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Richard Bandler's Guide to Trance-formation: How to Harness the Power of Hypnosis to Ignite Effortless and Lasting Change Paperback – September 26, 2008
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- Print length368 pages
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- PublisherHealth Communications Inc
- Publication dateSeptember 26, 2008
- Dimensions5.5 x 1.1 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-100757307779
- ISBN-13978-0757307775
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Some of the behaviors we learn turn into bad habits, and some turn into profoundly good habits. But the fact that we learn anything at all means we can learn something else—something more useful, quicker, and better. We know now that it doesn’t have to take time and hard work. In fact, human beings learn best when they learn fast, and when they learn to make things unconscious so that the behavior can run automatically.
If you have fears, it’s not that heights or spiders or meeting new people, for example, scare you; it’s that you learned how to be afraid of heights, spiders, and new people. Babies are born with only two fears: the fear of falling and the fear of loud noises. All other human fears are learned. Therefore, if you learned to be afraid, you can learn to be unafraid. If you learned to do something one way, you can learn how to do it totally differently and better. Learning is the way to personal freedom. Hypnosis and NLP are tools to make this easy and fun.
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For years, anyone wanting to learn directly from Richard Bandler had two choices: pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars to attend a live training or settle for material in books that, while excellent, were ten to thirty years behind the cutting edge. With this new book, Richard Bandler's Guide to Trance-formation, the cutting edge has finally arrived―and it's sharper than ever! -- Michael Neill, author of You Can Have What You Want
Richard Bandler's Guide to Trance-formation will be of interest to you only if you want more happiness, unlimited success, complete freedom, and deep inner peace. If not, I'd leave it alone.
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Patterns, Learning, and Change
How to Take Charge of Your Brain
I have written many books and talked to many hundreds of thousands of people about hypnosis and NLP, and people are still confused about the similarities and differences between the two. In this book I hope to simplify the issue. My attitude is that at some level or other, everything is hypnosis. People are not simply in or out of trance but are moving from one trance to another. They have their work trances, their relationship trances, their driving trances, their parenting trances, and a whole collection of problem trances.
One characteristic of trance is that it is patterned. It's repetitive or habitual. It's also the way we learn.
After we're born, we have so much knowledge and expertise to acquire—everything from walking, talking, and feeding ourselves to making decisions about what we want to do with the rest of our lives. Our brains are quick to learn how to automate behavior. Of course, this doesn't mean the brain always learns the 'right' behavior to automate; quite often, our brains learn to do things in ways that make us miserable and even sick.
We learn by repetition. Something we do enough times gets its own neuronal pathways in the brain. Each neuron learns to connect and fire with the next one down, and the behavior gets set.
Sleeping and dreaming are important parts of the learning process.
Freud thought of dreams as merely 'wish fulfillment'—and maybe for him they were. I regard dreaming as unconscious rehearsal. If I do something I've never done before, I tend to go home, go to sleep, and do it all night long. This is one of the functions of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. REM sleep is the way the unconscious mind processes what it's experienced during the day. It's literally practicing repetitively to pattern the new learning at the neurological level. Quality information and quality material are important to the learning process. If the brain isn't given anything specific to work with, it processes nonsense.
If we plan to take control of our learning, we need to understand that it's not only repetition that is important but speed as well. The brain is designed to recognize patterns, and the pattern needs to be presented rapidly enough for the human to be able to perceive the pattern for what it is.
Most people have drawn a series of stick figures in the margins of their schoolbooks, then flipped through them to make the figure appear to move. Each page has on it a static image, but the brain will find a pattern—in this case, movement—if the images run rapidly enough.
We wouldn't be able to enjoy movies without this process. We'd never be able to understand the story if we only saw one frame a day.
So, when we dream, we're running through things to learn, and we're not doing it in real time. 'Internal' time differs from clock time in that we can expand or contract it. We learn at extraordinary speed—we can do maybe eight hours worth of work in five minutes before waking up. Sleep researchers support this idea. Subjects who report massively long and complex dreams are found through neural scanning to have been dreaming for only minutes, or even seconds, at a time.
Sleep, therefore, is one of the ways we program and reprogram ourselves. If you doubt your own ability to do this, try this out tonight:
As you're settling down to go to sleep, look at the clock, and tell yourself several times very firmly that you're going to wake up at a specific time. Set the alarm if you like, but you will wake up a second or two before it goes off.
This is something I've encountered in several different cultures. Some people gently bang the pillow with their heads the same number of times as the hour they want to get up.
Others tap their heads or their forearms to set their wake-up time. Whichever way it's done, the principle is the same; you somehow 'know' you have an internal clock that you can set, using a specific ritual, and no matter how deeply you sleep, it will wake you as effectively as any alarm.
If we can program ourselves to do one little thing—such as waking without an alarm—we can program our minds to do many things. We can decide to go to the supermarket. Maybe we need bread, milk, peanut butter, and a couple of cartons of juice. We can drive five miles to the supermarket, walk through a thousand products, maybe talking to someone on our cell phone, and still remember the juice, peanut butter, milk, and bread.
Academics sometimes challenge me for something they call 'evidence.' They want to know the theory behind what I do; they want me to explain it, preferably with the appropriate research references. I've even had people ask for the correct citations for things that I've made up. The way I see it, it's not my job to prove, or even understand, everything about the workings of the mind. I'm not too interested in why something should work. I only want to know how, so I can help people affect and influence whatever they want to change.
The truth is, when we know how something is done, it becomes easy to change. We're highly programmable beings—as unpopular as that idea still is in some quarters. When I started using the term 'programming,' people became really angry. They said things like, 'You're saying we're like machines. We're human beings, not robots.'
Actually, what I was saying was just the opposite. We're the only machine that can program itself. We are 'meta-programmable.' We can set deliberately designed, automated programs that work by themselves to take care of boring, mundane tasks, thus freeing up our minds to do other, more interesting and creative, things.
At the same time, if we're doing something automatically that we shouldn't be doing—whether overeating, smoking, being afraid of elevators or the outside world, becoming depressed, or coveting our neighbor's spouse—then we can program ourselves to change. That's not being a robot; that's becoming a free spirit.
To me the definition of freedom is being able to use your conscious mind to direct your unconscious activity. The unconscious mind is hugely powerful, but it needs direction. Without direction, you might end up grasping for straws . . . and then finding there just aren't any there at all.
©2008. Richard Bandler. All rights reserved. Reprinted from Richard Bandler's Guide to Trance-formation. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the written permission of the publisher. Publisher: Health Communications, Inc., 3201 SW 15th Street, Deerfield Beach, FL 33442
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- Publisher : Health Communications Inc; 46780th edition (September 26, 2008)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 368 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0757307779
- ISBN-13 : 978-0757307775
- Item Weight : 13.3 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 1.1 x 8.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #181,888 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #115 in Hypnosis Self-Help
- #298 in Popular Psychology Psychotherapy
- #4,178 in Personal Transformation Self-Help
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About the author
Richard Bandler’s seminars & workshops include Neuro-Hypnotic Repatterning®, Design Human Engineering®, Persuasion Engineering®, Personal Enhancement™, Charisma Enhancement®, Hypnosis, and others!
Dr. Bandler has continued to improve and evolve the field of NLP and gone on to develop other seminars as well, Design Human Engineering®, Persuasion Engineering®, Neuro-Hypnotic Repatterning® to name a few.
He has been interviewed by a variety of magazines from Psychology Today to Newsweek. Most major newspapers, TV Networks and Radio Stations around the world have interviewed him over the past 30+ years.
Dr. Bandler, a mathematician, philosopher, modeler, teacher, artist and composer for four decades has left a legacy of books, videos, audios, art, students and a body of knowledge that will change therapy, education and medicine forever. He has hundreds of thousands of students and hundreds of licensed institutes all over the world.
Dr. Bandler has made his mark and says he is just getting warmed up.
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For those who are new to hypnosis or NLP, you will find the examples concrete, clear and well written. This is a comprehensive book covering many complex ideas, but with a highlighter and a pen you will be able to learn skills and begin applying them immediately. The lessons are categorized well, and to me it seems like an excellent introductory text, and I will begin recommending it to all my students at an introductory or intermediate level. You will understand hypnosis and NLP if you really take the time to study this book.
I also think that for those considering this book as a "self-help" book, you will find it helpful. All of the material can easily be internalized and practiced as self-transformation and help you to do what the subtitle actually promises.
Now the downside (although there really aren't too many). First, the book is a basic NLP book and those who have a lot of experience and don't enjoy the review and reframes of prior knowledge may find it less than challenging, or covers a lot of material that has already been covered. For me though, I enjoyed the review, update and exercises as suggested after 35 years of Bandlers teaching experience has helped these to evolve. Second, Bandler makes more than a few statements that cause me to ask, "Where is the footnote?" And third, the irreverent style of Bandler can be a distraction at times, with a lot of hyperbole and opinion. However, I actually enjoyed this, even when I disagreed. An example of this was his attempt to reframe NLP by stating the following: "NLP may be thought of as the underlying structure of hypnosis".
I wish I could give it four and a half stars, but I can't so I will go ahead and give it five stars, and am glad I bought the book.
For so long, this painting was taken to be a SETTING sun. However, at the end of the creative process, when the Constitution was finally drafted... one member of Congress stood up and said that the sun was indeed RISING.
And this book is a SHINING example of the genius of Richard Bandler.
Just the WRITING is top-notch and VERY fluid to read. And that's not saying anything about the techniques and revelations you will find when you read this book.
To me, this is probably my all time favorite book by Richard Bandler.
He answers SO MANY unchallenged beliefs about hypnosis and what is possible, that I've read it 3 or 4 times already, just to soak it up.
I especially like how easy he makes using hypnosis...and chaining states...and nesting loops...and altering belief systems.
Plus the Meta-model and Milton model appendices are PURE GOLD. I've referred to them MANY times while doing covert hypnosis on my friends and family (a skill I didn't really harness until AFTER I read this book).
One thing is certain... the sun on Bandler's book cover is definitely RISING.
If you are looking for a VERY fresh, applicable, and entertaining understanding of hypnosis, you will find it here.
Thank you Richard. I hope you read this.
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I have not been this jazzed by RB's work since I first used Using Your Brain For A Change in 1988.
Please pick up Magic In Practice and Get The Life You Want while you are here for truly powerful and passionate directions for your family, friends and communities.
Well written works all packed with fun and hope.
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Stephen
Much Luv & Peace!!
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Reviewed in India on November 28, 2018
Amongst experts, there is a wide spectrum of views on Hypnosis, from academic researchers to practical clinicians. Bandler is on the far end of the practical side. He is not interested in theoretical models, nor in providing evidence to support his sometimes extravagant claims. (He would say that his claims are simple statements of fact, and I for one don't doubt him.) He has little respect for other approaches, and none for conventional hypnotisability tests. His passion is for what works with his clients, what works most surely and quicklest. His methods are elegantly simple, sometimes breathtakingly daring, and often hilariously direct. I defy you to read the story of the academic who quacked like a duck, without laughing out loud!
If you are looking for an effective alternative to long-winded talking therapies, if you want to learn to be a better hypnotist (or to improve your ability in self-hypnosis) this book is for you. Bandler won't waste your time with smooth, soft talk - he goes straight to the heart of the problem and challenges you to try his deceptively simple, but powerfully effective procedures.
And if you have been put off by NLP's acquired reputation for manipulating people unfairly, this book will convince you that although his techniques are powerful, Bandler himself has a genuine mission to use that power for great good.
If you are looking for a gentler approach, try Bill O'Hanlon's "Guide to Tranceland". If you want a balance between clinical and academic approaches, Michael Yapko's "Tranceworks" is the authoritative, heavyweight source.
BY NOW, you should know if THIS BOOK IS GOOD FOR YOU. (And there's the NLP technique of Embedded Commands at work). . In all seriousness, I thoroughly recommend this book, unless you are an over-sensitive academic! As Bandler would say: "There is delight at the end of the tunnel!"
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 10, 2014
Amongst experts, there is a wide spectrum of views on Hypnosis, from academic researchers to practical clinicians. Bandler is on the far end of the practical side. He is not interested in theoretical models, nor in providing evidence to support his sometimes extravagant claims. (He would say that his claims are simple statements of fact, and I for one don't doubt him.) He has little respect for other approaches, and none for conventional hypnotisability tests. His passion is for what works with his clients, what works most surely and quicklest. His methods are elegantly simple, sometimes breathtakingly daring, and often hilariously direct. I defy you to read the story of the academic who quacked like a duck, without laughing out loud!
If you are looking for an effective alternative to long-winded talking therapies, if you want to learn to be a better hypnotist (or to improve your ability in self-hypnosis) this book is for you. Bandler won't waste your time with smooth, soft talk - he goes straight to the heart of the problem and challenges you to try his deceptively simple, but powerfully effective procedures.
And if you have been put off by NLP's acquired reputation for manipulating people unfairly, this book will convince you that although his techniques are powerful, Bandler himself has a genuine mission to use that power for great good.
If you are looking for a gentler approach, try Bill O'Hanlon's "Guide to Tranceland". If you want a balance between clinical and academic approaches, Michael Yapko's "Tranceworks" is the authoritative, heavyweight source.
BY NOW, you should know if THIS BOOK IS GOOD FOR YOU. (And there's the NLP technique of Embedded Commands at work). . In all seriousness, I thoroughly recommend this book, unless you are an over-sensitive academic! As Bandler would say: "There is delight at the end of the tunnel!"
それもそのはず、実際に本書で使っているのは、
メタ・モデル(ミルトン・モデル)
アクセッシング・キュー(カリブレーション)
アンカリング
といった1970年代に出版されたNLPの著作にあるシンプルなスキルと、心理療法家のフランク・フェアリー
をモデリングした毒舌調の解説だけであるように思われるからだ。
それでも面白いと思うのは単純に当該経験に対する V-A-Kの注意をシフトするようなやり方がきちんと説明されているためだろう。
日本では、五感をタイプ分けして固定化して考えるような訳のわからないスキルが教えられているようであるが、実際には
「The Structure of Magic vol.2」で書かれていたようにこの知覚をシフトするやり方を学ばないと認識に
対して何ら変化が起きないということが理解できることになるだろう。