The Cognitive Hypnotherapy Review - Comments

Michael Vincent: The Bruce Lee Approach to Therapy

nospam@example.com (Michael Vincent) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:08:09 +0100

Bruce lee was my childhood hero.
His attitude and approach to life and martial arts was a great inspiration to me.
As a magician, I learned to embrace many different approaches to magic and performance until I found my tao or "way". I am not attached to my way even now, always in a state of transition.
Never comfortable, always flowing , like water.
Great stuff Trevor, very pleased to see we have this connection in common.
Congratulations on an outstanding weekend, The Quest Fest Rocks, roll on next year.

Mike Vincent

Anita Mitchell: Using Polya Patterns in your Suggestions

nospam@example.com (Anita Mitchell) — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:19:08 +0100

I agree John, I really like useing Polya patterns and find they can be adapted nicely to fit many of my clients - very elegant.

Anita

Lucinda Leo: What you're listening for...

nospam@example.com (Lucinda Leo) — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:41:30 +0100

What a wonderful framework. Gives me so much confidence and helps me remember that flexibility and an open mind are key. Thanks Trevor.
Lucinda

Lucinda Leo: Reconsolidation Theory and the Point of Therapy

nospam@example.com (Lucinda Leo) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:28:48 +0100

Fantastic article, which I've discussed with many clients - a great convincer about the use of regression. Thanks! Lucinda

Anita Mitchell: Watch Yourself!

nospam@example.com (Anita Mitchell) — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:34:23 +0000

I have noticed, working with clients, that those who enjoy the process of seeing, feeling or even just sensing themselves in their better future, and therefore tend to use it as a positive visualisation for themselves in between sessions, can quite often find that they see the changes in themselves the quickest.

It just reinforces how important it is for us to always future pace our clients.

A

Russell Davis: Watch Yourself!

nospam@example.com (Russell Davis) — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:07:22 +0000

Wow, I am surprised with the difference in future pacing dissociatively compared to through their own eyes. One to remember.

Trevor Silvester: Using Polya Patterns in your Suggestions

nospam@example.com (Trevor Silvester) — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:15:21 +0000

Hi John,

I'm glad you think so - and I agree, they're a brilliant way to prime the client's solution state, based on the differences they notice from the work you're doing with them.

Thanks for the comment.

John Wall: Using Polya Patterns in your Suggestions

nospam@example.com (John Wall) — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:09:17 +0000

Brilliant! Since reading these, I now use them routinely after the change link pattern as they are both about noticing change so I find they flow together very well.

Sensbachtal: The Psychobiology of Suggestion?

nospam@example.com (Sensbachtal) — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:33:47 +0000

Just wanted to say Hello to everyone.
Much to read and learn here, I'm sure I will enjoy !

Edgar Leon: Using Polya Patterns in your Suggestions

nospam@example.com (Edgar Leon) — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:58:30 +0000

Excelent article...!! Trevor... Thx

Richard Bandler..is a genius..

Rob Woodgate: Using Polya Patterns in your Suggestions

nospam@example.com (Rob Woodgate) — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:10:40 +0100

Curiously, it was George Pólya who was quoted as saying:

"How I need a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapters involving quantum mechanics" which is a letter count mnemonic for the first 15 digits of Pi.

And this Piem is something which Milton Erickson quoted in one of his teaching tales...

Small world, eh

David Drever: What you're listening for...

nospam@example.com (David Drever) — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:09:38 +0100

Trevor,

Thanks for this - all this helps me to link it all together. I always use the types of questioning in a framework but sometimes have had an issue in deciding the technique to use - hence have often focussed on the more regular ones. This has been a useful addition to my armoury!

Thanks,

DD

Trevor: What is Cognitive Hypnotherapy?

nospam@example.com (Trevor) — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:06:05 +0100

Hi Werner,

I work from a basic starting point - "All behaviour has a purpose," and I'd class negativity as a behaviour. We run simulations of our future to come up with the best thing to do in the present. We use our past as the basis for these simulations. If our past had significant emotional events connected to disappointment, being let down, not feeling loved, or feeling let down (for example) then it's not surprising that all we ever see are negative outcomes to anything we attempt - and so experience resistance or a lack of motivation for achieving them.

Cognitive Hypnotherapy could help - to reframe the past, and to help your partner to re-tune her mind to begin to antcipate more positive outcomes.

However, she does need to want to engage in the process, client's don't often get better by lying there and leaving it to the therapist.

Unfortunately we don't have anyone in Dubai yet...

Werner R Taylor: What is Cognitive Hypnotherapy?

nospam@example.com (Werner R Taylor) — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:17:30 +0100

I believe that my partner may benefit from some form of therapy described within your website.. She has been conditioned by her upbringing and lifes bad experiences todate, whereby she is mostly always negative by nature and this impacts adversely on many key aspects of her day to day lifestyle which I strongly believe prevents her from moving on, or from reaching her full potential. Incidentally, despite the fact that I have suggested to her that she may benefit from some kind of therapy she dimisses this as futile based upon her previous experience. She is very intelligent and lives overseas here in Dubai, so it may well be that no theripists are vailbale here? Kindly reveiw and respond as applicable, many thanks. Best Regards Werner.

Trevor: The Bruce Lee Approach to Therapy

nospam@example.com (Trevor) — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:05:03 +0100

Hi Paul,

Thanks, I'm glad you found it interesting. That's a great question. I think there are pluses and minuses to consider here. If every generation has to learn everything from its history before it considers what's new, then progress is going to be very slow. The danger to not doing that is the possibility that something valuable is going to be lost.

On balance, though, I find it useful to follow the idea of us standing on the shoulders of giants. We see further because we're standing on the best of what's come before, not all that's come before. If people are still using something from years ago it's either because it still has utility, or because it's become dogma. It's for each of us decide which is which. For example, for me most of Freud (not all) falls in the latter category, so I see no need to consider it in my work with clients simply because it has an established history.

One of the best bits of advice I was given was to read outside my field. In the last 10 years I've learnt much more that's useful to me as a hypnotherapist from reading evolutionary and positive psychology, neuroscience and cognitive theory than I have from reading books on hypnotherapy. Most seem to still be working from a model of trance that hasn't evolved since Coue, despite what neuroscience is demonstrating about its nature.

Of course you just got me - I'd have to know about Coue to make that judgement:) So yes, read about the past, but don't stay there or mistake it for the present.