When I first started studying NLP, I had no idea how important Hypnotherapy would become in my NLP Coaching practice. In my first NLP Practitioner Training almost twenty years ago, we studied Hypnotherapy as part of the core curriculum, and I have been refining my Hypnotherapy techniques ever since. Thankfully, Milton Erickson was one of the models of excellence that NLP founders Bandler and Grinder had thoroughly researched to learn how to best facilitate positive change in other people.
We learned about how we are always in various unconscious trances that shape our reality, and how incredibly Erickson was able to identify those trances and help patients tap into new trances that would help them to feel so much better, and lead better and happier lives free from those old constraints. The Ericksonian language patterns we use in Hypnotherapy today are extremely effective in helping clients to interrupt old patterns by gently shifting them out of their old trance that has become a mostly unexamined habit of being, and allowing them to experience a new awareness of what is possible for them.
