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Hypnosis - Discussion between Michael Beale and Stephen Gilligan, January 2008.

Podcast transcript released


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http://www.nlp-expert.co.uk/hypnosis/stephen.mp3

Michael : Good morning Stephen. Firstly I'd like to really thank you for taking part in this podcast.

Stephen : My pleasure.

Michael : Would you just start by giving our listeners a brief introduction as to who you are and what you do?

Stephen : Well, I'm a psychologist. I live in San Diego, California. And professionally speaking, for the last thirty two-thirty three years, I've been doing a variety of therapeutic work, coaching work related to hypnotic work.

I started out in the late seventies as a student of UC Santa Cruz and I was a student of Bandler and Grinder, I actually met them when they first got together - I was a student of Grinders. And about a year into that they went out and met Milton Erickson and I was just thoroughly taken by what they had brought back, and the next time they went I went with them and met Erickson in 1974 and became a student of his for the next six years until he died in 1980.

So a lot of my work has that as a core - Ericksonian hypnotic trance, and a number of other things have become integrated into that over the years, including a lot of stuff from Aikido and Buddhism, and some from other aspects of psychology.

Michael : From your point of view, what is hypnosis, what does the term mean to you?

Stephen :Well I think it's important to distinguish between hypnosis and trance, most people don't, and it leads to a lot of misunderstanding. So in order to define hypnosis I would first have to define trance. One of the most important aspects of Erickson's legacy was emphasising trance, not as artificial, but as naturalistic, and that is it doesn't come from hypnotic suggestion, it comes from consciousness itself - that it's a natural part of peoples learning states and of their consciousness. I think we could say in the most succinct way that trance is the way that occurs any time that identity is disrupted.....

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Beale's Business NLP, coaching, sales and attraction newsletter - January 2008

January NLP Newsletter Hot off the Press


Contents - what’s in your newsletter this month:

• Beale’s NLP Podcast: Change Management
• Recommended New NLP CD
• January and February Practitioner Courses
• Reviewed: Seduction Book
• NLP Definition of the Month: Deep Structure
• Forum Progress
• And finally

Read more: January NLP Newsletter

Michael
PPI Business NLP
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NLP Hypnosis : John La Valle discusses NLP and Hypnosis

Conitinuing my series of interviewing some of the top hypnotists worldwide I'm pleased to realease the podcast of my discussion with John La Valle:

http://www.nlp-expert.co.uk/hypnosis/john.mp3

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NLP Hypnosis - John La Valle podcast and transcript

Michael : Firstly John, thank you very much for agreeing to take part in this podcast,

John : Thanks.

Michael : To kick it off would you introduce yourself so that our listeners know a little bit about who you are and what you do?

John : Well my name is John, my last name is La Valle, and I think most people might know who I am apart from those who might not, I do NLP trainings, and I do lot of them with Richard Bandler, I also take care of the administrative things for the Society of NLP for Richard. I do a lot of training, I co-wrote a book with Richard of Persuasion Engineering, sales and business, things like that – I think that most people would probably know who I am though.

Michael : What is hypnosis?

John : Hypnosis to me, really, really is nothing more than exquisite, really exquisite communication.

Podcast transcript continued: John La Valle and Michael Beale discuss hypnosis

Michael

Michael Beale
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