are a powerful tool to help people who believe they will never recover from depression.
The next course launches on 9 February 2010 and there is still just time to save 25% off the course fee if you book your place before 19 January 2010. (That’s a gift from your fairy godmother.)
Make sure you know how to bring the story of depression to a happy ending.
See you in a fortnight.
Mark Tyrrell
Co-Founder
Uncommon Knowledge
Psychology trainers since 1995
This newsletter can be downloaded as a PDF.
Published by mark.tyrrell January 18th, 2010
in hypnotherapy-training.
Hypnosis Master Series: Learn how susceptible we are to environmental influence, and how you can use this to be a better therapist
Research has shown that a subtle background aroma of cleaning liquid in the air influences people to be perceptibly cleaner and tidier than they would otherwise be.
Another fascinating piece of research reported in the journal Science in October 2008 involved hot and cold cups of coffee.
Students were asked to hold a cup of coffee in their hands for a few seconds before reading an information pack about a hypothetical person and then assessing this person’s ‘character’. The students who had held a hot cup of coffee were significantly more likely to describe the hypothetical individual as ‘warm and friendly’ than the students who had held an iced coffee. Just the immediate environment of their hands had seeded their unconscious minds, and, although they all read the very same information about the imaginary individual, their responses were largely in accord with the environmental ‘suggestion’.
Read full article: Using the environment to influence people
There is no end to what a therapist can learn and we are always developing new strategies and techniques to enhance the flexibility and creativity of therapy.
We are all being influenced by our environment all the time, and mostly we don’t notice. But few people have as yet realized the potential of directly using environmental factors to bring about positive change.
Our online precision hypnosis course for therapists already trained in hypnosis aims to extend and deepen the skills of those who attend and to ensure that they know how to use very subtle approaches such as environmental influence to the best effect.
The next course launches on 13 April 2010 and you can save 25% off the course fee if you book your place before 23 March 2010.
And in case you hadn’t noticed, that was an environmental suggestion!
See you in a fortnight.
Mark Tyrrell
Co-Founder
Uncommon Knowledge
Psychology trainers since 1995
This newsletter can be downloaded as a PDF.
Published by mark.tyrrell January 5th, 2010
in hypnotherapy-training.
3 clever ways to use subtle shock to create more effective hypnosis inductions
I once wanted to win a toy on the rifle range at the fair. To win, I had to fire wet sponge pellets at a cuckoo clock bird. If I fired when the doors were shut, the pellet just bounced off. To ‘hit home’ I had to wait until the doors were open, and fire before they closed again.
People’s minds need to be open before new ideas can properly ‘hit home’.
Read full article: How to use surprise in hypnosis inductions
People live their lives, on the whole, according to a set of expectations they construct over time about what life is about, and how life works. These expectations are often unexamined, and quite rigid. This is not anybody’s ‘fault’ – it’s the default state for all of us.
When life fails to conform to your expectations, do you blame ‘life’ and get all worked up about it, or do you change your expectations? This is not a trick question.
Our online hypnosis course aims to teach a deep understanding of the role of expectation in shaping our experiences – good and bad. And of how this can be used to help people overcome all kinds of psychological and emotional difficulties that they struggle with.
The next course launches on 10 February 2010 and you can save 25% off the course fee if you book your place before 20 January 2010. An unexpected benefit? You can always expect the best from us!
See you in a fortnight.
Mark Tyrrell
Co-Founder
Uncommon Knowledge
Psychology trainers since 1995
This newsletter can be downloaded as a PDF.
Published by mark.tyrrell December 17th, 2009
in hypnotherapy-training.
5 ways to maximize client motivation towards your therapy goals
Have you ever set a therapeutic goal for a client, had them agree to it, and then… find they’ve done nothing at all about it at their next session?
To escape from a problem state (whether a burning building or a state of mind) needs a strategy. Clear goal setting is vital when helping people in therapy. The mind needs a clear orientation (especially when it’s all emotional) and a compelling ‘blueprint’ fixed within consciousness of how things can be better in the future.
Read full article: Setting goals in therapy
One of the commonest symptoms of depression is chronic loss of motivation. For everything. Everything seems pointless, and even things which you have to do seem to take much more energy than you have available. So it’s a constant downward spiral.
Breaking out of this vicious circle is not easy, and therapists need to know how to motivate their depressed clients into taking those first essential steps to freedom.
Our cutting edge online course on lifting depression will give you all the tools you need to help your clients recover their enthusiasm for life, no matter how long they have been struggling with depression.
The next course launches on 9 February 2010 and you can save 25% off the course fee if you book your place before 19 January 2010 – so there’s a good positive personal goal to go for! There are only 25 places on each course, so book early!
See you in a fortnight.
Mark Tyrrell
Co-Founder
Uncommon Knowledge
Psychology trainers since 1995
This newsletter can be downloaded as a PDF.
Published by mark.tyrrell December 1st, 2009
in hypnotherapy-training.
In this article I’m going to talk about some of the ways in which people come to believe the things they do; how brainwashing works and the distinction you can make between belief based on emotional conditioning and knowledge based on real experience. When you understand how belief systems operate you gain a key insight into the behavior of people around you. And, of course, you gain some highly valuable self knowledge.
Hypnosis can be used to alter perception and therefore belief. When you work with hypnosis you learn something very profound about the nature of belief. Some hypnotized subjects can be hypnotized to see things that are not there or not to see things that are there. And it’s not just about seeing. They may actually eat an onion after being instructed to see it as an apple and respond to it in every way as if it is a perfectly genuine apple.
The point here is that during these hypnotic episodes the subjects believe completely in the reality of what they experience. This illustrates to the hypnotist – and hopefully to the subject – that what you believe can be completely disconnected from actual objective reality. Similarly, when you dream during your sleep…
Read the full article online
Learn Hypnosis for Christmas?
Our ‘workshop in a box’ Hypnosis Unwrapped DVD set teaches you everything you need to know about hypnosis. Is it time to treat yourself, or would someone else like to do it for you?
Hypnosis Unwrapped DVD – perfectly Christmassy
See you in a fortnight.
Mark Tyrrell
Co-Founder
Uncommon Knowledge
Psychology trainers since 1995
This newsletter can be downloaded as a PDF.
Published by roger.elliott November 17th, 2009
in hypnotherapy-training.
Sorry folks, but due to illness in the production team, there will be no Clear Thinking on Tues 3rd Nov. If you’re dying to read something uncommon, why not take a look at the now-extensive Hypnosis Master Series
We very much hope to be back on track for the next issue in 2 weeks time.
All the best
Mark
Published by mark.tyrrell November 2nd, 2009
in hypnotherapy-training.
3 smart ways to make your hypnosis work better
A teenage boy finds his burly father desperately failing to push a reluctant cow into a barn. The young lad, weak from a recent bout of polio, comes up behind the recalcitrant cow and firmly tugs on its tail. The cow immediately heads in the opposite direction… into the barn. Problem solved.
That farm boy was Milton Erickson, arguably the greatest psychotherapist in history. He never founded a school of therapy as such, but ‘Ericksonian hypnosis’ is the name commonly give to the particular style of hypnotherapy he espoused. For myself, I like to think of Erickson as more of a discoverer than an inventor.
Read full article: Why Ericksonian hypnosis is the best
If you are interested to know more about how you can apply Ericksonian principles in therapy, you can learn Ericksonian hypnosis online with us.
And if you are already skilled in Ericksonian techniques, you can take them to a new level with our advanced hypnosis course, Precision Hypnosis. The next course starts on 9 November, so you could get it done in time for Christmas. An excellent present for yourself!
See you in a fortnight.
Mark Tyrrell
Co-Founder
Uncommon Knowledge
Psychology trainers since 1995
This newsletter can be downloaded as a PDF.
Published by mark.tyrrell October 20th, 2009
in hypnotherapy-training.
3 steps you MUST take when treating depression
Depression is a scary word. The prospect of treating depression without drugs feels daunting to many therapists. But we can really be optimistic when treating depressed people. Why?
Because antidepressant medication
- doesn’t significantly outperform placebos (1); and
- doesn’t work at all for two thirds of people (and has many possible side effects).
If you have the right skills, then any depressed person who finds you will be in luck – although they won’t necessarily see it like that at first!
To treat depression effectively we need to understand that:
- Depression is not ‘genetic’. People are not biologically predestined. It’s not caused by neurobiology (although it has neurobiological effects (2)). Depressive attitudes (such as pessimism, perfectionism, black and white thinking, learned helplessness) are learned rather than ‘passed on through genes’.
- Depression is a state of physical and mental exhaustion produced from too much negative non-solution-focused rumination, leading, in turn, to an excess of REM sleep which further exhausts the depressed person. (3)
- The depressed person has become stuck and needs help to think, feel and act differently and to get the rest they need.
Here are three essential steps to treating depression.
Read full article: How to treat depression the easy way
Hypnosis and the treatment of depression
If you want to learn a really empowering and uplifting process for treating depression, you can do no better than our top notch online depression treatment course. These courses run throughout the year, and the new dates will be announced soon.
Meanwhile, you can find out exactly what you will learn on the course and exactly how it will benefit you (and your clients) by visiting our Lift Depression Fast information page. Keep an eye out – there’ll be early bird discounts for those who register first!
See you next time!
Mark Tyrrell
Co-Founder
Uncommon Knowledge
Psychology trainers since 1995
This newsletter can be downloaded as a PDF.
Published by mark.tyrrell October 6th, 2009
in hypnotherapy-training.
How can a few simple exercises supercharge your hypnosis language skills?
Have you ever heard someone use hypnotic language so masterfully that part of you just went, “Wow! How on earth do you get to be that good?”?
Perhaps it was just a single phrase uttered by the hypnotist that completely flipped things around for the client, or perhaps it was a longer hypnotic induction which wove together a captivating blend of story, rhythm and tone shift with an artful array of embedded suggestions. But whatever it was, you were in awe.
Read full article: 3 simple secrets of hypnotic language mastery
More ways to develop your hypnotic language skills
The essence of hypnotic language is using highly targeted confusion to elicit specific (and not at all perplexing) results. But how do you ‘target confusion’ without becoming muddled or bewildering yourself? Befuddled?
Take the advanced hypnotic language skills Precision Hypnosis online course with Mark Tyrrell and all will become clear. You will learn to take your hypnotic suggestions to new heights of effectiveness – as well as mastering numerous other advanced hypnotic techniques.
The next course starts on 9 November. You can still benefit from our early bird offer of 25% off if you book before 19 October. (I hope that’s not too confusing…)
Here’s where to sign up for Precision Hypnosis.
See you next time!
Mark Tyrrell
Co-Founder
Uncommon Knowledge
Psychology trainers since 1995
This newsletter can be downloaded as a PDF.
Published by mark.tyrrell September 22nd, 2009
in hypnotherapy-training.
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