Richard Bandler's Guide to Trance-formation

by Bandler, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780757307775
• ISBN10: 0757307779
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-26
• Publisher: Hci

Summary

More than thirty years ago, Richard Bandler set out to discover how some therapists effected startling change with their clients, while others argued about theories while their patients waited in vain for help. Now widely regarded as the world's greatest hypnotist and one of the most brilliant minds in the field of personal change, Richard Bandler created patterns that became the bedrock of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), arguably one of the most profoundly effective approaches for self-improvement. In Richard Bandler's Guide to Trance-formation , he returns to his roots: hypnotic phenomena, trancework, and altered states to provide a highly compelling and effective prescription for quick and lasting personal change.According to Bandler, "trance" is at the very foundation of human experience. People are not simply in or out of trance, but are constantly moving from one trance to another. We have our work trances, our relationship trances, and our parenting trances. Some of these states are useful and appropriate; others are not. With his signature wit and contrarian approach to therapy, Bandler shows how anyone can reset and reprogram their problem behaviors to reach desired alternatives with lasting and life-altering results. With intriguing case studies, client dialogues, and more than thirty exercises, Richard Bandler's Guide to Trance-formation , is an engaging, read for anyone, whether they are new to NLP, want to further their NLP training, or simply want to make a positive difference in their own lives.

Author Biography

Richard Bandler's books have sold more than a half a million copies worldwide. Tens of thousands of people, many of them therapists, have studied his blend of hypnosis, linguistics and precise thinking in the United States, Europe, and Australia. Bandler is the author of Using Your Brain—for a Change, Time for a Change, Magic in Action, and the Structure of Magic. He coauthored Frogs into Princes, Persuasion Engineering, The Structure of Magic II, and Magic in Practice.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. xv
Patterns of Process and Elicitation: How People Create Their Reality, and How We Can Know
Patterns, Learning, and Change: How to Take Charge of Your Brain	p. 2
Doing More of What Works: The Secret of Effortless Change	p. 7
Representing "Reality": The Birth of Personal Freedom	p. 19
Language and Change: The Gentle Art of Casting Spells	p. 31
Directions or Outcomes: Planning to Succeed	p. 51
Seeing Inside the Black Box: Accessing Cues, Predicates, and Strategies	p. 65
Submodality Distinctions: The Differences That Make a Difference	p. 79
The Power of Belief: Pink Poodles and the Placebo Effect	p. 93
Patterns of Induction: Hypnosis and the Art of Creating Powerful Learning States
Developing Your Skills: Altered States, Hypnosis, and the Power to Learn	p. 106
Hypnosis and Control: Success Is an Altered State	p. 121
Inside and Down: The Patterns of Trance-formations	p. 133
Deeper, and Faster, Still: Rapid Induction and Trance-Deepening Techniques	p. 151
Remembered Peace: Accessing Previous Trance	p. 161
Creativity out of Confusion: Pattern Interrupts, Stacked Realities, and Nested Loops	p. 167
Advanced Submodalities: Freedom, Fun, and Fuzzy Function	p. 179
Patterns of Utilization: Using the Tools of Trance-formation
Back to the Future: Changing Personal History	p. 190
Pushing Past Limitations: Hesitation, Threshold, and the Freedom Beyond	p. 209
Repatterning the Past: The Magic of False Memories	p. 225
Trance-Formation in Action: Client Sessions
The Structure of Trance-formation 1	p. 237
The Structure of Trance-formation 2	p. 243
The Process of Trance-formation 1: Fear of Needles	p. 249
The Process of Trance-formation 2: Fear of Flying	p. 270
A Trance to Fly By	p. 284
In Conclusion	p. 293
Glossary	p. 301
Resource Files	p. 305
Anchors and Anchoring	p. 305
Sensory Predicates	p. 308
Some Submodality Distinctions	p. 310
The Meta Model in Brief	p. 311
Milton Model Patterns	p. 316
Eliciting and Annotating Strategies	p. 327
Recommended Reading and Audiovisual Resources	p. 329
Websites	p. 330
The Society of NLP Richard Bandler Licensing Agreement	p. 331
Index	p. 333
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Excerpts

Patterns, Learning, and ChangeHow to Take Charge of Your BrainI have written many books and talked to many hundreds of thousands of people about hypnosis and NLP, and people are still confused about the similarities and differences between the two. In this book I hope to simplify the issue. My attitude is that at some level or other, everything is hypnosis. People are not simply in or out of trance but are moving from one trance to another. They have their work trances, their relationship trances, their driving trances, their parenting trances, and a whole collection of problem trances.One characteristic of trance is that it is patterned. It's repetitive or habitual. It's also the way we learn.After we're born, we have so much knowledge and expertise to acquire everything from walking, talking, and feeding ourselves to making decisions about what we want to do with the rest of our lives. Our brains are quick to learn how to automate behavior. Of course, this doesn't mean the brain always learns the 'right' behavior to automate; quite often, our brains learn to do things in ways that make us miserable and even sick.We learn by repetition. Something we do enough times gets its own neuronal pathways in the brain. Each neuron learns to connect and fire with the next one down, and the behavior gets set.Sleeping and dreaming are important parts of the learning process.Freud thought of dreams as merely 'wish fulfillment' and maybe for him they were. I regard dreaming as unconscious rehearsal. If I do something I've never done before, I tend to go home, go to sleep, and do it all night long. This is one of the functions of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. REM sleep is the way the unconscious mind processes what it's experienced during the day. It's literally practicing repetitively to pattern the new learning at the neurological level. Quality information and quality material are important to the learning process. If the brain isn't given anything specific to work with, it processes nonsense.If we plan to take control of our learning, we need to understand that it's not only repetition that is important but speed as well. The brain is designed to recognize patterns, and the pattern needs to be presented rapidly enough for the human to be able to perceive the pattern for what it is.Most people have drawn a series of stick figures in the margins of their schoolbooks, then flipped through them to make the figure appear to move. Each page has on it a static image, but the brain will find a pattern in this case, movement if the images run rapidly enough.We wouldn't be able to enjoy movies without this process. We'd never be able to understand the story if we only saw one frame a day.So, when we dream, we're running through things to learn, and we're not doing it in real time. 'Internal' time differs from clock time in that we can expand or contract it. We learn at extraordinary speed we can do maybe eight hours worth of work in f

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