"And now you are feeling very sleepy ... very heavy ... and you drift down and down into a deep, deep state of relaxation ..."

That's our classical hypnosis, taking us "down" into relaxation and then unconsciousness, which always begs the question of, "Did I learn something here? Did something happen or did I just go to sleep?"

Well, hypnosis means sleep but I think we can safely extend that, go the other way and instead of ever deeper and deeper into unconsciousness, we might as well go HIGHER.

What is the difference between a poem and a hypnotic induction? I don't think there is one. Both should take charge of the readers/listeners/subjects internal representations and take them wherever the poet or hypnotist wants to take them. Here is an example of a relaxation induction, rendered as a hypnotic poem, and suitably entitled, "Relax!"

People often ask me what the "most powerful NLP language pattern" is.

The other day I really thought, "Perhaps it's not the language we use, but the language we choose not to use!" and ended up with thought - could it be true that THE most powerful NLP language pattern is actually, SILENCE?"

People are always asking me what they can do to be a better NLP style hypnotist, which includes how to do better self hypnosis as well as conversational hypnosis, and what is known as covert hypnosis. Here are my top ten tips how to be a better NLP hypnotist.

Now for something really useful, extremely neat and quite delightful in every way - the hypno-sleep spiral.

This is a very, very cool pattern to help someone get to sleep at night by entering into consecutively deeper and deeper trance states, ending up with hypno-sleep that turns into natural sleep by itself; but there's a lot more to this self hypnosis pattern than meets the eyes.

As we are working our way through the various new websites, I came across an article containing a really interesting version of an old favourite NLP TimeLine pattern - The Guardian Angel.

What is energy hypnosis? How exactly is it different from standard NLP hypnosis? And what are the core skills of energy hypnosis?

Here is a concise introduction to energy hypnosis by Dr Silvia Hartmann.

What if we were actually able to reliably CREATE experiences and learnings, healings and re-alignments out of NOTHING AT ALL AND EVERYTHING AT ALL – just simply by the choice of outcome frame placed upon these events?