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How limitations can make you or break you

mark.tyrrell — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:43:41 +0000

Hypnosis Master Series: Limitations – all in the mind?

It used to be widely thought that it was not humanly possible to run a mile in under four minutes. Many talented athletes had tried, had come amazingly close, but ultimately failed to break that magic four minute marker. The human body, it was thought, just couldn’t do it.

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How to increase your influence with clients (or why advice-giving doesn’t work)

mark.tyrrell — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:00:55 +0000

3 tips to get your clients to value your suggestions

Why is it important for therapists to give careful consideration to increasing influence with their clients?

Sometimes what a client needs is pretty obvious. Anyone can see it. And as you’re not shackled by the old idea that ‘therapy must never be directive’, you come straight out with your wonderful suggestion, re-frame or clearly ‘spot on’ (to you) piece of sage advice.

And what happens?

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The secret of instant rapport

mark.tyrrell — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 06:00:16 +0000

Hypnosis Master Series: How to build instant rapport by going beyond matching, mirroring and leading

Here’s a true story. Years ago, when I was a fledgling hypnotherapist, I had a call from a man who had been severely injured in a rugby accident sustained while he was in the military, and who had been left disabled. He wanted help with pain management so he could take an Open University degree. Because of his disability, he could no longer stay with his elite commando unit. I went to see him at home.

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Maximize client motivation with the language of personal gain

mark.tyrrell — Thu, 27 May 2010 06:00:21 +0000

Learn how to sidestep the unconscious sabotage of negative language

A man accidentally falls off the platform and gets stuck in the rails of the London underground. A train is fast approaching. Another man crouches down and calls: “Give me your hand!” To his astonishment, the man refuses.
His would-be saviour shouts more desperately: “Give me your hand!” But again the man declines. The train is now practically bearing down on him, a great wave of roaring steel. Suddenly, a third man shouts: “Take my hand!” The stuck man takes the proffered hand and is hauled to safety in the nick of time. The second man is amazed and asks the rescuer: “How come he took your hand but not mine?”

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4 simple ways to measure progress with your depressed client

mark.tyrrell — Tue, 25 May 2010 06:00:37 +0000

Learn how to build a roadmap to get your clients out of depression – and never go back there again

I was once lost in Istanbul. A kindly man came over, smiled at me and asked: “Can I help me?” Okay, so English wasn’t his first language and he meant ‘you’ not ‘me’, but it got me thinking. How do we know where we are going, how soon we’ll arrive, when we’ve arrived? And what’s this got to do with top quality psychotherapy thinking.?

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3 ways to use hypnotic phenomena to aid therapy

mark.tyrrell — Thu, 20 May 2010 06:00:34 +0000

Learn to use hypnosis and its associated phenomena deliberately to help your clients more effectively

Hypnosis happens in all therapy. Sure, the therapist might not think hypnosis is happening – but it is. One characteristic of the hypnotic state is abstraction. By that I mean physically being in one place but psychologically being in another. This happens to a profound degree when we dream at night. Physically you’re in bed, but psychologically you’re somewhere else.

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More Golden Rules

mark.tyrrell — Tue, 18 May 2010 06:00:05 +0000

3 more golden rules for choosing a hypnosis course

Three more great tips to help you make sure you choose the right hypnosis course for you.

I enjoyed Joe’s excellent article Two golden rules for choosing hypnosis training, and I thought I’d jump right in with my own thoughts on this important subject. After all, we’ve been running hypnosis courses for so long I can’t help but have opinions on the matter!

Choosing the right people to learn hypnotherapy from is vital. One of the easiest ways to tell whether a school is really confident in what it is teaching is to check how grounded in research it is. Is it up to date? Or does it promise to teach you everything and nothing?

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How to create stories for therapy – Clear Thinking 85

mark.tyrrell — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:53:37 +0000

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.

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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.

Using the environment to influence people – Clear Thinking 84

mark.tyrrell — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:40:49 +0000

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’.

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Unexpected hypnosis – would you expect it?

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.

How to use surprise in hypnosis inductions – Clear Thinking issue 83

mark.tyrrell — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:52:59 +0000

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’.

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Unexpected hypnosis – would you expect it?

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.