Dan Jones – author of Advanced Ericksonian Hypnotherapy Scripts
Your legendary hypnotherapy courses are the most highly regarded in the field
Dr Ernest Rossi – author with Milton H Erickson of the Collected Papers of Milton H Erickson
Stephen Brooks and the art of Compassionate Ericksonian Hypnotherapy surely sets the highest standard.
Igor Ledochowski – author of The Deep Trance Training Manual
Your training is unique, refined and dynamic, making each person feel an active part of the course
Ivan Tyrrell – author of How To Master Anxiety
You are very creative with words, you talk to different parts of a patient's mind, it’s so powerful!
Bill O’Hanlon – author of Taproots, Solution-Oriented Hypnosis and a Guide To Trance-Land.
Stephen Brooks knows how to do effective Ericksonian Hypnosis and teach others how to do it.
Kerin Webb – author of The Language Pattern Bible
You are the leaders in indirect Ericksonian Hypnosis
Adam Eason – author of The Science of Self Hypnosis
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RECENT BLOG POSTS
Why Indirect Hypnosis?
People say to me, why indirect hypnosis? Why not just tell them their eyes are getting heavy and that they will go into trance? Well, there isn’t a simple answer. Because, there are many reasons why it is better to use indirect hypnosis than traditional direct approaches. Firstly, with the indirect approach the hypnotic subject or client, does not realise how you are hypnotising them, or even if you are hypnotising them. So, if for some reason this person is a difficult subject to hypnotise then, there is no perceived failure on your part. Because the client doesn’t even realise you are hypnotising them. Secondly, hypnosis and hypnotherapy should be used to empower clients to feel strong, confident and responsible for their own therapeutic changes. We want them to feel this way because this is therapeutic, and so part of their therapy. If they feel dependent upon a hypnotherapist to help them in the future, then we are doing them a disservice by giving the impression that we as therapists are in control of their destiny. So, indirect hypnosis empowers people – where direct hypnosis dis-empowers them by making them feel that it was someone else controlling their behaviour
Aversion Therapy Hypnosis
This lesson from Stephen Brooks discusses the use of disgust in aversion therapy hypnosis and looks at how disgust can be a powerful motivator. Aversion Therapy Hypnosis - the power of disgust. Disgust enables us to move away from things we do not like towards things that we do like. It has been used in aversion therapy for many years and is even more powerful if applied in hypnosis. Although not used as often these days it is still sometimes used in smoking cessation and weight control as it can be a powerful motivator of human behaviour. Disgust motivates us because inherent within the experience of disgust is the implication of illness and disease and it is our survival mechanism that kicks in to motivate us away from the stimulus. Hypnosis magnifies our hard-wired response to disgust, which is why it is so effective in re-programming behaviour in hypnotherapy practice. Here is a little experiment you can try with a group of friends. Give each of your friends a glass of water and ask them to take a sip and then ask them to describe that experience. Next ask them to take a sip of water again but this time
Hypnotherapists who make false claims for hypnosis beware – your days may be numbered…
The NHS Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine in the UK has been told by the Advertising Standards Authority to stop misleading patients by publishing unsubstantiated claims for acupuncture. The hospital claimed that acupuncture could treat a wide range of ailments, from gynaecological and urinary disorders to fertility issues, stress, depression, back pain, asthma and high blood pressure. The ASA consulted medical experts and found there was no robust evidence to back up the vast majority of the cures claimed, so ordered the hospital to withdraw its leaflets and to stop making claims for acupuncture that could not be substantiated by reliable independent evidence or research. The RLHIM consequently submitted 43 papers as evidence to support some its claims, which were then checked by a medical expert in one of the most in-depth investigations run by the ASA. The ASA decided that claims made for the treatment of hot flushes in menopausal women, period pain, overactive bladder syndrome and facial pain were not substantiated by evidence or research and so were misleading. This move follows complaints by the Nightingale Connection, a UK organisation that aims to challenge claims made by the complementary and alternative health professions. They have already won