Igor: Just to illustrate a point how many have got, I’ll come to you in a second, how many of you got the stop smoking Master Class anyone? Would it be fair to say that what I have just done here is completely backwards from what I’ve asked you guys to do in that one, right? And nowhere near as smooth, nowhere near as direct - nowhere near as directed, nowhere near as simple to follow as the Master Class that correct? But did it still work? Yes?
We’ll have a test in the evening in terms of all the other things. I’m a 100% sure about the whole pressure thing which is the biggest one. Exactly, see we mention pressure what happens? Exactly, that’s the best answer I can get on that one. The other ones will tend to flip down like dominos as well if you create the same associations next to it. Of course the test night will be the one that will be of particular interest.
If time permitted I would actually happily go down there and do the test together and do you know why? Because if anything is going to fall apart, I will want to be there? Do you notice how I tested are pretty hard here at some points? Some pretty hardcore things, why, because if it’s going to fall apart, its better if it falls apart in front of me.
When I was a lot younger and a lot worse at hypnosis, I used to have this huge insecurity about the whole thing. I’d do some work and – something just kind of happened and I’d say, okay nobody breath, nobody move, just shuffle out as carefully as you can from my office right now because I don’t want to break whatever just happened, because it seemed like it was okay.
But then what good is that if as soon as they step back into the real world it starts falling apart. So if it’s going to fall apart somewhere, let it fall apart right here in front you where you can do something about it. It’s not rocket science. It fell apart a few times didn’t it? There was the different pressures the first which has normal pressures then we had that really intense day from the past. Then we had the really intense day that might occur sometime in the future. Whether or not it does is irrelevant, right? At each one of those it failed but a small amount.
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CHPH 2.0 ©Street Hypnosis All Rights Reserved It could have lead to restarting the whole smoking cycle does that makes sense? But by flushing those out here instead of thinking, oh I’m so embarrassed I failed in front of a 160 people because she still feels a little bit bad about the cigarette. It’s been a bad day. I’m sorry. That would have been how it would have felt in the past because it didn’t work, oh no, now it’s irrelevant. It’s a good thing for that to happen because the chances of it now working out in the real world and sticking are much higher. Does that make sense?Instead of, during the break, can I have just a two minute chat with you there is a couple of things you need to know about smoking as a pattern intellectually shall we say to avoid you falling down the relapse route in terms of not that you want to smoke, but there are things some people, some people do to test themselves which are less than useful alright. I just want to give you a little heads up on that because you may as well have the full shebang, right?
So you noticed the cycles going through? Did you all notice problems arising? Did you all notice getting specific about the problem, when and where and how and so on, just in the chatty sort of way and then something mind bending happening as a result. On some occasions, some were good, some were neutral, in other occasions some were bad. What happens when some are good, what did I do? What did I say?
Let’s try this again. What did I say? As you are feeling this relaxation just think about cigarette and what happens. Wasn’t that pretty much what I said?
All: Yeah.
Igor: Was that rocket science? Was that difficult to do? And what's happening now? I’m feeling okay. She is thinking about the cigarette and she is noticing what happens and she is okay, where is she? Neutral. So what do we do? How do you want to feel different, right? In this version of the resourcing I said, that’s right because you haven’t caught up entirely yet.
Can you hear the supposition there, the implication, right? Its same thing it’s just a more – a slightly different way of saying, how do you want to be different, right? Just because you are not saying the same words doesn’t mean that I’m not saying transfer the same meaning, right? Then what happened? She lights up like
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CHPH 2.0 ©Street Hypnosis All Rights Reserved a Christmas tree and then we did test cycles and stuff like that. Is it starting to make a little more sense to you guys now yeah, now that we’ve got a context around it?What I would like you to do is just spend a minute or so maybe with your eyes closed or your eyes opened whichever you prefer. I would like for you to review the last exercise you did with the blahs and the bads and the nots and the goods. I’d like for you to review it in the light of what you have just witnessed.
I would like for you to review the exercise where you ask what's the problem, how you are going to be different and all those things in the light of what you just watched here and notice how and where you have correlations, where they are the same thing. Really get in touch with that. Really have that feeling. And maybe talk to yourself a little bit. What if you had a client with an actual problem? Can you see yourself taking him through similar steps?
Simple, because all you have to do is make one choice at a time, just one and how do you make that choice. How do you make that choice? Well its simple, you watch the client. If they are in a negative state bend their mind some. If they are in a negative state bend their mind some. If they are in a positive state make it strong and attach it to the original situation. And if they are neutral help them find something positive and bring that to bear. It’s really simple isn’t it? When you have a sense that you could really do this, at least with something small and simple and allow your eyes to open and come back into the room.
How are you guys doing? So we are going to have a break now and we’ll come back and we’ll do some questions and exercises and stuff like that. Does that sound good to you? 15 minutes lets be back in the room.