In case you missed it last month, Mark Tyrrell’s teleseminar ‘5 things you must do when treating depression (and 3 things to avoid)’ is running again on September 2nd. The last seminar booked out quickly, and got some great feedback on the Uncommon Knowledge Facebook Page so if you treat depressed people, best sign up [...]
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3 ways to prepare your clients for hypnosi
You’ve been talking ‘normally’ with your client about how to address their issue, building rapport, setting goals, and now you’re ready to ‘do the hypnosis’. Your client shifts awkwardly in their seat. Faint lines of strain appear on their brow as they politely close their eyes, as instructed, [...]
3 depression-busting metaphors for depressed clients
‘Depression’ can be a scary diagnosis, conjuring up as it does connotations of ‘disease’ and ‘genetic chemical imbalances’ and other frightening notions. But in fact, although depression is a state of mind which significantly affects energy levels in the body, there’s no real evidence that it has a biological cause [...]
3 ways to signal the end of therapy
These days, knowing how to terminate therapy elegantly is a core therapeutic skill. Gone are the days when psychotherapy was supposed to continue maybe twice a week for decades. In fact, the international guidelines for the treatment of depression suggest that if your depressed client doesn’t feel significantly [...]
Hypnosis Master Series: Problem solving with paradoxical intervention
Getting people to consciously ‘do more’ of their problem behavior helps them by taking away the pressure to stop doing it. It also incites curiosity, turning an unconscious pattern into a consciously intentional pattern.
Even if this doesn’t create a context in which they can immediately abandon the pattern, [...]
How to help first timers relax about hypnosis
Mark Tyrrell
3 ways to reassure first time hypnosis clients they are ‘doing it right’
Someone going to a hypnotherapist for the first time knows they are a newbie and can feel under pressure to ‘do it right’. They may worry that they are not responding to the hypnosis as [...]
Hair raising hypnosis on Hypnosis Downloads.com
Earlier today, Hypnosis Downloads.com, the download site of Uncommon Knowledge, published a world-first video. This footage shows a young man with male pattern baldness being cured live on camera by Roger Elliott, Managing Director of Uncommon Knowledge and Hypnosis Downloads.com
“We’re keen to show just exactly what hypnosis can do” said [...]
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’.
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 [...]
Just a quick reminder that the early bird discounts are about to expire for these 2 online courses:
How to lift depression quickly
Treating depressed people can be a depressing business if you don’t know how to get them feeling better quickly. Take our clarifying online depression treatment course and enjoy treating your next depressed client.
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