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In this interview, Peter speaks about meditations that can be easy using brain entrainment technolog…

"Someone has to carry the family’s weight." A well-to-do mother said her teenage daughter was overw…

A man in his 50s wanted help because he couldn’t drive outside the boundary of his suburb. He respo…

A 17 year old girl told me that her doctor said i could cure her anorexia. When I was doubtful, she …

"I’m going crazy". A woman in her 30s asked me as her family doctor for a referral to a psychiatris…

No, not steak knives or saucepans ... 2 more of my books that were publishes last year - my collecte…

My friend Neil Mellor suggested last year that I should create a video series of demonstrations with…

It only took 40 years to write, but I'm pleased with the result and relieved to have it out of my …

A industrial painter was referred because of escalating anxiety. His GP had told him that he was dep…

A primary school principal was on stress leave which was about to expire. He was beginning to panic …

A woman rolled her car on the way to work, remarkably without injury, but was unable to drive or ret…

A therapist said he had depressed for months and when he told me he was working in a residential age…

I have made a free series of short videos about my iteration of the principles of Ericksonian hypnos…

Here's an interview with my friend Tiago, who was carjacked in Brazil at gunpoint, and saved his lif…

A woman in her late 20s was getting married and was concerned because every relationship ended in co…

A woman in her 50s wanted hypnosis to stop smoking. We had several sessions with no result, so we de…

A man in his early 50s wanted hypnosis to stop smoking. He said he was haunted by cigarettes and hop…

A woman wanted help deciding whether to marry or not. She said she loved this man but he drove her c…

“The centipede when asked which leg it would move ended in a ditch.” Ogden Nash A professional…

Hypnosis used to be thought of as a rather delicate state, something to be protected, and so shoul…

Hypnosis used to be thought of as a rather delicate state, something to be protected, and so shoul…

The comfort of validation If someone goes into a supermarket and they don’t know what they went the…

When someone comes out of trance, we want to check with them to see what benefit they have had fro…

When the session is complete, all we need to do is to allow the client to shift their focus so that,…

Stories are also entrancing by their nature. From childhood we have been spellbound by stories of …

I have noticed that this connection can happen in very varied ways. Sometimes the connection happens…

Before we invited someone into hypnosis, we have already clarified with them what was missing for th…

We’ve explored the way we can think of hypnosis as an experience that involves focus and absorption …

It may be enough, when we find out about what the problem is and how come that’s a problem. It migh…

The next step is to look at the problem. Clients come with problems and, if we just keep talking ab…

Rob

We’ve already seen how respectful and easy it can be to invite someone into a focused, absorbed expe…

How can we move from a problem-solving approach to a solution-generating approach? When I was in m…

When any of us do something that we enjoy, that we like to do, we have all of the resources right at…

If we ask a client, a friend, or if you're interested to try yourself, to continue doing whatever th…

When I first learnt hypnosis, I had to learn specific, rigid hypnotic induction techniques … “Look a…

One of the things I appreciate about Erickson is his linking of hypnosis with the common everyday tr…

I have found that rather than trying to define hypnosis, which can tie it down in some rigid way, is…

Hypnosis has kept very strange company over the years. It’s been associated with magic, with sorcery…

5 days a week for 4 weeks, I will send you a short video - no longer than 10 minutes - outlining a s…

I had a medical training and was in a suburban family medicine practice in Melbourne, Australia, for…

After nearly 40 years, I am finally getting around to writing about my approach to hypnosis - my int…

I’m inviting more creating a hypnotic mood through a client focused trance, more acceptance, more cu…

“This is happening and it shouldn’t”. “I can’t do this and I should”. “I don’t want this but I can’t…

All problems live in a mood of resignation - why bother, it;’s hopeless, there’s nothing I can do, I…

We all love our theories. They give us a feeling of familiar solidness to work from … and they can …

Next time you find yourself making a judgement about a client - right/wrong, good/bad, approve/disap…

Instead of focusing on yourself, your skills and limitations, see what happens if you focus on each …

This is the first in a series of explorations of how we might do less and be more. We live in a worl…

We all want to be as effective as possible to help our clients to heal, but …

Once someone has experienced hypnosis, we can simply ask them to remember th…

As with couples, we can approach a group as an entity, and assist them to ha…

We humans are relating beings. Our relationships are the major source of joy…

We can think of an obsession as an unwanted thought that gets stuck, and a compulsion as an unwanted…

We all develop habits - driving on one side of the road or another depending…

Nobody wants to feel pain and yet without pain we probably would not have survived as long as we hav…

We have all had traumatic experience in the past beginning with being born! Mostly we resolve them, …

2 problems with moods - anxiety and depression When we concern ourselves about future loss we can bec…

When I first learnt hypnosis, everything was leading up to the clinical application of what I have l…

I have introduced these experiences as ordinary and every day experiences so that with hypnosis they…

I was intensely irritated one night when neighbours were enjoying a loud party. The more annoyed I b…

We can sit in a chair and not notice the sensations of our feet on the floor, glasses on our nose, o…

Am I the only person who can go into a room or a supermarket and ask myself “What did I come here fo…

We can look at a school photo or a brochure about a future hypnosis conference, and if we focus and …

In an experience of reading a book or watching a movie, time can seem to pass quickly, or if the boo…

Anyone can focus and become absorbed in some everyday activity such as reading a boo…

an introduction When I first learnt about hypnosis, from a traditional, formal version, I was fascina…

Every aspect of what is included in this collection of short essays has been about easy. My experien…

If someone goes into supermarket and they don’t know what they went there for, they can be there a …

Feedback keeps us connected with the client and their experience, creating a trusting therapeutic re…

Once we have helped someone to find their missing resource, the key to dissolving their problem … th…

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Now we know how easy it can be to invite someone into a focused absorbed experience, and we know wh…

My Irish ancestors have a saying “If you don’t know where you’re going, you might end up somewhere e…

When we do something we like to do, we have all our resources at our fingertips ready to deal with a…

Here’s an exercise for you to play with. Ask a client, friend or yourself to continue doing whatever …

If anyone were to look around they would see examples all around, where someone is reading a book, w…

Here is the first in a series of short essays which I trust will be useful for you. An Introduction Hy…