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Typically, we focus on clarity and directness in training, therapy, and other common communication-based applications. However, when another person - including a client or patient - is in a stuck state, almost always, the therapist or any other communicator can quickly help their subject(s) get out of that unproductive state so that transformation can occur.

This concise book discusses how Erickson used the two significant "mental mechanism", which he called splitting and linking. If these patterns were related to mental or even physical dysfunctions, he believed that these mechanisms needed to be altered as a condition of achieving the desired application. You will quickly learn this concept and will be able to immediately master and apply this in your practice.

Probably the most challenging aspect of Ericksonian Hypnosis the wealth of linguistic techniques that he used to create ambiguity as a way of progressing in a therapeutic relationship. This concise audiobook is intended to rapidly introduce you to a selection of his most important linguistic techniques and help you master them. Note that Erickson used these techniques to create ambiguity so that he could help his patient transcend a stuck state.

Healing the Body is a hypnotist and hypnotherapist's guide to how and why through suggestion and imagination the mind is a power tool for assisted and self-healing for physical health issues. For medical practitioners, it provides an explanation why all somatic and psychosomatic healing must consider the impact of the mind. Although this book is not intended for the general public, such listeners can also benefit by understanding the nature of healing even though it should not be used as a substitute for professional medical care.

Do you want to be a hypnotherapist who helps people with behavioral, medical, or performance issues? Whether you recently become a clinical hypnotherapist or are a seasoned veteran, this book gives you practical how-to guidance to start or advance your practice.

The Innovations in Mind/Body Therapies series is a collection of 10 short books that review latest thinking and research findings in Integrative Medicine, which is contrary to the bottom-up dogma that has been part of main-stream medicine for over a century. The focus is on what how the body down to the sub-cellular level reacts to its environment and how the mind can be intentionally used to affect the health through self-talk, imagery, meditation, and hypnotherapy.

The Neurology of Suggestion is the one book that will have anyone who has studied or uses hypnosis or hypnotherapy scratching my head and wondering whether they have been getting it wrong for all these years. Based upon centuries of mesmerism, suggestopedia, hypnosis, and hypnotherapy tradition, this book is bold enough to shatter myths while updating theory with scientific findings in the field of neurology and other science.

Why do repeated suggestions get better results for advertisers and politicians who run consistent campaigns? How can repeated suggestions be used by clinical hypnotherapists to increase success rates as well as to create the deeper trance levels needed for certain medical procedures? This concise book will give you the answer to these questions, provide you with instructions for effective compounding, and present you with a demonstration.

This concise book will teach you how to achieve the deepest known level of hypnosis, which is “hypnotic coma.” This level has been used for decades as an alternative to anesthesia and drugs for pain management. You will learn how to induce, trigger, and evaluate hypnotic coma. You will also learn the role of fear in the use of this technique. A demonstration is provided.

Once you’ve learned the elegance of Dave Elman’s hypnosis techniques, as a hypnotherapist you need a variety of techniques and tools to use them. In the previous books, I introduced you to The Elman Technique, which is an elegant three-minute ritual designed to develop a somnambulistic trance. Then, based upon relevant concepts, I introduced you to Waking Hypnosis and the Hypnotic Coma. This book provides you with several specific techniques and demonstrations on how to use them.

If you want to understand how the mind talks to the rest of the body, you must first grasp how the brain works and how it creates a two-way dialogue. This audiobook is a brief introduction to that subject, while providing sufficient information so that you can understand the role that the mind/ brain plays in directing physical health.

The human experience is a matter of constant change. That is, unless, you wish to become obsolete or redundant. This affects individuals and even groups such as clubs, organizations, and government entities. Either change, or become irrelevant. Rapid Change is a capstone summary for a series of other books that incrementally move listeners from simple and profound transformation concepts found in traditional hypnotherapy (hypnosis), psychology, coaching, and medicine, to the latest thinking in mind/body health, artificial intelligence, and more.

This audiobook is about developing mastery. Although I respect the fact that starting at an early age does give a person a jump start, achieving mastery - or at least a substantially enhanced level of performance - can happen at any age. As a clinical hypnotherapist and NLP trainer, obviously my emphasis will be on the use of suggestion and imagination as tools to accelerate the achievement of mastery. The more you focus on a skill, the thicker and more developed the neural substrate related to the skill will become.

While writing The Neurology of Suggestion, the first book in this series, I suddenly realized how much I had learned about hypnosis and hypnotherapy was completely false and completely divorced from scientific standards expected within medicine and mental health. It was like my own field was in a trance of delusion.

Although Erickson's approach to hypnosis and psychotherapy has a wealth of individual techniques that can be used within a framework of the principles set forth in the first book of this series, he did have an overall strategic approach toward working with his patients. That approach is presented in this concise book with the intention of you quickly mastering the concepts so that you can apply them immediately.

NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) was developed to accelerate human change. Typically training includes route mastering of an seemingly endless array of techniques. While students of the field may be awed by the results and how quickly that can change human behavior, rarely do they understand why they work. Thus, they have very little capability when it comes to modifying the techniques to fit their situations. This book provides the solution to that dilemma.

In entertainment, business, and even religion, visual storytelling is our primary communication modality. As such, the imagery that is created and enters into our minds greatly affects our body for better or worse. This convenient, short audiobook explains why this works and explores simple methods that can be used to enhance your health through the use of a variety of imagery techniques. This is the sixth book in this series.

This convenient, short audiobook goes beyond merely addressing how the brain/mind communicate with the body to enhance health. This audiobook introduces you to the concept of how the mind can specifically direct somatic healing. Yes, healing body tissue through conscious thought. These ideas are not far-fetched. Rather they come from a series of studies at major medical universities. The ideas discussed are based upon thousands of research studies conducted by major US and international medical schools and research facilities.

In this final book in The Neurology of Suggestion Basic series, you will learn how to apply your knowledge to effectively use these concepts in your hypnosis or hypnotherapy practice. You will learn how to address healing the mind and body, as well as helping your client or patient improve their performance.

Hypnotists and hypnotherapists are often regarded as masters of change. Having an effective system for change work is important to your success. In this book, you will learn the two neurological requirements for all change work, five powerful therapeutic tools, how to design a transformative process, and how to use this system to enhance performance, resolve mental issues, and improve healing.