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I am a qualified Neuro-linguistic Programmer Trainer and Eriksonian
Hypnotherapist and have a passion for my work, helping people to find and
rediscover their inner power. Memories I have since I was a little boy are of me
helping other children in the neighbourhood, making them feel better, consoling
them after a hiding (those were still the years of hidings) and even doing
'operations' for aches and pains. After school I started off with a medical
career (those years you either become a doctor or an attorney) but then my
mother died of cancer. Every possible treatment failed. In a time of grief and
shock I left the medical field and I started over with education and ended up
teaching Dutch poetry at University level. After 5 years of giving my heart and
soul to the students another shock came in the form of unrest and violence on
the campus which resulted in my car being set alight. I remember that day
looking from my office window almost in a trance, not believing what was
happening. It was the gentle voice of my student assistant bringing me back to
reality and saving me from the campus.
The next 15 years took me into the world
of antiques, a fascinating and beautiful world. Working with beauty and history,
it took me on a wonderful journey, exploring every possible aspect of this
magical world. From a remote Karoo farm in the South African Karoo to castles in
Romania and Hungary. With broken down delivery trucks on highways and carrying
furniture (weighing tons) up hills to houses at the top, I sometimes wished that
a helping spirit will come and save me. My wish came true (much to my horror)
when strange things begin to happen in the shop. Slamming doors, clocks flying
through midair - it was also my first contact with real 'spirits' (ghosts) and
it took quite a few 'spiritual' friends to help the spirits move on (and out of
the shop) again.
It was on an isolated beach somewhere on the Mozambique coast
where I got 'the call'. For some time I was feeling a growing emptiness, a
feeling of a cycle which has come to an end. Some time before this I did a
Mankind project course where a wise looking old man stared at me over a candle
and asked: "Who do you serve"? For the first time in my life the usual and easy
answer did not seem 'to fit' anymore. I just stared back at him with a dry
throat. On that day on the beach, the wind blew a magazine over the sand and I
caught it. It fell open on a article about NLP and it was like I saw a door
opened. And so my next journey began, a world so much more gripping than I have
ever known before.
Come and join me on this journey during a very significant
time on Mother Earth. Let us all discover and remember who we really are!
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Hypnotherapy in combination NLP can be an excellent approach for changing
unwanted behaviors and states. Because all unwanted behavior comes from the
unconscious mind it is necessary to work in the domain of the unconscious.
During a trance state, the unconscious mind is open to suggestions which the
conscious mind can just reject during normal waking states of consciousness. If
for instance a client holds a belief of being unworthy of love, the opposite can
be positively suggested during a trance state and the conscious mind can accept
it, while during waking state the suggestion might easily just be reflected back
to the therapist.
As an NLP Coach and Practitioner and an Eriksonian Hypnotherapist, these are
challenges I have worked with: Value elicitation; Difficult relationships; Lack
of direction; Unproductive meetings; Lack of motivation; Lack of social skills;
Fears; Trauma and phobias; Decision making; Creativity and problem solving (Out
of the box thinking); Life planning; Limiting beliefs (belief change); Habits
and compulsions; Lack of confidence; Time management; Depression; Stuck
situations; Difficulty relaxing; Goal setting (Well formed outcomes); Difficulty
visualizing; Lack of telephone skills; Negotiation and mediation; Incongruence;
Over-involvement; Un-involvement. |
NLP has been defined in many different ways and a Google search will bring up
thousands of entries. I'd like to share with everyone my definition of NLP. You
see... at some time in your life, you probably bought a car or some piece of
equipment that was complex enough for the manufacturer to give you a manual to
help you understand how to operate it. Some of us read the manual, some don't.
Well, now, here you are, today in this lifetime. Having been born into this
beautiful body with your amazing brain and nervous system, and no one handed you
a manual of how it works!
To me NLP is the manual (the understanding) of how you work.
At its heart, NLP is only a process of modeling. NLP will look at any problem
with the question: How do you do it? (the depression, the anxiety, the feeling
of being stuck, etc.) Once you can understand the structure of the problem (how
it is made up and what it is made of) you can begin changing the structure and
the old problem will begin to change, and disappear. There are NLP models of
therapy, sales, target shooting... whatever. NLP itself is simply a process of
modeling yourself - uncovering how you do what you do. And you can be the best
of who you really are.
Steve Andreas writes this amazing definition: "First there was psychoanalysis,
analyzing the mind. Then there was psychotherapy, in which one person treats or
"therapizes" another. NLP can also be used in this way, but primarily NLP is
about psychoeducation, teaching someone how to use their mind, so that people
can use it with themselves, as more of a personal practice, rather than a
therapy. |