Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 3, Issue - 6, 1 December 2018 | Page 8

Saturday, 24 November 2018
Emphasising the Positive
Emphasising the Positive - Erickson who had dyslexia,
colour blindness , and being tone deaf, claimed that
his sensory "disabilities" (dyslexia, colour blindness,
being tone-deaf) helped him to focus on aspects of
communication and behaviour which most other
people overlooked. This is a typical example of
emphasising the positive.
Being a Master Practitioner and Trainer of NLP along with Hypnotherapy
its only Befitting that, In Our December issue We should give our
tribute to the Emperor of Hypnosis. Milton Hyland Erickson
(5 December 1901 – 25 March 1980) Happy Birthday Master.
He was an American Psychiatric and psychologist specialising in
medical hypnosis and family therapy. He was founding president of the
American Society for clinical hypnosis, and a fellow of the American
Psychiatric Association, theAmerican Psychological Association, and
theAmerican Psychopathological Association. He is noted for his
approach to the unconscious mind,
as creative and solution-
generating. He is also noted for influencing ‘Brief Therapy, Stratagic
Family Therapy, ,Family System Therapy,Solution Focused reef
Therapy, , and Nero linguistic Programming.’
Erickson would often compliment the patient for a symptom, and would
even encourage it, in very specific ways. In one amusing example, a
woman whose in-laws caused her nauseous feelings in the gut every time
they visited unexpectedly was "taught" to vomit spectacularly whenever the
visits were especially inconvenient. Naturally the in-laws would always
sympathetically help her clean up the vomit. Fairly soon, the annoying
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