Hypnosis

On the night of October 30th 1938 tens of thousands of Americans listening to the radio were convinced that they were being invaded by Martians. Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre’s production of War of the Worlds caused panic.By clever juxtaposition of the commonplace and cuts to ‘newsflashes about strange eruptions of gas from Mars and mysterious objects landing in Grover’s Mill the play drew people into a convincing story about interstellar invaders.

In a 70th year anniversary edition WYNC Radio Lab’s presented an hour long program analysing the hows and whys of that broadcast. It’s brilliantly done and fascinating listening.

If you are interested in NLP or Hypnotherapy it is a classic example of the skillful use of many processes and ideas familiar to NLPers including Model of the World, pacing and leading, state elicitation, trance induction and more. The program demonstrates the same skill in examining the program as the original broadcast did itself.

The War of the Worlds was an excellent example of how to manipulate public feelings, but you might think that was 70 years ago surely no one could pull it off again. After creating panic very well in 1938, a radio broadcast in Quito, Equador in 1949 created a similar panic much too well with horrific results (but you will have to listen to the program to find out about that).

Then again a variation on a theme in Buffalo, NY in the USA in 1968 pulled off a similar stunt using the same pattern as Orson Wells 30 years earlier.

The program is great and if you are interested in the business of influencing people very instructive.

It’s funny but last night I noticed through my telescope plumes of gas erupting from Mars … of course, it’s probably just a coincidence … probably …

Originally posted on Practical Wellbeing

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The NLP cafe is a structured Newcastle NLP Practice group that is sponsored by IntegrityNLP

February’s practice group explored aspects and concepts of Self Esteem and in particular how to increase self esteem in-line with elements of a healthy self concept

Here is a short video from the practice group

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The content of the Self Esteem exploration was extracted from Steve Andreas’s excellent book - Transforming Yourself - becoming who you want to be

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Many NLP and Hypnotherapeutic processes are concerned with beneficial change.

If you were to watch a flower grow and bloom over the spring and summer, you will know that in addition to preparing for the next season of change this seasons change does not happen all at once, it is a gradual unfolding over time that culminates in blossom and the increasing of life.

On Saturday I was at my good friend and NLP Trainer’s Simon Bonnin’s and, as we often do we ended up exploring and experimenting with NLP and Hypnotherapy change processes. Now we have jointly come up with something we want to share. It is incredibly simple and incredibly effective.

IntegrityNLP is running an NLP Practitioner beginning this September as well as a Hypnotherapy Diploma course ( both in Newcastle upon Tyne ) and this process will certainly be demonstrated on both courses, however here it is here first.

This process works on so called ‘limiting beliefs’ and the process works at the level of values and importance to loosen up the so called ‘limiting belief’

Here is an example

I cant feel happy [ limiting belief and implied value ]

Do you believe it is important to feel happy?
Do you believe it will be valuable to you to feel happy?
Is feeling happy important enough and valuable enough to change that old belief?

[ if there is a no response to any of these 3 questions respect the answer and stop here - after all this is just loosening! ]

Do you think, it is now possible for you to feel happy.

[ respect any answer - its just loosening! ]

Here is the verbal pattern

I cant ‘X’ [ limiting belief and implied value ]

Do you believe it is important to ‘X’?

Do you believe it will be valuable to you to ‘X’?

Is ‘X’ important enough and valuable enough to change that old belief?

[ if there is a no response to any of these 3 questions respect the response and stop here - after all this is just loosening! ]

Do you think, it is now possible for you to ‘X’.

[ respect any response - its just loosening! ]

best wishes

Integrity NLP

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