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Remember to breathe!

Peter August 9, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

Our cricket club’s Under 15s side had a match last Sunday morning. It was warm, pleasant and sunny and our side had batted particularly well and there was little possibility of the opposition matching our score. This type of match situation gives our skipper the ...

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Using carbon-fibre ‘cheetahs’ metaphorically!

Peter August 7, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

“I want to sort my head out” said a recent client. In athletic terms she needed to maintain standard timings for specific runs, and she felt that although she was physically capable in fitness terms, that a self imposed barrier – a kind of defeatist ...

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Nothing is ever nothing at all

Peter August 5, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

Early one day recently I posted a link to a clip on YouTube from Blackadder 4. It was the one called “I Spy” and related to Blackadder and Baldrick playing I Spy which started thus:-Blackadder: “I spy with my bored little eye something beginning with ...

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“I’m turning into my mother!” – Behavioural models

Peter August 2, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

I went out earlier and our neighbour’s dog was barking continuously though not in an annoying way. A couple of 6 yr olds were walking towards me and as they passed by I heard one say in his deepest voice,”That is a baaaad dog.” I ...

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NLP and Sensual Understanding, the 3rd dimension in Coaching?

Peter July 29, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

Open yourself up to the possibility…. In the course of my sports coaching I teach cricket to primary school children in curriculum time. Now, not all the pupils are going to view learning cricket with much enthusiasm for a variety of reasons – from not ...

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Extra-ordinary rewards.

Peter July 27, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

Someone asked me recently which I preferred – coaching or therapy. And I found it particularly difficult to give them a straight answer. Each involves communication, rapport, understanding, influence, instruction, guidance, correction, revelation, patience, humility, honesty, clarity….well, I could go on for there’s a lot ...

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So what was it you wanted to see me about?

Peter July 25, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

This is Part 2 of my initial interview with the client who writes and performs comedy. ….having pointed out to this client that unbeknownst to her she is a ‘hypnotist’, she ploughed on with her journey of discovery! “So what is NLP?” was her next ...

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Consciously, everything is an altered state – isn’t it?

Peter July 25, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

I met a new client who is a comedy writer and performer. This blog is what happened in Part 1 of my initial interview with her. In the course of chatting with her I asked if she’d ever had hypnotherapy and if so how was ...

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What happens when we have too much choice?

Peter July 24, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

This is a great and meaningful TED talk by Barry Schwarz on the paradox of choice. http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_choice.html In essence he concludes that the more choice we have, there is a finite point beyond which we actually become miserable and disaffected by this so-called “freedom to ...

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Not really a re-launch!

Peter July 21, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

I’m on something of a publicity drive on my book “Don’t Think of a Black Cat” at the moment. It’s not really a re-launch though, more (in recorded music industry parlance) along the lines of re-issuing “back catalogue”. What’s different? Well the price of both ...

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