Students on The Uncommon Knowledge hypnotherapy Diploma Course are taught to use positively constructed language as a precise tool when seeking to help people over come life’s difficulties.

For too long the field of psychotherapy was beset with ideas based on ideology not science. For example people were encouraged to ‘feel their pain’, to explore, examine and amplify past hurts and to focus on what wasn’t working in their lives-see The mad mad world of psychotherapy

Not just common sense but hebbian learning shows us that you get more of what you focus on.

A great therapist will know exactly why they are using the language they are using at every given point. Like any tool language can have precise affects-to use it randomly and unknowingly is irresponsible when we are in the business of helping people.

Focusing on what you do want to achieve rather than on just what you don’t is vital to the success, I would imagine, of any endeavor-certainly in psychotherapy. If a therapist sounds a little negative sometimes it should be purely to match the negativity of a client in order to eventually help them out of it but ultimately the therapist needs to be positively orientated.

Asking a child not to fall out of a tree is not the same as asking them to climb down carefully. Telling me what jobs you don’t want to do may be a pre-curser to telling me what you do want to do but it’s not the same and telling a friend not to ’screw up and make a fool’ of themselves is not the same as wishing them well.

We get more of what we focus on. This article illustrates why we might repeat mistakes by spending more time on them.

And remember you are more likely to get someone to remember something if you actually ask them to remember it rather than if you ask them ‘not to forget.’ Focusing on positive outcomes

Mark