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10 challenges trainers face

Top 10 challenges faced by trainers

Introduction No matter what you do in life, there are challenges that you would face in it. Knowing about these challenges can help us be more prepared for facing them. In this post we are looking at the Key challenges

Are you an effective trainer?

Are you an effective trainer? How does one even measure the effectiveness of trainer?

Introduction Becoming a trainer is in fashion these days. Almost everyone who thinks he/she can speak well can become a trainer. But is speaking well the only skill required to become an effective trainer. In fact how do we even

Struggling with Goal accomplishment

The secret to move from goal setting to goal accomplishment

Introduction Most people set goals, quite a few even create a plan of actions but very few actually achieve their goals. We will explore the different reasons for this and also understand how you can use the NLP Anchoring process

10 ways to promote training programs

10 ways to Promote your work as a Trainer

It is believed that the training industry is going through a boom, yet if you are a trainer you may have already experienced that starting your own program and a sustainable career in training is not really everyone’s cup of

Sports-psychology-NLP-Hypnosis

Sports Psychology

Sports is an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. It includes non-physical activities as well. What is Sports Psychology? The scientific study of people engaged in sport

positive intention for making change behaviour

Positive Intention – making behavioural change easy

In the part 1 of this series, we ended on the note that: Just because there is a positive intention, it does not mean that the behaviour is appropriate or completely helpful. The truth is that at times the same

Integrating Hypnosis with CBT

What is Cognitive Hypnotherapy? Why integrate Hypnosis with CBT?

At first glance, Hypnosis and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy seem like distinct therapeutic approaches, each with its own strengths and limitations. However, what if we could combine the two to create Cognitive Hypnotherapy? But is it even possible to integrate the

Every behaviour has positive intention

Every Behaviour has a Positive Intention – NLP Presupposition

The Paradox of Problematic Behaviours As a therapist or coach, one of the biggest challenges you face is helping clients overcome deeply ingrained behaviours and habits that are causing problems in their lives. Whether it’s addiction, anxiety, overeating, procrastination or

Hypnotic Suggestibility

What is Hypnotic Suggestibility? Are you a Literal or an Inferential?

Hypnotic Suggestibility is a scale that was earlier used to understand whether or not a person is “hypnotizable“. It was believed that the ones who accepted suggestions easily were highly suggestible, and the ones who didn’t were less suggestible. The

Displacement of emotions

Defense Mechanism of Displacement – Psychology Complete Guide

Introduction In this post, we will focus on understanding what is the psychological defense mechanism of displacement, why we use it, how it can lead to certain problems and the steps that a therapist can use to help the client

Manage Emotional and Physical pain

The Powerful Emotional Empowerment Technique (EET)

What is the Emotional Empowerment Technique? The emotional Empowerment Technique (EET) is based on some of the principles of acupuncture and Hypnosis. It is a simple tapping procedure that gently realigns the body’s energy system along with incorporating the element

Avoidance - Repression is unconscious, suppression is conscious

Suppression and Repression – Defense Mechanisms

Repression and suppression are very similar defense mechanisms which people use in order for them to cope with a stimulus that can harm them. What is the Defense Mechanism of Suppression? Suppression is a psychological defense mechanism where an individual

Goal setting doesn't work, try this!!!

Understanding why goal setting doesn’t work and discover super simple things you can do to make it work?

The whole point of setting a goal is to be able to accomplish it. Understanding why goal setting doesn’t work for those that it doesn’t work for can give us insights into how to make goal setting work. In other

Importance of mental health

What is Mental Health? Why is it important?

Mental health is one of the most spoken about topics in today’s day and age. Right from celebrities to medical practitioners, many are talking about the need to acknowledge and seek help from mental health practitioners especially for ones who

ABC of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy

Powerful ABCDE Model from REBT – Complete guide with examples

In this post, we will focus on understanding how when we become upset, it is not the events taking place in our lives that upset us, but it is our beliefs that cause us to become depressed, anxious, sad, etc.

Denial doesn't take you to far

Denial Psychological Defense Mechanism – Complete Guide

A few days ago, a friend lost her cell phone. She kept looking for her phone (a good thing to do for some time) for like an eternity. After a point, I felt exhausted seeing the number of times she

Managing fear and phobia

Fears and Phobias: Play of the internal world

Fear is an inbuilt survival mechanism. Like other emotions, the intensity of fear can vary from mild to medium or intense. Fear response or “fight-or-flight” mechanism is activated in our bodies whenever we sense danger or if we’re confronted with

Focus on solutions

Focus on solutions: Why and How?

Introduction The first thing that most of us do when faced with adversity appears is to focus on the negatives. “Why me?” is one of the most common question that we ask ourselves. Somewhere we miss the fact that the

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