Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume - 3, issue 12, I June 2019 | Page 47

I was a computer programmer working with big databases.
3. How your experience of your previous profession you incorporate
in your healing ability? Does it specify any dos or don'ts for you. 
I’m pretty much doing the same thing now that I was doing with
computers before.  I use Hypnosis and NLP as an analytical tool at
the start of an intervention to discover what’s actually going on in a
person.  I’m not much into psychological theories about how people
think.  I’d rather just ask them what’s going on, which works pretty
well with hypnosis.   When I’ve got that information I use it in the
change work to help them access or create the resources they need
for the change.  It’s just like debugging a computer program.
Well Compared, very interesting. It is sort of Debugging the
mind… :))
6. How do you see hypnotherapy as a tool of healing?
We’re at an exciting juncture where it’s starting to get more
recognition in the mainstream.   I’m working with a consultant oral
and maxillofacial surgeon right now to prepare a case study on how
Hypnosis can be used to treat bruxism.
Hypnosis is also the only therapy which is recommended by the
Bruxism Association as an effective treatment for this condition.  It’s
a condition which doesn’t affect too many people, however seeing
hypnotherapy being promoted so confidently by these two
mainstream authorities is very encouraging.
Absolutely! The more it will become the part of regular life its effect
will be visible.
7. How do you incorporate various healing methods with
hypnotherapy for example NLP?
I don’t draw much of a distinction between hypnosis and NLP.  One
of the early objectives of NLP was to make the phenomena of
hypnosis accessible without inducing a trance, but I tend not to