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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.....
Read : Stephen Gilligan NLP Hypnosis transcript
Michael
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Podcast transcript released
Listen on iTunes
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.....
Read : Stephen Gilligan NLP Hypnosis transcript
Michael
PPI Business NLP - for NLP Training
01908 506563
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