On those occasions when I’ve been on the Motorway alternating between 60mph and zero for no apparent reason, I’ve often wished I could be in a helicopter watching the traffic acting like one of those slinky springs that used to make their own crazy way down our stairs when I was a child. I find […]
The Psychobiology of Suggestion?
Every now and again I come across a book that stops me in my tracks. Trances People Live was one, The User Illusion was another. A few months ago I was given a book by a graduate of ours as a present, which is the best thing people can ever get me (the name of […]
It’s what they believe that’s important
Please note, that, despite the best efforts of my mind to convince me otherwise, I recognise that nothing I say in this article is true. So if I slip up by inferring otherwise please forgive me, I’m doing my best not to be human. As someone who isn’t a person with faith I often gaze […]
Regression and Barabasis Law
The dictionary describes a network as “a system of interlinking operations“. By that definition we are surrounded by them. Social networks, business networks, even the ecosystem which keeps us alive are examples. In fact, we ourselves can be described as a network, we are probably the most complex organic network we currently know of. Recent […]
What is Cognitive Hypnotherapy?
Adapted from an excerpt of Wordweaving volume 2: The Question is the Answer by Trevor Silvester. When we’re approached by someone interested in hypnotherapy training this is the question that we have to answer most often. And it’s not surprising; the term clinical hypnotherapy is used by many hypnotherapy courses which teach very different syllabuses, […]
