While I have become comfortable with working with trance, I still find it challenging to teach the Milton Model to NLP students.  The Milton Model is a set of language patterns, modelled from the great hypnotherapist Milton Erickson, which is used to induce and deepen trance.  There are just so many of these patterns, labelled [...]

IMPROVE YOUR INFLUENCE WITH NLP (Part 11) Do you know what it is that may be tripping you up or holding you back from achieving your goals? One factor could be incongruence.  Incongrence arises when the conscious and unconscious minds are not in alignment.  It shows up in body language which does not match the verbal words expressed.  To [...]

IMPROVE YOUR INFLUENCE WITH NLP (Part 7) If you have been reading my recent posts, all this talk of the “conscious” and “unconscious” mind may be making you feel a little schizophrenic by now!  Chris Morris of NLP Connections posted an amusing blogpost about this recently.  The divided mind, as introduced by Freud, was still a [...]

IMPROVE YOUR INFLUENCE WITH NLP (Part 6) In my last blog, I explained how our unconscious mind is responsible for learning, and how important it is for us to relearn things from time to time when old habits no longer serve us well.  When we examine the way we learn new things, it teaches us [...]

IMPROVE YOUR INFLUENCE WITH NLP (Part 5) Have you considered getting on better with your unconscious mind?  A lot of people are reluctant to even consider this question, as their views are coloured by the influence of Sigmund Freud, the nineteenth century therapist, and fear that their unconscious represents a subterranean sea of repressed and threatening [...]