Popular author Bill O Hanlon offers an inviting and reassuring guide to the essentials of hypnosis, alleviating the newcomer s anxieties about how to make the most of this clinical tool. This brief book illustrates the benefits of solution-oriented hypnosis, which draws on the work of the pioneering therapist Milton Erickson (with whom O Hanlon studied) and emphasizes doing what is needed to get results which, more often than not, means trusting that the client holds within him- or herself answers or knowledge that need only be tapped or released by the therapist. O Hanlon covers the key aspects of hypnosis, including: using possibility words and phrases; using passive language; and inducing trance. O Hanlon offers practical tips and friendly encouragement for the novice hypnotherapist in his characteristic warm, reassuring, and humorous style."

Time Line Therapy and the Basis of Personality is a compelling study of the important elements that make up a person's core personality, and a detailed exploration of - and introduction to - how Time Line therapy works in practice. Written by Tad James and Wyatt Woodsmall, Time Line Therapy and the Basis of Personality is a compelling study of the important elements that make up a person's core personality, and a detailed exploration of - and introduction to - how Time Line therapy works in practice. Utilizing discoveries made by Richard Bandler, Time Line Therapy and the Basis of Personality expands and updates our knowledge of how people actually store their memories, and sheds light on the effect that the system used for memory storage has on the individual. The authors contend that the concept of Time Line, or the notion of time that you have stored in your mind, shapes and structures your experience of the world, and therefore shapes your personality. Time Line therapy is therefore based on the premise that the client goes back to the first time they remember a particular problem, does change work - utilizing Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) to eliminate irritating behaviors or issues - and, if necessary, goes to subsequent times when their behavior or response was a problem, and undertakes further change work to resolve it. Written in an informative and engaging manner, Time Line Therapy and the Basis of Personality offers readers the opportunity to see how Time Line therapy works - providing a clear description of how to elicit the Time Line, and sharing step-by-step methods to subsequently help the client to release a limiting decision or trauma, remove anxiety, or set a future goal. All of these key aspects are explained using clear language and easy-to-follow steps, and the authors' expert commentary is further complemented by examples, exercises and transcripts in order to help the reader transfer the theory into effective practice. In Section I, the authors explain the NLP Communication Model and share their in-depth analysis of the filters - values, beliefs, attitudes, decisions, memories and meta programs - which we subconsciously use as we process the world around us and which form the basis of our personalities. Section II provides a comprehensive description of the Time Line and how it works: laying down a theoretical basis for the technique before offering insight into its practice and application with a demonstrative transcript of Time Line elicitation and change work in order to illustrate the concepts explored. In Section III the authors move on to carefully survey simple and complex meta programs (and how they can be changed) before exploring the formation, evolution and changing of values in Section IV, which includes a helpful exercise that gives guidance on how to elicit values from the client. Exploring many interesting contexts and how personality can be positively changed to help people live happier lives, Time Line Therapy and the Basis of Personality is a worthy addition to any therapist's or NLP practitioner's library and is suitable reading for anyone interested in behavioral change. Time Line Therapy and the Basis of Personality was originally published in 1988 by Meta Publications. Previously published as ISBN 978-091699021-3

Utilizing well-researched techniques of self-hypnosis, you can overcome your fears, lose weight or stop smoking, raise your self-esteem, significantly lessen the pain of childbirth, and strengthen your most important relationships. Through the Open Door: Secrets of Self-Hypnosis shows you how to use self-hypnosis to make big and lasting changes in your life by unlocking the secrets of your unconscious mind. Following the simple guidelines described in this book, you will learn to: * Attain the balance you want and need in your life * Dissolve self-sabotaging fears and be rid of unwanted habits--forever * Make better decisions-and stick with them * Develop unshakable self-confidence * Interpret your dreams

Clearly and enthusiastically presented, this book provides a step-by-step approach to incorporating hypnotherapeutic scripts and strategies for working with a wide spectrum of challenges faced by young people ages 6 to 16. The author's realistic perspective takes into account the variety of thinking styles represented by the population we call "young people," emphasizing that chronological age does not always match a client's presentation. Completely contemporary, many of the scripts use metaphors that are especially meaningful in the world of young people, including computers, iPods, and Play Stations.

Hypnotherapy is an effective and expedient approach for working with children in part because young people tend to be open to it. As the author points out: "Children are accustomed to using their imagination they live in it on a daily basis." Thus, suggestions to visualize images or colors or to make characters bigger or smaller and so forth are easily accepted. By the same token, a

This book offers holistic health professionals a vast amount of well researched and easy-to-use methodologies. Popular California based educators Errol Korn, M.D., and Karen Johnson, M.A., physical therapist, discuss the benefits to a wide array of altered states of consciousness. Interventions include safe-place imagery for the bed ridden patients and those with post traumatic stress, tools for the cancer patient, eating disorders, wieght loss, pain management, and more. Contains a variety of carefully researched imagery techniques applicable to various health care settings. A wonderful resource for the health care provider desiring to be more effective in the modern age of holistic health.