NBSR Hypnotherapy Articles

Sunday, 25 May 2014

Biocentrism & Sound Hypnosis

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"We're not measuring the world, we're creating it"
Niels Bohr
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As Newton's critics denied the explanation of gravity, unaware of the force that was holding them on the ground, so do the critics of non-dualism deny the explanation that consciousness influences our reality, unaware of the forces and causality of their own thoughts.

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Thousands of years before the development of computers enabled the exponential growth of mathematical algorithms and theoretical physics, sages knew that this world is an illusion, and that if we know how, we can change the rules. Sages were healers because they could "do magic".
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But that's so mystical. And who cares? What does it mean? Can I use it?

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Are you calm, and motivated in your life? If not, why not?
  • money's tight
  • work is stressing me
  • I have no time
  • a bear ate my homework
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These are all great excuses, but if you struggle with motivating yourself, and if you find yourself worrying a lot, you will not find a sustainable solution "outside". You have to look inside, and be all mystical.
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Merging the dualities of science and mysticism, Robert Lanza presents the role of consciousness in creating reality from his field of Advanced Cell Technology. His theory of Biocentrism reinforces the paradigm shift that everyone is writing and talking about:
  • from viewing our thoughts as inconsequential to what we observe,
  • to acknowledging the influence of thoughts on what we observe.
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He points out a number of startling truths:
  • Over 200 parameters in the universe are exactly perfect, to enable life to exist. Any one of an infinite number of variations in the physics of the universe would make life impossible
  • Your environment is observed by circuits in your brain, which are not hard wired, they can change. Neuro-plasticity is the ability for your brain to develop new beliefs and to think differently
  • "Not a single particle exists with real properties until it its observed. All of experience is just information that is occurring inside your mind, and space and time are the mind's tools for putting it all together"
Robert Lanza

Monday, 12 May 2014

Communication And Motivation In The Workplace - Motivational Speakers In Durban

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What do communication and motivation in the workplace have in common?

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"Andrew's unique experience in personal development coaching identifies him amongst the most specialised motivational speakers in Durban."

Sarita Herman, CEO Energy Supplements

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It's easy to forget that companies are made up of people. When communication between you and your romantic partner is strained, as it may be if you try to make things work long distance, you will notice two things:
  • first - the relationship is more difficult,
  • second - exactly what you say becomes extremely important.
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The reality is so familiar that we often do not see it -

exactly what you say is always extremely important!!

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When you communicate with your colleagues and staff, everything you say has an effect, although it may not be the effect that you were going for...
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How do you communicate?

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COMMUNICATION TYPEYOUR WORDSWHAT THE OTHER PERSON HEARSHOW THE OTHER PERSON FEELSEFFECTIVE?
1. ASSERTIVE"I ... me ... it""This is how I feel, these are my concerns"Interested, caring, optimal understandingYES
2. AGGRESSIVE"You""You need to listen to me because you are wrong and I am right"Attacked, need to defend, argumentativeNO
3. PASSIVE[silence]"I am not important or valuable"Powerful, domineering, authoritativeNO
4. PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE"No, fine""Go ahead, you'll see. I will punish you if you do that"Confused, then hurt, then angryNO

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Monday, 31 March 2014

What is Depression? What is Positive Thinking? - Am I Depressed Quiz

If you have ever believed or felt that life was meant to be hard and full of lessons with little or no reward, then you can be sure that you can see one side of the coin. The question that you must ask if you want to be happy is: can you still remember how to see the other side?


Can you still feel ambitious? Excited? Adventurous? Inspired? Brilliant?

To lose sight of the joy in life is to accept depression as the norm. As you read this, billions of people of all languages, are confusing depression with "being realistic". 


What is depression? 
What is the difference between being negative and being realistic? 
What is being realistic?


One of the biggest problems with depression is the confusion in recognising it. 


To be clear, let's agree that

  • the claim of "being realistic" is totally subjective, and depends on one's belief system and up-bringing
  • in fact, the claim to be realistic has absolutely no grounds for reference beyond habit or cultural custom
  • only this... lets call it tradition, is the criteria in deciding that a certain way of thinking is "realistic", and a certain other way of thinking is "unrealistic"


If we agree on these points, it is easy to understand how a successful person has attempted a certain aspect of happiness and succeeded, believing it to be "realistic", while an unsuccessful person may have attempted the same aspect of happiness and given up, or never have attempt at all, believing that it is "unrealistic". Another difference between these two people - I will come back to this - is the successful one knows how to use positive thinking to focus on the solution; the unsuccessful one only focusses on the problem.


In my practice alone, about half the cases of depression that I treat, do not believe that they are depressed. Their denial is based on their belief that their expectations of mediocrity are "realistic", and that other people or circumstances are to blame for their anger or stress. The bitter-sweet truth is, that the person who believes that happiness is realistic, achieves it, and the person who gives up, never achieves it.


Defining "realistic" is impossible - the concept is based entirely on belief systems - therefore the only way to discern between being negative and "being realistic", is to define depression. We can identify the signs, and recognise the symptoms. 


What is Depression?
Principle causes and symptoms of depression require an entire chapter. The "Am I Depressed? Quiz - 20 causes and symptoms to test if you have depression - with solutions!" defines the details. The link opens in a new tab, so you can easily return to this article.


Medical Treatment
Recognising and accepting depression, or hearing the diagnosis from a doctor, should signify the beginning of the journey to emotional balance. But instead of being pointed in the right direction, depression patients are made to feel more confused and hopeless by a system that dis-empowers the individual, and seems to be based more on profits than on common sense.

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Sunday, 2 March 2014

How to Motivate Staff in the Workplace - overcoming depression, anxiety, and procrastination

Employees who engage in your company vision are self-motivated, responsible, higher achievers


Motivating staff can be hard work. People are complicated - we don't all respond the same way. Motivational seminars can be a breath of fresh air, they are usually inspirational and entertaining, but the real value to your organisation is measured in the degree of impact that the motivating experience has on the participants over time. 

The question is: Did your staff engage with that feeling of self-motivation deeply enough for it to become a habit?

Work sheets are essential - goal setting templates, personal affirmations, understanding the power of the mind and positive thinking - but words written on paper, even powerful words, lose their power unless they are kept alive by constant practice and repetition.

A detailed recipe is the crucial first step in the process that creates what you want, but events do not always flow in a strait line between writing down the recipe from the internet, and enjoying the perfect red velvet cupcake. Anxiety, depression, and procrastination in your place of work can be such a powerful combination, that even the notes from an inspiring seminar can seem pointless or confusing.

Depression is the most common psycho-emotional problem in the workplace, and yet a full cure can not be claimed by any of our extremely complicated, expensive psychiatric drugs. In fact, the full cure for depression can only be found in a personal decision to make certain lifestyle improvements, followed by a daily program for reminding yourself what you are doing, and why you are doing it. In 9 years of practice as a Hypnotherapist I have seen over 100 cases of depression transformed, using this method. You must make the decision to improve yourself, and you must follow a daily program to stay positive. 

The secret strategy to overcoming depression, is in knowing what you want, and then taking small, constant steps to get there. Short term goals are rewarding when you achieve them, and provide natural encouragement for you to continue to the next short term goal. The feeling of achievement is due to the natural release of dopamine into the blood stream from the central nervous system, and this hormone causes the opposite "feeling" from depression. So the "cure for depression" is really about what you do.

Procrastination is usually caused by the feeling of being ill-equipped to handle the task at hand. Not knowing what to do, self doubt, fear, or doubting your process, creates overload in your mind, too many thoughts, anxiety, and indecision. A task that should take a few hours, can take weeks, or just never happen. The opposite of procrastination is feeling confident, knowing what to do, having the skill and equipment to accomplish the task, and finding decisions easy to make, and obvious. 

How can you motivate your staff to become more confident, knowledgeable, skilled, and decisive? 

Full article: How to Motivate Staff in the Workplace - overcoming depression, anxiety, and procrastination

Sunday, 2 February 2014

What Is Motivation?

Do you believe you can have your cake and eat it?
Can you have what you want?
Or if you let yourself dream big are you only setting yourself up for a bigger fall?

Do you believe that the choice between these two belief systems is the only difference between people who get what they want, and people who don't?

It may sound simplistic, because at the root of every success in your life, is the simple belief that success is possible for you in that situation, and that it can happen, no matter how difficult it may be. Belief is that powerful. Getting what we want in life must be possible, because some people get it right. How did they do it? What is motivation? Is it the same as discipline?

You can have your cake and eat it

I believe that the reason for a relatively small percentage of highly successful people in our world, is the popular belief that our goals are at loggerheads with each other, and that we have to choose between them. Financial success, our relationship, the job we love, doing good for others, speaking out about valuable causes... the common belief is that we can only have one of these goals, and that we have to pay dearly for this goal by sacrificing the others. The tragedy and triumph of our human experience is that belief is an extremely powerful force of manifestation. The moment we stop persevering or become lost in our pursuit of happiness, we fall back on the belief that life's rewards are limited. But what if we could somehow combine all our goals into the same course of action?

This may be difficult to imagine, because your relationship, or your desire for one, demands that you achieve a certain set of goals - work or school demands a different set of goals from you - family demands yet another set - your social life demands a different set ... It's all very demanding. But it's true that all these different areas are important aspects of your life, isn't it? And isn't it also true that the common thread between these seemingly unconnected demands, is you?

How would you feel if you had a good week at work? Say you received recognition, and things are going well for you. Wouldn't that feeling effect you positively in your relationship, and your social life? What about when you start a new relationship, and you feel all wonderful and floaty, even at work? Success in any area of your life has a positive effect on all areas, because success has a positive effect on you, and you are the connection between all the different areas.

It's one thing to notice this when this happens by accident, but it's another thing entirely to know how to make it happen. With the right skills and the right strategy, success in one area of life has a synergistic effect with every other area. The idea of synergy is that 1 + 1 = 4. If you have a positive effect on someone, they become more positive than they were before. So their energy level is now: what it was, lets say 1, plus the effect of your positive energy on them, say another 1. If this person also has a positive effect on your energy, your energy will also be what it was, lets say 1, plus the positive effect of their energy on you, say another 1. So the total effect of your combined energy together, is actually 1(+1) + 1(+1). So the exponential effect of 1 + 1 in synergy, is 4.

Synergy can be observed in healing, when the effectiveness of modalities or substances is increased when combined with "complementary" modalities or substances. Rudolf Steiner coined the term "Holistic", meaning the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

On a larger scale, the exponential effect of synergy has been measured in human behaviour studies, conducted during the research of Transcendental Meditation between the years 1982 and 1985, at Maharishi University of Management, (Fairfield, Iowa). It was observed that a group of just 1550 experienced meditators, or Sidhas, numbering only the square root of 1% of the U.S. population, caused a reduction of violent deaths in the U.S. over the duration of the study. (Dillbeck, 1990)

In similar TM studies, violent crime reduction was measured in Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, Israel, Lebanon, and Canada, with only the square root of 1% of the population of those areas participating in the meditation programs.



Sunday, 12 January 2014

#1: Remain Calm and Focused This Year - Your Free Guide to a Productive 2014

Did you notice how a lot of people found it difficult to relax over this holiday? Did you find it difficult? 
Have you done absolutely not one stitch of work over the last two weeks?

Life can be easy

Most people try not to think about the coming year, because thinking about it only makes them worry. The inevitable first day of work rolls in, and they greet it looking the other way - hoping clients and management will still be in Holiday Mode.
Some people have a more motivated approach...
NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION #1: I WILL REMAIN CALM, FOCUSED, EFFICIENT, AND PRODUCTIVE THIS YEAR.
We've all done this, even at school, and we know how difficult it is to keep it up through the year. Without a constant reminder, this great intention goes on the shelf with the dream home and the ideas for starting your own business, and your subconscious mind files it as "One Day, Probably Never", so you forget about it, months go by, stress piles up, and you find yourself wishing you could remember why you are doing all this, but the reason seems so out of reach - I guess you just have to, right?

Tai Chi, Yoga, and Transcendental Meditation are fantastic if you know how to do that, but what if you don't? Are you then demoted to needing pills to be able to sleep, and different pills to able to work?

Shockingly many people believe this to be true... but just for a moment imagine there was a way to remind yourself of how it feels to relax in a spacious pool of a perfect temperature, during an actually highly stressful moment, for example a massive amount of work that needs to be done in a short amount of time. Imagine you could sit up in this pool, totally relaxed, see the whole job spread out, as if floating on the surface of the pool, plan your strategy, write it down in sequence... And then begin. As if moving through water, you would gracefully and efficiently accomplish each item on your list, one by one.

Doesn't sound very stressful, does it? But is it possible?

NO is the easiest answer...
Is it possible to fly? NO. Easy, isn't it? How many people have NOT built a flying machine?
YES is the difficult answer, but the people who said YES to flying, and persevered, became extremely wealthy and successful, and later expanded their companies and fortunes by providing millions and millions of luxury cars, like Mercedes Benz, BMW, Rolls Royce, Saab, GM, Fiat, Chrysler, Ford...

BMW used to build aircraft

The good news is: remaining calm and focused is millions and millions of times easier than building aeroplanes :) 
The bad news is in the newspaper - you are welcome to read that any time you want.

Being calm is a habit, like speaking. To learn a new language only takes repetition and the will to learn. This NBSR Free Guide to an Efficient, Productive 2014 contains everything you need to become a naturally calm, unruffled, confident, centred person.

Your NBSR Free Guide to an Efficient, Productive 2014

1. Quick Suggestibility Analysis
The brain hemisphere that you favour in your communication patterns, indicate the all important linguistic pattern that you should use in your affirmation.
Right Brainers respond best to direct messages, such as "I am calm, efficient and productive".
Indicators:
  • Love talking, being the centre of attention, telling jokes and stories
  • Comfortable and good at managing people
  • Take comments or suggestions of others very literally
  • Not so comfortable talking about your feelings, even with someone close
  • Feel physically effected by direct suggestion, eg: Think about biting into lemon. Imagine, visualize if you can, or just pretend that the sour juice is squirting all over your taste buds. If your mouth is watering, Physical Suggestibility is indicated.

Hears to a happy, prosperous, amazing journey in 2014!

Thursday, 12 December 2013

The Harmony of 432 Hz and 528 Hz - Tuning In to the Cosmic Hum


People are easily deluded by the hope or promise of healing and peace, and tend to dismiss real solutions as "airy fairy", or "too spiritual", rather than getting fooled. For this reason, most people don't know when good things change.

In 1953, following the recommendation of evil Nazi propaganda genius Joseph Goebbels, the International Standards Organisation ruled that all western music conform to the tuning where "A" is set at 440 Hz - 8 Hz higher than it has always been, since ancient times.

Music, scales, and tuning, come from the same source of knowledge that built the Great Pyramid - a device which we have yet to understand. This ancient knowledge was so powerful that, long after the fall of those empires, only the initiated are taught their secrets: Kabala, Merkhaba, Tantra, Yoga, Ti Chi...
Who is Joseph Goebbels? Did he design accurate observatories and perfectly astronomically aligned Ziggurats? Why did we listen to his propaganda? Did we really know what we were doing when we raised the key of our music system by 8 Hz? Do we have the skill to perceive the difference that it may have on us?

When you tune your car radio, you are "tuning-in" to a certain frequency. 8 Hz is the difference between the signal you want, and noise.

Don't roll your eyes, its not a conspiracy theory, it just fact. Ask yourself this: when you learned history at school, did you learn about the atrocities committed by your country's soldiers, the lives pointlessly lost through incompetence or arrogance? Were you taught anything that would embarrass you or make you ashamed of what your country has done in the past? Or did you learn most of that through personal research and talking to people who saw the other side of your history lessons?
History is written by the victors, and the fact is, we are not told the whole truth, because if we knew what really happened, we would question our political leaders when they told us to go war against foreign terrorists, and we would question our religious leaders when they told us that foreigners have a rubbish God, and we have the real one.

Cymatics prooved that the Om sound at the right frequency creates the shape of the Shree Yantra in sand
Cymatics prooved that the Om sound at the right frequency creates the shape of the Shree Yantra in sand
For those who are willing to listen, the Cosmos is making music. If we could tune-in to the "Cosmic Hum", we would find bliss and well-being. A seemingly incredulous claim, this fact is evident from thousands of years of continuous use. The ancient Indian Vedas (books of science), instruments recovered from ancient Egypt and Sumer (Iraq), Greek mathematician Pythagoras, opera legend Verdi, natural scientist Rudolf Steiner, and an increasing body of modern anecdotal evidence published by the ever mushrooming learning culture of the internet, are the endorsements of the legend that 432 Hz and 528 Hz are in fact healing sounds.

Sacred Geometry, Music of the Spheres, the Cosmic Hum

Music of the Spheres is an alchemical principle explored by Pythagoras, rooted in Kabala, that assigns each planet a note in the scale, and maps the passage of a traveller from Earth to Heaven. The Cosmic Hum is described by Hindu mystics who claim to be able to hear a continuous OM sound. These concepts are really one and the same. In the remaining architecture of sites like the Giza plateaux in Egypt, Ankor Wat temple complex in Cambodia, and the stone circles at Carnac and Stone Henge, to name only the most well known, we have an undeniable record of just how much importance the ancient world placed on sacred geometry.

Ancient structures were often aligned using "Sacred Geometry"
Sacred Geometry Cosmic Alignment - Giza, Ankor Wat, Carnac, Stone Henge

The architects of these structures spent incredible effort on precision alignments, and measurements that correspond with cosmic numbers. (Graham Hancock's YouTube series on ancient temple sites is highly recommended.) The reason for all that effort is the belief that microcosm mirrors macrocosm - our bodies are microcosmic, holographic representations of the macrocosm, the greater cosmos. This belief comes up in every ancient culture: shamanic, Egyptian, Aboriginal, and it is still alive and well in the Chinese science of Feng Shui, and the Indian science of Vastu Shastra. The design of your house and property, and the placement of your furnishings has a direct bearing on your health, relationships, wealth, and success. When these architects get the geometry right, they build structures that are in harmony with the cosmos, which means that the people who occupy these structures will be healthy, wealthy, and successful.

Architecture is Sacred Geometry when it mirrors the human body, which is created in proportion to the Cosmos
Sacred Geometry of the Human Body

432 Hz and 528 Hz - The Sound of the Cosmos

"All science is ultimately derived from vibration. Compound physics distils into math, and from there into geometry, but you can also create geometry from vibration"
Jamie Buturff
If we convert the numerical values of cosmic measurements into frequencies, we will begin to uncover patterns, systems, and programs that predict occurrences, for example the Golden Mean system. We can understand this from one, or any combination of 5 explanations:

1. Direct Experience
Sound meditation using the 432 Hz "A" is the easiest way to understand what all this fuss is about. Last Thursday I facilitated a guided Chakra meditation using isochronic pure tones of the 432 Hz tuning. The Vedas tell us that Chakras are energy fields generated by the electro-chemical activity of the 6 major ganglia (dense networks of nerves) in the nervous system. Each Chakra has a different frequency, and emits light of a certain colour, too low to be perceived by the average human eye. (The light and colour of Chakras can be seen by those who have trained their perception, and by certain equipment, eg Chakra Photography.)

7 Isochronic Chakra tones with Tibetan tuning to 432 Hz

The feedback from this meditation session was very positive. Everyone felt extremely relaxed and at peace afterwards, and a few people reported actually being able to see the colours of their Chakras, activated by the sounds. This meditation will be available for download as soon as possible, see available audio.