Life is a long term hypnotic journey

Reflection on NLP courses by Christ Howard Team

16 August, 2010

Part 5: Life is a long term hypnotic journey

Reflection on NLP courses by Christ Howard Team

16 August, 2010

Part 5: Life is a long term hypnotic journey

The advanced course last for another five days from 9 a.m. to evening and was completed last night. The superbly intensive course was an eye-opening event and heart searching journey. An enlightenment and life experience!

I was overwhelmed by the profound information, concepts and teachings that will take me life time to digest and practice.

In this higher level course, we need to solve value issue – a system shapes and determines behavior in a personal, business and social context.

Value is simply what is important to a person. It is a projection of a set of internal Filters that determine an individual’s Model of the World. We learnt the sources of values, how to elicit, align and change them for self, others and organizations.

In a demonstration during leaning the skills of value elicitation and awareness expansion, a classmate's value system changed from most away to 70% toward direction to his goal - he put profit to the last and leadership to the first and salesmanship to the second. An upside down change! He turned out to be more realistic, more accountable and process-enjoyable guy rather than wishful thinker. Amazing transformation!

One of my favorable parts is Masterful Hypnosis - a part has been fascinated to me for a long time.

In the initial practice, I was skeptical about hypnotic power and a deep trance I could fall, though I have come to the point that we are creature of hypnosis and hypnosis exists everywhere around us. I was spellbound to see for myself that it worked! Hypnosis is achievable for everyone!! It just needs a bit imagination plus trust to the coach and to your own unconsciousness.

For instance, a lady suffering from a severe neck, back pain thus excruciating head pain has been hypnotized for about 15 minutes. Immediately after the process, her pains from head to back reduced from degree 70 to zero according to her. She knows the pains there but they don't bother her any more as the painful areas have been numbed;

I myself was amazed to see I could talk to audience without stage fright after seconds of concentration of my mind. Soon I was completed engaged in my talk and enjoyed the process that I would be scared before. Despite the fact that the talk only last 4 minutes, I wonder that everyone has the potential to become a speaker, when observing all speakers' exciting gestures and faces! Unbelievable!

I realized that if I believe in my own subconscious mind and imagination, I will get into trance and create empowering neurological change at the unconscious level. That’s because the critical faculty is removed at this moment and positive thinking, suggestions and your desired values, behaviors and ideas can go straight into unconscious mind, resulting in performance change or enhancement substantially.

Hypnosis is also popularly applied in pain control, refreshment and focus and emotional control:

Sensations of pain can be also eliminated and relaxation is shifted and congruency between body and mind can be developed.


From the course and Peter real life experiences, the truth in my mind has been cemented that happiness, reality, problems and solutions are all a state of mind and imagination.

It is your choice to decide what you want to attain and to be:

Let's remember Neville's theories about reality and future:

Man believes that reality resides in the solid objects he sees around him, that it is in the world that the drama of life originates, that events spring suddenly into existence, created moment by moment out of antecedent physical facts. But causation does not lie in the external world of facts. The drama of life originates in the imagination of man. The real act of becoming takes place within man's imagination and not without.


The future will not be fundamentally different from the imaginal activities of man; therefore the individual who can summon at will whatever imaginal activity he pleases, and to whom the visions of his imagination as real as the forms of nature, is master of his fate.

The course has expanded our awareness in terms of critically, positively thinking; shown how dreams can turned to reality in a strategically, smartly way and how life can be controlled by self instead by events or fate.

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