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Hypnosis Podcast: Hypnosis Downloads Podcast

The podcast produced by Mark Tyrell of HypnosisDownloads.com so far contains short samples of particular hypnosis recordings that he has produced for download. The library of downloadable hypnosis mp3s available on HypnosisDownloads.com is quite diverse - Mr. Tyrell must be a very busy man with all of these downloads he's done, and he continues to make more and more!

I could get in to the content of his recordings, but it's not necessary because I am linking to his podcast which contains samples, so you can hear for yourself and determine if his style of hypnosis suits you or not. In my limited experience with his stuff, I would say that it's good quality and the recordings I have tried do contain solid hypnotic technique. Audio quality is excellent and his tonality is very well suited to the task at hand.

Check out the HypnosisDownloads podcast so you can judge for yourself. The most recent post as of this writing is a write-up about speed reading and there is a preview of a hypnosis session attached.

NLP Weight Loss Podcast

No, I'm not starting a podcast, yet.  I'm pointing you to this podcast, Weight Loss and the Mind. Here's the description from their own site:

Weight Loss and dieting are an epidemic in today's society. It is more a function of how we think than anything else. There are hundreds of diets and exercise programs out there. Yet 'yo-yo' dieting is a cliche. We all know that there is more to it. Why do we eat foods we KNOW add weight and inches to our waist and hips? Why do we sit in front of the tube for hours at a time instead of going for that wonderful walk in the park?The answer lies in our MINDS. Each podcast, Shane and Scott delve into a different topic related to using your mind to achieve that long-sought-after goal -- a healthy body.

I haven't had a chance to listen in depth, but the blog makes this podcast look worthwhile as far as hypnosis / NLP podcasts go, apparently focusing on using the mind along with solid exercise and habit control methodology - no quantum magic.

I've been embarking on a side project of reviewing hypnosis and NLP podcasts as I come across them. So far, I've found plenty of manifestation / "Law of Attraction" / quantum quackery stuff... and you know what I think of that. I'll highlight the rare, no new age nonsense gems here as I find them.

Hypnosis and Children - We Do It All The Time

Hypnosis and Beyond has a nice post about hypnosis and children. Sometimes in hypnotherapy training you're cautioned about using hypnosis with children, and of course caution is a good thing in all cases - make sure the parent is there, tape the session, etc.

But what are some of the ways that our hypnotic skills are useful in our daily encounters with young human beings? Children are learning machines! They are, consciously or unconsciously, modeling every behavior they see and hear, especially from adults. This brings to mind a great billboard I saw over the weekend. It has a picture of a little girl on it, with the text (paraphrasing): "Every time you yell at your spouse, she learns a lesson."   

Hopefully we, as adults, are conscious of the messages we are putting out when we're around children. They may notice things about our behaviors that we ourselves don't realize, just as though we were being modeled by an NLP expert.

One of the many ways that hypnosis happens with children on a daily basis is storytelling. I don't know if you have realized it yet, but storytelling is something hypnotists can do very well. And stories can carry unconscious messages, whether we know it or not. As you tell stories, to children or to adults, you might become more aware of the messages you're embedding in the stories, and whether your nonverbal behaviors are congruent with those messages... or not.

So, to boil this down to a nice list, here are just a few areas I propose might involve hypnotic communication with children, in nearly any context:

• Stories
• A mother's touch
• Your tonality when speaking to and around children
• Rhythm
• Nursery rhymes
• Television programming
• Religious services (if you want your kids to take it seriously, you better take it seriously)
• Metaphors and similes
• Everything you do or say around kids

Hypnosis and Breast Cancer

You've heard the media reports, and probably seen countless blog posts about the beneficial outcomes from using hypnosis as a pre-surgery treatment in breast cancery surgery. Here's one more - but what makes this one different is that it points to the actual researcher's article. It's been said about the media to deduct 50 IQ points when the topic is religion. I would extend that to science and especially hypnosis as well.  Here are the report's conclusions:

Conclusions: Hypnosis was superior to attention control regarding propofol and lidocaine use; pain, nausea, fatigue, discomfort, and emotional upset at discharge; and institutional cost. Overall, the present data support the use of hypnosis with breast cancer surgery patients.

Catch the article itself here, on the oxfordjournals.org web site.