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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

Rationalization: I failed because my teacher hates me!!!

Rationalization – Psychological Defense Mechanism – Complete Guide

Introduction At times, people go to great lengths to attempt to “justify” behaviour they know is wrong or that others regard as wrong. This attempt to justify is known as rationalization. We all have rationalized at some point in our

Hypnosis for anxiety management

Overcoming Anxiety: A Comprehensive Guide to Understand and Manage Anxiety

Disclaimer: The information in this article is for educational purposes only and should not replace advice from a licensed therapist or medical professional. Please consult with a qualified healthcare provider for personalized guidance on anxiety management. Anxiety is an integral

Map is not the Territory

Unlocking Reality: Why Map is Not Equal to Territory Matters – NLP Presupposition

In this post, we will explore one of the most important concepts and presuppositions of NLP, that is the Map is not the territory. This understanding is the basis of our Cognitive Hypnotic Coaching™ and Cognitive Hypnotic Psychotherapy™ Programs. Unraveling

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Demystifying and Defining Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) in simple terms

Host: Welcome, listeners, to today’s insightful podcast episode where we delve into the fascinating realm of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, often referred to as NLP. If you’ve ever wondered how language, behaviour, and the mind intertwine to shape our lives, you’re in

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Self-defeating Loops in life

In this post we will look at how many a times because of our unconscious conflicting believes we end up binding ourselves in loops which are responsible for certain problems that we may be experiencing. Case Study – Life Loops

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Tips on wording of suggestions

What are suggestions? Suggestions are statements spoken with a view to bring about some change in the person being spoken to. Tips on wording of suggestions: These suggestions can be used to create desired change in clients. For better results

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Acceptance: Meaning, Importance & case studies – Complete Guide

“Acceptance” is one of those concepts that I understand yet have found difficult to define. I realised this while writing a post on anger, in which I explained how anger is generally a result of a lack of acceptance. So,

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