As you read this are you aware of the voice inside your head, are you listening to that voice? Did you ever wonder who you are if you are able to hear yourself speaking are you the speaker or the listener or in fact neither, maybe you are observing what it is that a part of you is listening to!

It’s that whole thought thing that can cause your head to spin but inside of that concept we have beliefs at our very core. Some of my clients have a belief that they will live to be a hundred and some do not, so what if your beliefs are the main driver for all that you are and do? What impact could your beliefs have upon the outcome?

Take for example

Cient1 Diagnosed with cancer and the prognosis isn’t good.

Who decides upon the “prognosis” or the prediction of the future for Client1

The doctor who is treating the client or the client?

What if the doctor says “I have been in this profession for 20 years and I’m sorry to say that your only have a few months left”

How is Client1 going to feel now? He or she might believe the doctor and then the health and well being of the client can rapidly deteriorate, even though the doctor is doing his/her very best.

Our beliefs form part of a living system. They are not simply black and white, right or wrong and that makes it a very difficult challenge to us all. Who would step forward into today’s political arena and state unequivocally that we are going the wrong way? In 1848 a young Hungarian doctor, called Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis, would be seen to do just that, sadly no one would listen to him and it cost the lives of more than “1 million women” Coffield, (2010). Semmelweis realised that patients were contracting the disease via their doctors and he prescribed that all doctors should wash their hands in chlorine solution before and between patients. How many millions of lives are being lost today because we are failing to except that the 21^st Century client’s needs are not being met because professional etiquette, Political Correctness and health care policy does not address the beliefs of the client/patient

An extract from The Saboteur Within

In 1952 Dr. Albert Mason was using hypnosis to treat a 15-year-old boy’s warts. Many doctors had successfully used hypnosis in the treatment of warts and Mason was very good at it. This time, however, the boy was covered from head to toe and his skin looked like cracked leather.

Dr. Mason was to create a medical sensation with this patient, because one week after his session the boy returned and his arm, which is the part of his body Dr. Mason had suggested to get well, was perfectly healthy and clear. After a few more sessions the boy’s skin totally cleared up and he went on to lead a normal life.

How did it make medical history? Well, the boy was suffering from a lethal genetic disease called congenital ichthyosis and Dr. Mason hadn’t prescribed any drugs. He only used hypnosis to reverse all of the boy’s symptoms. At the time of working with the boy, he was totally unaware that the condition was incurable.

When Dr. Mason wrote about his startling treatment for ichthyosis in the British Medical Journal in 1952, his article created a sensation. Dr. Mason became a magnet for patients suffering from the rare, lethal disease that no one before had ever cured.

Dr. Mason attempted to help other ichthyosis patients, but was never able to replicate the results he had with the young boy. Now that he knew that the disease was incurable, his own belief was weakened, and the patient could unconsciously pick up on Dr. Mason’s doubt.

Mason Quote:

“I had a mother who was very ill when I was a child, and so the need to cure was really linked to my relationship to an ill mother and that’s just what you need to be a hypnotist. You need a kind of furor therapeutica. The congenital case I cured, I’m sure, needed to be cured as much as I needed to cure him and something strange happened. After that case, half a dozen ichthyotics came to see me and I never cured another one. By that time I knew it was incurable, so, there was the difference, that kind of conviction I had that I could cure him was no longer there. So that was really my history and how I became an analyst.”

I always tell therapists and coaches in my trainings that they must believe in the client’s ability to create a miracle. You see; if your coach doubts their ability to help you or your ability to help yourself, either way you are doomed to fail. On the other hand if your coach, therapist, doctor, mum, or dad let go of their ego and have absolute faith in you, then miracles can and do happen.

I had a client who had been through assertiveness training and various management courses to help her to overcome her presenting issue, basically she could be assertive with anyone younger than herself but she would freeze with anyone older!

Yes it sounds weird and that’s probably why they asked me to work with her. She had had coaching and this thing didn’t want to budge. From a coaching perspective this was unconscious interference and it figures then that the client wasn’t trying to self sabotage herself or her career, so all the clues were pointing at The Saboteur Within…

Click here to check out the main article I have published on Ezine.

 Mike Ashley is in the bad books of die-hard football fans this week by changing the name of  Newcastle United’s football stadium to “Sports Direct Arena”. I am going to put a case forward for Newcastle United fans and Mr Ashley that I believe is unarguable.

 The loyal fans are arguing that they will lose 119 years of history and Mr Ashley says it will bring in much needed revenues both points need to be met, evaluated and brought together as one. Who ever is in charge of PR at the club should be fired for missing the greatest re-branding ever to happen to a failing club!!!

Now what evidence do I have to make a statement like that about a club, which I have always supported? Simply this Newcastle United has 119 years of never wining anything and always coming second. “Always the bridesmaid and never the bride” my dad used to say.

We now have a chance for a new beginning, unblemished, undefeated at Sports Direct Stadium. If we draw a line in the sand which side would you want to support? Over a century of losing or a brand new beginning with an undisputed winning ethos?  Think about this long and hard because if you are a true fan, St James’s the ground hasn’t changed but by giving it a new name doesn’t that lift the old gipsy curse.

 Imagine how Chelsea is going to feel on the 3^rd of December when they come to play the undefeated Newcastle United at Sports Direct Arena; the cockneys have an affinity with St James’s they have beaten us there many times but they have never beaten us here at this newly branded ground. Mentally we have the upper hand here and any true football fan should open their minds to this, we are Newcastle United, the undefeated champions od Sports Direct Arena.

 Marks and Spencer were going to the wall and nobody was willing to help founded in 1884 the company was perceived as out of date, in short losers! After they rebranded to M&S their sales grew by 192%. They also became “your M&S” now who would stand by and let their store go to the wall? No-one! M&S emerged over night as Winners and today they still sit at the head of the retail champions league.

This is the message that Mike Ashley should be sending out this weekend to galvanise support for his genius. We are Newcastle and we need to be United in the dawning of a new and exciting era in the clubs history

I might be on my own here today but I genuinely believe that Mike Ashley has helped the club to leave the past and create a compelling future.