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.

Imagine if you could visit someone and as you uttered 17 words or less they were able to deliver the statement that would cause your inner mind to simply change, unbelievable? Actually it’s highly plausible if you happen to be sitting in front of a therapist/ Coach who is at the cutting edge, or maybe he or she has just read “The Saboteur Within” and has picked up a few hints and tips for helping you to change effortlessly.

Martin came in a couple of months ago and he had had years of “anxiety attacks” whenever he stayed away from home for an evening. If Martin never went out of the house he would be totally cured but he had to go to work, to pay the bills.

To make matters worse, Martin is very good at his job so his boss offers him freebies to travel around the world, with his wife, all expenses paid. Martin hates it and Martin’s wife Sarah hates it even more because they don’t get to go!

As soon as anything like a holiday was mentioned, Martin would become nauseas, his appetite would diminish and within days he would be ill. I know that there are lots of techniques I could have used but I decided to sit back and help our hero to do his change conversationally.

I won’t drag on basically Martin was having an allergic reaction to anything that was ‘different’! Yes, you heard me, ‘different’.
He was okay at work, until they promoted him and that made him ill, then he got used to it and things settled down again. Overnight stays, weekends away and a wife wanting holidays all had the same effect. Eventually, they managed to get around the holiday problem, they went to Benidorm every year, the same week, same hotel, same, same, same.

The cure was quite straight-forward. Martin saw everything that was a break from his norm as scary and different. I asked him how old he was he said “fifty –five” “so…” I said “…at fifty-five years old is it possible that you could go anywhere on this planet where the people don’t have similar issues to us, bills to pay, relationship troubles, etc” “Probably not” he said “…and is it also possible that once you’ve stayed in one hotel you’ve stayed in them all?” “When you look at it like that…” he beamed a big bright eyed grin “…Everything gets to be the same eventually, doesn’t it!” “That’s right!” I beamed back at him.

With that Martin clapped is hands and said he was sorted, the whole session lasted ten minutes and Martin was last seen going on a golfing holiday, after just returning from two weeks in Orlando, Florida.

Sarah is over the moon to be able to plan holidays with her husband for the first time in thirty years of marriage.
If you are a coach or therapist and you would love to be able to help your clients in 17 words or less contact me soon.
NLP, Coaching and Hypnotherapy…
…It’s about less being more