West Norfolk Hypnotherapy and NLP

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You can benefit from Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) by letting a qualified practitioner guide you through one or more methods of intervention. The aim is to help you change your life  and point yourself in the direction you determine. NLP is a set of techniques originally defined by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in the late seventies. These two men  made the assumption that if one person could do something really well then that person could be modeled (copied) so that any other human being could become as good.  They modeled many of the top therapists of that era including Milton Erickson, Fritz Perls, Gil Boyn and Virginia Satir. Essentially they established what made each person special by extracting the most effective parts from each of their therapy techniques.

NLP is based on some presuppositions. These are:-

• The map is not the territory
• Everyone lives in their own unique model of the world.
• Experience has a structure.
• Life, mind and body are one system.
• The meaning of a communication is the response you get.
• You cannot not communicate.
• Underlying every behaviour is a positive intention.
• People make the best choices available to them.
• There is no such thing as failure only feedback.
• If what you are doing isn’t working do something else.
• We have the resources within us to achieve what we want.
• If one person can do something, anyone can learn to do it.
• People work perfectly.
• In any system the person with the most flexibility will control the system.
• Choice is better than no choice

The role of a Hypnotherapist is to ensure the welfare of the client and to help the client develop and achieve their well formed outcome.

How can hypnotherapy and NLP help you?

By combining hypnotherapy and NLP you will be able to achieve your desired change so long as you really want that change.

These changes can include:-

• Behaviour
• Bereavement
• Motivation
• Pain relief
• Post traumatic stress disorder
• Smoking cessation
• Stress relief
• Trauma
• Weight control
• Sleep disorders
• Depression
• Past life regression

Hypnotherapy is the use of hypnosis for therapeutic purposes.  Unlike other therapies hypnotherapy works at the unconscious level allowing you to achieve the changes you want and to allow you to move forward with you life. Hypnotherapy will allow you to access resources within yourself to achieve your required outcome.

Hypnosis is similar to daydreaming and is an altered state of awareness where you will have a focused attention. You will enter hypnotic trances regularly every day when the conscious mind closes down and the unconscious processes recent events. Daydreaming is a good example of this trance state.  Whilst in a trance you can hear everything around you and you can bring yourself out of the trance at any time.

Although hypnosis is a powerful tool it cannot make somebody do things that they don’t want to.  Normally our left side of the brain is primarily in control (the conscious analytical side). When induced into a trance state the right side (the creative side) is allowed to become the dominant side.  This allows the unconscious to absorb suggestions or new concepts directly.

The unconscious mind controls all the major body functions e.g. breathing, heart and body movement.  All our learning is through the unconscious mind and every thing we have learned is within our unconscious. The unconscious uses abstract non-sequential thinking such as dreaming, feelings and memories etc.

The conscious mind uses sequential thinking by means of logic, words and numbers etc.  The conscious mind can only process seven plus or minus two pieces of information per second.  Whilst the unconscious mind can process millions of pieces of information per second.

Driving analogy

Have you ever arrived at a destination and thought “How did I get here?”

That is an instance where the unconscious mind is doing the act of driving while the conscious mind is elsewhere.  The progression to this ability is:-

Native language is another example of unconscious competent.  Rules of grammar are complex with many exceptions.  Many of us use these rules without consciously knowing them.