There was a recent article today in the New Straits Times (Malaysian newspaper) that contains some misconceptions about Neuro Linguistic Programming or NLP.
It says (and I have to write from the article, since I couldn't find the link in the NST):
"(...) Similarily (the article first talks about training and its disadvantage in coaching: my comment) there are also some neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) practitioners who also feel the same way about becoming automatic coaches too because of their knowledge in NLP.
Undoubtedly, coaching uses NLP, but as one of its many other tools. In other words, coaching is not the other name for NLP. Why? Coaching has a structured model and a coaching process that takes a client from start to finish. On the other hand, NLP is not structured on a continuum like coaching. To me, it is only a collection of tools that an NLP practitioner uses in various situations.
Besides NLP, coaching also uses tools like strategic planning, benchmarking, shadowing coaching, assessment tests etc.
Coaching is holistic so it needs a wide assortment of tools instead of one. This is also to substantiate why coaching is more powerful than many intervention methods."
There is a positive intention in the article of the writer. He surely has the best of his clients at heart.
But, he got the part on NLP totally wrong.
NLP is about helping coachees to identify the resources or strength, the solutions within them - this is inherit in the presupposition in NLP that "the map is not the territory". It means that every individual is different and only through precision questions (in NLP these are called Meta-Questions) can the map of the coachee be discovered.
NLP is about setting goals. In fact it is very much about finding out where one person or one business is in the moment or present and where he, she or the business wants to go. How to do coaching without this question? What is your goal is another important part of NLP. Without this, how do I know where my client wants to go?
It is here, where the continuum of NLP coaching comes in - the development of a plan for a client to move on from here to there and then to identify the possible interventions that exist in NLP and use those throughout the coaching process.
And this makes it clear that NLP is extremely useful in strategic planning, for benchmarking and, of course, shadow coaching. I also use assessment tools in my coaching program.
However, it is the power of NLP to also be helpful with short interventions - to help someone overcoming the Peter's Principle, create confidence in coachees, help them overcoming procrastination, depression, doubt, guilt or whatever.
So it is the power of NLP that helps with short term interventions and long term interventions. Short term interventions for those who simply want or need to overcome limiting beliefs (I cannot present, or, I never manage this interview, how to get motivated, confident, what is my career direction).
Long term interventions on how to move a company into the right direction - strategic planning, communication issues, promotions, motivation and empowerment or a CEO who needs a sounding board and to find the right direction (if I may say so!).
The challenge of a coach is to identify which is better - a short one or a long one.
I am not here to make money of my clients because they have better things to do after my intervention. They want to use their newly developed skills at the earliest! So naturally, I want to bring out all the resources of a client in the shortest time possible - and in a way that it lasts a lifetime.
Of course, I charge for my services - who wouldn't ? - but it is my goal to create satisfied and happy clients who find their purpose in life and business. The faster the better! If they get rid of me, they might even promote my service to their friends? And that is the best for a coach as well - referals.
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Sunday, March 26, 2006
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Hypnosis Helps Some Students Improve Test Scores
This is interesting news for those who struggle to meet their challenges in school, college or university. How often do I read in student's blog that they struggle to study, no time, too much to do etc.
Sure, there is a lot to learn but what if there is a magic pill? Or in this case, what would you do if you would know that hypnosis can actually help in getting better grades and test scores?
Ahhhh - curious?
How do we feel when we study? I remember from my time in uni, that as closer I got to the tests or examinations, the more nervous and anxious I became. I would check the books for correct answer every two minutes or so. Close it - try to remember, need to confirm, gosh, I was so paranoid myself, looking back.
What I realised - my method - was that I learnt better when I went to sleep shortly after studying. the subconscious mind learns best when we sleep.
The article linked here outlines beautifully the success that hypnosis can bring to study tests, by describing the case of one boy called Alex.
"I used to be afraid of tests, but now I tell myself there is not a problem anymore 'cause it's nothing to worry about," Alex said." His parents agree and say that they see a noticable difference in their son and his grades.
Clearly, if you are open to it, hypnosis can show results right away.
What holds you back?
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Sure, there is a lot to learn but what if there is a magic pill? Or in this case, what would you do if you would know that hypnosis can actually help in getting better grades and test scores?
Ahhhh - curious?
How do we feel when we study? I remember from my time in uni, that as closer I got to the tests or examinations, the more nervous and anxious I became. I would check the books for correct answer every two minutes or so. Close it - try to remember, need to confirm, gosh, I was so paranoid myself, looking back.
What I realised - my method - was that I learnt better when I went to sleep shortly after studying. the subconscious mind learns best when we sleep.
The article linked here outlines beautifully the success that hypnosis can bring to study tests, by describing the case of one boy called Alex.
"I used to be afraid of tests, but now I tell myself there is not a problem anymore 'cause it's nothing to worry about," Alex said." His parents agree and say that they see a noticable difference in their son and his grades.
Clearly, if you are open to it, hypnosis can show results right away.
What holds you back?
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Saturday, March 11, 2006
A counsellor and the unmarried Malaysian women
I don't get it.
I am talking about the survey of yesterday's New Sunday Times that stated that 80% of the Malaysian women only want to marry after 30 years of age.
I am not here to discuss the main reasons mentioned by the women as stated in the newspaper: "A lack of sexual desire, career priorities, infertility and a search for rich husbands." This is up to them.
I cannot comprehend how licensed counsellors from Universiti Malaya can provide the following comments for the data:
- Women are not interested in marrying is because there is a lack of "men of quality" in the country. Many men now are involved in drugs and are gay or soft.
My comment: Huh? What kind of argument is that? How can someone provide counselling service with such attitude?
- Women lack sexual desire because they are very tired after work and are too preoccupied with their careers development and prefer to pursue educational. By the time they want to get married there are very few available single professional men. To help, men should be allowed to marry more than one woman.
My comment: This implies that men don't care for their career and their professional education, and thus want to get married earlier. Or, that men are faster in their development.
Both are shallow reasons - I don't agree. And to marry more than one woman doesn't sound very progressive to me. (and don't argue for it as it is based on Islamic teachings. There are very strict rules around this possibility and not many can meet these.)
- Men don't want to marry those women due to the women's demands. They don't need to get married as there are many unmarried women around who they can hook up with as it is common in urban societies for couples to practise free sex without the strictures and morality of marriage.
My comment: No comment. My goodness. Shall I pity the men?
This survey might be interesting in its finding but the reasons and solutions provided are shallow at the best.
Would I want to get counselled by someone like this? A counsellor, according to my opinion (but THAT is my opinion), needs to be free of judgements, question a lot, and don't come up with extremely generalised and bias statements.
All my opionion, of course, but it was too much for me to hold back.
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I am talking about the survey of yesterday's New Sunday Times that stated that 80% of the Malaysian women only want to marry after 30 years of age.
I am not here to discuss the main reasons mentioned by the women as stated in the newspaper: "A lack of sexual desire, career priorities, infertility and a search for rich husbands." This is up to them.
I cannot comprehend how licensed counsellors from Universiti Malaya can provide the following comments for the data:
- Women are not interested in marrying is because there is a lack of "men of quality" in the country. Many men now are involved in drugs and are gay or soft.
My comment: Huh? What kind of argument is that? How can someone provide counselling service with such attitude?
- Women lack sexual desire because they are very tired after work and are too preoccupied with their careers development and prefer to pursue educational. By the time they want to get married there are very few available single professional men. To help, men should be allowed to marry more than one woman.
My comment: This implies that men don't care for their career and their professional education, and thus want to get married earlier. Or, that men are faster in their development.
Both are shallow reasons - I don't agree. And to marry more than one woman doesn't sound very progressive to me. (and don't argue for it as it is based on Islamic teachings. There are very strict rules around this possibility and not many can meet these.)
- Men don't want to marry those women due to the women's demands. They don't need to get married as there are many unmarried women around who they can hook up with as it is common in urban societies for couples to practise free sex without the strictures and morality of marriage.
My comment: No comment. My goodness. Shall I pity the men?
This survey might be interesting in its finding but the reasons and solutions provided are shallow at the best.
Would I want to get counselled by someone like this? A counsellor, according to my opinion (but THAT is my opinion), needs to be free of judgements, question a lot, and don't come up with extremely generalised and bias statements.
All my opionion, of course, but it was too much for me to hold back.
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Monday, March 06, 2006
Hypnotherapy and menopause
Do you know that hypnotherapy helps to reduce the hot flashes during menopause? The article linked here describes the story of a woman who had cancer and plunged into menopause after the doctors removed her ovary.
Aged only 38, "she would become unbearably hot and drenched in sweat almost twice an hour, though her co-workers would complain of being cold. Her heart would palpitate, and she would feel anxious. At night, she’d wake up soaked and then have trouble falling asleep again."
Recently began trying hypnosis to treat her symptoms, and she said it is working.
In the US "more hypnotherapists are treating women for menopause symptoms as women have become increasingly dissatisfied with traditional treatment options, such as hormone replacement therapy."
Something to think about, right?
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Aged only 38, "she would become unbearably hot and drenched in sweat almost twice an hour, though her co-workers would complain of being cold. Her heart would palpitate, and she would feel anxious. At night, she’d wake up soaked and then have trouble falling asleep again."
Recently began trying hypnosis to treat her symptoms, and she said it is working.
In the US "more hypnotherapists are treating women for menopause symptoms as women have become increasingly dissatisfied with traditional treatment options, such as hormone replacement therapy."
Something to think about, right?
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Fuel price increase and constant change
It sucks and of course it sucks. The fuel price went up by 30 Malaysian cents. It is argued that it is still cheap compared to other countries, in the region and across the world.
But does it really matter?
Imagine I am the taxi driver who is working 18-20 hours a day already to meet my needs and feed my family - does it really matter to me that my colleagues in Singapore have to pay more? I am not driving taxi there, I am here, it affects me here, in Malaysia.
Or the household that is struggling to send 1, 2, 3, or 4 kids to school by car. Does it really matter to them that the fuel price is cheaper here compared to the UK, or Germany? It affects me here to bring my children to school by car, since there is no public transport. I am not bringing them to school in the UK but if the price increase continues, I am also not able to send my children to university in the UK or even in Malaysia.
Change happens and sometimes it sucks. Suddenly, the ground on which we stand slips, is taken away. Gone is the comfort.
Just when we adjusted to the most recent price increase and could start speeding on the road again, letting engine run and run and run while waiting for someone somewhere. We will get used to this price increase as well, as usual.
Still, it sucks.
It sucks because we were not prepared, even so the government gave enough warning signals, and even so we knew that the oil price per barrel is damn high.
We always hope that the storm passes by and we stay unharmed. It happens elsewhere, not here, not with me.
Prices increase and they always hit us painfully and it won't stop.
We read it in the newspapers, we read it on blogs, or study it in the bookshops on newly released editions of management books - change is the only constant.
The environment is oftentimes the first to change and then we struggle to adjust to the changes. We are forced to adjust our behaviours because we have no other choice. It would have been easier to adjust our behaviour first - what about fuel saving, car pooling, or many other tips, like stopping to smoke - and then, it would have been so much easier to adjust to the environment.
But who is teaching us to adjust our behaviours? Or, even better, our capabilities, because it now is requred that we learn new capabilities to help us create new behaviours to cope with a new environment.
The government is trying to educate us, of course, but then, what we read in the papers is so far removed from us, that we are not concerned. Until it happens. And we have to live throught the pain. Until we adjust again - till the next price increase. It will come, I tell you. Don't fall back and be comfortable. Get ready now and adjust early.
Argh - it simply sucks, does it not?
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But does it really matter?
Imagine I am the taxi driver who is working 18-20 hours a day already to meet my needs and feed my family - does it really matter to me that my colleagues in Singapore have to pay more? I am not driving taxi there, I am here, it affects me here, in Malaysia.
Or the household that is struggling to send 1, 2, 3, or 4 kids to school by car. Does it really matter to them that the fuel price is cheaper here compared to the UK, or Germany? It affects me here to bring my children to school by car, since there is no public transport. I am not bringing them to school in the UK but if the price increase continues, I am also not able to send my children to university in the UK or even in Malaysia.
Change happens and sometimes it sucks. Suddenly, the ground on which we stand slips, is taken away. Gone is the comfort.
Just when we adjusted to the most recent price increase and could start speeding on the road again, letting engine run and run and run while waiting for someone somewhere. We will get used to this price increase as well, as usual.
Still, it sucks.
It sucks because we were not prepared, even so the government gave enough warning signals, and even so we knew that the oil price per barrel is damn high.
We always hope that the storm passes by and we stay unharmed. It happens elsewhere, not here, not with me.
Prices increase and they always hit us painfully and it won't stop.
We read it in the newspapers, we read it on blogs, or study it in the bookshops on newly released editions of management books - change is the only constant.
The environment is oftentimes the first to change and then we struggle to adjust to the changes. We are forced to adjust our behaviours because we have no other choice. It would have been easier to adjust our behaviour first - what about fuel saving, car pooling, or many other tips, like stopping to smoke - and then, it would have been so much easier to adjust to the environment.
But who is teaching us to adjust our behaviours? Or, even better, our capabilities, because it now is requred that we learn new capabilities to help us create new behaviours to cope with a new environment.
The government is trying to educate us, of course, but then, what we read in the papers is so far removed from us, that we are not concerned. Until it happens. And we have to live throught the pain. Until we adjust again - till the next price increase. It will come, I tell you. Don't fall back and be comfortable. Get ready now and adjust early.
Argh - it simply sucks, does it not?
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Standing out - resume posted online
What do you do when you are out of college, university, school and have nothing to do but looking for a job? You can go to JobsDB or the one that calls itself the fastest growing job-search website in Malaysia.
How much creativity do you have as a job searcher? Not much. Space is limited to a templated version, and creativity is restricted to a few boxes that allow you to describe yourself in a few words. Better than nothing, but hardly the stuff that makes you stand out.
Jeff has done something different - he created a website. Not a flash presentation as recently done by Alexandre, whose resume circulated through the Internet last year.
And sure, Jeff's English is bad, but then, it is not about the writing style. It is about standing out, trying something different, WoWing potential companies, being proactive, showing creativity, go beyond just a blog created for free in Blogspot or Wordpress (even so this is something as well!).
But then again, this is Jeff's style. He knows what he wants and he is striving to get it. Using the web is one way. I wonder if he has a personal goal plan and what other initiatives has he outlined.
So, what have you tried today to be different?
Are you reactive or proactive? Just waiting for next weekend's recruitment section in the New Straits Times or actively searching out opportunities?
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How much creativity do you have as a job searcher? Not much. Space is limited to a templated version, and creativity is restricted to a few boxes that allow you to describe yourself in a few words. Better than nothing, but hardly the stuff that makes you stand out.
Jeff has done something different - he created a website. Not a flash presentation as recently done by Alexandre, whose resume circulated through the Internet last year.
And sure, Jeff's English is bad, but then, it is not about the writing style. It is about standing out, trying something different, WoWing potential companies, being proactive, showing creativity, go beyond just a blog created for free in Blogspot or Wordpress (even so this is something as well!).
But then again, this is Jeff's style. He knows what he wants and he is striving to get it. Using the web is one way. I wonder if he has a personal goal plan and what other initiatives has he outlined.
So, what have you tried today to be different?
Are you reactive or proactive? Just waiting for next weekend's recruitment section in the New Straits Times or actively searching out opportunities?
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Sunday, February 26, 2006
Fascinating test of computer game under hypnosis
Wow, this is fascinating.
In fact so fascinating that I copy the whole article into this entry.
"In a video game magazine first, Buena Vista Games successfully hypnotised the Deputy Editor of the Official Xbox Magazine, Mark Robins, and age-regressed him to ten years old in a groundbreaking project that saw Mark review the Xbox release of Disney and Walden Media Presents The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe through the eyes of the game's intended market.
Taking place in Future's London offices and lasting around 45 minutes, the hypnosis session was undertaken by Mark Howe, a professional and seasoned hypnotist, and will appear as part of a four-page feature in the April issue of The Official Xbox Magazine, on-sale 16th March. Video footage of the hypnosis session will also appear on the Official Xbox Magazine's covermount disk.
"The idea of hypnotising someone into believing they're a ten year old to review a game was so unique that I simply had to get involved, even if it was just to see how it would turn out," commented Mark Robins, Official Xbox Magazine Deputy Editor. "Luckily I've come out the other end mentally unscathed and I even had my fear of flying cured to boot. I'm amazed it worked so well: I can't usually remember what I was up to last week, let alone twenty years ago."
"The Chronicles of Narnia is a computer and video game aimed at 8-12 year old boys and girls and finding anyone in that age bracket that has both the journalism experience and gaming skill to articulate a full and fair review has been impossible, until now," commented Mark Ward, on behalf of Buena Vista Games. "I had to promise that we wouldn't plant any other suggestions while Mark was 'under' and I've stood by my word. That said, he's been clucking like a chicken ever since."
This means that they hypnotised the guy, and he tested the game while his mind believed that he was 10 years old. How great is this? Imagine the possibilities for yourself and the conflicts from the time when you were ten and that you can solve now?
Remember that all those unsolved situations of your past need energy and strength to hold in place. When resolved, you can free yourself from so many, many situations that still bug you!
This does not mean that you are re-writing your history, but that you are solving issues - regrets, doubts, guilt - of the past that still hold you back now.
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In fact so fascinating that I copy the whole article into this entry.
"In a video game magazine first, Buena Vista Games successfully hypnotised the Deputy Editor of the Official Xbox Magazine, Mark Robins, and age-regressed him to ten years old in a groundbreaking project that saw Mark review the Xbox release of Disney and Walden Media Presents The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe through the eyes of the game's intended market.
Taking place in Future's London offices and lasting around 45 minutes, the hypnosis session was undertaken by Mark Howe, a professional and seasoned hypnotist, and will appear as part of a four-page feature in the April issue of The Official Xbox Magazine, on-sale 16th March. Video footage of the hypnosis session will also appear on the Official Xbox Magazine's covermount disk.
"The idea of hypnotising someone into believing they're a ten year old to review a game was so unique that I simply had to get involved, even if it was just to see how it would turn out," commented Mark Robins, Official Xbox Magazine Deputy Editor. "Luckily I've come out the other end mentally unscathed and I even had my fear of flying cured to boot. I'm amazed it worked so well: I can't usually remember what I was up to last week, let alone twenty years ago."
"The Chronicles of Narnia is a computer and video game aimed at 8-12 year old boys and girls and finding anyone in that age bracket that has both the journalism experience and gaming skill to articulate a full and fair review has been impossible, until now," commented Mark Ward, on behalf of Buena Vista Games. "I had to promise that we wouldn't plant any other suggestions while Mark was 'under' and I've stood by my word. That said, he's been clucking like a chicken ever since."
This means that they hypnotised the guy, and he tested the game while his mind believed that he was 10 years old. How great is this? Imagine the possibilities for yourself and the conflicts from the time when you were ten and that you can solve now?
Remember that all those unsolved situations of your past need energy and strength to hold in place. When resolved, you can free yourself from so many, many situations that still bug you!
This does not mean that you are re-writing your history, but that you are solving issues - regrets, doubts, guilt - of the past that still hold you back now.
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Thursday, February 23, 2006
Overweight Malaysians
It does not really affect only Malaysians but it happens globally - we are eating more, and we get fatter and fatter. Obesity is the magic word, when the rings around your stomach start to grow.
Gaining weight starts slowly, and it can only be realised when suddenly colleagues make "strange" remarks, the trousers that seemed to fit yesterday don't fit anymore today. It is easy to grow bigger and tough to get it down.
Governments are alert and there are companies (so far in the West only) that require a healthier lifestyle from their employees or else - pay more for your health insurance or check out of the company. In Malaysia, the number of overweight Malaysians is increasing, with more than 5.5 million on the list.
Is sheer diet possible? Even healthy?
Frequently not. Frequently, some kilos go down only to come back after you completed the diet. And then the fight starts again.
Why?
Easy - because often there is a gain behind the weight gain. I mentioned it before when I wrote about smoking and its relation to confidence.
With weight gain, it can be something else. May be somewhere in your youth, someone told you that you are cute and chubby. Others might have said that you are too thin, too skinny and that this is not great.
Commands that the subconscious mind picks up and follows.
This is called Secondary gains - you subconscious mind follows these orders and keeps those secondary gain with all means. It wants to protect and nurture you - even so your conscious mind rebels.
It is too late. Your sub-conscious mind is stirring you and preventing you from getting slim and skinny again, again, it wants to protect you.
Hypnotherapy is a very useful way to fight those extra pounds, but the task of the qualified hypnotherapist is to identify those secondary gains.
As this article simply states: "When used by a trained therapist, hypnosis can help you lose weight and keep it off. But be wary of any program that promises simple miracles." One therapist is quoted as saying that it is important even crucial to check on those secondary gains.
Check with me, if you have a question, or... want to lose weight! To be in real deep hypnosis is a wonderful feeling - you can go places, you have never been or wish you could go again. Check out this short script at Mind Changing Hypnosis, for what is a nice, short script relating to health and reaching your goals.
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Gaining weight starts slowly, and it can only be realised when suddenly colleagues make "strange" remarks, the trousers that seemed to fit yesterday don't fit anymore today. It is easy to grow bigger and tough to get it down.
Governments are alert and there are companies (so far in the West only) that require a healthier lifestyle from their employees or else - pay more for your health insurance or check out of the company. In Malaysia, the number of overweight Malaysians is increasing, with more than 5.5 million on the list.
Is sheer diet possible? Even healthy?
Frequently not. Frequently, some kilos go down only to come back after you completed the diet. And then the fight starts again.
Why?
Easy - because often there is a gain behind the weight gain. I mentioned it before when I wrote about smoking and its relation to confidence.
With weight gain, it can be something else. May be somewhere in your youth, someone told you that you are cute and chubby. Others might have said that you are too thin, too skinny and that this is not great.
Commands that the subconscious mind picks up and follows.
This is called Secondary gains - you subconscious mind follows these orders and keeps those secondary gain with all means. It wants to protect and nurture you - even so your conscious mind rebels.
It is too late. Your sub-conscious mind is stirring you and preventing you from getting slim and skinny again, again, it wants to protect you.
Hypnotherapy is a very useful way to fight those extra pounds, but the task of the qualified hypnotherapist is to identify those secondary gains.
As this article simply states: "When used by a trained therapist, hypnosis can help you lose weight and keep it off. But be wary of any program that promises simple miracles." One therapist is quoted as saying that it is important even crucial to check on those secondary gains.
Check with me, if you have a question, or... want to lose weight! To be in real deep hypnosis is a wonderful feeling - you can go places, you have never been or wish you could go again. Check out this short script at Mind Changing Hypnosis, for what is a nice, short script relating to health and reaching your goals.
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Sunday, February 19, 2006
The Peter Principle and business coaching for mindset change
Imagine the following situation - a situation that a Business Coach is encountering frequently, but you will surely recognise the trait in your own business environment.
You have a great engineer, or executive. For the sake of this entry, let's stick to the executive. It is a young man (sorry ladies), aspiring, enthusiastic, motivated or engaged and happy. Whatever his boss gives to him is promptly dealt with, he doesn't miss a deadline and, simply speaking, it is fun to have the guy around.
Now, it is time for the promotion and the guy gets it. Yes, he has been long enough with the company and surely deserves the promotion. Especially since teamwork is required and he surely is "beloved" by his colleagues.
He leaves the company 12 months later, devasted that a promising career came to an end. The employer doesn't know what went wrong, but over the last 12 months since the promotion, more and more complaints came in about the guy. It simply didn't work anymore.
He meddled around in the work of his employees, micro-managed them, and, simultaneously wasn't able to get his own work done. A couple of projects went totally astray, clients complained about his work - simply speaking, his promotion did not turn out the way it was forecased.
He falls victim to the Peter's Principle. Who hasn't heard of the sentence that in a promotion, you lose a great engineer and win a bad manager?
The Peter Principle states that "it may be simply that the position is different from the position in which the employee previously excelled, and thus requires different skills, which the employee may not possess."
This means a promoted employee is doing what he knows best - instead of doing his new job, which requires new skills and a new mindset, he is "bothering" the employee who is now doing his former job. He hasn't received the new mindset to cope with new challenges - no one coached him. He does what he feels competent to do. The other employees, of course, are unhappy - and might even start to meddle in other people's work as well. Do you see the cycle?
Employees need to change their mindset to move on, to develop capabilities and new behaviours. There is a different air that you breathe, once you climb the career ladder. You can even say that there is the requirement for a different mindset once your company start growing. A different kind of management is required when you manage a small department vis-a-vis a larger department, 5 employees in a company vis-a-vis 10 or 15 or 50 employees, a small company growing to a big company, revenues of US$1 million to revenues of US$10 million and so on.
This is the fun part of business coaching. Business coaching, amongst others, helps company leaders to develop the mindset of their employees. You coach employees to develop their mindset and to avoid the Peter Principle.
I would be interested to hear your story. Or, if you need a personal coach or a business coach, just send me an email.
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You have a great engineer, or executive. For the sake of this entry, let's stick to the executive. It is a young man (sorry ladies), aspiring, enthusiastic, motivated or engaged and happy. Whatever his boss gives to him is promptly dealt with, he doesn't miss a deadline and, simply speaking, it is fun to have the guy around.
Now, it is time for the promotion and the guy gets it. Yes, he has been long enough with the company and surely deserves the promotion. Especially since teamwork is required and he surely is "beloved" by his colleagues.
He leaves the company 12 months later, devasted that a promising career came to an end. The employer doesn't know what went wrong, but over the last 12 months since the promotion, more and more complaints came in about the guy. It simply didn't work anymore.
He meddled around in the work of his employees, micro-managed them, and, simultaneously wasn't able to get his own work done. A couple of projects went totally astray, clients complained about his work - simply speaking, his promotion did not turn out the way it was forecased.
He falls victim to the Peter's Principle. Who hasn't heard of the sentence that in a promotion, you lose a great engineer and win a bad manager?
The Peter Principle states that "it may be simply that the position is different from the position in which the employee previously excelled, and thus requires different skills, which the employee may not possess."
This means a promoted employee is doing what he knows best - instead of doing his new job, which requires new skills and a new mindset, he is "bothering" the employee who is now doing his former job. He hasn't received the new mindset to cope with new challenges - no one coached him. He does what he feels competent to do. The other employees, of course, are unhappy - and might even start to meddle in other people's work as well. Do you see the cycle?
Employees need to change their mindset to move on, to develop capabilities and new behaviours. There is a different air that you breathe, once you climb the career ladder. You can even say that there is the requirement for a different mindset once your company start growing. A different kind of management is required when you manage a small department vis-a-vis a larger department, 5 employees in a company vis-a-vis 10 or 15 or 50 employees, a small company growing to a big company, revenues of US$1 million to revenues of US$10 million and so on.
This is the fun part of business coaching. Business coaching, amongst others, helps company leaders to develop the mindset of their employees. You coach employees to develop their mindset and to avoid the Peter Principle.
I would be interested to hear your story. Or, if you need a personal coach or a business coach, just send me an email.
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Friday, February 17, 2006
Smoking, hypnotherapy and a personal story
I found this entry which describes the advantage of hypnotherapy in helping to quit smoking.
Worthwhile a read.
It is clearly correct to say that it is tough if not impossible to quit smoking with willpower alone. And that hypnotherapy is extremely valuable as a tool for those who want to quit smoking.
I remembered when I stopped smoking about 10 years back. It was like starting a new life. New habits needed to form. Behaviour rectified. Imagine that anything related to smoking needed to get rewired. The cigarette after the morning coffee. The cigarette while driving my car. The cigarette after food, during discussions, to smooth conversations, to gain confidence, to hold on to something. No more of such things. The first time I went to a pub to meet with friends was like hell. We drank, had fun, but then, as the urge for a cigarette started to grow, i had to leave. This wass the worst day of it. I paced up and down in my living room, and simply longed for a cigarette. I got over it!
A friend once told me that there is hardly any picture or photo available of me without a cigarette in my hand. I stopped, from one day to the next. By chance, it was a day when Mahatir, Malaysia's former prime minister, called onto the nation to stop smokine, make it a non-smoking day. Thank you, Tun! I followed your advice.
There were a couple of incidences when I nearly started to smoke again. One was the death of my father and the guilt in me that I hadn't seen him for a longer while. I just started to work in Malaysia on a 2 year contract and didn't want to go back to Germany for my leave but instead took the chance to travel around Asia. I thought that after the two years, i would go back to Germany and see him again anyway. I never did. He died, after a long fight against Parkinson's disease.
The day my mother called to tell me that my father died was the day I wanted to smoke again. It didn't happen, thanks to my wife (I dated her at that time) and her "handholding" at that time.
The next time was when I actually had a big argument with my wife-to-be. I was so angry that I told her that I need a break to throw the remaining cigarettes (yes, I kept some spare, just in case!) away, otherwise, I would start to smoke again. When I came back, we had lost our the feeling for the fight, didn't know what the fight was about anymore, had a good laughter and moved on.
I still like the cigarette smoke, every now and then. And every now and then, I still feel the urge to smoke. I don't because I know that I wouldn't be able to control the habit and would be back to my 30 or 40 sticks in a day.
And no "Tak Nak" campaign would help me then!
I believe that hypnotherapy is one way to overcome addiction.
It is simply instilling new values, new beliefs into the system. I won against my addiction because I was able to change my behaviour and had a good fight for a different behaviour and strong, very strong willpower (hey - I am a German, okay?).
But behaviours operate at a lower level of your neurology and are often directed by values and beliefs. The subconscious belief that a cigarette helps to strengthen confidence is strong. It is entrenched deeply in the sub-conscious mind, more than the behaviour that consciously says cigarettes are bad for your health.
Values and beliefs influence behaviour but changes in behaviour are pretty much challenged to change values and beliefs - in fact, a changed behaviour might not influence beliefs at all if left at that.
Only "extreme" behavioural change is able to change values and beliefs - for example, a lot of my beliefs changed after I moved from Germany to Malaysia, thus even the environment is able to ultimately change behaviour and beliefs - but who is willing to change so dramatically to change values and beliefs? Strong group pressure is another possibility to change beliefs and then, following, values and beliefs.
Ultimately, it is easier to directly go into the belief system. A good hypnotherapist is able to identify those original secondary gains - e.g.; the need for confidence - that come with the consumption of cigarettes.
Once this gain is identified in an initial session, a certified practioner hypnotherapist can easily eliminate the habit and behaviour. Send me a mail - I am more than happy to help or coach you.
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Worthwhile a read.
It is clearly correct to say that it is tough if not impossible to quit smoking with willpower alone. And that hypnotherapy is extremely valuable as a tool for those who want to quit smoking.
I remembered when I stopped smoking about 10 years back. It was like starting a new life. New habits needed to form. Behaviour rectified. Imagine that anything related to smoking needed to get rewired. The cigarette after the morning coffee. The cigarette while driving my car. The cigarette after food, during discussions, to smooth conversations, to gain confidence, to hold on to something. No more of such things. The first time I went to a pub to meet with friends was like hell. We drank, had fun, but then, as the urge for a cigarette started to grow, i had to leave. This wass the worst day of it. I paced up and down in my living room, and simply longed for a cigarette. I got over it!
A friend once told me that there is hardly any picture or photo available of me without a cigarette in my hand. I stopped, from one day to the next. By chance, it was a day when Mahatir, Malaysia's former prime minister, called onto the nation to stop smokine, make it a non-smoking day. Thank you, Tun! I followed your advice.
There were a couple of incidences when I nearly started to smoke again. One was the death of my father and the guilt in me that I hadn't seen him for a longer while. I just started to work in Malaysia on a 2 year contract and didn't want to go back to Germany for my leave but instead took the chance to travel around Asia. I thought that after the two years, i would go back to Germany and see him again anyway. I never did. He died, after a long fight against Parkinson's disease.
The day my mother called to tell me that my father died was the day I wanted to smoke again. It didn't happen, thanks to my wife (I dated her at that time) and her "handholding" at that time.
The next time was when I actually had a big argument with my wife-to-be. I was so angry that I told her that I need a break to throw the remaining cigarettes (yes, I kept some spare, just in case!) away, otherwise, I would start to smoke again. When I came back, we had lost our the feeling for the fight, didn't know what the fight was about anymore, had a good laughter and moved on.
I still like the cigarette smoke, every now and then. And every now and then, I still feel the urge to smoke. I don't because I know that I wouldn't be able to control the habit and would be back to my 30 or 40 sticks in a day.
And no "Tak Nak" campaign would help me then!
I believe that hypnotherapy is one way to overcome addiction.
It is simply instilling new values, new beliefs into the system. I won against my addiction because I was able to change my behaviour and had a good fight for a different behaviour and strong, very strong willpower (hey - I am a German, okay?).
But behaviours operate at a lower level of your neurology and are often directed by values and beliefs. The subconscious belief that a cigarette helps to strengthen confidence is strong. It is entrenched deeply in the sub-conscious mind, more than the behaviour that consciously says cigarettes are bad for your health.
Values and beliefs influence behaviour but changes in behaviour are pretty much challenged to change values and beliefs - in fact, a changed behaviour might not influence beliefs at all if left at that.
Only "extreme" behavioural change is able to change values and beliefs - for example, a lot of my beliefs changed after I moved from Germany to Malaysia, thus even the environment is able to ultimately change behaviour and beliefs - but who is willing to change so dramatically to change values and beliefs? Strong group pressure is another possibility to change beliefs and then, following, values and beliefs.
Ultimately, it is easier to directly go into the belief system. A good hypnotherapist is able to identify those original secondary gains - e.g.; the need for confidence - that come with the consumption of cigarettes.
Once this gain is identified in an initial session, a certified practioner hypnotherapist can easily eliminate the habit and behaviour. Send me a mail - I am more than happy to help or coach you.
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Thursday, February 09, 2006
Positive Thoughts and positive attitude
Everybody talks about the importance of positive thoughts and a positive attitude. This surely is a better way of living than to be constantly dragged down by negativity.
Agree!
The challenge is two-fold, nevertheless.
Firstly, it is tough to stay positive in an environment that is negative. How to be positive when you are working in an office, for example, where people are constantly negatively inclined? Talk negatively about clients, about their colleagues, about their friends about their dog, about anything?
Secondly, we surely haven't been raised to think and behave positively. Everybody, or at least plenty of people, has been exposed to negativity throughout their life. Even those that attempt to live positively only mostly cover a sea of negativity with positive thoughts. Scrape deeper and you can find negativity.
Sad, but at least they are trying.
This is worthwhile an attempt - to live and breath positivity. Why? Well, ask yourself, are thoughts energy? Or, better, do they cause something in your body? Is there a link between body and mind, thoughts and body?
Sure there is. If you don't believe it, just think of the reaction of your body the moment you have some sexual fantasy. Really, I am serious! What is the reaction? I bet that even so you didn't "engage in any sexual activity" (I hope not, I hope you keep reading the entry), there was a reaction in your body.
Now this is a reaction to a sexual thought.
Think, what is happening when you have negative thoughts, feel anxious, nervous, lack of confidence, insecure or even hate, lack of passion, frustration, passion etc.
Now that is scary, Isn't it?
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Agree!
The challenge is two-fold, nevertheless.
Firstly, it is tough to stay positive in an environment that is negative. How to be positive when you are working in an office, for example, where people are constantly negatively inclined? Talk negatively about clients, about their colleagues, about their friends about their dog, about anything?
Secondly, we surely haven't been raised to think and behave positively. Everybody, or at least plenty of people, has been exposed to negativity throughout their life. Even those that attempt to live positively only mostly cover a sea of negativity with positive thoughts. Scrape deeper and you can find negativity.
Sad, but at least they are trying.
This is worthwhile an attempt - to live and breath positivity. Why? Well, ask yourself, are thoughts energy? Or, better, do they cause something in your body? Is there a link between body and mind, thoughts and body?
Sure there is. If you don't believe it, just think of the reaction of your body the moment you have some sexual fantasy. Really, I am serious! What is the reaction? I bet that even so you didn't "engage in any sexual activity" (I hope not, I hope you keep reading the entry), there was a reaction in your body.
Now this is a reaction to a sexual thought.
Think, what is happening when you have negative thoughts, feel anxious, nervous, lack of confidence, insecure or even hate, lack of passion, frustration, passion etc.
Now that is scary, Isn't it?
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Sunday, February 05, 2006
Bald heads and a positive attitude
Interesting statement from Selangor police chief Datuk Yahaya Udin, who commented about the head shaving of the 11 arrested men:
"We cut their hair as short as possible and sporting short hair reflects positive image."
Before, I was worried that I am getting bald only. Now I have the hope that I at least now, I am attaining a positive attitude naturally.
But seriously, I don't see the connection between short hair and positive image. What has one to do with the other? Is this clear as a statement to anyone? For those of you experienced in NLP, this is a clear violation of the Meta-Model. How language is put together to form a statement - and in doing so, expresses a belief system.
NLPler could ask: "Have you ever seen someone with long hair and a positive attitude?" Or, "Is it possible to have short hair and still have a bad attitude?"
Basically - to identify the deeper structures of the belief behind the earlier sentence. But, and this is interesting, when you go around listening to other people (which people?), it is easy to see that there are many, many statements around us that express similar beliefs.
Just thinking of my parents and what they liked to tell me: "If you listen to music that loud, it is clear that you become deaf soon." Got it?
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"We cut their hair as short as possible and sporting short hair reflects positive image."
Before, I was worried that I am getting bald only. Now I have the hope that I at least now, I am attaining a positive attitude naturally.
But seriously, I don't see the connection between short hair and positive image. What has one to do with the other? Is this clear as a statement to anyone? For those of you experienced in NLP, this is a clear violation of the Meta-Model. How language is put together to form a statement - and in doing so, expresses a belief system.
NLPler could ask: "Have you ever seen someone with long hair and a positive attitude?" Or, "Is it possible to have short hair and still have a bad attitude?"
Basically - to identify the deeper structures of the belief behind the earlier sentence. But, and this is interesting, when you go around listening to other people (which people?), it is easy to see that there are many, many statements around us that express similar beliefs.
Just thinking of my parents and what they liked to tell me: "If you listen to music that loud, it is clear that you become deaf soon." Got it?
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Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Meditation and science
Wired Magazine has quite an interesting article about the conflict between Western science on neurology and Eastern ways of approaching "brain science through meditation" (if I may say so).
Cause of the stir? The Dalai Lama's invitation to speak at the Society for Neuroscience's annual conference in front of 14,000 people and the worry of other participants that there is a "mix of science and religion."
He came because of the apparent alteration of the brain structure of monks that meditated tens of thousands of hours.
"Results suggested that, in the course of meditating for tens of thousands of hours, the monks had actually altered the structure and function of their brains."
I am not discussing the pro and con of the invitation. I believe that anything that enlightens the functioning of the brain and possibility to change brain functions is worthwhile pursuing.
Why are we afraid to change? Change is possible. Habits are changeable and beliefs created a long time ago inhibit us today in developing our capabilities. If there are ways to change those, our own limitations (and be assured, there are ways) , go for it.
Picture above taken from Wired Magazine's article: Buddha on the brain
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Monday, January 30, 2006
Coaching in 2006
Coaching is one of the best jobs to have, but only if you like to help people succeed in their own life by discovering their own resources.
It takes off in the US, but is not yet that common in Asia. The challenge for many is that it is easy to hang out a sign claiming to be a coach, as there are no educational requirement.
This coach here, yours truly, coaches with Neuro Linguistic Programming or NLP, Timeline and Hypnotherapy, all certified.
In addition, I had my good share in leading teams to success in the corporate world, and I am still heading a global project in the US$5 million range (which is a lot for a Malaysian company).
So, why not give it a trial? Let's talk - what have you got to lose?
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It takes off in the US, but is not yet that common in Asia. The challenge for many is that it is easy to hang out a sign claiming to be a coach, as there are no educational requirement.
This coach here, yours truly, coaches with Neuro Linguistic Programming or NLP, Timeline and Hypnotherapy, all certified.
In addition, I had my good share in leading teams to success in the corporate world, and I am still heading a global project in the US$5 million range (which is a lot for a Malaysian company).
So, why not give it a trial? Let's talk - what have you got to lose?
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Stars are born early - with the support of parents
How do you know that your child is on its way to become a star? Well, this discussion is always of interest. Is it better to have both parents around, do you trust your maid to take care of your children, is short but intensive quality time better than quantity time that is wasted in front of the TV? Or how beneficial is it to send your child from one tuition center to the next?
"The seeds of their success (the ones who became stars later on) were sown long before they started ninth grade. The survey results, based on 72% of the 378 winners responding, are telling in terms of their family lives:
• 94% said they grew up in homes with both a mother and a father.
• 57% of their fathers had doctorates, and 58% of their mothers had a master's degree or doctorate. More than 95% of the fathers and 91% of the mothers had at least a bachelor's degree, and 100% of the parents had at least a high school diploma.
• In 43% of the families, only one parent worked outside the home for the majority of the student's school years."
"What's most significant is the way parents live and demonstrate that they value education. In the survey, parental involvement/influence was rated "very important" to their high school success by 81% of the respondents — slightly more than "personal work ethic" (79%), "finding an activity I was passionate about" (77%) and "a great teacher or mentor" (74%)."
So, when was the last time you spent time with your children, guided them, taught them something and didn't just shut them up? In short, it is not just quantity that you need to spend but quality that you give.
In fact, as younger the children are, as more valuable you are as a parent, because, that is the time when you instill values, and beliefs and all. And you don't want this to be taken over by television, a maid, or a nursery teacher that also teaches 15 or 20 other children?
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"The seeds of their success (the ones who became stars later on) were sown long before they started ninth grade. The survey results, based on 72% of the 378 winners responding, are telling in terms of their family lives:
• 94% said they grew up in homes with both a mother and a father.
• 57% of their fathers had doctorates, and 58% of their mothers had a master's degree or doctorate. More than 95% of the fathers and 91% of the mothers had at least a bachelor's degree, and 100% of the parents had at least a high school diploma.
• In 43% of the families, only one parent worked outside the home for the majority of the student's school years."
"What's most significant is the way parents live and demonstrate that they value education. In the survey, parental involvement/influence was rated "very important" to their high school success by 81% of the respondents — slightly more than "personal work ethic" (79%), "finding an activity I was passionate about" (77%) and "a great teacher or mentor" (74%)."
So, when was the last time you spent time with your children, guided them, taught them something and didn't just shut them up? In short, it is not just quantity that you need to spend but quality that you give.
In fact, as younger the children are, as more valuable you are as a parent, because, that is the time when you instill values, and beliefs and all. And you don't want this to be taken over by television, a maid, or a nursery teacher that also teaches 15 or 20 other children?
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Saturday, January 14, 2006
If the world is full of opportunity ....
Ask yourself....
If the world is full of opportunities, and you have all the potential that there is how is it then possible that you end up with the same job, the same salary level, the same type of girlfriend or boyfriend or partner, the same problems and issues, the same frustrations, over and over and over again?
Are we limiting ourselves by running the same internal programs again and again and again? How often did you look back, sighing, to say, "yeah, I should have known", or "not again."
Isn't it time to review your life, identify the triggers that cause the repetition?
Isn't it high time for change?
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If the world is full of opportunities, and you have all the potential that there is how is it then possible that you end up with the same job, the same salary level, the same type of girlfriend or boyfriend or partner, the same problems and issues, the same frustrations, over and over and over again?
Are we limiting ourselves by running the same internal programs again and again and again? How often did you look back, sighing, to say, "yeah, I should have known", or "not again."
Isn't it time to review your life, identify the triggers that cause the repetition?
Isn't it high time for change?
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Monday, January 09, 2006
Miracle Questions
NLP has something that is called the miracle question.
And, following:
Or:
Think it through and then, think through what holds you back from acting as if there were no problems. Because, remember, problems are mostly created in our mind. When you look back in your life, how many times did insurmountable simply disappear because ... you just did what you needed to do.
To think "As If" also helps to stimulate your own creativity as it stimulates the neurology in your brain. Think about it!
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"Just imagine that tonight while you are asleep there is a miracle and the problems that haunt you currently suddenly disappear. What would be the first thing you noticed that would let you know the miracle had happened?"
And, following:
"Following the miracle that happened over night, what would you do differently in your life?"
Or:
"Imagine, you could not fail, that there is no failure in your endeavour. What would you do, how would you act?"
Think it through and then, think through what holds you back from acting as if there were no problems. Because, remember, problems are mostly created in our mind. When you look back in your life, how many times did insurmountable simply disappear because ... you just did what you needed to do.
To think "As If" also helps to stimulate your own creativity as it stimulates the neurology in your brain. Think about it!
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Sunday, January 08, 2006
Agatha Christie's hypnotic language
Hypnosis and the achievement of trance are fascinating topics. However, frequently, we are not aware of being put into trance or into a suggestible mode.
Drive on the road for a period of time and you will not realise that this is already creating a trance-induced state of mind. Watch TV for too long and the same is happening - you are in trance. What about the sleepiness after lunch? Nothing but a state close to trance as well.
In fact, it has been estimated that we go into trance every 90 minutes.
There was now an experiment carried out by scientists from universities in London, Birmingham and Warwick for an ITV1 documentary. These guys analysed more than 80 novels by Agatha Christie and found out that her phrases trigger a pleasure response which cause people to seek them out again and again. The study involved loading Christie's novels onto a computer and analysing her words, sentences and phrases.
One researcher said that "Christie's language patterns stimulate higher than usual activity in the brain."
"These phrases included "can you keep an eye on this", "more or less", "a day or two" and "something like that"." In addition, Agatha Christie also used a limited amount of words that made it easy to fully concentrate on her books without distraction - resulting of her being the most successful author of all times.
Hynosis works!
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Drive on the road for a period of time and you will not realise that this is already creating a trance-induced state of mind. Watch TV for too long and the same is happening - you are in trance. What about the sleepiness after lunch? Nothing but a state close to trance as well.
In fact, it has been estimated that we go into trance every 90 minutes.
There was now an experiment carried out by scientists from universities in London, Birmingham and Warwick for an ITV1 documentary. These guys analysed more than 80 novels by Agatha Christie and found out that her phrases trigger a pleasure response which cause people to seek them out again and again. The study involved loading Christie's novels onto a computer and analysing her words, sentences and phrases.
One researcher said that "Christie's language patterns stimulate higher than usual activity in the brain."
"These phrases included "can you keep an eye on this", "more or less", "a day or two" and "something like that"." In addition, Agatha Christie also used a limited amount of words that made it easy to fully concentrate on her books without distraction - resulting of her being the most successful author of all times.
Hynosis works!
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NLP - the AlwaysWoW! Way
NLP has been defined as the “Art and Science of Personal Excellence” –this is the shortest and most succinct definition that I found.
Another is that NLP is the “Structure of Subjective Experience”. Different people give different meanings to the same event and all experiences are filtered through our own values and beliefs. Simply put, what someone sees as bad and disturbing might not bother another person at all.
NLP’s tools and processes assist individuals and companies to create awareness and more choice in their environment. It provides the learning to develop potential and create success – or, even helps you to create your future. It does so by unpacking your own internal structure, beliefs and values and helps to recreate experiences from different points of view.
If you, for example, lack the confidence to face a situation, NLP is helping you to discover “confidence” in you, and creates the anchor that you can live and be “confident” whenever you want.
In short, it helps to discover internal resources that are needed to overcome challenges – in my speak: To create the WoW in Life.
AlwaysWoW! Consulting Sdn Bhd now offers business coaching and personal effectiveness with Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) – contact me for an initial coaching session.
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Another is that NLP is the “Structure of Subjective Experience”. Different people give different meanings to the same event and all experiences are filtered through our own values and beliefs. Simply put, what someone sees as bad and disturbing might not bother another person at all.
NLP’s tools and processes assist individuals and companies to create awareness and more choice in their environment. It provides the learning to develop potential and create success – or, even helps you to create your future. It does so by unpacking your own internal structure, beliefs and values and helps to recreate experiences from different points of view.
If you, for example, lack the confidence to face a situation, NLP is helping you to discover “confidence” in you, and creates the anchor that you can live and be “confident” whenever you want.
In short, it helps to discover internal resources that are needed to overcome challenges – in my speak: To create the WoW in Life.
AlwaysWoW! Consulting Sdn Bhd now offers business coaching and personal effectiveness with Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) – contact me for an initial coaching session.
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Friday, December 30, 2005
Why do New Year’s Resolutions fail?
Ah - this is the time of the year again, when everybody becomes melancholic. Another year past. Time for a new resolution. But stop! Do you remember those resolutions from last year? Did you succeed? If not, read on. May be there is a way to succeed and 2006 will be the year when you follow through on your resolutions.
Statements abound about this day, the 31st of December: “Another year has past.” “Now it is already 2006/” (no, another couple of hours to go!). “I am getting older, wiser, more matured.” “Nothing has changed.” “I will always be the same.” “Will something ever change?”
Does this sound familiar to you? How come we carry those beliefs? How come some things never change? Oh – this is wrong. This change, but are you a part of it? This sounds better!
Let’s see, where we can start?
Let’s start with January 1st, 2005. Have you taken a look back at the beginning of 2005? With what kind of goals did you set out to “conquer” this year? Stop smoking? Lose weight? Change job? Fall in love? Get married? Get divorced? Get a better life?
How much have you achieved? How long did the resolution last? Till the end of January? February? When did you give up and why?
Oh, so many questions!
There is however, a way to make those solutions last. Really, believe me! It is easy to just say the sentence “I want to …” (fill in the blanks with whatever your goal is). Things then change already – a tiny little bit. Because, you create awareness in your mind that you want to change, but oh, oh, oh, old habits die hard.
So more is needed. Writing down the goal is another possibility. You need to know that problems cannot be solved, if there is no outcome!
Ah – there it is - your goal. Nicely written. But hey – write it in positive words, since the mind doesn't understand negatively formulated statements.
Don’t write: “I want to lose weight” or “I want to stop smoking”. Write, for example: "I want to live a healthier and happy life.” This may sound funny, but is needed.
What else to do? Well, the easiest way to start is actually to start with the end in mind – sounds like Steven Covey and the 7 Habits, right?
And right he is. Start imagining, as vividly as possible, what will happen with your goal achieved. Really, as vividly as possible. Where do you want to be in the end of 2006, what you want to do, how you will look like with your goal in mind. In which environment do you operate, what behaviours will you exhibit. How you want to be like. See, what kind of capabilities you need to do so. Play a movie in your mind! What kind of person will you be, when you achieved the goal, what is the effect on you, your environment – yeah, think of this as well! If you want this promotion and you finally reached the goal, what will it do to your personal life, to your family? To you? Write it down, if you want. Your very own script!
Another very short example: You want to lose weight? See yourself in the slim body. Go into this body (associate with it – this is important!)! See yourself buying different type of clothes. Hear how people compliment you. Feel great inside. Wow, this can feel good, really.
Now, the harder part is coming. You need to work on the behaviour. Write down, what you need to do – going to the gym, eating lesser and so on. Write a program, month by month - milestones. Write a goal, for every month, how much you want to get your weight down. Don’t forget to celebrate yourself – the rewards. What will you get, when you achieved or exceeded your milestones. Be aware that you won’t always achieve them, because your body also need adjustment, your mind needs adjustment. That then is the time when you can get back to your script, to your written down goal as well - to reconfirm.
And while you write down those actionsteps, be as specific as possible. Yeah, I know, it is work, but hey – you want to change, right? Otherwise, you wouldn’t have read so far down already?
Now, a tougher part. Everything we currently do is a habit, a program, running in our mind. So we eat too much because somehow, we have conditioned us to do so. Like, for example, cigarette smoking. You smoke, because …. you believe it looks cool, makes you confident, makes it easier to approach the opposite sex. Like that. You need to work on this. What else can you do to become more confident, instead of smoking? How else can you approach this beautiful girl over there? These are the substituting capabilities that are needed in order break this habit of smoking, eating and so on. Ask your friends, to help you. Check with your family, as support.
You will need them anyway, because along the year, there will be a time when you want to give up, when nothing moves in the direction, so then you need support (you can also send an e-mail to me, by the way, and we work on it!). And, again, read your script.
Are you ready to go for it? Really? Tell me about it, I would be honoured. Or, otherwise, I see you in December 2006.
Happy and Prosperous New Year 2006
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Statements abound about this day, the 31st of December: “Another year has past.” “Now it is already 2006/” (no, another couple of hours to go!). “I am getting older, wiser, more matured.” “Nothing has changed.” “I will always be the same.” “Will something ever change?”
Does this sound familiar to you? How come we carry those beliefs? How come some things never change? Oh – this is wrong. This change, but are you a part of it? This sounds better!
Let’s see, where we can start?
Let’s start with January 1st, 2005. Have you taken a look back at the beginning of 2005? With what kind of goals did you set out to “conquer” this year? Stop smoking? Lose weight? Change job? Fall in love? Get married? Get divorced? Get a better life?
How much have you achieved? How long did the resolution last? Till the end of January? February? When did you give up and why?
Oh, so many questions!
There is however, a way to make those solutions last. Really, believe me! It is easy to just say the sentence “I want to …” (fill in the blanks with whatever your goal is). Things then change already – a tiny little bit. Because, you create awareness in your mind that you want to change, but oh, oh, oh, old habits die hard.
So more is needed. Writing down the goal is another possibility. You need to know that problems cannot be solved, if there is no outcome!
Ah – there it is - your goal. Nicely written. But hey – write it in positive words, since the mind doesn't understand negatively formulated statements.
Don’t write: “I want to lose weight” or “I want to stop smoking”. Write, for example: "I want to live a healthier and happy life.” This may sound funny, but is needed.
What else to do? Well, the easiest way to start is actually to start with the end in mind – sounds like Steven Covey and the 7 Habits, right?
And right he is. Start imagining, as vividly as possible, what will happen with your goal achieved. Really, as vividly as possible. Where do you want to be in the end of 2006, what you want to do, how you will look like with your goal in mind. In which environment do you operate, what behaviours will you exhibit. How you want to be like. See, what kind of capabilities you need to do so. Play a movie in your mind! What kind of person will you be, when you achieved the goal, what is the effect on you, your environment – yeah, think of this as well! If you want this promotion and you finally reached the goal, what will it do to your personal life, to your family? To you? Write it down, if you want. Your very own script!
Another very short example: You want to lose weight? See yourself in the slim body. Go into this body (associate with it – this is important!)! See yourself buying different type of clothes. Hear how people compliment you. Feel great inside. Wow, this can feel good, really.
Now, the harder part is coming. You need to work on the behaviour. Write down, what you need to do – going to the gym, eating lesser and so on. Write a program, month by month - milestones. Write a goal, for every month, how much you want to get your weight down. Don’t forget to celebrate yourself – the rewards. What will you get, when you achieved or exceeded your milestones. Be aware that you won’t always achieve them, because your body also need adjustment, your mind needs adjustment. That then is the time when you can get back to your script, to your written down goal as well - to reconfirm.
And while you write down those actionsteps, be as specific as possible. Yeah, I know, it is work, but hey – you want to change, right? Otherwise, you wouldn’t have read so far down already?
Now, a tougher part. Everything we currently do is a habit, a program, running in our mind. So we eat too much because somehow, we have conditioned us to do so. Like, for example, cigarette smoking. You smoke, because …. you believe it looks cool, makes you confident, makes it easier to approach the opposite sex. Like that. You need to work on this. What else can you do to become more confident, instead of smoking? How else can you approach this beautiful girl over there? These are the substituting capabilities that are needed in order break this habit of smoking, eating and so on. Ask your friends, to help you. Check with your family, as support.
You will need them anyway, because along the year, there will be a time when you want to give up, when nothing moves in the direction, so then you need support (you can also send an e-mail to me, by the way, and we work on it!). And, again, read your script.
Are you ready to go for it? Really? Tell me about it, I would be honoured. Or, otherwise, I see you in December 2006.
Happy and Prosperous New Year 2006
(NLP in Asia)
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Thursday, December 29, 2005
Feeling uncomfortable
I realised this recently. If there is stress in my workplace - either too many e-mails demanding my attention immediately, my client constantly checking for report delivery, my boss coming in to ask something deemed important.
When is this happening? Mostly on Monday's - when there are an accummulated 300 new emails in my inbox when I arrive in the office at 8.00 AM. That is a lot, it feels like a huge tidal wave. On a normal day, there are "only" about 70 new e-mails in the in-box in the morning. And they keep coming in.
Usually, the only break without new e-mails is from about 12.00 noon to about 3.00 PM, when the flood of e-mails returns.
What is happening is that there is this growing feeling of discomfort in me.
Somewhere inside my stomach. It causes my work gringe to a hold. I want to run away, and most of the time, I do this by making a coffee. One more coffee on top of the many that I drink anyway, but this is a different story.
To give the feeling a name, you can call it panic, stress, distress and I believe that many of my readers are aware of this.
After the coffee has been done, the world comes back to normal and I work the work, run the treadmill, respond, write and be cool.
Recently, I was in this Indian foodstall close to The Curve. The place was packed with patrons, but the stall was undermanned. Shouts from everywhere for drinks, food, cleaning the table etc.
Some of the waiters working there looked stressed and acted stressful. No place to run there. Others were cool, just working the tables.
I saw the similarities - between them and me and realised that things don't change.
Wherever you are, whatever you do - there are situations that causes a feeling of discomfort, make your feel uncomfortable. Be it a waiter in a restaurant who is called on many duties at once, or the knowledge worker (yours Truly), whose attention is demanding from many different sources at once as well.
That is when I realised something.
I realised that every time our world is stretched, change is ongoing, we are growing into zones that are new to us, we are feeling this feeling. It is a scream to a world of "normality".
That easy. Something is pullinng you back to your own zone, the one you know, you can handle, no stress.
That was a great realisation because now, with this new learning, I can enjoy the stress better. And every time I feel stressed, and this feeling of discomfort comes, I know that my world is expanding, I am learning, I am growing mentally. In fact, it makes me feel alive.
Isn't this what counts?
And off I go, since I have to finish this report today, otherwise, my client is very angry, very worried, very stressed. What could be his learning?
(NLP in Asia)
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When is this happening? Mostly on Monday's - when there are an accummulated 300 new emails in my inbox when I arrive in the office at 8.00 AM. That is a lot, it feels like a huge tidal wave. On a normal day, there are "only" about 70 new e-mails in the in-box in the morning. And they keep coming in.
Usually, the only break without new e-mails is from about 12.00 noon to about 3.00 PM, when the flood of e-mails returns.
What is happening is that there is this growing feeling of discomfort in me.
Somewhere inside my stomach. It causes my work gringe to a hold. I want to run away, and most of the time, I do this by making a coffee. One more coffee on top of the many that I drink anyway, but this is a different story.
To give the feeling a name, you can call it panic, stress, distress and I believe that many of my readers are aware of this.
After the coffee has been done, the world comes back to normal and I work the work, run the treadmill, respond, write and be cool.
Recently, I was in this Indian foodstall close to The Curve. The place was packed with patrons, but the stall was undermanned. Shouts from everywhere for drinks, food, cleaning the table etc.
Some of the waiters working there looked stressed and acted stressful. No place to run there. Others were cool, just working the tables.
I saw the similarities - between them and me and realised that things don't change.
Wherever you are, whatever you do - there are situations that causes a feeling of discomfort, make your feel uncomfortable. Be it a waiter in a restaurant who is called on many duties at once, or the knowledge worker (yours Truly), whose attention is demanding from many different sources at once as well.
That is when I realised something.
I realised that every time our world is stretched, change is ongoing, we are growing into zones that are new to us, we are feeling this feeling. It is a scream to a world of "normality".
That easy. Something is pullinng you back to your own zone, the one you know, you can handle, no stress.
That was a great realisation because now, with this new learning, I can enjoy the stress better. And every time I feel stressed, and this feeling of discomfort comes, I know that my world is expanding, I am learning, I am growing mentally. In fact, it makes me feel alive.
Isn't this what counts?
And off I go, since I have to finish this report today, otherwise, my client is very angry, very worried, very stressed. What could be his learning?
(NLP in Asia)
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Monday, December 26, 2005
Hypnosis and weight loss
How many of us struggle with weight issues, for whatever reasons. How many times to we embark on a diet, succeed for a short while, to just fall back to the old levels after we stop dieting. How often do we look into the mirror and sigh with a longing for less weight.
Just read this:
"A year ago, Malcolm weighed 22 stone/140 Kilos and considered himself “obese.” Today, 12 months on from attending Richard Krijgsman’s Hypnotic Slimming Seminar in London, he is healthy, physically active and still maintaining his ideal weight. "
It is possible and hypnosis can help tremendously to keep weight down. However, please be aware that there are reasons why the subconscious mind reacts in certain ways. If you are overweight, your subconscious mind believed, at one point of time, that it is good to eat more, to put on weigth. It only didn't realise that this period is over, that this "protection" is no longer needed.
It is still possible that there is a gain in eating more or being overweight. This is what is called secondary gain in NLP. What are the gains in something that is perceived negatively. For example, when you smoke, it can be that you also feel more confident with the cigarettes around.
Only if there is a solution, a compensation to the secondary gain will it be possible to really solve the issue - once and for all.
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Just read this:
"A year ago, Malcolm weighed 22 stone/140 Kilos and considered himself “obese.” Today, 12 months on from attending Richard Krijgsman’s Hypnotic Slimming Seminar in London, he is healthy, physically active and still maintaining his ideal weight. "
It is possible and hypnosis can help tremendously to keep weight down. However, please be aware that there are reasons why the subconscious mind reacts in certain ways. If you are overweight, your subconscious mind believed, at one point of time, that it is good to eat more, to put on weigth. It only didn't realise that this period is over, that this "protection" is no longer needed.
It is still possible that there is a gain in eating more or being overweight. This is what is called secondary gain in NLP. What are the gains in something that is perceived negatively. For example, when you smoke, it can be that you also feel more confident with the cigarettes around.
Only if there is a solution, a compensation to the secondary gain will it be possible to really solve the issue - once and for all.
(NLP in Asia)
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Sunday, December 25, 2005
Business success with coaching
I just found these data:
"In a study by Manchester Consulting in 2002, year-long Executive Business Coaching had a 5.7 times Return on Investment (ROI). After receiving Executive Coaching, business executives, each were surveyed about the benefits they believe resulted from Coaching.
Executives reported increased satisfaction in the following areas:
Working relationships with direct reports (77%)
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"In a study by Manchester Consulting in 2002, year-long Executive Business Coaching had a 5.7 times Return on Investment (ROI). After receiving Executive Coaching, business executives, each were surveyed about the benefits they believe resulted from Coaching.
Executives reported increased satisfaction in the following areas:
Working relationships with direct reports (77%)
- Working relationships with immediate supervisors (71%)
- Teamwork (67%)
- Working relationships with peers (63%)
- Job satisfaction (61%)
- Conflict reduction (52%)
- Organizational commitment (44%)
- Working relationships with clients (37%)"
Do you believe that coaching works? At all levels? In every part of your life? If you don't believe in it, why is this so? And, why shouldn't it work? It works in sport, right? So it can work in companies and in personal life as well!
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Thursday, December 22, 2005
Anchoring for better preparation for an interview
One of my colleagues is an Indian national. As part of his job, he is now going to the US to work in a different office of my employer.
In order to do so, he needs to have a visa for the US, and the visa is only granted after an interview with the US embassy. The objective of the interview is to see if he is a "suitable candidate" for the US, and to determine that he doesn't want to stay (he doesn't, but he needs to convey that message).
The "scary part" is that they might send him back to India to apply with the embassy in his hometown. There is a huge waiting list in India for this interview and we are working on the premises that he goes to the US in early January.
So yeah, he is nervous, very nervous. And he wants to be calm and confident. NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) is very much made for this "kind of things" (or any other "state). It helps you to develop a great mindset, a State, that allows one to be calm and confident at the time when it is required.
I had a coaching session with him yesterday. Something very easy, and it only took 45 minutes. It is called resource anchoring in NLP, but whatever it is, the work is done by him. He needed to find the resources inside of him to know that he is confident and calm. All I have to do is leading the process, asking the questions and be there.
It is all inside of us, remember? It doesn't bring you much to hear a lecture from others on how they would do it!)
My boss, just before we went for the session, saw him and also talked to him - about being calm and confident. She said, there is nothing to worry about (already the wrong words), that he is calm and confident anyway (but well, that is in "normal situations") and all. It is easy to talk to people like this, but how many can hold onto this when it is required? That is the downside of motivational talks - it only holds for so long, until you are in the situation.
So yes - we went through the process. As said, it took 45 minutes. he anchored the feelings in his fiest, and now, repeats the feeling or state of confidence and calmness every now and then.
Today, we are going for the next session - to set the state even deeper into him - to enable him to carry the feeling with him, and get it, whenever he needs it. And tomorrow we have another session. And before he goes for the interview, I just use hypnosis to really get the state of confidence and calmness into his subconsciousness.
This is fun, and real beneficial for him as well.
(NLP in Asia)
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In order to do so, he needs to have a visa for the US, and the visa is only granted after an interview with the US embassy. The objective of the interview is to see if he is a "suitable candidate" for the US, and to determine that he doesn't want to stay (he doesn't, but he needs to convey that message).
The "scary part" is that they might send him back to India to apply with the embassy in his hometown. There is a huge waiting list in India for this interview and we are working on the premises that he goes to the US in early January.
So yeah, he is nervous, very nervous. And he wants to be calm and confident. NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) is very much made for this "kind of things" (or any other "state). It helps you to develop a great mindset, a State, that allows one to be calm and confident at the time when it is required.
I had a coaching session with him yesterday. Something very easy, and it only took 45 minutes. It is called resource anchoring in NLP, but whatever it is, the work is done by him. He needed to find the resources inside of him to know that he is confident and calm. All I have to do is leading the process, asking the questions and be there.
It is all inside of us, remember? It doesn't bring you much to hear a lecture from others on how they would do it!)
My boss, just before we went for the session, saw him and also talked to him - about being calm and confident. She said, there is nothing to worry about (already the wrong words), that he is calm and confident anyway (but well, that is in "normal situations") and all. It is easy to talk to people like this, but how many can hold onto this when it is required? That is the downside of motivational talks - it only holds for so long, until you are in the situation.
So yes - we went through the process. As said, it took 45 minutes. he anchored the feelings in his fiest, and now, repeats the feeling or state of confidence and calmness every now and then.
Today, we are going for the next session - to set the state even deeper into him - to enable him to carry the feeling with him, and get it, whenever he needs it. And tomorrow we have another session. And before he goes for the interview, I just use hypnosis to really get the state of confidence and calmness into his subconsciousness.
This is fun, and real beneficial for him as well.
(NLP in Asia)
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mind
personal change
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
17 hour days and no slacking
Currently, I am probably working 17 hour days - of which about 13-14 hours are spend in the office. This is the hardest part of my current life in a new company and I am really proud of how I manage it.
Long streneous days and evenings. The longing to go home, when it gets dark out there, and the lights of the towers in Kuala Lumpur. To see the traffic on the road and know that there are people who are ready to go home.
Sighing and back to the computer in front of me. But, and that is great, I am not tired. We, my team and I battle deadlines.
Still, the concentration is there and the unbeatable confidence that all will be okay!
This is my current WoW factor. Nothing slacks at work, no reduction in the energy level - I am simply not tired. Going, going, on, on - the team and I need to finish a LOT before Christmas.
Coming home, I am still able to read my books, play with my kid (if he didn't fall asleep in the car or is asleep at home already) and even watch a movie every now and then.
Then I sleep like a stone, for a couple of hours, before the day starts again.
What is the great part?
It works - the energy is there, the power to make things happen, the concentration, the mood change to positive when I am down, tired and frustrated.
It is called state management in NLP (neuro-linguistic programming). This simply is a process (learnt in my courses) to generate the resources needed whenever I need them. I am utilising this to the fullest. Powerful and fun, because I never knew that it is there!!
(NLP in Asia)
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Long streneous days and evenings. The longing to go home, when it gets dark out there, and the lights of the towers in Kuala Lumpur. To see the traffic on the road and know that there are people who are ready to go home.
Sighing and back to the computer in front of me. But, and that is great, I am not tired. We, my team and I battle deadlines.
Still, the concentration is there and the unbeatable confidence that all will be okay!
This is my current WoW factor. Nothing slacks at work, no reduction in the energy level - I am simply not tired. Going, going, on, on - the team and I need to finish a LOT before Christmas.
Coming home, I am still able to read my books, play with my kid (if he didn't fall asleep in the car or is asleep at home already) and even watch a movie every now and then.
Then I sleep like a stone, for a couple of hours, before the day starts again.
What is the great part?
It works - the energy is there, the power to make things happen, the concentration, the mood change to positive when I am down, tired and frustrated.
It is called state management in NLP (neuro-linguistic programming). This simply is a process (learnt in my courses) to generate the resources needed whenever I need them. I am utilising this to the fullest. Powerful and fun, because I never knew that it is there!!
(NLP in Asia)
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Friday, December 09, 2005
Recognising hypnosis
Hypnosis is still seen, by many, with suspicion. Too much reporting about those who go around and tricking you of your ATM machine card or even used hypnosis for bank robberies.
Now, hypnosis gains new respect. In medicine and in psychological treatments.
The linked article is lengthy, but worthwhile a read:
At the snap of my fingers
December 3, 2005Page 1 of 2
The science - or art - of hypnosis is gaining new respect from scientists, writes Sandra Blakeslee.
Hypnosis, with its long and chequered history in medicine and entertainment, is receiving some respect from neuroscientists.
Recent brain studies of people who are susceptible to suggestion indicate that when they act on the suggestions their brains show profound changes in how they process information. The suggestions, researchers report, change what people see, hear, feel and believe to be true.
The experiments, which used brain imaging, found that people who were hypnotised "saw" colours where there were none. Others lost the ability to make simple decisions. Some people looked at common English words and thought they were gibberish.
"The idea that perceptions can be manipulated by expectations" is fundamental to the study of cognition, said Michael Posner, an emeritus professor of neuroscience at the University of Oregon and expert on attention. "But now we're really getting at the mechanisms."
Even with little understanding of how it works, hypnosis has been used in medicine since the 1950s to treat pain and, more recently, as a treatment for depression, trauma, irritable bowel syndrome and eating disorders.
There is, however, still disagreement about what exactly the hypnotic state is, or whether it is anything more than an effort to please the hypnotist or a natural form of extreme concentration where people become oblivious to surroundings.
Hypnosis had a false start in the 18th century when a German physician, Dr Franz Mesmer, devised a miraculous cure for people suffering unexplained medical problems. Amid dim lights and ethereal music played on a glass harmonica, he infused them with an invisible "magnetic fluid" that only he was able to muster. Thus mesmerised, clients were cured. Although Mesmer was eventually discredited, he was the first to show the mind could be manipulated by suggestion to affect the body, historians say. This central finding was resurrected by DrJames Braid, an English ophthalmologist who in 1842 coined the word "hypnosis" after the Greek word for sleep.
Braid reportedly put people into trances by staring at them intently, but he did not have a clue as to how it worked. In this vacuum, hypnosis was adopted by spiritualists and stage magicians who used dangling gold watches to induce hypnotic states in volunteers from the audience.
In medical hands, hypnosis was no laughing matter. In the 19th century, physicians in India successfully used hypnosis as anesthesia, even for limb amputations. The practice fell from favour when ether was discovered.
Now, Posner and others say, research on hypnosis and suggestion is providing a new view into the cogs and wheels of normal brain function.
One area that it may have illuminated is the processing of sensory data. Information from the eyes, ears and body is carried to primary sensory regions in the brain. From there, it is carried to so-called higher regions where interpretation occurs.
For example, photons bouncing off a flower first reach the eye, where they are turned into a pattern that is sent to the primary visual cortex. There, the rough shape of the flower is recognised. The pattern is next sent to a higher - in terms of function - region, where colour is recognised, and then to a higher region, where the flower's identity is encoded along with other knowledge about the particular bloom.
The same processing stream, from lower to higher regions, exists for sounds, touch and other sensory information. Researchers call this direction of flow "feedforward". As raw sensory data is carried to a part of the brain that creates a comprehensible, conscious impression, the data is moving from bottom to top.
Bundles of nerve cells dedicated to each sense carry sensory information. The surprise is the amount of traffic the other way, from top to bottom. There are 10 times as many nerve fibres carrying information down as there are carrying it up. These extensive feedback circuits mean that consciousness, what people see, hear, feel and believe, is based on what neuroscientists call "top down processing."
What you see is not always what you get, because what you see depends on a framework built by experience that stands ready to interpret the raw information - as a flower or a hammer or a face.
The top-down structure explains a lot. If the construction of reality has so much top-down processing, that would make sense of the powers of placebos (a sugar pill will make you feel better), nocebos (a witch doctor will make you ill), talk therapy and meditation. If the top is convinced, the bottom level of data will be overruled. This brain structure would also explain hypnosis, which is all about creating such formidable top-down processing that suggestions overcome reality.
According to decades of research, 10 to 15 per cent of adults are highly hypnotisable, said Dr David Spiegel, a psychiatrist at Stanford who studies the clinical uses of hypnosis. Up to age 12, however, before top-down circuits mature, 80 to 85 per cent of children are highly hypnotisable. One adult in five is flat out resistant to hypnosis, Spiegel said. The rest are in between, he said.
A number of recent studies of brain imaging point to top-down brain mechanisms under the influence of suggestion. Highly hypnotisable people were able to "drain" colour from a colorful abstract drawing or "add" colour to the same drawing rendered in grey tones. In each case, the parts of their brains involved in colour perception were differently activated.
Brain scans show the control mechanisms for deciding what to do in the face of conflict become uncoupled when people are hypnotised.
Top-down processes override sensory, or bottom-up information, says Dr Stephen Kosslyn, a neuroscientist at Harvard. People think sights, sounds and touch from the outside world constitute reality. But the brain constructs what it perceives based on past experience, Kosslyn says.
Most of the time bottom-up information matches top-down expectation, Spiegel says. But hypnosis is interesting because it creates a mismatch. "We imagine something different, so it is different," he said.
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Now, hypnosis gains new respect. In medicine and in psychological treatments.
The linked article is lengthy, but worthwhile a read:
At the snap of my fingers
December 3, 2005Page 1 of 2
The science - or art - of hypnosis is gaining new respect from scientists, writes Sandra Blakeslee.
Hypnosis, with its long and chequered history in medicine and entertainment, is receiving some respect from neuroscientists.
Recent brain studies of people who are susceptible to suggestion indicate that when they act on the suggestions their brains show profound changes in how they process information. The suggestions, researchers report, change what people see, hear, feel and believe to be true.
The experiments, which used brain imaging, found that people who were hypnotised "saw" colours where there were none. Others lost the ability to make simple decisions. Some people looked at common English words and thought they were gibberish.
"The idea that perceptions can be manipulated by expectations" is fundamental to the study of cognition, said Michael Posner, an emeritus professor of neuroscience at the University of Oregon and expert on attention. "But now we're really getting at the mechanisms."
Even with little understanding of how it works, hypnosis has been used in medicine since the 1950s to treat pain and, more recently, as a treatment for depression, trauma, irritable bowel syndrome and eating disorders.
There is, however, still disagreement about what exactly the hypnotic state is, or whether it is anything more than an effort to please the hypnotist or a natural form of extreme concentration where people become oblivious to surroundings.
Hypnosis had a false start in the 18th century when a German physician, Dr Franz Mesmer, devised a miraculous cure for people suffering unexplained medical problems. Amid dim lights and ethereal music played on a glass harmonica, he infused them with an invisible "magnetic fluid" that only he was able to muster. Thus mesmerised, clients were cured. Although Mesmer was eventually discredited, he was the first to show the mind could be manipulated by suggestion to affect the body, historians say. This central finding was resurrected by DrJames Braid, an English ophthalmologist who in 1842 coined the word "hypnosis" after the Greek word for sleep.
Braid reportedly put people into trances by staring at them intently, but he did not have a clue as to how it worked. In this vacuum, hypnosis was adopted by spiritualists and stage magicians who used dangling gold watches to induce hypnotic states in volunteers from the audience.
In medical hands, hypnosis was no laughing matter. In the 19th century, physicians in India successfully used hypnosis as anesthesia, even for limb amputations. The practice fell from favour when ether was discovered.
Now, Posner and others say, research on hypnosis and suggestion is providing a new view into the cogs and wheels of normal brain function.
One area that it may have illuminated is the processing of sensory data. Information from the eyes, ears and body is carried to primary sensory regions in the brain. From there, it is carried to so-called higher regions where interpretation occurs.
For example, photons bouncing off a flower first reach the eye, where they are turned into a pattern that is sent to the primary visual cortex. There, the rough shape of the flower is recognised. The pattern is next sent to a higher - in terms of function - region, where colour is recognised, and then to a higher region, where the flower's identity is encoded along with other knowledge about the particular bloom.
The same processing stream, from lower to higher regions, exists for sounds, touch and other sensory information. Researchers call this direction of flow "feedforward". As raw sensory data is carried to a part of the brain that creates a comprehensible, conscious impression, the data is moving from bottom to top.
Bundles of nerve cells dedicated to each sense carry sensory information. The surprise is the amount of traffic the other way, from top to bottom. There are 10 times as many nerve fibres carrying information down as there are carrying it up. These extensive feedback circuits mean that consciousness, what people see, hear, feel and believe, is based on what neuroscientists call "top down processing."
What you see is not always what you get, because what you see depends on a framework built by experience that stands ready to interpret the raw information - as a flower or a hammer or a face.
The top-down structure explains a lot. If the construction of reality has so much top-down processing, that would make sense of the powers of placebos (a sugar pill will make you feel better), nocebos (a witch doctor will make you ill), talk therapy and meditation. If the top is convinced, the bottom level of data will be overruled. This brain structure would also explain hypnosis, which is all about creating such formidable top-down processing that suggestions overcome reality.
According to decades of research, 10 to 15 per cent of adults are highly hypnotisable, said Dr David Spiegel, a psychiatrist at Stanford who studies the clinical uses of hypnosis. Up to age 12, however, before top-down circuits mature, 80 to 85 per cent of children are highly hypnotisable. One adult in five is flat out resistant to hypnosis, Spiegel said. The rest are in between, he said.
A number of recent studies of brain imaging point to top-down brain mechanisms under the influence of suggestion. Highly hypnotisable people were able to "drain" colour from a colorful abstract drawing or "add" colour to the same drawing rendered in grey tones. In each case, the parts of their brains involved in colour perception were differently activated.
Brain scans show the control mechanisms for deciding what to do in the face of conflict become uncoupled when people are hypnotised.
Top-down processes override sensory, or bottom-up information, says Dr Stephen Kosslyn, a neuroscientist at Harvard. People think sights, sounds and touch from the outside world constitute reality. But the brain constructs what it perceives based on past experience, Kosslyn says.
Most of the time bottom-up information matches top-down expectation, Spiegel says. But hypnosis is interesting because it creates a mismatch. "We imagine something different, so it is different," he said.
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Thursday, December 01, 2005
When values become too earthly
The linked article is actually quite sad.
A young guy defends his girlfriend and is slashed by two attackers. He dies in the hospital and late treatment of his wounds might have contributed a lot to his early death.
Hospitals in Malaysia frequently demand payments before treatment and this was the case here. Rules were followed, and only after intervention of the father was the youth treated. He died because this treatment came too late.
If values would have been in place, monetary considerations would have taken a backseat. It didn't happen and this is the sad part of the story. But then, I am judging from my side of the map. The side of the hospital has not yet been heard. The person who was in judge hasn't mention his or her opinion. Still, the feeling of sadness is nevertheless appropriate.
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A young guy defends his girlfriend and is slashed by two attackers. He dies in the hospital and late treatment of his wounds might have contributed a lot to his early death.
Hospitals in Malaysia frequently demand payments before treatment and this was the case here. Rules were followed, and only after intervention of the father was the youth treated. He died because this treatment came too late.
If values would have been in place, monetary considerations would have taken a backseat. It didn't happen and this is the sad part of the story. But then, I am judging from my side of the map. The side of the hospital has not yet been heard. The person who was in judge hasn't mention his or her opinion. Still, the feeling of sadness is nevertheless appropriate.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Malaysian Airlines System continues to lose money
This is frustrating for the Malaysian government. The flagship, Malaysian Airlines, or MAS, continues to lose money. Months, after months, quarter, after quarter, and year after year. Hardly any quarter passes without articles in the newspapers decrying the fact that once again, the company lost money.
Sure, there was the oilprice increase and may be the company didn't hedge their funds earlier. Sure, there is the hope that a new boss, Mr. Idris Jala, will manage a turnaround.
Still, there is one thing that needs to be considered. The morale of the employees is down. How would anybody feel, if their company loses money, again and again, is battered in the newspapers, and blamed for bad policies in the public. Their morale is down and their value system, their alignment to the corporate vision is damaged. They don't belief in the company anymore and what the company was standing for earlier.
What is needed is a major work on their beliefs, to reinstate their values and align their own identity with the mission of the carrier.
Is leadership enough? Sure, it is a start, but what is needed is the buy-in from many, many corporate chieftains to carry the mission and assist their "boss" to recreate the values and beliefs. Only then, I believe, will MAS have a worthwhile future.
A challenge ahead, but this is what is needed!
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Sure, there was the oilprice increase and may be the company didn't hedge their funds earlier. Sure, there is the hope that a new boss, Mr. Idris Jala, will manage a turnaround.
Still, there is one thing that needs to be considered. The morale of the employees is down. How would anybody feel, if their company loses money, again and again, is battered in the newspapers, and blamed for bad policies in the public. Their morale is down and their value system, their alignment to the corporate vision is damaged. They don't belief in the company anymore and what the company was standing for earlier.
What is needed is a major work on their beliefs, to reinstate their values and align their own identity with the mission of the carrier.
Is leadership enough? Sure, it is a start, but what is needed is the buy-in from many, many corporate chieftains to carry the mission and assist their "boss" to recreate the values and beliefs. Only then, I believe, will MAS have a worthwhile future.
A challenge ahead, but this is what is needed!
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Monday, November 28, 2005
Hypnosis on the highway
Do you know that it is easy to go in trance and be hynothised? Even more, do you know that the subconscious mind is pretty heavily involved in your daily life - basically any time you do more than 2 actions at once? Ha - this might be new to many.
So don't wonder that driving is putting you into hypnotic state as well. Especially when you drive on a highway, nicely and rythmic. Suddenly, wooms, you kind of wake up because a motorocycle roars by, or an animal quickly crossed the street.
Read the article to know a bit more about highway hypnosis and what to do to overcome it!
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So don't wonder that driving is putting you into hypnotic state as well. Especially when you drive on a highway, nicely and rythmic. Suddenly, wooms, you kind of wake up because a motorocycle roars by, or an animal quickly crossed the street.
Read the article to know a bit more about highway hypnosis and what to do to overcome it!
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Sunday, November 27, 2005
Asian terrorist a master hypnotist?
I was always wondering what kind of belief system is really driving suicide bombers. Religeous beliefs is one thing of course, but to blow yourself up is pretty heavy.
Now, an Australian newspaper publishes an article that suggests that one of the top terrorists in the region, Noordin Top, is using "hypnosis to elude capture and recruit more suicide bombers."
It is possible, that is sure. It is also possible that the so-called sleeper cells in other countries are pre-programmed to operate as suicide bombers at a given command. It is possible for the hypnosist to instill commands in the person that can be activated at a later stage. This is done during the hypnosis process with the intention to shorten the induction cycle for the next session. Normally, it can take a while for someone to go into hypnotic stage and in order to shorten the cycle, the hypnotherapist might instill a command that shortens the timeframe. This is simply more effective for both sides. Normally, a person can only be hynothised when the will to be hypnothised is there. A positive attitude. In the sense of the article, it is possible that Noordin instilled the secondary command without the knowledge of the persons - an awful intention!
To misuse hypnosis in such a manner is simply awful, because in itself, hypnosis in itself is a powerful tool to change limited beliefs into more powerful resources. Imagine what good you can do with hypnosis. Things like more confidence, to stop smoking, lose weight, and so on - all possible, but only if the person really wants to change. To misuse hypnosis is just making it more difficult for those with a positive intention to help those who want help.
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Now, an Australian newspaper publishes an article that suggests that one of the top terrorists in the region, Noordin Top, is using "hypnosis to elude capture and recruit more suicide bombers."
It is possible, that is sure. It is also possible that the so-called sleeper cells in other countries are pre-programmed to operate as suicide bombers at a given command. It is possible for the hypnosist to instill commands in the person that can be activated at a later stage. This is done during the hypnosis process with the intention to shorten the induction cycle for the next session. Normally, it can take a while for someone to go into hypnotic stage and in order to shorten the cycle, the hypnotherapist might instill a command that shortens the timeframe. This is simply more effective for both sides. Normally, a person can only be hynothised when the will to be hypnothised is there. A positive attitude. In the sense of the article, it is possible that Noordin instilled the secondary command without the knowledge of the persons - an awful intention!
To misuse hypnosis in such a manner is simply awful, because in itself, hypnosis in itself is a powerful tool to change limited beliefs into more powerful resources. Imagine what good you can do with hypnosis. Things like more confidence, to stop smoking, lose weight, and so on - all possible, but only if the person really wants to change. To misuse hypnosis is just making it more difficult for those with a positive intention to help those who want help.
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Saturday, November 26, 2005
Pain management
An article says that "an estimated 50 million Americans live with chronic pain, and 80 percent of us can expect to experience "some type of back pain that will be somewhat disabling."
These are heavy numbers. Many of those who suffer pain simply take painkillers and don't involve the mind in the overall treatment. But many, many times, the mind plays a role in the creation of the pain, and of course, in keeping the pain in your body. Its impact is not shown on any X-Ray or cannot be identified so simply.
It should be clear, however, that there are treatments, and ways that release the pain from the body, by involving the mind and solving potential issues.
Because, after all, body and mind is the same.
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These are heavy numbers. Many of those who suffer pain simply take painkillers and don't involve the mind in the overall treatment. But many, many times, the mind plays a role in the creation of the pain, and of course, in keeping the pain in your body. Its impact is not shown on any X-Ray or cannot be identified so simply.
It should be clear, however, that there are treatments, and ways that release the pain from the body, by involving the mind and solving potential issues.
Because, after all, body and mind is the same.
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Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Lazy and unmotivated fresh graduates in Malaysia
The Star Malaysia reported on Sunday that there are 60,000 unemployable fresh graduates in Malaysia and that the main reason for their unemployability is that they are lazy, lack communication skills and motivation.
The article also states that it is the parent's fault that children are lacking, since parents buy them cars and houses even before they start their careers.
In addition, even those excellent graduates don't want to work at jobs that demand a lot from them, but prefer to get jobs where it is easy for them to work.
Do you get what I am heading at?
There is a lot of generalising ongoing in this article. For instance, are all those 60,000 graduates lazy, or are some not? Do all of them lack communication skills and motivation? What kind of motivation? What kind of communication is required to get a job? How many parents buy their children cars and houses and make them lazy? What is the relationship between lazy and property ownership?
NLP teaches and uses the skill to challenge those generalisations, distortions and deletions. We are educated to blend out certain information, and use the bits of information that we have to form our opinions. However, it is a vital skill (what skill?) to be able to identify those statements and challenge them, because honestly, I know fresh graduates from Malaysian universities that didn't lack communication skills, were highly motivated and definetly not lazy.
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The article also states that it is the parent's fault that children are lacking, since parents buy them cars and houses even before they start their careers.
In addition, even those excellent graduates don't want to work at jobs that demand a lot from them, but prefer to get jobs where it is easy for them to work.
Do you get what I am heading at?
There is a lot of generalising ongoing in this article. For instance, are all those 60,000 graduates lazy, or are some not? Do all of them lack communication skills and motivation? What kind of motivation? What kind of communication is required to get a job? How many parents buy their children cars and houses and make them lazy? What is the relationship between lazy and property ownership?
NLP teaches and uses the skill to challenge those generalisations, distortions and deletions. We are educated to blend out certain information, and use the bits of information that we have to form our opinions. However, it is a vital skill (what skill?) to be able to identify those statements and challenge them, because honestly, I know fresh graduates from Malaysian universities that didn't lack communication skills, were highly motivated and definetly not lazy.
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Saturday, November 05, 2005
Goals for your life
I recently had a discussion with my executives at work. I just started to work in a new company and to get to know my five guys, I had this personal discussion. During the discussion, I asked them about their goals. Professional or personal goals.
The response, to my greatest surprise (and sadness) was that they had no goals. What is right to them at the current moment - I cannot criticise this. What they are not aware of is that everybody has goals. Few, way too few, have consciously formulated goals. Only a few sat down and really wrote down what they want to achieve over the next 12 months, 3 years or in the next decade.
But it is clear that goals are out there. You are doing something every day. You have the goal to fix your breakfast, for example. A small goal, but it is a goal. How often to you use the words "It is my goal to ...." or, easier, "I want to have a good time tonight!" See what I mean?
Othertimes, other people "push you" into their goal - then, you become their pawn. "Come, let's go out and have a good time tonight," or, "Come on, let's get drunk tonight." Sounds familiar? A company is doing goal formulation (now is budget time), and they plan for you! You will wonder what they are planning, but 12 months down the road, you will know. You have been a pawn, because, where is your initiative?
Whatever happens is out there. Please be aware that your subconscious mind needs goals, needs someone to show it the direction it needs. If you don't have goals and just live in the day, it will find its own ways to get around. It is like the bull that is taking charge. And, then, one day, in the future, don't wonder when you look back and wonder, where the lsat 10 years or months have gone to. And don't wonder, if you should have changed something. Earlier.
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The response, to my greatest surprise (and sadness) was that they had no goals. What is right to them at the current moment - I cannot criticise this. What they are not aware of is that everybody has goals. Few, way too few, have consciously formulated goals. Only a few sat down and really wrote down what they want to achieve over the next 12 months, 3 years or in the next decade.
But it is clear that goals are out there. You are doing something every day. You have the goal to fix your breakfast, for example. A small goal, but it is a goal. How often to you use the words "It is my goal to ...." or, easier, "I want to have a good time tonight!" See what I mean?
Othertimes, other people "push you" into their goal - then, you become their pawn. "Come, let's go out and have a good time tonight," or, "Come on, let's get drunk tonight." Sounds familiar? A company is doing goal formulation (now is budget time), and they plan for you! You will wonder what they are planning, but 12 months down the road, you will know. You have been a pawn, because, where is your initiative?
Whatever happens is out there. Please be aware that your subconscious mind needs goals, needs someone to show it the direction it needs. If you don't have goals and just live in the day, it will find its own ways to get around. It is like the bull that is taking charge. And, then, one day, in the future, don't wonder when you look back and wonder, where the lsat 10 years or months have gone to. And don't wonder, if you should have changed something. Earlier.
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Wednesday, November 02, 2005
Men risk kingdoms for women
Latest since the Julius Caesar risked his empire with his affair with Cleopatra has it been clear that men cannot think clear, especially when it comes to women.
Scientists now make it even clearer, why men risk their empires (and personal relations) when it women are in play.
The simple reason is that women are able to scrample men's brain. "Biologists have long known that animals prefer immediate rewards to greater ones in the future. This process, known as "discounting the future", is found in humans too and is fundamental to many economic models." What means that we give up something now - instant gratification - instead of saving up to gain greater heights in the future.
Here is the description of the test:
"Male students, when shown pictures of pretty women, were more likely to opt for short-term economic gain than wait for a better reward in the future.
Sexual opportunity
Both male and female students at McMaster University were shown pictures of the opposite sex of varying attractiveness taken from the website 'Hot or Not'. The 209 students were then offered the chance to win a reward. They could either accept a cheque for between $15 and $35 tomorrow or one for $50-$75 at a variable point in the future.
Wilson and Daly found that male students shown the pictures of averagely attractive women showed exponential discounting of the future value of the reward. This indicated that they had made a rational decision. When male students were shown pictures of pretty women, they discounted the future value of the reward in an "irrational" way - they would opt for the smaller amount of money available the next day rather than wait for a much bigger reward.
Women, by contrast, made equally rational decisions whether they had been shown pictures of handsome men or those of average attractiveness."
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Scientists now make it even clearer, why men risk their empires (and personal relations) when it women are in play.
The simple reason is that women are able to scrample men's brain. "Biologists have long known that animals prefer immediate rewards to greater ones in the future. This process, known as "discounting the future", is found in humans too and is fundamental to many economic models." What means that we give up something now - instant gratification - instead of saving up to gain greater heights in the future.
Here is the description of the test:
"Male students, when shown pictures of pretty women, were more likely to opt for short-term economic gain than wait for a better reward in the future.
Sexual opportunity
Both male and female students at McMaster University were shown pictures of the opposite sex of varying attractiveness taken from the website 'Hot or Not'. The 209 students were then offered the chance to win a reward. They could either accept a cheque for between $15 and $35 tomorrow or one for $50-$75 at a variable point in the future.
Wilson and Daly found that male students shown the pictures of averagely attractive women showed exponential discounting of the future value of the reward. This indicated that they had made a rational decision. When male students were shown pictures of pretty women, they discounted the future value of the reward in an "irrational" way - they would opt for the smaller amount of money available the next day rather than wait for a much bigger reward.
Women, by contrast, made equally rational decisions whether they had been shown pictures of handsome men or those of average attractiveness."
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Web psychotherapy 'just as good'
Swedish researcher found out that therapy delivered via the internet is just as good as face-to-face sessions for treating depression.
"In the study, 117 volunteers with mild to moderate depression participated in either a web-based self-help CBT programme plus an internet discussion group, or an internet discussion group alone.
The do-it-yourself CBT programme consisted of 89 pages of text divided into five modules that were estimated to take eight weeks to complete.
Overall, 37% of the patients withdrew from the programme - the main reason given was that it was "too demanding"."
This is interesting but doesn't take into account the fact that people process information differently. They take in information differently through their filters, store and process information differently.
This could be an explanation for the higher withdrawal rate. However, it is also clear that after an initial conversation with patients, supervision and treatment can be conducted via the web, influencing the overall price structure.
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"In the study, 117 volunteers with mild to moderate depression participated in either a web-based self-help CBT programme plus an internet discussion group, or an internet discussion group alone.
The do-it-yourself CBT programme consisted of 89 pages of text divided into five modules that were estimated to take eight weeks to complete.
Overall, 37% of the patients withdrew from the programme - the main reason given was that it was "too demanding"."
This is interesting but doesn't take into account the fact that people process information differently. They take in information differently through their filters, store and process information differently.
This could be an explanation for the higher withdrawal rate. However, it is also clear that after an initial conversation with patients, supervision and treatment can be conducted via the web, influencing the overall price structure.
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