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Hypnotic Brain

Hi Guys, just a real quickie today as I’m busy with a few other things I’ll let you know about in a few days.

It’s very simple I’m “Giving Away” six audio hypnosis programs:

• Weight Control
• Quit Smoking
• Stress Relief
• Self Confidence
• Concentration
• Improved Study Habits

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All you have to do is fill in the email box below, submit and confirm your address and you’ll get the link to download them.

BTW, you can sell these yourself or give them away on your website to get “Subscribers” just as I’m doing now, I include the Resale Rights so you can basically do what you like with them after.

This is an interesting take on the Psychiatric profession and the Pharmaceutical Industry, make your own minds up, then watch the second video and see if you are still of the same opinion

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Underground Hypnosis is widely recognized as one of the most popular hypnosis script and training courses available for download over the Internet. However, is it really as good as some people claim? Or are there other alternatives, which provide much better results? Today you are going to find the answers to these questions, as you receive a full, in depth breaking down of the Underground Hypnosis course to find whether it really is as good as is claimed. You will be shocked with what I am about to show you.

Hypnosis courses are 100% vital for anybody who wishes to learn how to master hypnotism. However, when you think of hypnosis you probably envisage somebody swinging a pendulum and telling someone else that they are “getting sleepy”. This is not true hypnosis- true hypnosis is the manipulation of somebody else’s thoughts, feelings, beliefs and actions through the use of conversation, body language, expression etc. All of the most widely regarded hypnotists in the world, such as Igor Ledochowski and Milton Erickson use almost exclusively conversational hypnosis techniques.

So what does Underground Hypnosis focus on?

The course does revolve around conversational hypnosis and other “covert”/”underground” techniques. The sales page for the product claims that you can use the techniques that you will be shown to do incredible things such as-

* Force people to give up spaces for you in lines.

* Hypnotize your way out of any situation.

* How to fall asleep at any time you want by using hypnosis.

* How to get perfectly in tune with your body’s “clock” so that you are never late for anything again, and so that you can wake up at any time.

* Make anybody agree with you.

* Control hundreds, even thousands of people through your words and actions.

* How to hypnotize people without anybody ever knowing.

So does the Underground Hypnosis course actually deliver on its promises? Or is it simply a scam product, which will take your money and run? Can you use the techniques in it to truly change your life for the better? Or is it all just clever sales technique and pitch?

Click here to learn whether Underground Hypnosis is a scam or not, and whether it actually delivers on all of its massive promises. Read an honest, in depth comparison between it and the other top hypnosis course on the Internet to see which one will better suit your needs.

Adrian Saunders has worked in the professional hypnosis industry for over 10 years and has had hundreds of satisfied clients. He has started to share his insider conversational hypnosis knowledge online for the first time.

Hypnosis is a trance or sleep like state of the mind, and in this state the individual is open to suggestions and directions, and the mind being in a relaxed state is focused and clear. Hypnotherapy is successfully used to address various problems like addiction to tobacco and alcohol, obesity, insomnia, relief from pain and various kinds of phobias and complexes. People grapple with problems and fears in their day to day life and certain phobias like fear of flying, fear of crowded places, fear of insects etc. can complicate life and can cause much embarrassment. Hypnotherapy is a method to relax the mind and shift focus from the particular issue, and over the sessions the therapy can invoke mental and physical changes, and train the mind to deal better with tensions.

The state of hypnosis differs from sleep as the person can hear the therapist during the session. The mind is focused, though peripheral awareness is low, and the Alpha brain wave level which is low during sleep is found to be high during hypnosis. Hypnotizability varies from person from person, and it is found that the level does not change over a period of time. Those with high level of hypnotizability are good subjects as they are more open to suggestions, and they change easily for the better. However high level of hypnotizability is not the same thing as submissiveness, and good subjects are found to be strong, imaginative and independent individuals. The state of hypnosis can be self induced, or can be brought about by a therapist, and generally during the process the focus is shifted from the present place and time to another place and time to facilitate the therapy. Mind, body and spirit together work in this process.

Neuro Linguistic Programming or NLP is a method of inducing self talk and thereby creating a positive attitude in the person. This method exploits the way neurology and language comes together to create experience. Brain is always giving you messages, and self talk always goes on, but only if this talk is positive can one realize his goals. Though in most of them positive self talk is an instinctive phenomenon, it has to be inculcated in those with a pessimistic bent of mind. NLP help you to handle failures better, and assists you handle the impediments in your way to success, as it influences the process of thought and understanding in an individual and thereby the behavior. NLP is a way to self exploration, communicating the spiritual side, and the discovery of a new, much better person altogether.

Sometimes the cause of a particular phobia or complex is not apparent, and could be the result of a thought embedded in the sub-consciousness. An insecurity of the childhood could become manifest as the fear of flying, and addressing this insecurity and shifting focus from it through hypnotherapy can root out the cause of the fear, and help the individual gain confidence to board a plane. In many cases solving an obvious problem can solve many other smaller problems, and improve the quality of life in general.

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NLP Explained…..

NLP is the study of how people organise their thinking, feeling, language and behaviour to produce the results they do. The co-creators’ of NLP, John Grinder & Richard Bandler had an insatiable desire to discover and replicate the structure of excellent performers’ behavioural patterns and teach others to do the same, short circuiting the years of development and learning of the experts. This process is called modelling and is central to NLP. They called their work Neuro Linguistic Programming which is about understanding the structure of how the human nervous system (neuro) transforms data received through the 5 senses into mental descriptions (linguistic) and then unconscious behaviour (programming).” With NLP, you have a model for understanding the unconscious thinking processes that drive behaviour. This has two enormous benefits, firstly you can easily learn to do what others are doing well, and model it. Secondly you can identify the limiting patterns in yourself and others and use NLP patterning to move on.

Modelling is at the centre of much of NLP, then there are the patterns and techniques which originate from the modelling projects. NLP patterns are a synthesis of powerful change interventions, language models, and behavioural designs based on self-improvement and achieving excellence. The NLP patterns have been modelled from geniuses who were getting amazing results working in the field of psychiatry, psychology, and psychotherapy. Grinder and Bandler had little prior knowledge of this field yet soon found that they too could get equally amazing results as the people they modelled in a fraction of the time. They ran courses, and other people found by applying the patterning they could also get amazing results. The patterning grew into modern day NLP with new modelling projects stimulating new patterns and techniques over the years.

Formal Definition of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)

Neuro refers to our nervous system/mind and how it processes information and codes it as memory inside our very body/neurology. By neuro we refer to experience as inputted, processed, and ordered by our neurological mechanisms and processes.

Linguistic indicates that the neural processes of the mind come coded, ordered, and given meaning through language, communication systems, and various symbolic systems (grammar, mathematics, music, icons).

Programming refers to our ability to organise our sensory-based information (sights, sounds, sensations, smells, tastes, and symbols or words) within our mind-body organism which then enables us to achieve our desired outcomes.

Taking control of one’s own mind describes the heart of NLP. NLP has become famous for the techniques it offers to bring about effective and lasting change. For example, NLP has a technique called The Fast Phobia Cure developed by Richard Bandler. Using this this technique, NLP can cure a phobia in a very short period of time (often in 10-15 minutes). We have used the procedure to cure phobias of water, bees, lifts, heights, public speaking, small places, aeroplanes, etc. The fast phobia cure represents just one of many techniques for such change.

We have used a technique called Time-Line Processes to remove traumatic pictures from the minds of traumatised people. Additionally, we often use certain NLP techniques conversationally, which means that we do not have to use these techniques in an overtly “therapeutic” way.

What is NLP?

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) explores the inner workings of the human mind; how we think, how we develop our desires, goals and fears and how we motivate ourselves, make connections, and give meaning to our experiences. NLP presents specific skills and patterns necessary to make positive changes, create new choices, be more effective with others, break free of old habits, self-destructive patterns and behaviours, and think more clearly about what it is we want and how to get it.

NLP is the study of the structure of subjective experience – The relationship between the mind, language, emotions and patterns of behaviour. It is a psychology of interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence and communication.

NLP is a fairly recent development, originating at the University of Santa Cruz in the mid-seventies when a group of talented people (namely, the afore mentioned Richard Bandler & John Grinder) came together to share information and insights across disciplinary boundaries. It incorporates insights from behavioural and Gestalt psychology, family therapy, hypnotherapy, linguistics, information theory and anthropology among many other disciplines.

Unlike other schools of psychotherapeutic thought, which concentrate on how problems arise, NLP started from studying people who are exceptionally good at what they do, and finding out how they do it so that anyone can get similar results by doing the same things. It aims to move beyond remedial change (fixing specific problems) to “generative” change, which empowers you to achieve more in every area of your life.

Often people find that when they learn a new skill or make a breakthrough in one area of their life, problems seem to disappear or seem less important.

NLP In A Nutshell

To be successful you only need to remember three things;

Know what you want; have a clear idea of your desired outcome in any situation.

Be alert and keep your senses open (sensory acuity) so that you notice what you’re getting.

Have the flexibility to go on changing what you do until you get what you want.

If you go on doing what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you always got.

Some Principles of NLP

All experiences are subjective – we respond to our internal representation of events, not to the events themselves

Each person is unique and uniquely valuable

Everyone has all the resources they need for success – there are no unresourceful people, only unresourceful states

Everyone makes the best choice available to them at the time

Behind every behaviour is a positive intention

There is no failure, only feedback

A persons behaviour is not the person

The meaning of a communication is the response you get

Mind and body are part of the same system

Experience has a structure – change the structure and you change the experience

I am in charge of my mind and therefore my results

The History of NLP

“NLP is an attitude and a methodology that leaves behind a trail of techniques.” – Richard Bandler

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) represents a relatively new discipline dating back only to the mid-70s. Behind NLP stands a respectable body of knowledge. NLP originated from several different intellectual disciplines as organised by two co-founders – Richard Bandler and John Grinder.

It happened once upon a time when Dr Grinder served as a professor of linguistics at the University of California in Santa Cruz. Bandler came there as a student to study mathematics and computers. Dr Grinder, in fact, had already published several books in the field of linguistics known as Transformational Grammar.

Bandler discovered he had a natural gift for modelling and hearing patterns. He discovered he could detect and replicate patterns in Gestalt Therapy (a form of psychotherapy) from minimum exposure. He became an editor for several of Fritz Perls’ books in Gestalt therapy. Being familiar with Perls’ work, Bandler began to study Perls’ techniques. As he discovered that he could model Perls’ therapeutic procedures, he began experimenting with clients using the techniques.

After enjoying immediate and powerful results from that modelling, Richard discovered that he could model others. With the encouragement of Grinder, Bandler got the opportunity to model the world’s foremost family therapist, Virginia Satir. Richard quickly identified the “seven patterns” that Virginia used. As he and John began to apply those patterns, they discovered they could replicate her therapies and obtain similar results.

As a computer programmer, Richard knew that to program the simplest “mind” in the world (a computer with on and off switches) you break down the behaviour into component pieces and provide clear and unambiguous signals to the system. To this basic metaphor, John added his extensive knowledge of transformational grammar. From transformational grammar we borrow the concepts of deep and surface structure statements that transform meaning/knowledge in the human brain. From this they began to put together their model of how humans get “programmed,” so to speak.

Thereafter, world-renowned anthropologist Gregory Bateson introduced Bandler and Grinder to Milton Erickson, MD. Erickson developed the model of communication that we know as “Ericksonian Hypnosis.” Since 1958, the American Medical Association has recognised hypnosis as a useful healing tool during surgery. As Bandler and Grinder modelled Erickson, they discovered they could obtain similar results. Today many of the NLP techniques result from modelling Ericksonian processes.

From these experiences and their research into the unifying factors and principles, Bandler and Grinder devised their first model. It essentially functioned as a model of communication that provided a theoretic understanding of how we get “programmed” by languages (sensory-based and linguistic-based) so that we develop regular and systematic behaviours, responses, psychomatic effects etc. This model went further. It also specified ways for using the components of subjectivity for creating psychological improvement and change.

From that point, NLP expanded. The model expanded by incorporating material from other disciplines: cybernetics (communication within complex systems both mechanical and living), philosophy, cognitive psychology, studies of the “unconscious” mind, and neurology. Today, NLP has institutes worldwide and numerous authors have applied NLP to medicine and health, therapy and psychological well-being, business, education, athletics, law, Christian ministry, and more.

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Adam Eason is an author, consultant, trainer and motivational speaker in the fields of hypnosis, self-hypnosis and NLP. His website is filled with information, stimulating articles, resources and uniques products.

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When we are talking to other people, we tend to believe that we understand each other simply because we are using similar sounds to another person. Yet, words are just words, they are not what they stand for, and words tend to mean different things to different people. See, the only way we can understand language, is to take the words that come in and run them through our experiences, and thus our emotional response to words is highly individual.

Think of words like: Love, war, peace, sex, family, etc. To you some of these might have positive, some negative connotations. To a weapons manufacturer, the word war will however mean something different than it does to you, or not?

This becomes important in our everyday lives, when we are talking to other people. In school we have been taught to paraphrase in order to make sure we understand others, but how can that happen when we exchange their very words with ours…we literally UNDERstand someone else. So how can we start OVERstanding them?

Since language does not describe reality, but create it (Watzlawick), another person’s words will show us their reality. Excellent, that is easy enough. But how do you find out which words make a difference, or which words really matter?

Firstly, look at body language. Words that are important will usually be accentuated by changes in body language, skin colour, pupil dilation, and breathing. And these are just the things you will see! When you listen closely, people usually make a short break before saying something important, their tone will change, as well as pitch and tempo.

So the other day I was talking to someone about NLP training, and I asked: “Why do you want to do an NLP course?” To which the woman said: “Well, I feel that I really want to help people…HEAL!” So when in then said: “Excellent, and you know how NLP and hypnosis can really help people…HEAL, don’t you?” Her response was one of feeling completely understood!

Right then, so what you want to get into the habit of doing is listening to these words that matter, words that are like emotional hot buttons for people, and learn how to use them in your language to increase your ability to be understood by others. When someone says, “I want XYZ” when you ask them why they want it, they will give you these emotionally packed words that are highly important in that person’s reality. But why take my word for it, when you can go out and do this to notice the results. Have fun being overstood!

The Mind is capable of incredible feats, most of which we are not even aware of. Once you embark on the journey to finding out what is possible, the sky is literally the limit. After studying Reiki, NLP, hypnosis, communication, Business management, yoga and much more, I firmly believe that it is our duty and responsibility spending time in developing our minds to wake up to a new reality of possibilities and opportunity.

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