Archive for April 2010

One person’s structure of food cravings

Peter April 30, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

Sometimes I meet a client who has cravings for certain foods, and doesn’t wish to have them erased from his or her menu of “likeables” – which is what would happen if we mapped across submodalities using Like to Dislike technique. It’s quite for ok ...

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Metaphors reveal behavioural structures…

Peter April 22, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

When a client admits “I have issues with X because there are times when I feel really out of control”…then I am sat with virtual machete in hand, knowing that I need to help them hack a new pathway through the jungle of X – ...

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Encountering Dogma

Peter April 20, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

I was recently approached by a student writing a thesis called “Hypnotherapy and the Christian” for my views; with particular regard to the dogmatic Christian approach towards trance – often described as evil, and that therapists could be described as “charmers” as biblically referenced in ...

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Like >> To >> Dislike …. And why the white plate?

Peter April 12, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

Whenever I find myself dealing with removing particular food cravings for clients, by mapping them across to ones they have a certain revulsion to – there seems to be something of a recurring theme…or even a recurring dream, as someone once said to me. It ...

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All Clients are amazing!

Peter April 9, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

On Thursday I had a second meeting with a client who, I’m discovering, is probably one of the most insightful and amazing people I’ve met to date. He is seeing me, ostensibly, to talk around topical areas of exercise, health, food, motivation and such. By ...

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Revealing Metaphors!

Peter April 2, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

Clean Language questions are great for eventually eliciting a person’s unconscious metaphors, those that are driving, or that are linked to, certain behaviours. Often people have no conscious idea what these metaphors might be, and find that once they are known, immediate and profound changes ...

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Discovering and using my ‘Shadow’

Peter April 1, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

The Shadow Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it isembodied in the individual’s conscious life,the blacker and denser it is.At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag,thwarting our most well-meant intentions.— Dr. Carl G. Jung One of the features and exercises during my attendance ...

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Cloud Technique – even partially!

Peter April 1, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

Since discovering (thanks to Nigel Hetherington) the practical uses of the Cloud Technique, which was initiated by Kevin Creedon, I have used it fully and also partially for a number of clients – each time causing an immediate and positive outcome. On our recent course ...

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