In hypnosis, there are a number of “power” words that can and are used to enhance the trance process and because they are so powerful, it means that when we use them together their power multiplies which means that the hypnotic trance being generated and enjoyed by the client becomes even deeper and the changes made, whatever those changes are that their powerful unconscious mind chooses because your unconscious mind is able to perform this, as the client enjoys a deeper level of trance becomes even more profound.

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Task Lists and To-Do

On 20/02/2010, in Ben White, Productivity, by Ben

So I used to write the occasional to-do list to keep track of what I should be doing of a day, but recently I’ve started to get involved in a lot of different projects and its time to learn how to manage my tasks more efficiently and reliably.

Having recently attended JP Morgan’s awesome talk on fearlessness and how to live outside of your comfort zone, one the most interesting things was the concept that in procrastination hides fear. As an extension of that I discovered that I procrastinate about writing to-do lists and completing the items on it (if writing a new blog post wasn’t on my to-do list, I could even argue that writing this very post was a way of avoiding my to-do list :) ).

So this post is a short piece summarising some of my research into how to write a good to-do list that you can manage and complete.

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I am studying Clean Language at the moment and am reading an excellent book by Wendy Sullivan and Judy Rees (who runs XrayListening.com which is about how Clean Language can be used in business) called Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds which introduces the concept and teaches the basics of how Clean Language can and should be applied.

I’m finding the whole thing incredibly powerful and I suspect I’ll be blogging about it again.

Coming from the NLP world with the meta model and such, Clean Language seems to simplify the processes even further and what I’ve seen and used is actually a much better method of questioning someone on their beliefs and frames than the Meta Model used in NLP [gasp!].

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I read an interesting article on New Scientist today describing how new research is suggesting that those who are un-hypnotisable may have a more balanced brain (between left and right hemispheres) than those that are highly susceptible!

There is a kind of standard statistic in hypnosis that (whether through suggestion or genuine experience) most hypnotists will agree on:

About 20% of the population is highly susceptible

About 60% of the population can be hypnotised

About 20% of the population cannot be hypnotised

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Positioning your memories

On 16/01/2010, in NLP, by Ben

This is part 2 and while it does kind of stand on its own, it is born from my previous post on memories and mirroring, so I don’t know whether you’ll want to read that first or perhaps decide to read it after a few more words here.

So I was thinking about how mirrors and photos may perhaps impact how we feel and it occurred to me that where they are positioned may also influence our feelings as well.

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