Holes can also be metaphorical. People talk about disappearing down a big black hole. As though this is a bad thing. Me; I like the idea of going through a hole, as long as I come out whole on the other side. In fact, that is the whole point; or the hole point.

Here is one simple exercise involving a hole. Imagine, for a moment (and it will help you a great deal if you imagine you are really relaxed first and if you imagine your eyes are closed they probably are even though the lack of punctuation may be a little less confusing although on the hole this makes sense)….imagine for a moment you are drifting through space and that you are protected by an impenetrable force field. As you approach a black hole (really a star that has collapsed under the force of its own incredible gravity…a bit like some grown ups I have met)…you get a sense of excitement….an expectation of something momentous….something wonderful, about to happen.

You close your eyes even though they are already closed because inside your mind they are open and you need to close them on the inside to get the full effect.  When you open your eyes again, you emerge in a new universe in which the best possible event you could ever imagine is now unfolding before your very eyes, which are now open on the inside, although not on the outside. This event is rooted in your past but bears no relation to it, having increased in positive intensity by a factor of, well, let’s say, infinity, but you can go for a few billion , if you are more conservative than me.

Simply wallow in the positive experience for as long as you want to….for hours….all day even. But ten minutes will do to begin with.

Now decide what really matters in your life.

Take any appropriate action. In your own space and time.

Last week, a real hole appeared outside my house. We had to call the police and the council as there was a risk of buses falling into the hole. Sadly it has now been filled in.  But I am not sad. I am whole again.

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 Happy Holedays!

Sit somewhere quiet (that’s not the challenge, but if you lived here it would be).

Listen to the sound of my voice inside your head……as you read this to yourself….or another voice….perhaps someone you know better….. and trust a little more….and then….listen to the sounds you can hear inside the room….maybe the sounds of the chair creaking…..or your own breathing….or the faint draughts beneath the door…….and now listen to the sounds outside the room….the TV wittering….. or the washing machine….or perhaps some birds singing….or cars going by….and now….listen to the sounds you can only just hear….just beyond the sounds just outside the room….the sounds in the distance….sounds you are not sure are really there….and continue to listen further and further…. into the distance…. until it can only be the sounds…. which you…. imagine you can hear…. that you can hear now….sounds from the coast…..sounds from the sea….sounds from far distant lands…..sounds from the atmosphere…..sounds from space…..sounds from another planet…..another star…..another galaxay….another universe….so that when you can hear such sounds…. all the way to the edge of beyond (the hidden edge)…..listen, exclusively, to these…… most distant sounds…..and understand….. that these are the sounds of your soul….telling you what it is….. you would most love to do next……and then…..you can just drift a while………………………………………………………..or wake up.

And when you wake up, wiggle your toes and your nose and anything else that feels in need of a wiggle and write me a response telling me what it was that you heard and whether you are already doing it now, or are putting it off until the cows come home. 

The great thing about self-hypnosis is that you will never have any doubt about who is in control. What is more, you will be able to create and install your own positive suggestions to improve your personal and /or business success in whatever aspect interests you.  Self-hypnosis is easy to learn and very enjoyable. It is also available to anyone.

The Benefits

The benefits depend on what you choose to focus on. You could easily address any or even all of the following using these techniques.

• Increased self-confidence Improved performance in sports, careers, business and education
• Less stress and more relaxation
• Better self-management including health, fitness and even pain management
• Increased Decisiveness
• Increased capacity to deal with setbacks and challenges
• Self-induced changes unproductive behaviours and habits with ease and comfort
• Removal of phobias
• Greater self-control
• Improved memory skills
• Easy weight loss
• Stop smoking
• Better Presentations

Another simple fact about self-hypnosis is that it doesn’t require a great act of will-power. In fact, self-hypnosis works almost in the opposite way to will-power. Have you ever wondered why most people who go on time management courses or diets, eventually end up giving up, and often become even worse? The answer is an over reliance upon ’will-power’. Forcing yourself to do something through abstinence and artifically imposed restraints rapidly leads to back-sliding, disillusionment and misery.

Self-hypnosis, on the other hand, enables people to negotiate with their own unconscious mind to find positive solutions to their issues: solutions which do not involve ‘cures’ that are worse than the original ’dis-ease’. By testing out your self-managed suggestions with your unconscious mind, you are able to identify substitute behaviours and choices that will work for you on an ongoing basis, providing you with all the positive benefits you really desire. Forget feast and famine. Self-hypnosis is the proven way to get your business, career and life back on track.

The Programme

The HBT Self-Hypnosis Programme runs over one week-end. By the end of the programme you will be able to:

• understand how hypnotherapy works
• go into your own trance whenevr you want to
• create and administer your own self-hypnosis inductions
• understand the process of reframing
• design and deliver your own post-hypnotic suggestions
• utilise ideomotor movements to negotiate appropriate solutions with your own unconscious
• plan and implement your own programme of personal change built around key personal and professional goals

Dates

The next HBT Self-Hypnosis Programme will be in Bournemouth, over one weekend, 21 and 22 July 2007. The venue will be announced shortly. If you wish to apply for a place, please e-mail harvey@hbtuk.com or call Harvey Taylor on 07974 228396.

Programme Fees

Delegate fees for the programme are £299 including VAT

Come and meet Harvey and enter the wonderful world of HypnoBlissfulTrance!

 This is the first ever blog from Hypnobusiness about….appropriately…..hypnobusiness. And, unlike my infamous newsletters , which you will need a separate dedicated printer for,  these blogs will succinct and to the point. (Go to www.hbtuk.com to sign up for my newsletters).

 Hypnobusiness is simply what it says: the use of hypnotherapeutic techniques within a business context to resolve ‘issues’. The kinds of issues I resolve are any form of unresolved conflict; thinking errors (you know, like when your e mail goes down and you start proclaiming that your universe is falling apart at the seams and tat everyone hates you, including inanimate, abstract concepts, like cyber space….”Even cyber space hates me. That’s how loathsome I really am!”….that kind of thing); stress (I can help you experience less stress, or more stress, whichever you prefer); team working; performance anxiety (e.g.sales performance, although I cater for all types of performance enhancement, some of which are not appropriate in a business context); creativity and creative visualisation (you know: for product development and business planning); and so on and so on.

 I am also the best management trainer and coach in Bournemouth…well Dorset….well the known universe, actually, and have 18 years’ expoerience of working in Corporate and SME businesses as a change agent. I can solve any problem that any human being can cause (unless you include my family in the definition of ‘human beings’). I just have to be allowed in to your premises and given carte blance to weave my magic spells. You won’t regret it. Oh, and you do have to pay me. There’s a sliding scale, depending on how much I like you and how wealthy I fantasise that you are.

 There you go Laura(Laura is a serial fan/detractor of mine, as I am of her). Short and to the point. I know there were some long sentences and a few long words, but it’s not 5 pages is it? Not yet…..

 Harvey, the Attitude Therapist.