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   Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 10:30 PM
   Subject: RE: [UKhypno] Digest Number 1734


   Hey Donald...
   Are you stirring the pot to get press?
   Why don't you just ask the right person?
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   Feel Good!

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--- In hypnosis-hypnotherapy-UK@yahoogroups.com, "Elvis Keith Lester"
<learnusa@...> wrote:
> Hey Donald...
> Are you stirring the pot to get press?
> Why don't you just ask the right person?

Hey Elvis...  No I'm not.  You assume that I haven't already tried
asking but I think I already said I'd tried to find out already; I
didn't get a response.

I'm sure there are some people in the NLP community who would prefer
that difficult questions like this are brushed under the carpet.  To
put it bluntly, I think everyone has a right to question things when
they think they look dodgy.

I hope it turns out the Wikipedia article is wrong but I don't think
that when people question the NLP establishment they should be
dismissed or accused of "stirring the pot."

Best,

Don

Hey Donald...
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There are 6 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

       1. Hypnosis & Fetish
            From: "cypher1478" <cypher206@...>
       2. RE: Hypnosis & Fetish
            From: "Steve G. Jones, Clinical Hypnotherapist"
<Steve@...>
       3. Some interesting research on EMDR
            From: chriskey1@...
       4. Re: Some interesting research on EMDR
            From: "Donald Robertson" <HypnoSynthesisUK@...>
       5. Bandler's PhD
            From: HypnoSynthesisUK@...
       6. RE: [hypno] Bandler's PhD
            From: "Steve G. Jones, Clinical Hypnotherapist"
<Steve@...>


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Message: 1
    Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 18:34:46 -0000
    From: "cypher1478" <cypher206@...>
Subject: Hypnosis & Fetish

Hi, i just created a website about hypnosis, with pictures and videos about
hypnosis.

It's not an advertising, i just want your opinion about my website

Here is the url of my website : http://inthisworld.chez-alice.fr/

thx !







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Message: 2
    Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:05:50 -0400
    From: "Steve G. Jones, Clinical Hypnotherapist" <Steve@...>
Subject: RE: Hypnosis & Fetish

Looks good.

Sincerely,

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Clinical Hypnotherapist
www.SteveGJones.com
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   Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 2:35 PM
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   Subject: [UKhypno] Hypnosis & Fetish


   Hi, i just created a website about hypnosis, with pictures and videos
   about hypnosis.

   It's not an advertising, i just want your opinion about my website

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Message: 3
    Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 07:49:29 EDT
    From: chriskey1@...
Subject: Some interesting research on EMDR

I have just come across this report which may interest you:

Why eye movement therapy  works
----------------------------------------

It involves recalling  your horrific experience and then following your
therapist's moving finger
with your eyes, which may sound a bit wacky, but as a treatment for 
post-traumatic stress, eye
movement desensitisation and reprocessing therapy  (EMDR) is endorsed by
National Institute for
Clinical Excellence guidelines.  However, the treatment continues to attract
controversy, not least
because  it's unclear how it works. But now Christopher Lee and colleagues
report that  EMDR's
critical ingredient is that it allows traumatised people to relive  their trauma
'at a distance', as
a detached observer.

Lee's team  followed 44 traumatised patients - some were car crash survivors,
others had  been
sexually assaulted - through their first session of EMDR. Those patients  whose
statements during
therapy suggested they were recalling their trauma at  a distance (e.g. "The
faces seem all
blurred"; "It doesn't seem so real")  showed the most improvement in their
symptoms a week later. By
contrast,  there was no association between the number of statements made by
patients  that related
to reliving the trauma first hand (e.g. "I am in the  ambulance"; "I see her
crawling away from me")
and their improvement a week  later.

The researchers said this undermines the notion that EMDR works  like
traditional exposure therapy,
in which patients are encouraged to  relive their trauma first hand. "A
distancing process.was
associated with  more improvement than when participants relived the trauma
experiences"  they said.

Although critics of EMDR have doubted the importance of the  eye movement aspect
of the therapy,
Lee's team concluded "The distancing may  be partly facilitated by the
distraction of the eye
movement  task.[or] facilitated by the therapist encouraging a dual focus of
attention,  that is,
simultaneously being aware of the trauma material and of being  in the
therapist's office".
__________________________________

Lee,  C.W., Taylor, G. & Drummond, P.D. (2006). The active ingredient in
EMDR:  Is it traditional exposure or dual focus of attention? Clinical
Psychology  and
Psychotherapy, 13, 97-107. http://tinyurl.com/lap46

Author weblink:  http://tinyurl.com/pzk5u From The Psychologist magazine: For
EMDR:
http://tinyurl.com/kwjha; against EMDR: http://tinyurl.com/rrnrq

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Message: 4
    Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:40:50 -0000
    From: "Donald Robertson" <HypnoSynthesisUK@...>
Subject: Re: Some interesting research on EMDR

--- In hypnosis-hypnotherapy-UK@yahoogroups.com, chriskey1@... wrote:
> I have just come across this report which may interest you:
> Why eye movement therapy  works

I trained in EMDR some years ago and made considerable use of it in treating RTA
(car crash) victims
at the behest of insurance companies.
I learned a lot from it but wouldn't consider myself a convert.  It certainly
"works", probably
better than older therapies, at least in treating cued anxieties.  My referrals
were independently
assessed by clinical psychologists and outcomes were measured and recorded.  I
was allocated 6-9
sessions on average.  (More than normal for
hypnotherapy.)  As I understand it, all of the cases I treated were very
satisfied with the
treatment and reported significant affective and behavioural improvement, many
were completely
"cured".  I can honestly say that I don't think we had a single "failure."  I
think that's pretty
good going for such a simplistic technique.  Most of those clients (numbering
about 20, I think)
were suffering from clinically diagnosed PTSD or similar symptoms.  They had
been suffering from
their symptoms for approx. 2 years on average, before treatment.

The theory that EMDR works by a kind of distraction that creates mental
dissociation isn't new.
That's how it was explained to me years ago.
I think there's some truth in it.  I disagree that EMDR only works where there
is dissociation
though.  Sometimes, I believe I saw it working by means of classical
counter-conditioning, i.e., by
creating a sense of relaxation which was repeatedly associated with the memory
of a trauma.

I think the most interesting thing about EMDR is how mechanical it is.
Contrary to the Ericksonian idea that therapy needs to be re-invented for each
client, etc., as a
standardised protocol EMDR seems to work well for the majority of people and the
role of the
therapist is so minimal you could almost train a monkey to do it.  Indeed, it
can be quite boring
for the therapist.  And perhaps the monotony and repetition are part of the
therapeutic effect on
the client.  Maybe they get "bored" with the highly repetitive nature of the
exposure.

I think the thing to watch out for is that the famous eye movements probably
have very little to do
with the effect.  I suspect any distracting or repetitive stimulus will
substitiute.  In fact, I
have had clients tap their face (at random points, incidentally), use an
anchored image, breathing
exercises, etc., with very similar effects.
I'm sure most EMDR practitioners would agree with this, and even Shapiro, who
invented it, seems to
accept that the eye movements themselves aren't important.

Some people claim Shapiro stole the idea from the NLP eye-accessing cue model. 
However, most EMDR
practitioners seem to agree that the direction of the eye movements is also
pretty irrelevant to the
outcome.  Side to side is most common simply because most people find it the
easiest and most
comfortable to follow.

In all honesty, I think that hypnotherapists can learn a great deal from EMDR. 
However, ironically,
the important bits are everything else EXCEPT the eye movements.  When hypnosis
is structured in the
strict way that EMDR is, I've found that it invariably operates more quickly
than EMDR.  Indeed,
most of my EMDR clients ended up doing self- hypnosis, largely because they
themselves preferred it.

Incidentally, it's good to see Christopher Lee doing some useful psychological
research into
treating the effects of trauma.  Perhaps now he can rectify the damage done by
his terrifying
portrayals of Dracula in the 1970s. ; )


Best,

Don






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Message: 5
    Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 06:47:19 EDT
    From: HypnoSynthesisUK@...
Subject: Bandler's PhD

According to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia,

"Bandler holds a BA (1973) in Philosophy and Psychology from the University of
California, Santa
Cruz (UCSC) and an MA (1975) in Psychology from Lone Mountain College in San
Francisco. Bandler has
claimed in at least one seminar that he submitted a dissertation to, and was
awarded a doctorate
from the University of San Francisco. There is no record of a Richard Wayne
Bandler  having
submitted a dissertation at USF."

I've done a bit of research but have been unable to find out whether  this is
true or not.  So, does
anyone know where Richard Bandler's PhD is  from?
Wikipedia seems to imply that he doesn't really have one.  Are  they right?

Yours  Sincerely,

Donald Robertson
Training Director

Senior Clinician  Hypnotherapist (NCH)
Registered Psychotherapist (UKCP)
Member of the  European Register of Psychotherapists (ERP)

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Message: 6
    Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:26:47 -0400
    From: "Steve G. Jones, Clinical Hypnotherapist" <Steve@...>
Subject: RE: [hypno] Bandler's PhD

Are you kidding?
Richard Bandler with a PhD?
Sincerely,

Steve G. Jones
Clinical Hypnotherapist
www.SteveGJones.com
912.897.9799

Board of Directors Member: American Lung Association (Los Angeles Chapter)
Member: American Board of Hypnotherapy
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   Subject: [hypno] Bandler's PhD


   According to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia,

   "Bandler holds a BA (1973) in Philosophy and Psychology from the
University
   of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) and an MA (1975) in Psychology from Lone
   Mountain College in San Francisco. Bandler has claimed in at least one
seminar
   that he submitted a dissertation to, and was awarded a doctorate from the
   University of San Francisco. There is no record of a Richard Wayne Bandler
having
   submitted a dissertation at USF."

   I've done a bit of research but have been unable to find out whether  this
is
   true or not.  So, does anyone know where Richard Bandler's PhD is  from?
   Wikipedia seems to imply that he doesn't really have one.  Are  they
right?

   Yours  Sincerely,

   Donald Robertson
   Training Director

   Senior Clinician  Hypnotherapist (NCH)
   Registered Psychotherapist (UKCP)
   Member of the  European Register of Psychotherapists (ERP)

   The  HypnoSynthesisR Centre

   Hypnotherapy Clinic,  Self-Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy Training Courses
   _www.HypnoSynthesis.com_ (http://www.hypnosynthesis.com/)
   Freephone  0800 195 9809

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Are you kidding?
Richard Bandler with a PhD?
Sincerely,

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   -----Original Message-----
   From: hypnosis-hypnotherapy@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:hypnosis-hypnotherapy@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of
HypnoSynthesisUK@...
   Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 6:47 AM
   To: nlp-UK@yahoogroups.com; hypnosis-hypnotherapy-uk@yahoogroups.com;
hypnosis-hypnotherapy@yahoogroups.com
   Subject: [hypno] Bandler's PhD


   According to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia,

   "Bandler holds a BA (1973) in Philosophy and Psychology from the
University
   of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) and an MA (1975) in Psychology from Lone
   Mountain College in San Francisco. Bandler has claimed in at least one
seminar
   that he submitted a dissertation to, and was awarded a doctorate from the
   University of San Francisco. There is no record of a Richard Wayne Bandler
having
   submitted a dissertation at USF."

   I've done a bit of research but have been unable to find out whether  this
is
   true or not.  So, does anyone know where Richard Bandler's PhD is  from?
   Wikipedia seems to imply that he doesn't really have one.  Are  they
right?

   Yours  Sincerely,

   Donald Robertson
   Training Director

   Senior Clinician  Hypnotherapist (NCH)
   Registered Psychotherapist (UKCP)
   Member of the  European Register of Psychotherapists (ERP)

   The  HypnoSynthesis® Centre

   Hypnotherapy Clinic,  Self-Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy Training Courses
   _www.HypnoSynthesis.com_ (http://www.hypnosynthesis.com/)
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According to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia,

"Bandler holds a BA (1973) in Philosophy and Psychology from the University
of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) and an MA (1975) in Psychology from Lone
Mountain College in San Francisco. Bandler has claimed in at least one seminar
that he submitted a dissertation to, and was awarded a doctorate from the
University of San Francisco. There is no record of a Richard Wayne Bandler 
having
submitted a dissertation at USF."

I've done a bit of research but have been unable to find out whether  this is
true or not.  So, does anyone know where Richard Bandler's PhD is  from?
Wikipedia seems to imply that he doesn't really have one.  Are  they right?

Yours  Sincerely,

Donald Robertson
Training Director

Senior Clinician  Hypnotherapist (NCH)
Registered Psychotherapist (UKCP)
Member of the  European Register of Psychotherapists (ERP)

The  HypnoSynthesis® Centre

Hypnotherapy Clinic,  Self-Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy Training Courses
_www.HypnoSynthesis.com_ (http://www.hypnosynthesis.com/)
Freephone  0800 195 9809

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Registered in England as Company No. 05499462
UK  Register of Learning Providers No.10008042


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--- In hypnosis-hypnotherapy-UK@yahoogroups.com, chriskey1@... wrote:
> I have just come across this report which may interest you:
> Why eye movement therapy  works

I trained in EMDR some years ago and made considerable use of it in
treating RTA (car crash) victims at the behest of insurance companies.
I learned a lot from it but wouldn't consider myself a convert.  It
certainly "works", probably better than older therapies, at least in
treating cued anxieties.  My referrals were independently assessed by
clinical psychologists and outcomes were measured and recorded.  I was
allocated 6-9 sessions on average.  (More than normal for
hypnotherapy.)  As I understand it, all of the cases I treated were
very satisfied with the treatment and reported significant affective
and behavioural improvement, many were completely "cured".  I can
honestly say that I don't think we had a single "failure."  I think
that's pretty good going for such a simplistic technique.  Most of
those clients (numbering about 20, I think) were suffering from
clinically diagnosed PTSD or similar symptoms.  They had been suffering
from their symptoms for approx. 2 years on average, before treatment.

The theory that EMDR works by a kind of distraction that creates mental
dissociation isn't new.  That's how it was explained to me years ago.
I think there's some truth in it.  I disagree that EMDR only works
where there is dissociation though.  Sometimes, I believe I saw it
working by means of classical counter-conditioning, i.e., by creating a
sense of relaxation which was repeatedly associated with the memory of
a trauma.

I think the most interesting thing about EMDR is how mechanical it is.
Contrary to the Ericksonian idea that therapy needs to be re-invented
for each client, etc., as a standardised protocol EMDR seems to work
well for the majority of people and the role of the therapist is so
minimal you could almost train a monkey to do it.  Indeed, it can be
quite boring for the therapist.  And perhaps the monotony and
repetition are part of the therapeutic effect on the client.  Maybe
they get "bored" with the highly repetitive nature of the exposure.

I think the thing to watch out for is that the famous eye movements
probably have very little to do with the effect.  I suspect any
distracting or repetitive stimulus will substitiute.  In fact, I have
had clients tap their face (at random points, incidentally), use an
anchored image, breathing exercises, etc., with very similar effects.
I'm sure most EMDR practitioners would agree with this, and even
Shapiro, who invented it, seems to accept that the eye movements
themselves aren't important.

Some people claim Shapiro stole the idea from the NLP eye-accessing cue
model.  However, most EMDR practitioners seem to agree that the
direction of the eye movements is also pretty irrelevant to the
outcome.  Side to side is most common simply because most people find
it the easiest and most comfortable to follow.

In all honesty, I think that hypnotherapists can learn a great deal
from EMDR.  However, ironically, the important bits are everything else
EXCEPT the eye movements.  When hypnosis is structured in the strict
way that EMDR is, I've found that it invariably operates more quickly
than EMDR.  Indeed, most of my EMDR clients ended up doing self-
hypnosis, largely because they themselves preferred it.

Incidentally, it's good to see Christopher Lee doing some useful
psychological research into treating the effects of trauma.  Perhaps
now he can rectify the damage done by his terrifying portrayals of
Dracula in the 1970s. ; )


Best,

Don

I have just come across this report which may interest you:

Why eye movement therapy  works
----------------------------------------

It involves recalling  your horrific experience and then following your
therapist’s moving finger  with your eyes, which may sound a bit wacky,
but as a treatment for  post-traumatic stress, eye movement
desensitisation and reprocessing therapy  (EMDR) is endorsed by National
Institute for Clinical Excellence guidelines.  However, the treatment
continues to attract controversy, not least because  it’s unclear how it
works. But now Christopher Lee and colleagues report that  EMDR’s
critical ingredient is that it allows traumatised people to relive  their
trauma �at a distance’, as a detached observer.

Lee’s team  followed 44 traumatised patients – some were car crash
survivors, others had  been sexually assaulted – through their first
session of EMDR. Those patients  whose statements during therapy
suggested they were recalling their trauma at  a distance (e.g. “The
faces seem all blurred”; “It doesn’t seem so real”)  showed the most
improvement in their symptoms a week later. By contrast,  there was no
association between the number of statements made by patients  that
related to reliving the trauma first hand (e.g. “I am in the  ambulance”;
“I see her crawling away from me”) and their improvement a week  later.

The researchers said this undermines the notion that EMDR works  like
traditional exposure therapy, in which patients are encouraged to  relive
their trauma first hand. “A distancing process…was associated with  more
improvement than when participants relived the trauma experiences”  they
said.

Although critics of EMDR have doubted the importance of the  eye movement
aspect of the therapy, Lee’s team concluded “The distancing may  be
partly facilitated by the distraction of the eye movement  task…[or]
facilitated by the therapist encouraging a dual focus of attention,  that
is, simultaneously being aware of the trauma material and of being  in
the therapist’s office”.
__________________________________

Lee,  C.W., Taylor, G. & Drummond, P.D. (2006). The active ingredient in
EMDR:  Is it traditional exposure or dual focus of attention? Clinical
Psychology  and Psychotherapy, 13, 97-107. http://tinyurl.com/lap46

Author weblink:  http://tinyurl.com/pzk5u
From The Psychologist magazine: For EMDR:  http://tinyurl.com/kwjha;
against EMDR: http://tinyurl.com/rrnrq

Christine Key

_www.chriskey.co.uk_ (http://www.chriskey.co.uk/)




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charge?
We own and moderate the largest hypnosis & hypnotherapy webring in the  UK.

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Yours  Sincerely,

Donald Robertson
Training Director

Senior Clinician  Hypnotherapist (NCH)
Registered Psychotherapist (UKCP)
Member of the  European Register of Psychotherapists (ERP)

The  HypnoSynthesis® Centre

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Hi All
After many years in financial Services I am getting Peed off with the
FSA and think its about time I put my vast amount of training in
hypnosis to better effect and so was wondering if anyone wanted to join
up with me with a view to practice sessions and starting our own
practice in the Ruislip or west London area
John
01895631349

Hi

I tried to go to the home page, but could not find this.  Also, I must have
signed up for you newsletter a fair few times

Vanessa


Message: 6
    Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:52:56 EDT
    From: HypnoSynthesisUK@...
Subject: The Devilish and Unholy Rite of Horus the Enterer

Rite of Horus the Enterer (PDF Download)

_www.UKhypnosis.com_ (http://www.UKhypnosis.com)


Bit of a weird one this...  Many moons ago, when I was but a  schoolboy, I
was introduced to all manner of strange occult practices by friends  who
dabbled
in everything from freemasonry to white witchcraft.  Esoteric  things have
always fascinated me, although I'd hardly describe myself as an  advocate or
devotee of them.  (These things seem to be more common in  certain parts of
Britain and Ayrshire, my home, is one such  place.)
     Being more empirically minded myself I interpreted  what they were
doing,
as far as I was able, in terms of basic psychological  principles, i.e.,
autosuggestion.  One practice in particular caught my  attention as it
seemed to
have achieved some degree of popularity on the basis,  I believed, of its
natural psychological and dramatic effects.  In fact, I  came to make
considerable
use of it myself and found it to be a perfectly  serviceable technique of
autosuggestion, or if you will, self-hypnosis.
     Recently, I began to re-evaluate the contribution  some of these influ
ences had made on my practice of self-hypnosis and came to  the conclusion
that
this method in particular was deserving of some kind of  rehabilitation.  I
made some changes to the ritual to bring it more into  line with my concept
of
self-hypnosis and set about experimenting with it over a  period of several
months.  Every day I would practice at home.  When I  was travelling on the
bus or
train I would close my eyes and imagine performing  the ritual, a technique
I
found equally effective.
     All in all, I was pleasantly surprised by the  effects as it compared
very well indeed to more orthodox techniques of  autosuggestion.  It's good
exercise too as it's slightly less sedentary  than traditional hypnosis.  So
far
the people I've passed it on to have  been very enthusiastic about it too,
so
perhaps it has the potential for more  widespread appeal.

I typed up a final draft of the method a few days ago, therefore, and have
uploaded it to our website where you can get a copy for free and experiment
with  it yourself.

Visit our homepage to download a PDF of the Rite of Horus
_www.UKhypnosis.com_ (http://www.UKhypnosis.com)

Yours  Sincerely,

Donald Robertson
Training Director

Senior Clinician  Hypnotherapist (NCH)
Registered Psychotherapist (UKCP)
Member of the  European Register of Psychotherapists (ERP)

The  HypnoSynthesis® Centre

Hypnotherapy Clinic,  Self-Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy Training Courses
_www.HypnoSynthesis.com_ (http://www.hypnosynthesis.com/)
Freephone  0800 195 9809

HypnoSynthesis® is a trading name of Donald  Robertson Training Ltd.,
Registered in England as Company No. 05499462
UK  Register of Learning Providers No.10008042


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Dear Andy

Well done (though I wouldn't want to leave a smoker with a craving
they couldn't satiate - good hypnosis, but maybe not such good
therapy).

Yes, it really works. And in future you may see 20 year AA veterans
who stop drinking in a single session, or sufferers of post-natal
depression who get through 23 tissues in the case history and leave
with their 'old self' back in place, for good.

But no one should run away with the idea that it works like that
with everyone. It doesn't. Hypnotees differ, and they has a big say
in how well it works. As you point out, wisely, hypnosis is
good 'for some people'.

Best wishes

barry


--- In hypnosis-hypnotherapy-UK@yahoogroups.com, "andyfi99"
<andy@...> wrote:
>
> I have a client who, after a single introductory session mainly
> involving visualisation of success, lost 5 and a half stone in 6
> months and still swears she is repulsed by the idea of eating
> chocolate (she use to have several bars a day).
>
> Months later she comes back for smoking cessation. One session
later
> she rings me and tells me that she was scrabbling about for a fag
> after the session, found one but was physically unable to remove
it
> from the packet!
>
> Just wanted to share this success. It works, it really works.
>
> I have had my doubts since getting my diploma about efficacy but
I'm
> now 100% convinced that habit control and pain control (after the
> More4 show) are vulnerable to hypno solutions for some people.
>
>
> Andy
>

Bring a friend FREE of charge.

We are offering an extra place FREE of charge to everybody who books on our
forthcoming Self-Hypnosis workshop in Kensington, London.

Date: Saturday June 24th
Time: 10am-5pm

“Donald  Robertson’s class in Self-Hypnosis is an investment in
self-discovery.
I  highly recommend it!”
— Gil Boyne, Exec. Director,  American Council of Hypnotist Examiners (ACHE).

Call us free of charge on 0800 195 9809 for details or to reserve your
place(s).

See our training website:

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Yours  Sincerely,

Donald Robertson
Training Director

Senior Clinician  Hypnotherapist (NCH)
Registered Psychotherapist (UKCP)
Member of the  European Register of Psychotherapists (ERP)

The  HypnoSynthesis® Centre

Hypnotherapy Clinic,  Self-Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy Training Courses
_www.HypnoSynthesis.com_ (http://www.hypnosynthesis.com/)
Freephone  0800 195 9809

HypnoSynthesis® is a trading name of Donald  Robertson Training Ltd.,
Registered in England as Company No. 05499462
UK  Register of Learning Providers No.10008042


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The American Psychological Association have published the following
definition of hypnosis (I think dated 2005).  Note that it emphasises the  fact
that
relaxation is non-essential to hypnotic trance, and that trance is  defined
functionally, in terms of responsiveness to suggestion.

New Definition: Hypnosis
The Division 30 Definition and Description of Hypnosis
Hypnosis typically involves an introduction to the procedure during which the
  subject is told that suggestions for imaginative experiences will be
presented.  The hypnotic induction is an extended initial suggestion for using
one's
imagination, and may contain further elaborations of the introduction. A
hypnotic procedure is used to encourage and evaluate responses to suggestions.
When using hypnosis, one person (the subject) is guided by another (the
hypnotist) to respond to suggestions for changes in subjective experience,
alterations in perception, sensation, emotion, thought or behavior. Persons can 
also
learn self-hypnosis, which is the act of administering hypnotic procedures  on
one's own. If the subject responds to hypnotic suggestions, it is generally
inferred that hypnosis has been induced. Many believe that hypnotic responses
and experiences are characteristic of a hypnotic state. While some think that
it  is not necessary to use the word "hypnosis" as part of the hypnotic
induction,  others view it as essential.

Details of hypnotic procedures and  suggestions will differ depending on the
goals of the practitioner and the  purposes of the clinical or research
endeavor. Procedures traditionally involve  suggestions to relax, though
relaxation
is not necessary for hypnosis and a wide  variety of suggestions can be used
including those to become more alert.  Suggestions that permit the extent of
hypnosis to be assessed by comparing  responses to standardized scales can be
used in both clinical and research  settings. While the majority of individuals
are responsive to at least some  suggestions, scores on standardized scales
range from high to negligible.  Traditionally, scores are grouped into low,
medium, and high categories. As is  the case with other positively-scaled
measures
of psychological constructs such  as attention and awareness, the salience of
evidence for having achieved  hypnosis increases with the individual's score.

(This definition  and description of hypnosis was prepared by the Executive
Committee of the  American Psychological Association, Division of Psychological
Hypnosis.  Permission to reproduce this document is freely granted.)

Yours  Sincerely,

Donald Robertson
Training Director

Senior Clinician  Hypnotherapist (NCH)
Registered Psychotherapist (UKCP)
Member of the  European Register of Psychotherapists (ERP)

The  HypnoSynthesis® Centre

Hypnotherapy Clinic,  Self-Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy Training Courses
_www.HypnoSynthesis.com_ (http://www.hypnosynthesis.com/)
Freephone  0800 195 9809

HypnoSynthesis® is a trading name of Donald  Robertson Training Ltd.,
Registered in England as Company No. 05499462
UK  Register of Learning Providers No.10008042


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I have a client who, after a single introductory session mainly
involving visualisation of success, lost 5 and a half stone in 6
months and still swears she is repulsed by the idea of eating
chocolate (she use to have several bars a day).

Months later she comes back for smoking cessation. One session later
she rings me and tells me that she was scrabbling about for a fag
after the session, found one but was physically unable to remove it
from the packet!

Just wanted to share this success. It works, it really works.

I have had my doubts since getting my diploma about efficacy but I'm
now 100% convinced that habit control and pain control (after the
More4 show) are vulnerable to hypno solutions for some people.


Andy

Hi Don

I clicked the link you gave and then I clicked "submit event" which
took me to a yahoogroup page telling me that I cannot post to the
group (obviously because I am not a member of that group). Do you
want us to all join the yahoogroup first?

Najma


--- In hypnosis-hypnotherapy-UK@yahoogroups.com, HypnoSynthesisUK@...
wrote:
>
> Life-Wise(tm) Events Listings
> We are now offering (on a trial basis) a FREE of charge listing
service for
> therapy and personal development events in London and the rest of
the UK.
>
> If you are running a course or workshop please feel free to post
your
> details to our newsletter and we will make sure it is publicised
free of charge  on
> the net.  You can even use the calendar to make sure people find
the  date of
> your event.
>
> This is a new service, but we believe that it makes good use of
our  existing
> skills and resources.  Our combined events announcement lists
already have
> almost 6,000 members with an interest in therapy or
mind/body/spirit themes.
>
> Promote your events for free!
>
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>
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>
> Yours  Sincerely,
>
> Donald Robertson
> Training Director
>
> Senior Clinician  Hypnotherapist (NCH)
> Registered Psychotherapist (UKCP)
> Member of the  European Register of Psychotherapists (ERP)
>
> The  HypnoSynthesis® Centre
>
> Hypnotherapy Clinic,  Self-Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy Training Courses
> _www.HypnoSynthesis.com_ (http://www.hypnosynthesis.com/)
> Freephone  0800 195 9809
>
> HypnoSynthesis® is a trading name of Donald  Robertson Training
Ltd.,
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>
>
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>

Hi there

I wouldn't normally post about the Hampstead NLP group meeting to
this group but I'm making an exception as the topic may well be of
interest to hypnotherapists.

Here are details of the next Hampstead NLP group meeting which will
take place NEXT TUESDAY evening 25th April at Friends meeting house,
120 Heath St, Hampstead, 7:30 - 9:30, cost Ł9.

The session is for ANYONE from novice to NLP trainer.

An introduction to New Code NLP (as developed by John Grinder and
Carmen Bostic-St.clair). The focus of the session is the New Code
change format, a very powerful technique to influence/change unwanted
behaviours using high performance states. It is of great use to those
who want to shift unwanted patterns (from nail-biting to panic
attacks), achieve optimum `flow' in the performance of a chosen
skill, or simply want to gain choice in their behaviour.

Practitioners can gain extra flexibility by learning a process that
is - 'content-free' i.e. does not rely on resources from a person's
personal history. - Inclusive of conscious and unconscious processes -
   Respectful of the 'ecology' of the individual in order that change
is lasting and generative.

The session will be presented by Hiran Ilangantileke who is a
certified NLP trainer, one of the small number of NLP trainers to be
directly taught and certified by John Grinder,  Carmen Bostic-
St.clair (developers of New code NLP) and Michael Carroll (Master
Trainer). Hiran has a degree in Psychology and has worked in a
clinical rehabilitation centre (Mental Disorders) and in
information/knowledge management within the oil and gas industry. He
now runs a training and coaching company called VAKorg.

Please email me if you want to come so that I can have an idea of
numbers.

Najma

(fMRI) scans of persons reading words have shown that the act of reading a
verb that refers to a face, arm, or leg action causes increased blood flow and
activity in the motor cortex. The areas of the motor cortex that are active
correspond to sites of the motor cortex that are associated with that
activity.  For example, reading the word lick would increase blood flow in sites
corresponding to tongue and mouth movements.

Hauk O, Johnsrude I, Pulvermuller F (2004). "Somatotopic representation of
action words in human motor and premotor cortex". Neuron 41 (Jan.  22): 301-307.

Yours  Sincerely,

Donald Robertson
Training Director

Senior Clinician  Hypnotherapist (NCH)
Registered Psychotherapist (UKCP)
Member of the  European Register of Psychotherapists (ERP)

The  HypnoSynthesis® Centre

Hypnotherapy Clinic,  Self-Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy Training Courses
_www.HypnoSynthesis.com_ (http://www.hypnosynthesis.com/)
Freephone  0800 195 9809

HypnoSynthesis® is a trading name of Donald  Robertson Training Ltd.,
Registered in England as Company No. 05499462
UK  Register of Learning Providers No.10008042


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Life-Wise(tm) Events Listings
We are now offering (on a trial basis) a FREE of charge listing service for
therapy and personal development events in London and the rest of the UK.

If you are running a course or workshop please feel free to post your
details to our newsletter and we will make sure it is publicised free of charge 
on
the net.  You can even use the calendar to make sure people find the  date of
your event.

This is a new service, but we believe that it makes good use of our  existing
skills and resources.  Our combined events announcement lists  already have
almost 6,000 members with an interest in therapy or  mind/body/spirit themes.

Promote your events for free!

Visit our website for listings or to submit your event.
_www.Life-Wise.net_ (http://www.Life-Wise.net)

(Listings are accepted at the owner's discretion.)

Yours  Sincerely,

Donald Robertson
Training Director

Senior Clinician  Hypnotherapist (NCH)
Registered Psychotherapist (UKCP)
Member of the  European Register of Psychotherapists (ERP)

The  HypnoSynthesis® Centre

Hypnotherapy Clinic,  Self-Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy Training Courses
_www.HypnoSynthesis.com_ (http://www.hypnosynthesis.com/)
Freephone  0800 195 9809

HypnoSynthesis® is a trading name of Donald  Robertson Training Ltd.,
Registered in England as Company No. 05499462
UK  Register of Learning Providers No.10008042


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Parmeno’s  Pig (Aesop)
There  was a certain wealthy man, a prominent citizen, who was about to
sponsor a  public entertainment. He invited anyone who had some novelty to
perform,
  promising to pay them a fee. Professional performers came to compete for
public  acclaim, and among them was a clown [Parmeno] who was well known for his
sophisticated sense of humour. He said that he had a type of spectacle that
had  never been performed in any theatre before. The rumour spread throughout
the  city, sparking the public's interest. Theatre seats that had recently been
left  empty were now not enough for the gathering crowd.
After the clown came out by himself on the  stage, with no equipment and no
assistants, a hush of anticipation silenced the  spectators. Then the clown
suddenly lowered his head towards his chest and  imitated the sound of a little
pig. The sound was so true to life that the  audience maintained that there
must be a real little pig concealed under his  cloak and they demanded that it
be
shaken out. But when the cloak was shaken  out, it proved to be empty, so
they lavished the clown with praise and he left  the stage to resounding
applause.
A country bumpkin saw what had happened and  said, 'By gosh, I can do better
than that!' He immediately promised that he  would do the same thing, only
better, the following day. The crowd grew still  larger and favouritism had
already swayed their perception; you could tell that  they had not come to watch
the performance so much as to make fun of it. The two  men came out onto the
stage. The clown squealed as he had done the day before,  provoking the
audience's applause and shouts of approval.
Now it was the turn of the country bumpkin, who  pretended to conceal a
little pig beneath his clothes -- and this time there  really was a hidden pig,
although of course the audience had not found anything  under the clown's cloak
at the previous performance. The man then pulled the ear  of the real pig that
was hidden in his clothes, producing an authentic squeal of  pain.
The audience shouted that the clown had given a  far more realistic
performance and they were prepared to drive the country  bumpkin off the stage.
But he
then pulled the actual pig from inside his cloak  and showed it to the
audience, denouncing their gross error with  incontrovertible evidence. 'Here
you
go!' he said. 'This little pig proves what  kind of judges you are!'
The  moral of Aesop’s fable is that people’s expectations, positive or
negative, can  powerfully distort their perception of things.  The philosopher
Plutarch refers to this  fable and comments that, “it is very obvious, that
similar sensory stimuli do  not always create similar responses in the mind when
there is a belief that the  thing done was not skilfully and ingeniously
performed.” (Essays  & Miscellania,  5:1)
The performer Parmeno is a confident and  charismatic performer, surrounded
by an aura of expectation.  He fools the audience into believing  that his
impression of a pig is better than the real thing, they hear what they  want to
hear.  The bumpkin is  damaged by a negative expectation, despite using a real
pig the audience are  still convinced that his performance is inferior.
Cognition trumps  sensation.

Yours  Sincerely,

Donald Robertson
Training Director

Senior Clinician  Hypnotherapist (NCH)
Registered Psychotherapist (UKCP)
Member of the  European Register of Psychotherapists (ERP)

The  HypnoSynthesis® Centre

Hypnotherapy Clinic,  Self-Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy Training Courses
_www.HypnoSynthesis.com_ (http://www.hypnosynthesis.com/)
Freephone  0800 195 9809

HypnoSynthesis® is a trading name of Donald  Robertson Training Ltd.,
Registered in England as Company No. 05499462
UK  Register of Learning Providers No.10008042


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Rite of Horus the Enterer (PDF Download)

_www.UKhypnosis.com_ (http://www.UKhypnosis.com)


Bit of a weird one this...  Many moons ago, when I was but a  schoolboy, I
was introduced to all manner of strange occult practices by friends  who dabbled
in everything from freemasonry to white witchcraft.  Esoteric  things have
always fascinated me, although I'd hardly describe myself as an  advocate or
devotee of them.  (These things seem to be more common in  certain parts of
Britain and Ayrshire, my home, is one such  place.)
     Being more empirically minded myself I interpreted  what they were doing,
as far as I was able, in terms of basic psychological  principles, i.e.,
autosuggestion.  One practice in particular caught my  attention as it seemed to
have achieved some degree of popularity on the basis,  I believed, of its
natural psychological and dramatic effects.  In fact, I  came to make
considerable
use of it myself and found it to be a perfectly  serviceable technique of
autosuggestion, or if you will, self-hypnosis.
     Recently, I began to re-evaluate the contribution  some of these influ
ences had made on my practice of self-hypnosis and came to  the conclusion that
this method in particular was deserving of some kind of  rehabilitation.  I
made some changes to the ritual to bring it more into  line with my concept of
self-hypnosis and set about experimenting with it over a  period of several
months.  Every day I would practice at home.  When I  was travelling on the bus
or
train I would close my eyes and imagine performing  the ritual, a technique I
found equally effective.
     All in all, I was pleasantly surprised by the  effects as it compared
very well indeed to more orthodox techniques of  autosuggestion.  It's good
exercise too as it's slightly less sedentary  than traditional hypnosis.  So far
the people I've passed it on to have  been very enthusiastic about it too, so
perhaps it has the potential for more  widespread appeal.

I typed up a final draft of the method a few days ago, therefore, and have
uploaded it to our website where you can get a copy for free and experiment
with  it yourself.

Visit our homepage to download a PDF of the Rite of Horus
_www.UKhypnosis.com_ (http://www.UKhypnosis.com)

Yours  Sincerely,

Donald Robertson
Training Director

Senior Clinician  Hypnotherapist (NCH)
Registered Psychotherapist (UKCP)
Member of the  European Register of Psychotherapists (ERP)

The  HypnoSynthesis® Centre

Hypnotherapy Clinic,  Self-Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy Training Courses
_www.HypnoSynthesis.com_ (http://www.hypnosynthesis.com/)
Freephone  0800 195 9809

HypnoSynthesis® is a trading name of Donald  Robertson Training Ltd.,
Registered in England as Company No. 05499462
UK  Register of Learning Providers No.10008042


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Dear friends

   Is there any books or websites dealing with hypnotic  suggestions for
different personality types like submissive, extrovert ...etc
   Kindly guide.

   nik


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Hey guys,



Thanks for all your nice emails following last week’s tips. I have some more
for you below.



Yesterday I received an email followed by a phone call from a very excited
young chap who is looking to come into our great profession. First I done my
usual and told him really how hard a lot of Hypnotists find to make it
within the profession, but this didn’t sway his passion. ;-)



If you are new to the profession or just finding it hard – here are some
tips for you. And remember just like loads of others on this great forum,
I’ve been there, so if you have any questions, just ask away, so that others
can benefit and share.



-- If you have a site --



1. Do you have or can you write an e-book? If so you may consider
marketing it through your site and even setting up an affiliate programme so
that others can market you product. You can set this up easily and quickly
at http://paydotcom.net/?affiliate=21939.
2. If you don’t have an e-book then why not sell someone else’s? My
book SELF-CHANGE Hypnosis is now available in e-book and affiliates can earn
50% on then profits from each sale. Check it out -
https://paydotcom.com/a.page.php?id=6661
<https://paydotcom.com/a.page.php?id=6661&u=richardmackenzie>
&u=richardmackenzie.
3. Set up an employee benefits scheme. This is excellent as the
companies that you run them with do your marketing for you. Checkout
information on mine at http://www.richardmackenzie.co.uk/employers.htm.
4. Think about recording some MP3’s for download on your site. You can
even use the software in the first tip to help you set this up. A studio
here in the UK will roughly charge Ł200 - Ł300 to record and edit 4-5
recordings which is good if you can sell them to visitors to you site – even
while you sleep!



-- If you don’t have a site –



1. Well firstly I would suggest getting one. This place is great
http://1.affiliateclicks.com/u/2min/b.asp?id=1731 you even get a free trial.
2. You could still record some CD’s as above and sell them to clients
as ‘additional sales’.



Well I hope that these few tips will be of great use to some of you out
there!



What are you tips?



Richard MacKenzie

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(Please forward this email to anyone you feel may be interested in learning
hypnotherapy or self-hypnosis...)

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Thought those who deal with smokers might be interested in this  information.
  NICE provide the official guidelines on which treatment in  the NHS is
based.  The guidelines form smoking cessation are found at the  link below,

_http://www.nice.org.uk/page.aspx?o=TA039guidance_
(http://www.nice.org.uk/page.aspx?o=TA039guidance)

The NICE guidelines for smoking cessation only cover Nicotine Replacement
Therapy (NRT).  They are based on a meta-analysis of 97 randomised  controlled
trials (RCTs) involving a total of 38,000 smokers.  The figures  for the
effectiveness of NRT, i.e., nicotine gum, patches, inhalers, etc., is  stated
below,

"In terms of percentages of smokers quitting, the average over all trials
shows that about 10% had not smoked for the 12 months following placebo therapy,
  and about 17% had not smoked following NRT." (NICE)

This makes NRT only 7% more effective than placebo.  It also suggests  that
smokers who use a placebo are about twice as likely to succeed in quitting
(10%) as smokers who use willpower alone (c. 5%).

Even the least flattering studies of hypnotherapy suggest approx. 39%
cessation, making hypnotherapy more than twice as effective as NRT.  (These 
studies
are sometimes based on group sessions or other contexts which may be
unfavourable to smoking cessation hypnotherapy.)  However, other studies  show
cessation rates upward of 80% and the anecdotal reports of most  hypnotherapists
suggest that they consider this to be more representative of  private individual
treatment.

Hypnotherapy and NRT are not necessarily mutually exclusive treatments,
though they are seldom combined.

If people are interested in starting a discussion, I'd like to suggest the
following question for debate:
"What might be the pros and cons of combining hypnotherapy and NRT in group
therapy?"

What are your thoughts?

Yours  Sincerely,

Donald Robertson
Training Director

Senior Clinician  Hypnotherapist (NCH)
Registered Psychotherapist (UKCP)
Member of the  European Register of Psychotherapists (ERP)

The  HypnoSynthesis® Centre

Hypnotherapy Clinic,  Self-Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy Training Courses
_www.HypnoSynthesis.com_ (http://www.hypnosynthesis.com/)
Freephone  0800 195 9809

HypnoSynthesis® is a trading name of Donald  Robertson Training Ltd.,
Registered in England as Company No. 05499462
UK  Register of Learning Providers No.10008042


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This is a pretty scandalous tale of two stage hypnotists in the US.

"General Semantics and the Chicken Suit Murders - The hypnotic realities of
Dr Ronald Dante and Dr Michael Dean"

_Click  here_ (http://www.nthposition.com/generalsemanticsand.php)

Yours  Sincerely,

Donald Robertson
Training Director

Senior Clinician  Hypnotherapist (NCH)
Registered Psychotherapist (UKCP)
Member of the  European Register of Psychotherapists (ERP)

The  HypnoSynthesis® Centre

Hypnotherapy Clinic,  Self-Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy Training Courses
_www.HypnoSynthesis.com_ (http://www.hypnosynthesis.com/)
Freephone  0800 195 9809

HypnoSynthesis® is a trading name of Donald  Robertson Training Ltd.,
Registered in England as Company No. 05499462
UK  Register of Learning Providers No.10008042


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--- In hypnosis-hypnotherapy-UK@yahoogroups.com, "greentealeaf111"
<greentealeaf111@...> wrote:
>
> Will performing self-hypnosis end the awful emptiness?

Possibly. You'd have to provide a few more details before I could give
you specific instructions. That said, self-hypnosis could certainly
help you manage your emotions and get rid of emotional blocks to doing
what you need to do to make life feel more satisfying.

If it's a bigger problem though, you might do better seeking a
professional therapist who uses hypnosis.

> Can self- hypnosis get me the passing grade need in uni Shakespeare
class?

No, only your examiners can get you the passing grade.

But self-hypnosis could help increase your confidence, desire and
ability to study effectively and perform well. All of which increases
your chances of getting a passing grade.

Have fun,

Phil

Will performing self-hypnosis end the awful emptiness?  Can self-
hypnosis get me the passing grade need in uni Shakespeare class?