Archive for January, 2010

Author : Jon Rhodes

Twitter and Facebook are very useful tools for networking, getting your name ‘out there’, and talking to your friends, colleagues and customers in a simple and friendly way I regularly use Facebook for staying in touch with fellow hypnotherapists, and my patients and customers I believe that this enables me to maintain a good working relationship with these people, and not be left in the cold, forgotten about

Sometimes I don’t always have time to write to my Facebook friends I may be too busy, or not able to get to a computer for a while However it is not a problem as I use automatic updates to keep my account ticking Even when I am not at my computer, my Facebook status will periodically update with great hypnosis resources My main source of updates is from this Hypnosis Article Directory Every time a new article is published here, the article title, a brief description, and the link is sent to my Twitter and Facebook status for my friends to enjoy It can happen when I am asleep or even on holiday!

This helps me remain in the fray It helps people to remember who I am It also helps me to be seen in a positive light as I am regularly sending useful resources to my friends If you are in the business of hypnotherapy, then it is important to be remembered if you wish to maintain and grow your customer base, as well as develop trust It helps increase interest in your products and services, and helps to increase sales conversions It also helps to be in regular contact with fellow professional hypnotherapists They are far more likely to be open to any requests, deals, joint ventures etc that you might put forward, if you have sent them a steady stream of useful content over a period of time And isn’t it just nice to be part of a community, rather than out on your own?

Here I will show you how to automatically update your Facebook and Twitter accounts There may or may not be easier ways of doing this, but here is how I do it Just take your time through these steps, and you’ll be up and running in no time

First of all you need a Twitter account (www Twitter com), which is quite straight forward to set up After registering, I then set up a Twitter Feed Account (www TwitterFeed com), which is again relatively straight forward

Now go to your Twitter Feed account and select ‘Create New Feed’ You can then add a desired RSS URL You will see small RSS logos on most sites and blogs All you need to do is right click on the RSS logo, and select ‘copy link location’ You can then right click on the RSS box in your Twitter Feed account, and paste it in Once completed, it will then automatically update your Twitter every time this particular site or blog is updated Some RSS feeds do not have a date on the feeds, so you might have some problems To remedy this you can go on ‘advanced settings’, either when you are creating the feed or editing it If you scroll down just a little, you will see an option saying ‘post sorting’ Change this from pubDate to GUID That way it will now presume the RSS on the top of the list is the last one published, and all should be well I needed to do this when setting up my RSS for Hypnosis Articles Directory

Now you need to update your Facebook from your Twitter All you need to do is visit this link http://www facebook com/apps/application php?id=2231777543, and select ‘Go to application’, which is at the top left of the screen, then follow the instructions

And voila, you are finished!

I share all the updates of the Hypnosis Article Directory to all my friends Every time a new article is posted on this site, the title, URL, and a short description is automatically tweeted and put on my Facebook status So even when I am busy or away, I can still regularly keep in contact with my friends, and send them great useful content that they usually really appreciate Both fellow hypnotherapists and patients seem to like these updates If you want to add a feed on your Facebook from Hypnosis Article Directory, then all you need to do is cut and paste the RSS feed http://www hypnosisarticlesdirectory com/rss php?rss=0 into your Twitter Feed account, by selecting ‘create new feed’ and following the simple instructions

One problem I noticed when I set it up was that if there were several updates at the same time, only one (the last one) would be sent to my Twitter and Facebook To remedy this, I again went to the ‘advanced settings’ and this time I changed the "Update Frequency" so that it would now post up to 5 updates at a time So now it will update up to 5 new articles at a time, which is quite enough Without this selected, if there were 5 article updates in one go, only the last one would be sent to Twitter and Facebook, meaning your friends would miss out on 4 of them

This takes a little bit of effort to set up, but once it’s done you have a very valuable resource, that takes very little time or effort to maintain You can of course add other RSS feeds from your own site or blog, or other sites, if they have an RSS, which most do now Just one word of warning thought Make sure that you don’t add too many feeds that update too much, and make sure that they are of interest, are relevant, and not just purely commercial If you bombard your friends with rubbish, you might not have many friends left after a while! And even if they remain friends, they will probably quickly learn to become ‘blind’ to your updates, and ignore them all The winning formula seems to be give them loads of useful free resources, and then drop the occasional commercial message in every now and then That way you will be listened to and respected

I’m not saying that you should automate all your networking, in fact far from it This method ensures that for the least effort you remain in the spot light, especially when you have busy times, and you can automatically give your twitter followers and Facebook friends some valuable content to keep them interested in you and hypnotherapy in general These updates often get dialogue going Someone might comment on one, to which you, the human you, can then respond to I have found that this has significantly helped my online presence, and has stimulated me chatting with far more people than ever before My customers receive articles about hypnosis written from a wide variety of resources, not just my opinions, and my hypnotist friends also receive interesting and educational material This is not only fun, but is also great for business On top of this it also gives extra exposure to the good people who contribute to this site Everyone’s a winner, and isn’t it better to be part of a winning network, rather than missing out? Spread the joy and it might just help you make some new friends Remember, it’s not always what you know, but who you know!

Jon Rhodes is co creator of the HypnoBusters hypnosis mp3 site. If you would like join Jon on Facebook, then please follow this link http://www.facebook.com/HypnoBusters.

Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010 – Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm – Location: WCNC-TV, Charlotte Today, Charlotte , North Carolina & 2nd Event – Time: 6:00pm – 7:45pm Location: Cabarrus County Public Library, 201 Sims Parkway, Harrisburg NC 28075

Contact: Allison Andrews, WCNC-TV, Charlotte Today, 704-329-3634.

Location: News Channel 36, 1001 Wood Ridge Center Drive, Charlotte, North Carolina 28217-1901

Allison is the producer of a new show called Charlotte Today. Based in Charlotte , NC the program will launch in February and air on NBC affiliate WCNC.

The show is live from 11am to noon. They will do an interview segment with Steve G. Jones on the book (You Can Attract It) and then he will do a hypnosis demonstration on their co-host. The segment will air around 11:15.

2nd Event:

Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010
Time: 6:00pm – 7:45pm
Location: Cabarrus County Public Library, 201 Sims Parkway, Harrisburg NC 28075

ABOUT THE BOOK

You Can Attract It – By Steve G. Jones and Frank Mangano

Steve G. Jones and Frank Mangano have written a revolutionary book, You Can Attract It: Using the Law of Attraction to Get What You Want, which will take you from uninspired to living a life with purpose.

Do you find yourself just going through the motions of living?

Do you feel as if there’s something missing? Do you wonder how successful people become successful?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, or if any area of your life seems unfulfilled, reading this book will change your life.

The Law of Attraction is always in action, the key toward utilizing it is knowing how to. Jones, a Hypnotherapist, and Mangano, a Health Advocate, have combined their expertise and experience to design a lifestyle program that contains everything you need to apply the principles of the Law of Attraction. This easy to understand, step-by-step program includes simple lifestyle changes and hypnosis exercises.

Bring the people and events into your life to ensure success through a combination of methods that are scientifically proven to work. Read how both of these men have changed their own lives through applying these principles; learning, living and mastering them to realize a life filled with limitless potential.

Experience the life you deserve. This book will have you on the path to better health, wealth, love and anything you desire.

About the Author

Dan Ashton is a widely published web author.

Author : Andrew Fogg

I’m reading a recent New Scientist article talking about the Five emotions you never knew you had and I’m starting to think about how our emotions influence our golf And they’re influencing us every time we play

Now I’m sure that like the rest of us, you’re experiencing all sorts of emotions every minute of every day of your life It’s a key element of living whether we are playing golf or doing something less important

So what are these emotions I’m talking about? Well, as the article says, we all see different ones, but the consensus seems to include what psychologists apparently call the Big Six – Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, Surprise and Disgust Well they all crop up on a regular basis in golf, now don’t they? And they all appear either as desires or problems with many of the people who seek help from golf psychologists They all tie in to Enjoying your Golf; Fear of Golfing Failure and Success; and Anger Management in Golf as some of the Secrets of Hypnotic Golf

More indirectly, I guess that Sadness, Surprise and Disgust are also addressed by Positive Framing on the Golf Course; Post-Shot Routines: Planning your Shot, State Management in Golf; and Protection from Covert Hypnosis

So what about the Five emotions you never knew you had? Well, according to New Scientist, these are Elevation, Interest, Gratitude, Pride and Confusion You may not be surprised to hear that these fit in well with golf psychology as well

Elevation, the uplifting emotion, is something we feel when we are inspired and motivated In fact we have many expressions for it in our language like “things are looking up” In golf psychology, I relate it to the concept of managing our physiology between shots As I describe when talking about Physiology and Between Shots, if we walk the fairways with our head held high, we feel uplifted and positive As a result, we play better golf

Curiosity is one of the key things that make us human It’s also the key element to planning our shots – an essential part of our pre-shot routines I know that I’m always talking about trusting your unconscious mind for better golf However, the conscious mind with its analytical curiosity has a part to play as well

What about Gratitude? Isn’t that just the way we feel about a good shot? Well, that’s true, but there’s more to it than just that As I describe in Positive Framing on the Golf Course, you can feel a lot better about a bad lie on the golf course if you think about how much worse it could have been Being grateful for small mercies can have a very positive effect on your golf

Pride can be a two edge sword – the New Scientist article describes it as the emotion with two faces However, feeling proud about what happens on the golf course is what many of us play for There’s nothing wrong with feeling proud of a good drive or breaking 90, 80 or even 70 – whatever level you aspire to You can store that pride as a resource when using NLP Anchoring for Better Golf

That leaves us with the most enigmatic of the five – Confusion Surely there’s nothing positive to say about that, Andrew! Well perhaps I should leave that one to Richard Bandler, the co-founder of NLP, to describe why even confusion is a positive emotion for golf and life

“Confusion is the doorway to reorganizing your perceptions and learning something new If you were never confused, that would mean that everything that happened to you fit your expectations, your model of the world, perfectly Life would simply be one boring, repetitive experience after another “

Andrew Fogg, the Golf Hypnotist, is an enthusiastic golfer, hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner. He is a practicing golf psychologist and author of a recently published book ‘The Secrets of Hypnotic Golf’ available at www.lulu.com and a series of golf hypnosis MP3 programmes.

Visit his website www.golf-hypnotist.com for information on how to get the most success, pleasure and enjoyment from the wonderful game of golf. More specifically, it’s about how to improve your golf by working on the 90 percent of the game that’s played in the 6 inches between your ears.`

Sign up for the free Golf Hypnotist ezine at www.golf-hypnotist.com and get your free 25-minute ‘Your Own Virtual Caddy’ golf hypnosis MP3 programme.

Milton Erickson was a psychiatrist and clinical hypnotherapist, who was the founding president of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis. He is noted for his unorthodox methods of therapy, and his influence in the field of psychiatry, psychology, NLP and hypnotherapy. He deserves special mention here not only for his influence in many fields, but also for the way he fought against his own adversities.

At a young age, Erickson both dyslexic and color blind, started following in his fathers footsteps of becoming a farmer. However at the age of 17 he became very ill when he contracted polio.

“I had polio, and I was totally paralyzed, and the inflammation was so great that I had a sensory paralysis too. I could move my eyes and my hearing was undisturbed. I got very lonesome lying in bed, unable to move anything except my eyeballs. I was quarantined on the farm with seven sisters, one brother, two parents, and a practical nurse. And how could I entertain myself? I started watching people and my environment. I soon learned that my sisters could say “no” when they meant “yes.” And they could say “yes” and mean “no” at the same time. They could offer another sister an apple and hold it back. And I began studying nonverbal language and body language. I had a baby sister who had begun to learn to creep. I would have to learn to stand up and walk. And you can imagine the intensity with which I watched as my baby sister grew from creeping to learning how to stand up.”

Erickson was not beaten. He decided to fight back. One day he was sitting by the window, looking longingly outside. As he sat there imagining being outside he noticed that the chair began to rock slightly. Excited he attempted to make it happen again, willing himself to move, but he could not no matter how hard he tried. Eventually he gave up and sank back into his daydreams, again imagining playing outside. Once more the chair began to rock. He realised that it was his vivid imagination that was producing a response in his body. Inspired by this discovery, he taught himself to walk again He spent a lot of time observing his baby sister growing up and learning to walk. He began to recall “body memories” of the muscular activity of his own body. By concentrating on these memories and using visualisation, Erickson started to regain control of parts of his body. Eventually, although still unable to walk, he decided to train his body even more by embarking on a thousand mile canoe trip. After this grueling trip, he was able to walk with a cane.

Despite this, Erickson realised that he still did not have the strength to become a farmer, so at the age of 21 he began to train as a doctor instead. Whilst at medical school, Erickson was still very interested in the human mind. In fact he was so curious about it that he gained a psychology degree at the same time.

In the years that followed, Erickson used his education and background to become one of the most influential psychotherapists and clinical hypnotherapists ever. He had a very practical approach to his therapy sessions, often telling stories, using metaphors, and whole array of unorthodox therapeutic methods should the situation demand it. He once spent 4 sessions talking to a young boy who was interested in baseball, about such things as how you need to control the muscles in your hand to let go at just the right time in order for you to be able to throw the ball where you want it to go. Despite never specifically talking about his presenting problem, Erickson successfully treated the boy for bed wetting. In another case he treated a married man of his fear of being in moving elevators by persuading a young girl to repeatedly ask him for a kiss whilst they were inside. The man was no longer afraid of traveling in lifts, in fact he wanted the lift to start moving quicker so that he could get to his destination and get away from her!

Later in life Erickson developed post-polio syndrome due to the over use of partially paralyzed muscles. This condition again left him severely paralysed, but because of his previous experience, he knew how to rehabilitate himself. However because he was much older this time, he was still confined to a wheelchair, and suffered from chronic pain. Instead of lying down, he learnt how to manage his pain with self-hypnosis, and became an expert at treating others who also suffered from chronic pain.

Erickson eventually died at the ripe old age of 79. When considering all the health problems that he was presented with throughout his life, this was a feat in itself, never mind all the amazing therapy that he gave to others. He was also a prolific writer, and has influenced, and still influences many therapists to this day.

Erickson’s life and work have been a source of inspiration for many therapists and patients in many disciplines. He turned around his disadvantages, learnt from them, and used them to help others. When most people would have given up, Erickson kept going and achieved so much. A true inspiration and a real illustration that almost anything is possible with hard work, determination and a vivid imagination.