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Dear All

I completed my Neuro Linguistic Programming (N.L.P.) Master Practitioner training in 2000, after completing my training I came to the conclusion that NLP and Hypnotherapy were one in the same thing.    NLP was modelled on all the people who had been successful in the field of psychology and one of those happened to be Milton Erickson, who was probably the most famous Hypnotherapist in the world.  Milton Erickson seemed to have had a big influence on the direction of NLP, which was co invented by Richard Bandler and John Grinder.

In 1990 when I was suffering from Panic attacks, I used both a Psychoanalyst and Hypnotherapist to help me resolve my issue.   I had been swayed towards doing NLP training rather than Hypnotherapy, because the NLP training seemed to be packaged more professionally and business like in my eyes.  Being a business person I liked the idea of our brains running along the lines of computers, that could be easily programmed.

I personally think NLP was an American marketing trick, to enable Hypnotherapy and the self help field to be sold more easily.  However when Richard Bandler tried to copyright NLP, it was classed as Public domain, probably because many of the techniques had been taken from other self help fields, the chicken and egg scenario or re-inventing the wheel.  Please correct me if I am wrong in this matter.

I have always carried on looking at ways of improving myself and came across the Sedona Method in 2000.   Chris Payne previously of Life Tools marketed the Sedona Method in the UK, after coming across it in the USA.  To start with I purchased the tape series and went on an introductory weekend in Congleton Manchester, when Hale Dwoskin came across from the United states.

I then purchased the Holistic tape series.  I released on going across to a retreat in Sedona in America and eventually achieved that in 2003.

The Sedona Method is a number of very simple questions.  Such as “What are you now feeling”,  “Could you welcome that feeling”, “Would you welcome that feeling” and “When would you welcome that feeling”.    You either answer “Yes” or “No”.  It is better to answer “Yes” rather than “No”, but even if you answer “No”, you will probably release any feelings of discomfort.

There is also an holistic releasing part to the method.  Whereby I keep asking you a number of questions for example “Could you allow yourself to be a stressed as you are?” and “Could you allow yourself to be as relaxed as you are”.  I would alternate between these questions and it would be best to answer “Yes”, rather than “No”.   By accepting both side of the dichotomy, it allows you to become at peace with achieving the goal.

I personally think the Sedona Method, is a very conscious way of doing Hypnotherapy.  I would use Hypnotherapy with my clients and use the Sedona Method on myself, to ensure that I am as healed as possible.

Please go on www.sedona.com, if you would like to find out more about the method.

Please try a free Hypnotherapy download recording, by clicking on free relaxation session, under the links at the top right hand side of each page.  You can purchase a full length Hypnotherapy recording on the downloads page of my site.

Tim Wells Hypnotherapist and Neuro Linguistic Programming (N.L.P.) Master Practitioner, who is based in close travelling distance of Sheffield city centre, can be contacted on (0044) 01909 561706 or via email tim@hypnosis-sheffield.com , if he can assist you using NLP and Hypnotherapy techniques.   He is looking for opportunites to work with businesses and organisations, to conduct work shops or courses in the following area’s: Stress management, Weight Management, Stopping smoking, Confidence & self-esteem etc and would be happy to talk to you about how he can meet your needs.  He can work in Sheffield, Worksop, Rotherham, Barnsley, Huddersfield, Manchester, Nottingham, Liverpool, London.  If you are confined to your home and live in the Sheffield area, it maybe possible for him to visit you in your home.

Tim Wells Hypnotherapist and NLP master practitioner, 43a Nursery Crescent, North Anston, Sheffield, S25 4BQ, South Yorkshire, England, U.K.