Trevor Silvester is a UK hypnotherapist, using Cognitive therapy and NLP techniques. He twigged me to an Eriksonian hypnotherapist named Stephen Wolinsky. He discovered that most of his clients didn’t need him to get them in a trance to fix their issues. Much to his surprise most were already stuck in a dysfunction trance and needed his help in getting out of trance. Silvester subscribes to Wolinsky’s insights. Viewing everyday activities as trance states, like Erickson believed, we see that we transition between them during the everyday flow of experience. Some states demand competence while others, especially our professions require mastery and excellence. As you have eloquently put, with stories acting as parables, that a good toolbox can have many origins. And, that tools can be useful across diverse disciplines from pool to running a business.I went through the Silva Mind Control classes, being from Texas I was lucky, as a matter of fact Richard Bandler lived 8 houses down from the Naturalistic doctor that did Cell Therapy to me one summer (27 injections) - what made it even more "coincidental" is that Richard and the Doctor had a relationship with the same lady (I'm not sure if they were both married to her or not).
The Silva Mind Control was very helpful in my pool career AND restaurant/nighclub/billiard club businesses in many ways.
A funny story.......one day I was going to the Dallas/Ft Worth Airport with 10 minutes to spare and could NOT find my car keys. I looked everywhere I could think of and no keys.....now I had 3 minutes or would probably miss my flight and it was very important at the time.
I stopped by my pool table and did one of the Silva Mind Control visualizations to find missing things.....it seemed silly, finding my key was more important than doing .......suddenly I saw a small fuzz ball on the carpet, bent down, picked it up, went in the kitchen, stepped on the devise that raised the trash can lid and through the piece of fuzz in the trash.......then walked back towards the pool table.
I STOPPED dead in my tracks "why in the world did I just do that!?!".....then it hit me, I went back in the kitchen looked down at the bottom of the trash and there were my Keys! I had come in earlier, with groceries in my hand, and had put the keys in my dress shirt pocket.....then, multitasking had opened the trash, bent down and the keys had fallen out of my pocket into the trash without me noticing.
I'd still be looking for those keys lol - after that I started giving the Silva techniques I'd learned more respect and they helped me out of several tough situations......talking about NLP and Silva Mind Control is making me want to do a current review, it's been too long!!
The Game is the Teacher
i was once approached about using pool as a platform for teaching many of the performance techniques and ideas I had developed along the way. Though the idea was intriguing, the tip ming was wrong. I’ve often wondered....
Silvester subtitled his book on Cognitive Hypnotherapy - What’s That About and How Can I Use It?
When someone has a trance state like a phobia, they never fail. Isn’t a preshot routine trying for that type of repetition? Phobics have lost their ability to choose. Now, that’s what I call consistency. This relates to the NLP tenet, that every behavior has a context in which it is appropriate. The two questions look at any perspective and see where it’s useful.
Thanks for help making this thread relevant.
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