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 21st 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.
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.
Did you ever have one of those moments when you knew the universe has it all mapped out?
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be able to take your problems to someone and have them help you to totally transform your outlook, in an hour? Yes, I know that sounds too good to be true but if you were to visit a coach or therapist who is on top of his/her game then it is highly likely that they could very quickly help you by becoming the catalyst to your change.
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As I sit here typing my favourite mind, or should I say, state of mind, man is on tv. Just before you all think Paul McKenna or Derren Brown, both of whom are wonderful at their trade, I mean Cesar Millan, otherwise known as The Dog Whisperer.
I know, I know, I haven’t been blogging much lately, but I have been writing lots and The Saboteur Within, my first book, is coming soon! 
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