• History of NLP Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy.
• The human mind, how it works & the body connection.
• The conscious and the subconscious mind.
• The analytical or critical layer.
• Subconscious mind’s re-programming.
• What is reality?
• Seven Important mind rules. 1)Ideas or thoughts result in physical reactions. 2)The mind delivers what we focus on. 3)Negative thoughts result in organic change over-time. 4)Imagination overpowers knowledge within in the mind 5)Fixed thoughts can only be replaced by another via the subconscious. 6)Opposing ideas cannot be held at the same time. 7)Conscious effort alone, results in opposite subconscious success.
• Negative states of mind.
• Neurosis and psychosis are distinct.
• Schizophrenia.
• Psychopathic personality disorder.
• Definition of Hypnosis.
• Brain wave states, Beta, Alpha, Theta and Delta.
• Different ways of conducting therapy. Authoritarian,Permissive, Direct and Indirect.
• The skills required as a Hypnotherapist or NLP Practitioner.
• The stages to hypnotherapy client success -Trust from your abilities, Building and securing rapport, Focus of attention, Suggestion of sleep, The feedback loop effect from observation.
• Rapport - The secret of how to influence others- Learn how to use your voice tone and tempo to gain rapport, even on the phone. How to disagree with others and yet keep rapport.
• Learn how to tell how someone is thinking just by watching their eye movements.
• Fright, fight or flight responses.
• Coping response to stress.
• Two main types of stress from two sources.
• Stress Warning Signs and Symptoms.
• Setting a schedule to overcome stress.
• The connection between stress and weight gain.
• Exercise reduces stress.
• Techniques to reduce the build-up of stress, self Hypnosis.
• Verbal psychology - Learn communication skills - Learn how to listen effectively to others everyday language to see how they limit themselves and how to change.
• Subliminal messaging in speech.
• Practice using hypnotic language skills.
• Voice tone, volume and tempo.
• Creating affirmations for positive change, words of truth and fact. Words of awareness. Focus of time. Assumed to exist. Commands.
• Positive thinking affirmations about yourself, I am affirmations. Weight loss affirmations.
• Psychology of nonverbal communication - body language skills.
• Preparing for the therapy room.
• Suggestibility test. Large weight and balloon test, script for large weight and balloon test, Lemon whistle test, Crystal pendulum, line and circle test, Magnetic fingers test, The fragrance test, Clockwise achievement test.
• The key points and structure of inducing hypnotic trance via Progressive Relaxation Induction.
• The following is said to the client to induce trance.
• Shadowing CD (induction CD).
• Hypnotic language patterns for deep trance.
• Breathing techniques.
• Continue to induce trance. Deepening trance via staircase.Continue by deepening trance further via bed image.Continue by deepening trance further via body parts. Continue by deepening trance further if needed.
• Hypnotic therapy session begins and ends.
• Sensory Acuity - Identifying the level of trance a client is in. Different states of hypnosis. The waking state (Hypnoidal state), body warmth. The light trance state (Lethargic state), the facial colour change, eyelids movement in R.E.M, white of the eyes, increased lacrimation, reddening of the eyes. The medium state (Cataleptic state), the twitch and obvious movement. The deep state (Somnambulistic), scratching,Quasimodo effect, time distortion. Comatose state.

As you can see the course is vast and no other covers the subject in such detail. A Diploma of Hypnotherapy is awarded on completion of the course which entitles the bearer to use the letters DPH after their name, provided you have fulfilled attendance criteria. Your Hypnotherapy Diploma is Accredited by the British Institute of Hypnotherapy (BIH) Completion will entitle you to register with this major body. Be the best with hypnotherapy NLP Training Manchester UK.