A Comprehensive Guide to Creating Hypnotic Language

A fascinating approach to how we use language and give ourselves post-hypnotic suggestions.  The explanations are simple and the examples make it easy to associate to real life events.

This book presents a new approach to the use of hypnotic suggestion. For years, hypnotherapists have used scripts which are aimed at a particular problem, like smoking or weight loss, rather than aiming at the client who smokes or has weight issues. Trevor Silvester suggests that it is not the problem that is the problem; it’s the client’s unique relationship with the problem that’s the problem.

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How many clients have walked into your consultation room and expected you to wave a magic wand and create miraculous change for them?  They have an expectation that they will experience a coma, you will make the change and then they will have amnesia of any old behaviour.

We all know that the only person that can do the changing is the client, but there is a way where you can bypass some if not all of the conscious resistance, by using hypnosis or hypnotic language patterns. Continue Reading »

This is a little book full of a compilation of extracts from the works of Milton Erickson. It is simple and easy to read and gives you a good understanding of how Milton used language to facilitate change

This book presents over one hundred of his “teaching tales” and how he used them to influence his patients on conscious and unconscious levels, It also discusses his approaches to hypnosis and psychotherapy. (more…)