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What is NLP ?
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is an effective tool to achieve excellence. It is a set of empowering attitudes and skills to realize your full potentials. It covers strategies and techniques that can be applied to virtually any areas of your business and personal life.
NLP is also "The Art & Science of Understanding". It is a rapidly evolving field of discoveries about your thinking and feelings, how you behave and communicate thereafter the kind of consequences.
Through experiential exercises and demonstrations, it builds upon your personal strengths and removes your shortcomings. It enriches you in achieving what is good and right in your life, for just about anything you could possibly want :
Personal goals such as
- Better health
- Happiness
- Prosperity
- Professional / Business success
- Learning ability enhancement
- Leadership enhancement
- Creativity enhancement
- Emotional focus manipulation
- Rewarding relationship building and rapport
- maintenance
- Congruent and powerful change
accomplishment
- Effective problem solving ability
You may ask: "Is NLP a new form of psychology?" "Is it the study of human excellence, or a system for personal change?" To best answer these questions, here is a clip from Times Magazine: "NLP has untapped potential for treating individual problems� It has transformed into an all-purpose self-improvement technology�"
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How NLP is unique ?
Nowadays, facing, handling and facilitating changes has become our daily routines. Different theories, programs and therapies dominate at their own arenas. Some approaches focus on the reasons why our beliefs are crucial to change; some are good at how to make a better life out of different ways of expressing our feelings; and some concentrates on techniques and behaviors.
NLP has a different point of view. It identifies that our lives are embedded with thoughts, feelings and behaviors as a whole being. It contributes a diverse range of methods and systems that release incomparable ways to concurrently transform our thoughts, feelings and behaviors into positive and assertive.
Besides, NLP leads us toward solutions - it points us to the future rather than emphasizing too much on the past. Unlike some approaches, which devote to the sources of problems or the skills of diagnosing, NLP clears our stumbling blocks effectively and neatly, without lengthy analysis or diagnosing. Mastering NLP makes us recognize where we are; then it delicately guides us to find solutions.
NLP provides us new ways to see things that happened to us in the past. It also stands for new visions to the world surrounding us. Last but not least, it shapes and influences us on how we can develop our thinking patterns and behaviors for well-being.
NLP is a unique technology that flourishes us to excellence.
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What is Hypnotherapy ?
Hypnosis is neither magic nor ESP. It is a therapeutic method utilizing positive suggestions to influence clients towards their desired outcome. Through professional training, every one can master the skills of hypnosis.
Hypnotherapy is a method of communication that a hypnotherapist uses verbal or nonverbal language that induces a trance - a relaxing, comfortable state to a client so that the client's unconscious mind is easier to accept positive and constructive suggestions to facilitate agreed-upon outcomes.
Hypnosis will not force anyone to do anything against their will. The client knows exactly where they are and what they are doing throughout the entire hypnotic process. He/she is always and completely in his/her own control. Therefore, worrying about disclosure of privacy or being used to do unlawful things is unnecessary.
In our daily life, our thinking and behavior are mainly led by our conscious mind. At this conscious state, our brain thinks and analyzes continually and our unconscious mind lies beneath our ordinary awareness. Our unconscious mind functions without our awareness. Until our consciousness is under rest - a deep, calm, relaxed and peace state which is called being asleep or hypnosis state, our unconsciousness will raise up to the level of consciousness and lead our psychological state.
Once in that state, the mind is most receptive to positive suggestions directly. Hypnotherapy can work well for the treatment of anxiety, negative thinking through providing positive and constructive suggestion directly to our unconscious mind. Once the suggestion is accepted, it will follow the suggestion automatically even in the conscious awareness and help us to achieve the desired goal.
Therefore, we can use hypnotherapy to build productive habits, unleash personal potential, enhance memory power and heal psychological problems. Nowadays, Hypnosis is wildly applied in the field of psychology, physical health, education and potential enhancement.
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What is Time Line ?
Our Past, Present and Future constitute our Time. It aligns in a linear way, i.e. our Time Line. Our Time Line is the memory coding of the brain. It is how people encode and store their memories. Everybody has a unique Time Line. Painful experiences and feelings are deeply embedded in our unconscious mind. Those experiences are encoded and stored as memories in our brain, which are important components of our personality. Our present and future are driven by the meaning we defined and decisions we made in the past.
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What is Time Line Therapy ?
Curing disease requires discovering the root cause. Likewise, realizing the root cause is crucial to handle psychological issues such as negative emotions and trauma. Through Time Line Therapy� we can track down the root cause and let our unconscious mind to explain and redefine the meaning of the event. By changing the emotions that attach to the event, one can eliminate negative emotions like anger, frustration and guilt completely.
A distinctive feature of the Time Line Therapy� is that clients are kept dissociated from re-experiencing the intense emotions of the past traumatic experience. Instead of risking collapse of emotions, effective result is reached in a safe manner.
Time Line Therapy� is an effective tool of self-growth, confidence reinforcement and personal dreams achievement.
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Hypnosis vs. Self-Relations Psychotherapy
Traditional hypnosis sees trance as stemming from hypnotic suggestions, and thus cannot occur until and unless there is 魐ypnosis� and the 魐ypnotist� performs 魐ypnotic technique� on the 鷔ubject�.
Ericksonian hypnosis sees trance as a natural psycho-biological state arising from life events. Erickson emphasized that trance occurs with or without hypnotists; it is a 𦽳pecial learning state� that allows new identities to emerge. Hypnosis is one ritual or tradition for being able to provide a good context for allowing and positively guiding inner trance changes. So an Ericksonian hypnotist is looking for how and where trance is already occurring, rather than creating one artificially.
Milton Erickson created a powerful legacy in the field of psychotherapy. He pioneered remarkable therapeutic approaches for accepting and utilizing a person𠏋 reality, including a person𠏋 𢖯roblems� or 𩂈esistances�, to develop healing, health and happiness. Self-Relations Psychotherapy, developed by Dr. Stephen Gilligan, inherits the sprit and core of Ericksonian Hypnosis. It leads Hypnotherapy to a higher level, uncovering the secret of Ericksonian powerful legacy.
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Ericksonian Hypnosis vs. Self-Relations Psychotherapy
Self-Relations work is different from Erickson𠏋 legacy in at least three ways.
Firstly, Self-Relations work explores the role of the unconscious within the client. It looks at the role played by the practitioner and the interaction between the practitioner and the client𠏋 unconscious. The excellent results of Ericksonian Hypnotherapy are related to the linkage between the hypnotherapist and the client𠏋 unconscious, which then provokes positive changes. If we learn how to build up this linkage, in particular, the linkage between the client and his/her unconscious, we can then create powerful therapeutic results from hypnotherapy. This is the core of Dr. Gilligan𠏋 Self-Relations Psychotherapy.
Secondly, Self-relations work is about the embodiment of the unconscious. In Erickson's work, the unconscious seems a bit ethereal at times, not having a particular location or experience attached. It just kind of is! Self-relations explicitly emphasizes life as a performance art and looks at how performance artists; dancers, athletes, artists etc. experience and organize their 'creative unconscious'. We see how important embodiment is and so emphasize the somatic experience in relation to the unconscious. We then can help ourselves and others to reconnect with centre and experience the sense of well-being.
Thirdly, Self-relations work has to do with the creative field. In Erickson's work, people go into a trance that is generally away from the world, i.e. close your eyes, stay immobile and "zone" out. In Self-relations work, we move trance from the dissociated closed eyes 'out-of-it' state to the immediate present, the here and now. Therefore you can respond quickly in a challenging social situation.
(by Dr. Stephen Gilligan)
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Self-relations Psychotherapy: The Problem is the Solution
In self-relations, "the problem" itself is actually "the solution". Symptoms of the problems, such as depression or anxiety, are seen as awakenings of a person𠏋 soul or center, and therapeutic conversations are seen as mediums for midwifing these awakening to full realization. Thus, we don't try to "get rid of" these "negative" expressions, but instead invite them into a human relationship of 𦽳ponsorship�, where their healing and helpful nature may be realized.
by Stephen Gilligan
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Behind Self-relations work ...
Much of Gilligan's thinking in this respect came out of his intense study of Aikido training. In the practice of Aikido, it is necessary to develop the technique of allowing your mind to extend beyond the boundaries of 'self' to include a space that contains you and your partner, as well as many other presences. Self-relations work looks to train folks to access and work within this space. It would seem that Erickson himself worked from this space. He didn't go into trance, rather he came 'out into trance', wider and wider awake. This is really emphasized in Self-Relations work, taking his teachings beyond the awareness developed by Erickson into a more developed and useful paradigm.
(by Stephen Gilligan)
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