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Café Hypnos är en övningsgrupp för dig som håller på med hypnos.
Vi definierar begreppet hypnos i en vid mening. Allt från coaching och terapi via personlig utveckling till scenunderhållning och mentalism.
Café Hypnos är en underavdelning till International Hypnotist Guild, en branschorganisation för hypnotisörer och hypnos intresserade världen över.

Café Hypnos välkomnar alla som vill komma och ta del på ett icke dömande sätt. Nyfikna och nybörjare såväl som erfarna, proffs. Café Hypnos värnar om respekt för allas verklighet och perspektiv vilket skapar grogrund för utveckling.

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Varmt Välkommen / Mats Gaffa Karlsson

Our colleague Patrik Larsson just listened to a podcast with Adam Eason. It’s from a Hypnosis Convention earlier this year (2017) in the UK. The panel consists of Gary Turner, Adam Eason, Melissa Tiers, Anthony Jacquin & James Tripp.

1h16min of mixed hypno-talk.

http://media.blubrry.com/hypnosis_weekly/s/weeklyhypnosis.s3.amazonaws.com/HypnosisWeekly0086.mp3

Top 3 desert island hypnosis books.

Anthony:
– Overdurf, Training Trances
– Thought Vail, Jerome Finley
– Adam Eason, science of self-hypnosis

Melissa:
– Trance-formations, B&G    (helped her understand Miltons books)
– Milton Ericson: Exploratory casebook, or Hypnotic realities
– Monsters & Magical Sticks (gave her a perspective on hypnosis)
– Training Trances, Overdurf

Gary Turner
– Louder than words, Benjamin Bergen (also wrote What the F)
– Memory, Michael Eysenck
– Cognitive psychology, Michael Eysenck

James Tripp
– Monster & Magical Sticks (always his top 1)
– How emotions are made, Lisa Feldman Barrett (not hypnosis)
– Hypnotic Techniques – David Calof
– Jörgen Rasmussen, “Provocative Hypnosis”. (#4)

Adam Eason
– Oxford Handbook of Hypnosis, Michael Nash
– Casebook of clinical hypnosis, Steven Jay Lynn & Irving Kirsch
– Hypnosis and suggestibility (1933), Clark Hull

By Ulf Sandström and Gunilla Hamne, courtesy of The Peaceful Heart Network

The Peaceful Heart Network is an NGO focused on creating a trauma-informed and capable society to prevent suffering and ease violence.
VISION

• We believe world peace and stability depends on individual peace and stability, and that you can be a part of creating it.

MISSION

• To develop and spread the worlds most efficient models and techniques, such as TTT, for minimizing symptoms of stress and trauma at a  minimum cost.
• To make it globally scalable and available to everyone.
• To collaborate with every organisation and individual interested in the same goals.
• To provide all know-how as open source.

These are ten essentials for mental health that we find important. For more information visit our website. 
1. Understanding mental health in relation to social context
Our capacity to handle stress is related to the present social context and situation – a new environment can trigger the nervous system in a “new” way. Stress is not like a broken leg that is just as broken regardless of where the person is – it is a reaction to a situation and social context that triggers a response there fore it is important to create a context where people feel safe and can relax.

2. Understanding stress and trauma
Stress is invisible and hard to identify. To know and be able to identify signs of stress is to be able to self calibrate. To understand the mechanics of stress and trauma is to be able to understand how to work with and help people suffering from this.

3.Avoiding  transference of trauma – Secondary trauma
Both stress and trauma can be transferred from one person to another – similar to how a virus is spread. There are hygienic approaches to mental health – in effect there are precautions we all need to take take to prevent stress from building up and spreading or how we can avoid catching it from others.4. Flashbacks/ Flashbulb memories
When we experience a flashbulb memory, or flashback, it is like we are temporarily displaced from the reality of now and react through a filter of the past. A person in this state needs to be brought back into now and to a sense of safety. This can be done with grounding techniques.

5. The health care pyramid
There are many things that can be done without experts. If we turn the pyramid of health care up side down allowing everybody to be a part of the solution many more will be helped. Article>>

6. Physical and mental resilience
To have resilience is to be able to handle and bounce back from stressful situations. Resilience can be trained. One way is to know how to secure enough sleep, food , water and exercise. Already after a few days without sleep we risk poorer judgement, and in the long run psychosis. Knowing how to access a moment of deep relaxation by self regulation can be a vital help. Being prepared mentally for things that can happen creates empowerment and resilience.7. Social context
Human beings are social creatures. Creating a safe social context is a key component of preserving, healing and maintaining mental health. There are simple ways of integrating this into daily routines.

8.Adopting an attitude of empowerment
How we approach helping others will affect how we can handle our workload and difficulties. It is shown through research that we handle these situations better when we come from a position with
• Meaning
• Humbleness
• Acceptance
• Curiosity

9. Culture and communication
Always take local culture and ways of communication into consideration, or as we say “ Take off your shoes and listen”.  Listening and asking before imposing or offering help are key elements.

10. Practical techniques
A grounding technique is a way to quickly help an individual that is slipping into an extreme stress reaction.
A.Self stabilization
B.Group exercises in the organization and partner organizations

C.Reaching out to others with First Aid for stress and trauma

www.peacefulheart.se

Hypnos istället för bedövning!
Kul och intressant intervju med Basil Finer!

http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=4131&artikel=5998374

By Ulf Sandström – This article first appeared in the Journal of Healing and Hypnotherapy (Volume 1, March 2017) 

The Soul GPS is a hypnotic tool that I add at the end of almost every session to reinforce the positive transformations we have initiated and because it seems to be an incredibly healing and strengthening tool for any future challenges

If you are familiar with Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) or if you want to google some of the components mentioned, you will recognize that this intervention contains elements of the Circle Of Excellence where you create and anchor a state of peak performance, Future Pacing – testing a new emotional state in imagined future situations, Time Line – where the new state is brought back to earlier challenges to see if the outcome is better and Perceptual Positions – where you get to see yourself and your life from different perspectives. It is in part based on research that your body can reverse engineer feel-good hormones if we smile (check the TED-talk on Power Posing by Amy Cuddy) allowing that very smile through an emotional spin to make it as large as possible and then condition it to become an anchor that re-triggers the state. It involves reframing your life into a positive although unknown outcome through this smile and then using this smile to make better decisions and face challenges with a state of resilience from this moment.

By the time I introduce this content there has already been an interview, a hypnotic induction a trance deepener and an intervention of some sort depending on the issues at hand. No two sessions are alike so try to observe the underlying patterns rather than regarding the text as a script. (My comments and reflections are in brackets).

“Now…. Imagine yourself arriving into the future, where you find yourself standing on a beach, looking out over the ocean, and you are over 100 years old, maybe even 117 – according to the Bible 120 years is fully possible for us to become already over 2000 years ago – imagine… if you have kids they are retired already… and you may feel the warm sand under the soles of your feet (kinesthetic), hearing the waves (auditive) and maybe smelling that special characteristic of a beach (olfactory) as the sun shines in a beautiful way, like a sunset or a sunrise (visual) and as in a dream a wonderful spaceship can be coming to take you to the next stage of existence… whatever that can be…

(My sessions are packed with metaphors and humor, and I find that framing our last moment as being picked up by a spaceship takes the edge of dying for most, and 117 years usually widens their perspectives. As an observation very few people have decided on a specific age they would like to reach, except in Sweden, where the song “Happy Birthday” repeats the line “may you live until 100 years of age” which I find depressing in many making all birthdays after 50 a downhill count. At least for me, singing 150 improves the mood of any birthday.)

As you imagine standing there on the beach you may realize what life was truly all about, and that so many things you thought were important at the time are completely irrelevant now, in the future, as you are summing it up…. and the only way you will know for sure that you did the right things, made te right desicions, are content with your long life, is by the smile you can find on your face, as you think of everything, what kind of smile you want to have on your face, summing up a lifetime of good and bad, ups and downs, grief, joy, disease, love, disaster, work, darkness, light and extatic moments… the kind of smile you would like to have when everything is over…

(here, that exact smile usually appears on the clients face) yes, that’s it, your body knows, because if you remember, before you ever knew anything, before you knew your name, as an infant, that looks into the eyes of a friendly person, that is safe and warm and fed, and somebody says “peek a boo” and you may giggle…. and that is the same smile, of pure simple happiness… as a red thread you may wish for throughout your life… into that future… and now spin it and make it stronger, and bigger… warmer – this is your smile, your desicion, how you want to feel about life then, looking back…

(here I put an anchor on their knee if the smile is great, which is usually is)

And now… allow that smile to enter every cell of your body and mind… this is your soul smiling through your face… allow every door to open that has to do with that smile… and let it through… like a surprise birthday party in a great story…

And in this future… back in the past, when you move forward from now… every decision you make, from what sock to put on first, what to eat, when to sleep, who to call, what career to pursue and what relations you will work for… will be led by this smile, it is the GPS of your soul.. . simply think about any decision in the past or future and try this smile, if it fits, it is the right decision, to look back on, when you are on that spaceship, 117 years old…. going back to start over…. now, letting a part of you move forward, and another part moves in the other direction, flying curiously back past 112, 105, 99… celebrating 90 line dancing on the Chinese Wall… 87, 84, 83, 72… flowing back through the future, smiling… (reinforcing with the anchor point) 68, 62… (counting backwards until we are getting close to your current age, that I always check at the interview) and now, as you are floating over the city (where we are during the session) you find that you can recognize the road you took to get here earlier today, This rolex replica watch is the result of in-depth research and development carried out by the Laboratorio di Idee within the hublot in Neuchatel. you see a window (if there is one) and behind it you can see yourself sitting with your eyes closed in a leather chair (if you are with me that’s what you will be sitting in), with that very same smile. Imagine… floating in over you and then landing in yourself in the same way you might step into a pair of well worn shoes that fit so perfectly… and when you are completely in yourself now and here and you can feel that smile, you can 1, take a moment, 2, as I count to five and you will emerge on the other side of this experience, 3, feeling the changes, 4, noticing, and remember some time if you as a child ran down to water and jumped in, or saw somebody do it, that feeling when you take a leap of faith and smile 5, now!”

How To Use Clean Language In Hypnosis
By Judy Rees

When you’re experiencing a strong emotion – happiness for example – whereabouts do you feel it?

And when it’s there, is there anything else about it? Does it have a size or a shape?

And when it’s there, and it’s that size and that shape, it’s like…. What?

Before reading on, draw a quick diagram or picture to represent your answer.

Whatever you drew will almost certainly be a metaphor: it compares the abstract concept of joy to something much more tangible.

And your metaphor will be entirely unique. Sometimes it’ll strike others as surprising, or even bizarre – like Will Pharrell’s metaphor for Happy, “like a room without a roof”.

It’s more likely your metaphor will share certain similarities with other people’s metaphors – a great many people will experience joy as having up-ness and/or outwardness, warmth and brightness.

But the details of every person’s metaphors are different.

For example, two people might both say that their joy is like a bird flying free. But ask a few simple questions about the metaphor – “What kind of bird?” for example – and very soon the differences will emerge.

Clean Language works with this phenomenon to provide a powerful and deceptively simple technique to help people to change in profound ways.

What’s Unusual About Clean Language?

Clean Language was devised by the late David Grove – an enthusiast for Ericksonian hypnosis – in the 1980s. What began as an experimental approach to working with traumatised individuals in therapy has developed into a coaching tool, a research methodology, and a way of developing groups and teams.

While Clean Language shares superficial similarities with other therapeutic approaches, key principles which make it unusual (if not unique) include:

• Noticing and utilising the client’s own metaphors, rather than metaphors introduced by the therapist/coach/facilitator. In ordinary English, we use about six metaphors per minute: similar densities are found in other languages. These metaphors emerge from the client’s unconscious mind because, as the scientists are increasingly realising, we think in metaphor, at both a conscious and unconscious level.

• Using a specific set of questions with the aim of minimising the introduction of content – including presuppositions and metaphors – from the therapist/coach/facilitator (“staying Clean”). The clients’ exact words are used as far as possible.

• Not making any deliberate attempt to change the client or their metaphors. Instead, the approach relies on modelling – the therapist/coach/facilitator helps the client to find out about their own way of doing things, their own inner world, their own metaphors. Change (where change is appropriate) comes from the client, not from the therapist/coach/facilitator.

Current understanding of David Grove’s work owes a lot to Penny Tompkins and James Lawley, two NLP trainers who modeled his approach (and published the book Metaphors in Mind).

To the casual reader, Clean Language may appear to echo the NLP meta model. However in practice it often has a strong physical component and can be more of a somatic than a linguistic technique, with strong similarities to Eugene Gendlin’s Focussing.

After developing Clean Language and teaching it extensively, David Grove went on to create a number of explicitly body- and space-based techniques including Clean Space and Emergent Knowledge.

Going Deeper

You had a small taste of Clean Language in the activity which opened this article. Now lets go a little deeper.

Take your metaphor for the feeling of joy (the one you drew), and give it a label if it doesn’t already have one. For example, “A bird flying free”.

Then ask yourself a few Clean Language questions:

• What kind of <label> is that?
• Is there anything else about <label>?
• Whereabouts is <label>?

Continue to ask the same questions (in any order) about your answers. Use only these questions and your own words (represented by “X” here):

• What kind of X (is that X)?
• Is there anything else about X?
• Whereabouts is X?

And notice what happens! Many people will find that the emotion of joy deepens as they explore the metaphor – where attention goes, energy flows.

Clean Language In Practice

Naturally, this self-guided activity gives only a hint of what can happen in a session with a trained facilitator, who will ask Clean Language questions in a more structured way.

• In therapy, clients often enter a state of deep absorption in their own inner landscape which has been likened to a hypnotic trance. (In his early days, Grove taught this technique only to qualified hynotherapists.) As they explore their metaphors, these often seem to shift and change of their own accord, without requiring the client’s conscious intervention. A Clean Language-based psychotherapy session typically uses only Clean Language – the therapist doesn’t combine it with other techniques.

• Clean coaches will often keep the tone more conversational, moving back and forth between the metaphor and the real-life subject it represents. A Clean coaching session may well generate crystal-clear outcomes and a sharp to-do list. But the list will often include a mixture of real-life and metaphorical items: “Research training courses” alongside “Talk to my octopus every day”. Coaches often blend Clean Language with other approaches (such as the GROW Model etc).

• Healthcare professionals will often use Clean Language questions to elicit the details of a patient’s metaphorical description of a symptom, as a small part of a more conventional appointment.

• Hypnotists who have a basic understanding of Clean Language will often use the Clean Language questions to elicit details of a client’s metaphoric landscape, to find out how the client is thinking about a topic at an unconscious level. This information is then used to construct a tailored conventional intervention.

• More unusually, James Tripp has used his knowledge of Clean Language (and another Grovian technique, Clean Space) to innovate Hypnosis Without Trance.

To Find Out More 

• Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds by Wendy Sullivan and Judy Rees
• Clean Approaches For Coaches by Marian Way
• The Five-Minute Coach by Lynne Cooper and Mariette Castellino
• From Contempt To Curiosity by Catilin Walker (out April 2014)

• http://www.learncleanlanguage.com
• http://cleanlanguage.co.uk

Judy Rees helps people to hear what’s going on at a deeper level. Using the Clean-Language-based process X-Ray Listening, she coaches intelligent professionals in moving beyond the stress-centred corporate hamster wheel. She is the co-author of Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds and the owner of www.learncleanlanguage.com