I was so pleased to read this comment by Richard Bandler the co-founder of NLP. The business world has ignored NLP’s roots in hypnosis ever since it latched on to it as a powerful tool to create excellence in the work arena. Executives will often praise NLP to me whilst at the same time expressing considerable doubts about hypnosis. Even though there is growing evidence that a vast majority of our thinking is performed at an unconscious level and that trance is all about getting in touch with that unconscious thought, there is an powerful orthodoxy in total denial of Hypnosis.
Let’s get over it, please! Trance is an efficient way to discover what’s going on inside your mind and changing it. Lots of the NLP tools designed ‘to build resourceful states of excellence’ only work properly once we add hypnosis into the mix. Some of them even get you into a trance just by doing them.
The ‘visual squash’, the ‘swish’, the ‘fast phobia cure’ etc. etc. all demand that you make pictures in your mind’s eye. And that’s the first step to a hypnotic state, right there.
