perspectives with yair elsner: Recent Episodes
Yair Elsner
Renowned hypnotherapist and UK Hypnosis Academy lead trainer Karl Smith joins to discuss hypnotherapy and hypnosis, as well as his own personal journey. Karl explains his take on what hypnosis is, levels of hypnotic trance, street hypnosis, what makes a good hypnotherapist and a good subject and on past life regression.
What is past life regression? What is the basis for believing in past lives? Do you have to believe in past lives in order to for past life regression to be relevant for you? We delve into both history, the hypnosis based how-to and the usage of past life regression, and attempt to answer the mentioned above of whether belief required.
We deal with the question of what is hypnosis. Is it a special state of altered consciousness or is it basically role play or a set of attitudes? Does it matter what it is exactly? We pinpoint that which is for sure important to know, and that is that hypnosis definitely works, that it can achieve profound and life-changing effects. We also define the necessary conditions for this indeed be possible.
Most people who set up goals fail to achieve them, or achieve at best partial success. A typical example for this are fitness, whether it's building muscle or losing weight. There's no shortage of methods out there and people move from one to another, often for years or even decades. Here, we look at the missing ingredient from just about all such programs and methods: how to deal with the critical moments when it's actually challenging and difficult? Again, we turn to the highly personalised NLP approach, and explain why we must look at the specific experience of the specific individual during those challenging moments, and adapt the method accordingly, and provide the mental, emotional and psychological tools that must be there to ensure success.
Here I interview with Phil Gilkes who is a business coach as part of Brian Tracy's Focal Point Coaching. Phil emphasises the concept of "mental muscle" of Shirzad Chamine to execute change within, and we discuss this as well as topics such as the law of attraction, the importance of one's "self talk", using affirmations, finding a purpose in life, and the potential dissonance between striving to achieve goals and yet being happy with what you have. Phil can be reached at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philgilkes/
https://philgilkes.focalpointcoaching.com/
https://twitter.com/coachphil1
Interview with Pavel Verbnyak who has been coaching people on goal achievement, success and personal development for over 15 years. We discuss his main methods for personal improvement, which include large variety of tools, from working on limiting beliefs and self-confidence to energy work and tapping to remove blockages. We also talk about the law of attraction and specifically where some go wrong and fail, and how to adopt a realistic approach and build for success.
Pavel is available at:
http://verbnyak.com/
https://www.facebook.com/verbnyak
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-story-pavel-verbnyak-pavel-verbnyak/
https://www.facebook.com/verbnyak
NLP or Neuro-linguistic program is a system for self improvement and coaching developed by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in the 70s, while meditation has been around for thousands of years. What is the connection between the two? In this episode we explore how the most fundamental and most important of all NLP techniques, when done right, a deeply meditative technique.
We explore the most basic of NLP concepts, the VAK model, which stipulates that the way we experience the world and the way our internal processing functions is through visual, auditory and kinaesthetic systems, i.e. internal images, sounds and feelings. We stress the importance of simply being aware of and attentive to this, and briefly touch on the potential benefits in learning how to manipulate the components of our experiences.
Everyday chores are among the most common triggers of fights in relationships. Who will do the chores? When should they be done and how should they be performed? Different standards and expectations and lack of understanding of how different one's partner's experience is from one's own can give rise to heated arguments in the long run, can infect the relationship to the core. Here, we explore this topic and how to deal with it.
Changing profession after in your 30s, 40s or even later can be a daunting challenge indeed, but many people for a deep, existential need for exactly that. In this episode we explore the motivations for such changes and the mindset that needs to be in place. Specifically, we talk about the possibility of failure, and how to approach this.
We explore the abusive relationship, especially the one not characterised by physical violence, but rather by emotional and psychological abuse, and with a particular eye to where men are the victims. We dwell on the difficult and crucial importance of recognising that there are indeed people who's intents are not good but destructive.
Episode 2 on the topic of fundamentalism and cults. Here we explore the allure of the fundamentalist idea, the motivations for embracing it and the benefits perceived by the cult member. We also look at the process involved in liberating oneself from such ideas.
The first part of a series of edisodes exploring fundamentalism and cults. In this episode we provide an overview of what we mean by these concepts, and of the major negative impacts that cult memberships have on the cult members themselves, to their near ones and to society as a whole.
We cover the benefit of grappling with ideas and present different approaches to doing so. The "coffeehouse approach" is then presented, as a creative rather than academic approach, and as an approach that is purposefully informal and vague. Lastly, we cover applying the such an approach to ideas and concepts in personal development and coaching.
Building on the previous episode of the fundament of a separate ego, we see how the inability to be comfortable being alone is a recipe for disastrous and destructive human relationships, and conversely that the ability to simply be oneself, experiencing oneself, is a necessity for true and healthy, loving relationships.
On the word "ego", the concept of a separate individual identity and it's relationship to "the whole" and dealing with the the idea of "ego death", presented by certain thinkers as highly desirable and even as the ultimate ideal of human existence.
We explore the benefits of putting one's thoughts into words and move into the question of how words gain meaning.