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 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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Try practicing in public.
