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Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is an art and science that describes how human beings interpret their environment and how we communicate with others. NLP, which is known for modeling human behavior and installing it in others, is used for performance improvement and has been used for psychotherapy. This series of five books gives you a concise summary of the key concepts with a more up-to-date perspective.

Learn practical applications for mental health/behavioral and medical and dental clients and patients using the theories and techniques taught by Dave Elman to thousands of medical and dental practitioners. This concise book is the capstone of the series based upon Elman’s work. This includes using a variety of techniques that take three or less minutes to perform. 

The implications of Erickson's approaches to hypnotherapy and psychotherapy are vast. This concise audiobook presents the four major developments that emanated from his work. It is through understanding these views that you may discover ways to further implement his ideas and techniques in your practice. Milton H. Erickson, MD was an American psychiatrist who pioneered several indirect or permissive hypnosis techniques. He also developed several naturalistic techniques using metaphors and stories.

Once you’ve learned the elegance of Dave Elman’s hypnosis techniques, as a hypnotherapist you need a variety of techniques and tools to use them. In the previous books, I introduced you to The Elman Technique, which is an elegant three-minute ritual designed to develop a somnambulistic trance. Then, based upon relevant concepts, I introduced you to Waking Hypnosis and the Hypnotic Coma. This book provides you with several specific techniques and demonstrations on how to use them. 

Our digestive system plays an unusual role in mind/body health in that unlike most of the body other than the brain and spinal cord, it contains the largest concentration of brain-like cells and neurotransmitters. The “trust your gut” concept is just as important as trusting your brain. This convenient, short-listen audiobook explores how the brain in your head and the brain in your gut can work together to improve your health.

This concise book will teach you how to achieve the deepest known level of hypnosis, which is “hypnotic coma.” This level has been used for decades as an alternative to anesthesia and drugs for pain management. You will learn how to induce, trigger, and evaluate hypnotic coma. You will also learn the role of fear in the use of this technique. A demonstration is provided. 

This audiobook is about developing mastery. Although I respect the fact that starting at an early age does give a person a jump start, achieving mastery - or at least a substantially enhanced level of performance - can happen at any age. As a clinical hypnotherapist and NLP trainer, obviously my emphasis will be on the use of suggestion and imagination as tools to accelerate the achievement of mastery. The more you focus on a skill, the thicker and more developed the neural substrate related to the skill will become.

In entertainment, business, and even religion, visual storytelling is our primary communication modality. As such, the imagery that is created and enters into our minds greatly affects our body for better or worse. This convenient, short audiobook explains why this works and explores simple methods that can be used to enhance your health through the use of a variety of imagery techniques. This is the sixth book in this series. 

This convenient, short audiobook goes beyond merely addressing how the brain/mind communicate with the body to enhance health. This audiobook introduces you to the concept of how the mind can specifically direct somatic healing. Yes, healing body tissue through conscious thought. These ideas are not far-fetched. Rather they come from a series of studies at major medical universities. The ideas discussed are based upon thousands of research studies conducted by major US and international medical schools and research facilities.

This convenient, short-listen book explores how two-level immune system works and how the mind can communicate and influence its functioning. Specifically, this book addresses the general concept of balancing the immune system through external influences, such as a patient’s thought processes. It also delves into general health concepts as well as specific disorders, such as psychosomatic illnesses and cancer. This is the fifth book in this series.

The Enhancing Performance series is a particle guide for professionals who work with anyone wishing to master just about any topic, including sports, performing arts, academics, and much more. It is based upon the neurology suggestion concepts developed by Dr. Tim Brunson, a clinical hypnotherapist and neuro-linguistic programming trainer who has over three decades of experience helping people and teaching his concepts to other clinicians and coaches. 

This convenient, short-listen book investigates the role the mind/brain plays in preparation for, enduring, and recovering from invasive surgery. It specifically explores how the conscious mind can help a patient endure the experience and quickly heal. This is the ninth book in this series. The Innovations in Mind/Body Therapies series is a collection of ten short-listen books that review latest thinking and research findings in Integrative Medicine, which is contrary to the bottom-up dogma that has been part of main-stream medicine for over a century.

Although Erickson's approach to hypnosis and psychotherapy has a wealth of individual techniques that can be used within a framework of the principles set forth in the first book of this series, he did have an overall strategic approach toward working with his patients. That approach is presented in this concise book with the intention of you quickly mastering the concepts so that you can apply them immediately.

Once you understand how the brain and mind literally “talk” to the rest of the body, you next need to grasp how transformation works in just about any system and endeavor. While this convenient, short book conveniently dips into the world of philosophy, it does so in a practical way that the listener can understand and apply when it comes to mind/body healing.

In this final book in The Neurology of Suggestion Basic series, you will learn how to apply your knowledge to effectively use these concepts in your hypnosis or hypnotherapy practice. You will learn how to address healing the mind and body, as well as helping your client or patient improve their performance. 

Hypnotists and hypnotherapists are often regarded as masters of change. Having an effective system for change work is important to your success. In this book, you will learn the two neurological requirements for all change work, five powerful therapeutic tools, how to design a transformative process, and how to use this system to enhance performance, resolve mental issues, and improve healing. 

While this book is scientifically based and encompasses theories from a wide range of fields, like all of books in the Neurology of Suggestion Basics series, it simplifies complex concepts into very easily digestible principles and steps. Each book includes a demonstration or exercise, which will allow you to quickly understand and experience the concepts. The information contained herein is not just theoretical. The author has successfully used these concepts for 30 years with a wide range of patients and clients.

Hypnosis and hypnotherapy have a long history when it comes to healing the body. More recently revelations about mind/body integration have revealed many of the secrets of how the suggestion and imagination can affect both psychosomatic and somatic health.

Amazing people walk among us. They can do superhuman mental feats when it comes to memory and calculations. Brain Potential: Enhancing and Inhibiting for Peak Performance is based upon a study of savantism and how hypnosis and hypnotherapy can be used to unleash hidden mental capabilities in each of us. 

This concise book will help you “connect the dots” and become a much more effective change agent. It serves as an introduction to the Neurology of Suggestion concepts that are the core of Advanced Neuro-Noetic Hypnosis (TM), which blends direct and indirect hypnosis with more modern fields such as artificial intelligence, mind/body integration, and the latest innovations in neurology.