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NLP Training – It’s a Live Experience


Society of Neuro Linguistic Programming

Hi, Hypnosis Friends!

“Can I learn NLP online?  Can I get certified through your school online?”  I received this question again this morning as I have before, and I thought it worthy of a blog entry to answer publicly.  The short answer is “No.”  More emphatically, “No way, Jose!”  Online courses can teach you about NLP, but not how to do NLP.

What is NLP?  NLP is a kind of hypnosis, a supercharged, accelerated hypnosis.  As I’ve discussed many times, NLP Neuro Linguistic Programming is my number one office tool. It’s what I use at Mindworks Hypnosis and NLP to help create success of all varieties.  It’s what I teach LIVE at my career school, Mindworks NLP.

Here was my answer to the inquiry today, from someone outside the United States:

“Hi! Thanks for reaching out. My school does not offer online certifications. NLP Neuro Linguistic Programming is a skill set that can only be learned hands on in a live modeling/teaching environment. Online courses can teach you ABOUT NLP, but not how to DO NLP. Our certifications are awarded to people we have personally verified have a skill set, people who will be able to do the work–Licensed Practitioner of NLP® and Licensed Master Practitioner of NLP®.

So, my suggestion is: hightail it to a live training.

Not all NLP is created equal, also. Your best bet is to learn through the creator of NLP, Dr. Richard Bandler or his Licensed Trainers  of NLP® (which I am) through the Society of NLP®. Here’s his website: http://www.purenlp.com. He has Trainers throughout the world.

If a training is not something you can do right now, read any of Dr. Bandler’s books to learn more. I recommend his “Get the Life you Want.” to get started.

NLP is amazing, fascinating, and incredibly powerful. It’s worth your time and energy and money to learn. It’s a methodology of empowerment.  Good luck to you!

The best NLP learning is a live experience, an experiential process involving forming a multitude of base skills such as calibration, rapport management, hypnotic language, and so much more in addition to the “techniques” themselves.  Live practice and informed feedback is essential in this learning.

If you’d like to learn more about our Washington State Licensed career school, Mindworks NLP, check us out:  http://www.seattlenlptraining.com.

Connie Brannan, Licensed Trainer of NLP (tm), Seattle's best hypnotherapistAll the Best,
Connie

Connie Brannan, CHt.
Clinical Neuro-Linguistic Hypnotherapist
Licensed Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming®
Originator of Designer Feelings®
Originator of Designer Beliefs®
Design Human Engineer™
Persuasion Engineer™
Professional Conversational Hypnotherapist
Managing Partner, Mindworks Hypnosis
http://www.mindworkshypnosis.net
http://www.seattlenlptraining.com

 

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Live NLP Certification Training Event in the Greater Seattle Area, 8 Days in April 2018

Society of NLP - Your Guarantee of Quality
Society of NLP – Your Guarantee of Quality

Hi, Hypnosis & NLP Friends!

Sharing our latest press release.  We are pleased to announce another offering from the career school side of our work.  All the Best, Connie

Licensed private career school, Mindworks NLP, is pleased to announce an upcoming live training event in the Greater Seattle area: “Licensed Practitioner of NLP ®” certification program.  It is slated for 8 days, four consecutive weekends, April 7 & 8, April 14 & 15, April 21 & 22, and April 28 & 29, 2018.

NLP, Neuro Linguistic Programming, is a powerful methodology of personal change and influence involving understanding the mind, how it works, and how to create effective communications and connections.  With NLP training, we learn to read others (calibration), develop connections with others (rapport), wield influence through artful language (Ericksonian language), choose our own state of mind (anchoring) and so much more.  NLP can transform thinking, feelings, and behaviors in desired ways.  With these tools, it becomes very easy to create personal change and success of all varieties in ourselves and others.

This is a live, experiential program, not just learning “about NLP,” but rather, learning to “do NLP.”  Licensed Trainers of NLP®, Connie and Michael Brannan’s course is designed for anyone, business people, young people, parents, therapists, those interested in self-development, those curious about the power of mind, or those looking for a new career as an NLP Practitioner.  The uses of NLP are unlimited, for business success, improving relationships, effective parenting, enhanced learning, personal development, and more.  This certification comes through the Society of NLP®, the organization of the co-originator of NLP, Dr. Richard Bandler.

Students will learn not only techniques of change, but the underlying principles of empowerment and structure of change.  Students will learn how the mind creates our world, beliefs, and actions, and how we can alter those things.  Included:

–Well-formed goals

–Representational systems

–Eye accessing

–Calibration

–Rapport

–Meta model

–Milton model

–Anchoring

–Reframing

–Several powerful change processes

–And more.

–Bonus presentations on NLP for Sales, NLP for Personal Development.

Mindworks NLP offers a variety of mind power training courses, including hypnosis, NLP (Neuro-Linguistic programming certification programs), and stage hypnosis training.  Connie & Michael Brannan also offer private sessions of NLP blended with hypnotherapy in their clinical practice, Mindworks Hypnosis & NLP in Bellevue, WA.  http://www.mindworkshypnosis.net

More info about this NLP Certification Event in April: http://seattlenlptraining.com

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Power Sale: Learn Hypnosis & NLP Live in Seattle Area Trainings

Bellevue Hypnotherapists for your Positive Changes Hypnosis
Michael and Connie Brannan, Master Hypnotists, Licensed Trainers of NLP ™, Design Human Engineers ™, and more!

Hi, Hypnosis Friends!

Michael and I are happy to share and grow the power of mind by doing hypnosis and NLP, and by teaching.  Here’re new training dates from the private career school side of what we do.

Hi, Hypnosis Friends!

I consider myself one lucky person, because I get to pursue my passion-which is hypnosis (a super accelerated learning state) and NLP (a super accelerated hypnosis).  NLP has been aptly described as “The Art & Science of Excellence.” Yes!

I have two businesses, rated A+ with the Better Business Bureau.  Mindworks Hypnosis & NLP offers client work and hypnosis services in my Bellevue office working one on one with people.  We tweak and install new strategies for success of all varieties, and that’s mightily rewarding work.  I love helping!

mindworksNLP Logo

Mindworks NLP is Michael’s and my Washington State Licensed private career school which we operate in the Greater Seattle area.  We share the teaching duties as we share these amazing tools, both for those looking to become certified professionals through our school and the Society of NLP® and also for those looking to enhance their own power and control over their lives.

We are pleased to announce our next Seattle area training dates.  Space in these live hands-on trainings is limited, to assure our personal attention and verification of student skill sets.  In other words, personal guidance and feedback galore, something which was missing in my own original NLP trainings-and I have determined MY students shall have.

Here are our offerings:

Seattle's best hypnotherapy and NLP training school.

 Hypnotherapy Certification Program – Discover the “Magic of Hypnosis” – 4 days, April 27, 28, 29, 30, 2017.   Info link is here:  http://seattlenlptraining.com/learn-hypnosis/

Licensed Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming Certification Program: Weekend Format, 8 days, May 13, 14, 20, 21, June 3, 4, 10, 11, 2017.  Info link is here:  http://www.seattlenlptraining.com  

Licensed Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming Certification Program: (open to  Licensed Practitioner of NLP level or higher students). Weekend Format, 8 days.   Info is here:  http://www.seattlenlptraining.com (next dates TBA)

We also excited to offer stage hypnosis training, and several specialized advanced hypnotherapy courses:

Stage Hypnosis Training – Sept 13, 14, 15, 16 and a bonus day, Sept 17, 2017.

New!  Hypnosis 2:  Advanced Client Work – Therapeutic Mastery & Inventive Interventions – 4 days.

New!  Hypnosis 3:  Ericksonian Hypnosis – Magical Language Patterns, Stories, Metaphors, & More  – 4 days.

New! Hypnosis 4:  Conversational Influence and Spontaneous Trance – 4 days, 

More information is available on our website, http://www.seattlenlptraining.com.  Michael and I are both Licensed Trainers of NLP ® through the developer of NLP, Dr. Richard Bandler and his Society of NLP ®.

We just studied with him this past year in Orlando, FL.  We keep our skills current and cutting edge.  If you’re really interested in learning and excelllence, then you won’t settle for anything other than “the real deal” trainers.  There are only approximately 35 such Licensed Trainers of NLP ® through Bandler’s Society of NLP®  in the entirety of the US.  In our trainings, we are the only trainers involved, we don’t turn your learning over to lesser skilled assistants, as others do.

We hope to see you in one or more of our upcoming Seattle area NLP and hypnosis trainings.

Best Bellevue Hypnotherapy in the Pacific NorthwestAll the Best,
Connie

Michael and Connie Brannan, CHt.
Master Neuro-Linguistic Hypnotherapists
Licensed Trainers of Neuro-Linguistic Programming ™
Professional Conversational Hypnotherapists
Design Human Engineers ™
Persuasion Engineers ™
Certified Stage Hypnotists
http://www.seattlenlptraining.com
http://www.mindworkshypnosis.net
(425) 564-8608

Seattle's best hypnotherapy and NLP training school.

Posted in: Hypnosis, NLP, Seattle Hypnosis

Power Sale: Learn Hypnosis & NLP in our Live Seattle Area Trainings

Bellevue Hypnotherapists for your Positive Changes Hypnosis
Michael and Connie Brannan, Master Hypnotists, Licensed Trainers of NLP ™, Design Human Engineers ™, and more!

Hi, Hypnosis Friends!

Michael and I are happy to share and grow the power of mind by doing hypnosis and NLP, and by teaching.  Here’re new training dates from the private career school side of what we do.

Hi, Hypnosis Friends!

I consider myself one lucky person, because I get to pursue my passion-which is hypnosis (a super accelerated learning state) and NLP (a super accelerated hypnosis).  NLP has been aptly described as “The Art & Science of Excellence.” Yes!

I have two businesses, rated A+ with the Better Business Bureau.  Mindworks Hypnosis & NLP offers client work and hypnosis services in my Bellevue office working one on one with people.  We tweak and install new strategies for success of all varieties, and that’s mightily rewarding work.  I love helping!

mindworksNLP Logo

Mindworks NLP is Michael’s and my Washington State Licensed private career school which we operate in the Greater Seattle area.  We share the teaching duties as we share these amazing tools, both for those looking to become certified professionals through our school and the Society of NLP® and also for those looking to enhance their own power and control over their lives.

We are pleased to announce our next Seattle area training dates.  Space in these live hands-on trainings is limited, to assure our personal attention and verification of student skill sets.  In other words, personal guidance and feedback galore, something which was missing in my own original NLP trainings-and I have determined MY students shall have.

Here are our dates:

Seattle's best hypnotherapy and NLP training school.

 Hypnotherapy Certification Program – Discover the “Magic of Hypnosis” – 4 days, July 7 – 10, 2016.   Info link is here:  http://seattlenlptraining.com/learn-hypnosis/

Licensed Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming Certification Program: Weekend Format, 8 days, Sept 17, 18, 24, 25, Oct 1, 2, 8, and 9, 2016.  Info link is here:  http://www.seattlenlptraining.com  

Licensed Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming Certification Program: (open to  Practitioner level or higher students). Weekend Format, 8 days:  Oct 22, 23, 29, 30, Nov 5, 6, 12, and 13, 2016.  Info is here:  http://www.seattlenlptraining.com

We also excited to offer stage hypnosis training, and several specialized advanced hypnotherapy courses:

New!  Hypnosis 2:  Advanced Client Work – Therapeutic Mastery & Inventive Interventions – 4 days, July, 21, 22, 23, 24, 2016

New!  Hypnosis 3:  Ericksonian Hypnosis – Magical Language Patterns, Stories, Metaphors, & More  – 4 days, August 4, 5, 6, 7, 2016

New! Hypnosis 4:  Conversational Influence and Spontaneous Trance – 4 days, August 18, 19, 20, 21, 2016

Stage Hypnosis Training – September 8, 9, 10, 11, plus a bonus day on September 12th, 2016

More information is available on our website, http://www.seattlenlptraining.com.  Michael and I are both Licensed Trainers of NLP ® through the developer of NLP, Dr. Richard Bandler and his Society of NLP ®.

We just studied with him earlier this year in Orlando, FL.  We keep our skills current and cutting edge.  If you’re really interested in learning and excelllence, then you won’t settle for anything other than “the real deal” trainers.  There are only approximately 35 such Licensed Trainers of NLP ® through Bandler’s Society of NLP®  in the entirety of the US.  In our trainings, we are the only trainers involved, we don’t turn your learning over to lesser skilled assistants, as others do.

We hope to see you in one or more of our upcoming Seattle area NLP and hypnosis trainings.

All the Best,
Connie

Michael and Connie Brannan, CHt.
Master Neuro-Linguistic Hypnotherapists
Licensed Trainers of Neuro-Linguistic Programming ™
Professional Conversational Hypnotherapists
Design Human Engineers ™
Persuasion Engineers ™
Certified Stage Hypnotists
http://www.seattlenlptraining.com
http://www.mindworkshypnosis.net
(425) 564-8608

Seattle's best hypnotherapy and NLP training school.

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Power Sale: Learn Hypnosis & NLP in our Live Seattle Area Trainings

Bellevue Hypnotherapists for your Positive Changes Hypnosis
Michael and Connie Brannan, Master Hypnotists, Licensed Trainers of NLP ™, Design Human Engineers ™, and more!

Hi, Hypnosis Friends!

Michael and I are happy to share and grow the power of mind by doing hypnosis and NLP, and by teaching.  Here’re new training dates from the private career school side of what we do.

Hi, Hypnosis Friends!

I consider myself one lucky person, because I get to pursue my passion-which is hypnosis (a super accelerated learning state) and NLP (a super accelerated hypnosis).  NLP has been aptly described as “The Art & Science of Excellence.” Yes!

I have two businesses, rated A+ with the Better Business Bureau.  Mindworks Hypnosis & NLP offers client work and hypnosis services in my Bellevue office working one on one with people.  We tweak and install new strategies for success of all varieties, and that’s mightily rewarding work.  I love helping!

mindworksNLP Logo

Mindworks NLP is Michael’s and my Washington State Licensed private career school which we operate in the Greater Seattle area.  We share the teaching duties as we share these amazing tools, both for those looking to become certified professionals through our school and the Society of NLP® and also for those looking to enhance their own power and control over their lives.

We are pleased to announce our next Seattle area training dates.  Space in these live hands-on trainings is limited, to assure our personal attention and verification of student skill sets.  In other words, personal guidance and feedback galore, something which was missing in my own original NLP trainings-and I have determined MY students shall have.

Here are our dates:

Seattle's best hypnotherapy and NLP training school.

 Hypnotherapy Certification Program – Discover the “Magic of Hypnosis” – 4 days, March 31 – April 3, 2016.   Info link is here:  http://seattlenlptraining.com/learn-hypnosis/

Licensed Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming Certification Program: Intensive Format, 8 days, April 9 – 16, 2016.  Info link is here:  http://www.seattlenlptraining.com  

Licensed Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming Certification Program: (open to  Practitioner level or higher students). Intensive Format, 8 days:  May 14 – 21, 2016.  Info is here:  http://www.seattlenlptraining.com

We also excited to offer stage hypnosis training, a 4 day course, and several specialized strategic NLP courses:  NLP for Sales, NLP for Relationships, NLP for Personal Change.  Those dates are to be determined. Stay tuned.  The meat and potatoes courses are above!

More information is available on our website, http://www.seattlenlptraining.com.  Michael and I are both Licensed Trainers of NLP ® through the developer of NLP, Dr. Richard Bandler and his Society of NLP ®.  We just studied with him earlier this month in Orlando, FL.  We keep our skills current and cutting edge.  If you’re really interested in learning and excelllence, then you won’t settle for anything other than “the real deal” trainers.  There are only approximately 35 such Licensed Trainers of NLP ® through Bandler’s Society of NLP®  in the entirety of the US.  In our trainings, we are the only trainers involved, we don’t turn your learning over to lesser skilled assistants, as others do.

We hope to see you in one or more of our upcoming Seattle area NLP and hypnosis trainings.

All the Best,
Connie

Michael and Connie Brannan, CHt.
Master Neuro-Linguistic Hypnotherapists
Licensed Trainers of Neuro-Linguistic Programming ™
Professional Conversational Hypnotherapists
Design Human Engineers ™
Persuasion Engineers ™
Certified Stage Hypnotists
http://www.seattlenlptraining.com
http://www.mindworkshypnosis.net
(425) 564-8608

Seattle's best hypnotherapy and NLP training school.

Posted in: Events, Musings, Seattle Hypnosis

Hypnosis is Meditation on Steroids

Hypnosis unlocks your power of mind!Hi, Hypnosis Friends!

Michael and I are offering 4 Power of Mind Workshops next month in the Seattle area, Bellevue, WA to be specific. It’s a great way for people to learn amazing empowerment techniques and ideas at an affordable cost in a tiny chunk of time. One Day!

These are all one-day “taster” seminars offered through the private career school side of my work: http://seattlenlptraining.com/day-seminars/.  In the workshops we explain, demo and the students play with NLP, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (the Art & Science of Excellence).

Michael and I are also offering one seminar on Self Hypnosis, which has caught my attention and prompted me to post.  Every time I teach self hypnosis at Bellevue College, someone asks me:  “Well, how is self hypnosis different from meditation?”  I’ve thought of a great answer:  hypnosis takes it to the next level, with an added oomph for success. Hypnosis is “meditation on steroids.”  And you can quote me!  🙂

Meditation IS a kind of hypnosis, where the goal seems to be to achieve the state of quiet mind and roll around in it–hoping some good things spontaneously generate.  And they probably will!  What’s different about self hypnosis?  Hypnotherapy and self hypnosis use this state of mind targeted for strategic change:  GOALS. With self hypnosis, you’re telling your mind to DO something, to create a specific outcome for your life, whether it be healthier habits or a new body shape, or accelerated healing, or becoming multi-lingual quickly, etc. etc. etc.  Here the etcs are endless.

Yay, for the brain, and it’s very agreeable nature!

At Bellevue College I teach a snippet of this material, as the time allows there.  NOW, Michael and I are teaching this together through our own school, Mindworks NLP, and are offering it to you in an expanded format.  An all day event.  It’s slated for June 20th.  More info is here:  http://seattlenlptraining.com/day-seminars/

Hypnosis is one of my great loves.  I have another:  NLP.  Here’re the other courses we’re offering next month:

Power of Mind Workshops

NLP for Personal Development: June 6, 2015
Rapport & Relating, NLP for Dating: June 13, 2015
Self Hypnosis: June 20, 2015
NLP for Sales and Business Success: June 27, 2015

Connie Brannan, CHt.All the Best,
Connie

 

Posted in: Events, NLP

A New Course at Bellevue College – NLP for Dating and Relating

NLP for Dating and Relating
NLP for Dating and Relating

Hi, Hypnosis Friends & Enthusiasts!

The work I do and teach in the Seattle area is hypnosis and NLP, Neuro Linguistic Programming — amazing methodologies for personal development and goal getting, goal achievement. Hypnosis and NLP are applicable and wonderful for so many varieties of change — from weight management to phobia fixes, to behavioral changes such as quit smoking and stop fingernail biting, to sports enhancement to improving relationships and communications, and pretty much any activity where your brain is involved.  (ALL!)

In the realm of that last category, relationships and communications, I am offering a new course at Bellevue College this winter quarter.  It’s called:  NLP for Dating and Relating. NLP has been called “hypnosis on steroids.”

http://www.campusce.net/BC/course/course.aspx?C=13808&pc=1817&mc=1893&sc=

Here’s the course description for NLP for Dating and Relating:

Are you interested in dating or improving relationships with those around you? Effective communication can improve any relationship! You will learn how to build rapport and connect with people in the best way possible, both socially and in business contexts. Create states of mind and body in yourself (such as confidence and joy) that lead to effective communications. NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) is a methodology of effective communications, both on the conscious and unconscious level. Connie Brannan is a Licensed Trainer of NLP ®.

NLP for Dating and Relating
Item: W9509 Connie Brannan
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM North Campus Room: V1021
Sessions: 1 W Address: 14673 NE 29th Place Bellevue, WA 98007
3/18/2015 – 3/18/2015 Fee: $49.00

What is NLP?  I talk about that here:

The course, a one night, 2-hour adventure, is all about building new states in ourselves that enhance communications, confidence, ease, flow of words, sharp-minded, humor, and so on.  It’s also about understanding rapport (positive connections between people) and how to facilitate rapport.–PHYSICALLY.  And verbally.  It’s fun, cool, stuff. And super powerful.

My goal for the course is that people should walk out the door after the class feeling more empowered and positive, with tools to use for improved communications.  I’d love for you to join me!

The Bellevue College info and sign up link is here.   http://www.campusce.net/BC/course/course.aspx?C=13808&pc=1817&mc=1893&sc=

All the Best,
Connie

Posted in: Hypnosis, NLP

What is NLP? It’s “Hypnosis on Steroids!”

Neuro Linguistic Programming
Neuro Linguistic Programming

Hi, Hypnosis Friends & Enthusiasts!

People come to my Bellevue hypnosis office because they want something different.  Something different to do, or something different NOT to do.  To get over negative emotions, to create a desired outcome, success, of all varieties.   NLP, Neuro Linguistic Programming, is my number one go-to tool to help.

After I explain hypnosis and hypnotherapy, I’m often asked:  “What IS NLP?”  Here’s a video where I explain:

As I say in the description of this video on my Youtube channel: “This methodology and mindset helps us take control of our experience of life! How we feel, how we think, what we DO…it’s all movable furniture and we, each of us, is the movin’ man! We can get the life we want.”

A hypnotherapy session in my office is really two sessions in one, in that it also includes a full NLP session as well as traditional hypnosis.  I call what I do “Neuro-Linguistic Hypnotherapy™.”  What I do is very different from other therapies and even from other hypnotherapists.  🙂  The approach is different from other therapies in that it is one of empowerment.  NLP is my favorite thing, as well as my expertise. It’s the difference which makes the difference.

What is NLP?  Another tool for unconscious communication.  It’s been called “hypnosis on steroids.”  That’s because it works so amazingly well and fast when the practitioner is skilled and creative.  I am a Licensed Trainer of NLP ® through the Society of NLP ™ which is a source of great pride for me.  There are only a few dozen such trainers in the entirety of the US, licensed through Dr. Richard Bandler, the co-originator of NLP.  My husband, Michael,  (also one of those Licensed Trainers of NLP ® ) and I operate a Licensed Private Career School here in Washington State, Mindworks NLP, and we teach and offer NLP certifications.  NLP is cool.  NLP is fun.  NLP is amazing.  My students get so excited by it that they have been known to start chanting in class:  “NLP!  NLP!  NLP!”

It’s actually pretty rare that a Licensed Trainer ® is also doing one on one client work as well as teaching groups.  I see private clients because this is my passion and my fun.  You can learn more here, anytime, at my client website, and here, my school website. I do hope you will discover the power of NLP at some point in your life. It’s worth knowing.

All the Best,
Connie

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Special Power of Mind Workshop: NLP for Personal Change 9/28/13

Mindworks NLPHi, Hypno-Friends!

On the school side of what we do, Michael and I are offering another special event: NLP for Personal Change & Life Success Seminar.  It’s one of our Power of Mind workshops,  a full day event, happening Saturday, 9/28/13.

Right now we are offering an “early bird” special price, just $67. The special ends this Sunday, then our seminar reverts to its regular price of $97  This amazing seminar is only offered once or twice a year, so the time to enroll is now.  Our NLP for Sales Seminar for this coming weekend filled right up, and we had to end enrollment early.  So, as I like to say: get while the gettin’s good!

Society of Neuro Linguistic ProgrammingWhat is NLP?  NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) can be defined as: the study of successful thinking. If it weren’t already taken, the slogan for NLP could be: “Be all that you can be.” Yes, you can. We’ll help you get there, with the transformational secrets you’ll learn in this amazing 1-day event.

If you could feel however you wanted to feel (such as calm, motivated, creative, happy, etc.) whenever it was useful to feel that way, would that be of interest to you? If you could connect with people on a deeper level and develop instant rapport, would that be of interest to you?   Sounds good to me!!  In this seminar, we teach simple techniques you can use immediately to increase personal satisfaction, self confidence, influence and power. Eliminate undesirable habits! Program in more useful ones. Control your emotional states and more!

This seminar/workshop is hands on, with class demonstrations and exercises as well as lecture. So you can expect a very interactive and experiential training event. You will learn with not one, but TWO Licensed Trainers of Neuro-Linguistic Programming ™, Connie & Michael Brannan.

If it sounds good to you, and you can see the benefit, and it feels like an amazing opportunity:  You can sign up online here: http://www.seattlenlptraining.com/Power-of-Mind-Hypnosis-and-NLP-Seminars.html.  We have a “buy now” button.

For more details, call Connie at (425) 564-8608. Space is limited, so sign up now to guarantee your spot!

We do hope you’ll join us!

Warm Regards,
Connie
Website: http://www.seattlenlptraining.com

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Hypnotic April! Learn Hypnosis & NLP

 

Society of NLP - Your Guarantee of Quality
Society of NLP - Your Guarantee of Quality

Hello to all our NLP and Hypnosis-loving friends and interested parties.  Happy spring!

Mindworks NLP is gearing up for more adventures in learning.  Join us!  Heard of chocolate and peanut butter, two great things that go great together?  Well, this month we offer hypnosis and NLP, also two great things that go great together.

Our hypnotic April includes our live 4-day hypnotherapy training, and also begins our 8-day Licensed Practitioner of NLP® certification training.  Hands on, mind on.  All powerful and all fun!  http://www.seattlenlptraining.com

Connie and I are excited to share these events with you!

What’s Happening?

Hypnotherapy Certification Program:  “Discover the Magic of Hypnosis”  4 days, April 18 thru April 21, 3013

Our Licensed Practitioner Certification Program.   Discover our unique Residence Program Format, 8 full days over 4 full weekends:
April 27, & 28, 2013
May 4, & 5, 2013
May 11, & 12, 2013
May 18, & 19, 2013

These promise to be fabulous, life-changing events.  As they say, today is the start of the rest of your life.  Start it off on the right foot.  Our live training is a great way for you to do just that!  Immediately see your success in using these tools for your own life, your business , your interactions and/or as part of your successful therapy practice.  It’s a great way to begin creating a magical life!

The Hypnosis Course covers the fundamentals of successful hypnotherapy, including how to hypnotize, well-forming goals, a variety of methods including instant inductions, and what you say and DO once you have someone in this state to guide them to positive changes.  You earn the following status: “Certified Hypnotist.”

Learn from trainers who actually do the work, on a daily basis, and are massively successful at client transformations.  Connie and I share some of our “secret skillset” which sets us apart and above other hypnosis practices in the Pacific Northwest.  We own and operate Mindworks Hypnosis & NLP.  Mindworks Hypnosis

The Neuro Linuistic Programming Practitioner Course teaches a wide range of complementary skills you can use, such as:

Rapport
Calibration
Anchoring
Meta Model
Milton Model
New Behavior Generator
Swish Pattern
Change Personal History

And many more change patterns that will have you living life on your own terms and getting the results you want in no time!  Or, go into business as a practitioner.  Make other therapists using other modalities drool with envy at your amazing results, helping people faster and easier.

Visit our website at http://www.seattlenlptraining.com/ for more information, on us, the courses, and the many, many powerful applications of this amazing technology.

Call us if you have questions, and we’ll be happy to tell you more!

Warm Regards,
Michael and Connie Brannan, CHts.
Neuro-Linguistic Hypnotherapists
Professional Conversational Hypnotherapists
Design Human Engineers™
Persuasion Engineers™
Licensed Trainers of Neuro-Linguistic Programming ™
http://www.seattlenlptraining.com
(425) 564-8608

PS:  Cool thing to remember, our NLP training gets you formal certification as a Licensed Practitioner of NLP® through Dr. Richard Bandler’s Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming®.  You want the best, you get the best!

Your Trainers, Connie & Michael Brannan
Michael and Connie Brannan, Clinical Hypnotherapists, Licensed Trainers, Design Human Engineers, and more.
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Learn NLP, Seattle! 9/22/12 Workshop for your Personal Development and Life Success!

Success in the palm of your hand, with NLP.

Hi, Hypno-Friends.

Earlier today Michael and I put on a funtastic seminar at the Coast Hotel offering hands on NLP tips, tidbits and communication tools for improving business.  We had a great turnout and a great time.

So much fun, we’re doing another.  Two weeks from now, we share more NLP insider secrets of how to get the life you want.  This seminar is focused on Personal Development and Life Success.  There are still a few seats, and our “early bird” price of $49 is still here (for now).  Sign up here:  http://www.seattlenlptraining.com.

More details below!  🙂

Here’s an exciting event we’re offering!  Michael and I are putting on a 1-day Seminar on NLP for Personal Change & Success this month, on Saturday, September 22nd, in Bellevue, WA. We’d love for you to join us!  In this full day seminar, you’ll learn to use amazing NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming, which is a “high tech conversational hypnosis”) techniques to improve your life more than you ever thought possible!

Special NLP Event – 1 Day Seminar NLP for Personal Change & Success
NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) can be defined as:  the study of human excellence.  If it weren’t already taken, the slogan for NLP could be:  “Be all that you can be.”  Yes, you can.  We’ll help you get there, with the transformational secrets you’ll learn in this amazing 1-day event.

Now is the time to improve your life!! Learn and experience incredible subconscious communication tools for personal (& business) success, and pumping up your joy and fulfillment.  It’s all about crafting your own experience of life, “driving your own bus,” as co-creator of NLP, Richard Bandler, says.

Learn simple techniques you can use immediately to increase personal satisfaction, self confidence, influence and power.  Eliminate undesirable habits!  Program in more useful ones.  Control your emotional states and more!

This seminar/workshop is hands on, with class demonstrations and exercises as well as lecture.  So you can expect a very interactive and experiential training event.  You will learn with not one, but TWO Licensed Trainers of Neuro-Linguistic Programming ™, Connie & Michael Brannan.

Our regular price for this seminar is $97 for the general public, but we are offering an “early bird special” for $49 for the full day’s event.  Wow!  We must be insane to share this much for so little, but we love these tools so much we want the world to know them, too.  Ample free parking available.   We’ll be providing coffee, decaf, tea, and pastries in the training room.  There are numerous restaurant choices nearby for lunch.

You can sign up online here:  http://www.seattlenlptraining.com.
For more details, call Connie at (425) 564-8608 or email connie@seattlenlptraining.com.  Space is limited, so sign up now to guarantee yours!

Website: http://www.seattlenlptraining.com
Location: Bellevue, WA (venue TBD, directions emailed to participants).

NLP for Personal Change & Success
Saturday, September 22nd, 2012
9:30 AM – 5:00 PM.
Bellevue, Washington

Tell your friends.  Call me, Connie, at (425) 564-8608 for any info or questions or sign up now at http://www.seattlenlptraining.com.  Buy now button is on right hand column.  Michael and I hope to see you there.

Now is the time to enjoy life more!! Learn incredible NLP subconscious communication tools for personal enhancement, self development, and success.

Sincerely,
Connie & Michael Brannan
Licensed Trainers of Neuro-Linguistic Programming
Mindworks NLP http://www.seattlenlptraining.com

Posted in: Events, Hypnosis, NLP

Does Your Hand Deserve Your Thumb?

Time to bloom.

I’m working with a girl right now whose father told her at a ripe impressionable age:  “you don’t deserve anything.”  One of the things her mind decided she didn’t deserve was health.  In her adult mind, she knows what her father MEANT for her to learn by that statement:  “you won’t be offered things on a silver platter, you have to work hard to achieve success.” BUT…what he said and what she heard, literally was:  YOU DON’T DESERVE ANYTHING.

Wow!  Her unconscious mind took that on board.  Absolutely literally.  What a terrible and damaging message–coming from someone who should be loving and nurturing.  I asked her yesterday if she deserved to breathe the air in the room, and I could see her internal struggle because she knew it should logically be “yes” yet she felt and believed it was “no.”  This blog entry is called:  “Does your hand deserve your thumb?”

I posed that question to my client yesterday, in trance.  “Does your hand deserve your thumb?”  We let her powerful unconscious mind percolate on what is natural, what is a part of us, and what is “deserved.”  I also asked her if a flower deserves sunshine, and to be nourished by rain and the nutrients in soil?  Does a flower deserve to bloom?  I sure think so!!  This lady is a flower who thinks she has no right to bloom.  I’m helping her to change her thinking–and her health!

Language is so much more powerful than people know.  One of the tragedies (and so unnecessary) of human life seems to be this parental business of installing negative and limiting and damaging beliefs in children.  The young mind has no conscious filter to block damaging ideas, like adults have.

A huge piece of my NLP and hypnotherapy work involves un-installing negative beliefs and re-installing power and possibility into lives.  I’m so happy this technology exists which creates healthy change so quickly and seamlessly.  I’m also so happy that I’ve been privileged to learn it, really learn it from the source of NLP himself, Dr. Richard Bandler, the best of the best of the best.

Unfortunately, I’m continually finding that other Seattle area hypnotists don’t have the skill set or the mind set for this work–and clients who have escaped their ineptitude come to me and tell me horror stories of non-helping and “hypnotists” even installing more limitations in them.  These unskilled ones are playing at being hypnotists, as a part time “I know enough to get by” kind of gig.  Luckily, they won’t be around for long, because they can’t deliver the results.

Go for quality.  Someone well trained and imaginative enough to understand the power of words to help and heal.

Warm Regards,
Connie

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Early Bird Special Ends Tonight – $49 for Saturday’s NLP for Sales Seminar!

Mindworks Hypnosis & NLP/Seattle NLP Training

Last Chance for our $49 Early Bird Special

NLP for Sales & Biz Success 9/8/12

Hi, Hypno-Friends!

Heads up! Our early bird special pricing for this Saturday’s NLP for Sales & Business Success Seminar ends tonight. It’s now just $49, but after midnight tonight, it reverts to our regular full price of $97. This amazing seminar is only offered once or twice a year, so the time to enroll is now.

By buying NOW you save yourself almost $50 off our regular price. And remember, in this course you will learn fabulous tools for your business and personal success. Check out the points below!

Special NLP Event – 1 Day

Seminar NLP for Business Success this Saturday, Sept 8th, 2012

NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) is a amazingly powerful set of tools that will enhance your rapport with clients and sales prospects, and employees, increase your persuasive abilities and influence, and skyrocket your bottom line. We’re talking SALES, we’re talking about positive influence, and motivation.

This powerful seminar/workshop will focus on the language of influence, both verbal, and nonverbal, gestures, body language, tonality, physical space, and how language connects with behavior. You’ll learn quick techniques you can use right now, this minute, to enhance your business–and, indeed, your positive persuasive abilities in all aspects of your life.

Now is the time to build your wealth!! Learn incredible subconscious communication tools for business (and personal) success, and pumping up your bottom line: SALES. Learn some simple techniques you can use immediately to increase rapport and influence and power. Close those deals, so easily, and develop business relationshipsthat will endure. Taught by Licensed Trainers of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Connie & Michael Brannan.

Invest in your success! In business, and in life. Enjoy the FULL day’s experience for $97. Free parking. Refreshments provided. For more details, call Connie at (425) 564-8608 or email connie@seattlenlptraining.com or log onto http://www.seattlenlptraining.com to sign up now online!

Website: http://www.seattlenlptraining.com

Location: Bellevue, WA Hotel meeting room

When: This Saturday, September 8th, 2012, 9:30 AM to 5:00

PM.Tell your friends. We love these tools so much we want the world to know them, too. Call me, Connie, (425) 564-8608 for any info or questions or to sign up now!

This is a really nice opportunity to learn something amazing! Seats are limited, so I suggest you hop on board now to guarantee your spot. (That’s only a suggestion, and I’m only a hypnotist!)

Sincerely,

Connie & Michael Brannan

Master Hypnotists

Licensed Trainers of Neuro-Linguistic Programming

Mindworks Hypnosis & NLP

 

Posted in: Events, Hypnosis, NLP

Learn NLP – “Taster” Seminars & Self Hypnosis Workshop

Connie and Michael Brannan of Mindworks Hypnosis & NLP
Connie and Michael Brannan of Mindworks Hypnosis & NLP

Hi, Hypno-Friends!

Michael and I are excited to announce 3 special events we are offering next month. Experience and learn the NLP and hypnosis tools we use and love. We are offering three 1-day hands on seminars:

NLP for Sales and Business Success — Saturday, Sept. 8th

NLP for Personal Development & Life Success — Saturday, Sept. 22nd

Self Hypnosis (the power within) Workshop — Saturday, Sept 29th.

We’d love for you to join us for any and all! The venue is located in Bellevue, Washington. Right now we are offering a very special “Early Bird” price. $49 bucks each full day seminar! Wow!

In our e-newsletter, The Monthly Trance, and on our “blog,” you’ve read about NLP techniques and hypnosis and powerful methods of change. NOW, you have an opportunity to experience this transformational methodology live and in person.
You can sign up with a “buy now” button here: http://www.seattlenlptraining.com

Special NLP Event – 1 Day Seminar NLP for Sales & Business Success – Saturday 9/8/12

This powerful seminar/workshop will focus on the language of influence, both verbal, and nonverbal, gestures, body language, tonality, physical space, and how language connects with behavior. You’ll learn quick techniques you can use right now, this minute, to enhance your business–and, indeed, your positive persuasive abilities in all aspects of your life.

http://www.seattlenlptraining.com

Special NLP Event – 1 Day Seminar NLP for Personal Change & Success – Saturday 9/22/12

This powerful seminar/workshop focuses on using NLP for self development and life success. NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) can be described as an amalgam of linguistics and hypnosis, and is based on the study of human excellence. If it weren’t already taken, the slogan for NLP could be: “Be all that you can be.” Yes, you can. We’ll help you, as you learn and experience powerful subconscious communication tools and techniques you can use immediately to increase personal satisfaction, self confidence, influence and power. Eliminate undesirable habits! Program in more useful ones. Control your emotional states and more!

http://www.seattlenlptraining.com

Special Event – 1 Day Seminar Self Hypnosis Workshop – Saturday 9/29/12

You’ll learn incredible subconscious communication tools for personal (& business) success, and pumping up your joy and fulfillment. In this seminar you’ll learn a simple process from A to Z for going into trance and effecting positive changes. These are techniques you can use immediately to change habits, to increase personal satisfaction, self confidence, motivation and more!

http://www.seattlenlptraining.com

Now is the time to find your power!! Learn incredible subconscious communication tools for business and personal success. These workshops are experiential, hands on as well as minds on lectures and demonstrations. Come prepared to “do” hypnosis and/or NLP with us and each other. Whether its for your personal enrichment or to add to your helping toolkit as a practitioner, these events are for you! If you have any questions, please call us!

Sincerely,
Connie & Michael
Connie & Michael Brannan, CHts.
Licensed Trainers of Neuro-Linguistic Programming ™
Mindworks NLP
Mindworks Hypnosis
http://www.seattlenlptraining.com
(425) 564-8608

Posted in: NLP

Tell Your Brain: “It’s Over!”

Have you ever stewed over a problem situation, looping negative thoughts again and again in your mind? Maybe it was about family, maybe about work, maybe it was health related. I know we all have those “stew times!!” Some call it worry, or obsessing. I call it unnecessary.

What if a problem that has been looming large in  your mind could be minimized to the point of trivial? What if this problem / situation / icky-ness was absolutely OVER as far as you’re concerned and  didn’t affect you negatively anymore? That would be great, wouldn’t it?

Here’s a super simple (and massively powerful) NLP technique to do just that – to put thoughts of a problem behind you.

When we think about our life, we have a mental construct that’s called a “timeline.” We have NOW. We’re in it. There’s also a sense of past. And a future. These things actually have directionality in our minds. We “see” our life around us in space. For most people I discuss this with, the future is ahead of them, in a direct line moving out into space in front of the body. Tomorrow is close in front, and next week is further out in front, and next year is further out than that, moving along a line stretching from your body out into infinity in front of you. The past is often behind, directly behind us, and similarly, the further back in space behind the body is the further back in time in our minds. PS: Everyone’s different and there’s no right or wrong timeline. MY future is out to my right hand side, and the past goes off to my left.

Sit for a moment and think about your life, and identify your personal sense of time, your timeline.  Got it? Good!

Now, for a moment, focus on the problem you’ve been stewing about, the thing you’d like to STOP giving your mental energy.  Perhaps it’s something outside of your control and there’s no point in generating endless bad feelings about it. Or something that belongs in the past and you haven’t put it there. Yet.

Let’s do that now! Make an image in your mind that represents the “problem.” Any image will do. Whatever pops into your mind’s eye is fine. Now look at that picture, pretend it’s a picture on a canvas or screen. Notice in particular the size of the image and where it seems to loom in space.  Is it right in front of you?  Off to the side?   Close? Far away? Is it life size? Notice what you can notice about the qualities of the picture, size and location.

Now, imagine that the picture begins to change. It’s getting smaller. Smaller, it’s collapsing in on itself, like a resizing in photo-shop. Same image, just smaller. Keep shrinking it. More. Until the picture’s canvas or screen is the size of a postage stamp.  Now, shrink it to half that size! Good! Now, check in with yourself and notice if you feel better in some way about the “problem.”

Next step. Imagine that the tiny picture sprouts wings and the image begins to fly through space, like a moth. And it takes off into the directionality of your past. If that is behind you (your past), see the image moving away from you in space behind you. Further and further behind you.   Until you can’t even see it. Now, the wings fall off and the picture plops down and stays, planted where it fell. Into the past. Where it belongs.

Check in again with yourself, and see if the “problem” feels different to you. Perhaps it’s not even there. A problem is only a problem if you think it is, and this process changes your thinking. Go for it, and discover for yourself how you can reframe your thoughts so quickly and powerfully. You’re amazing beyond your own knowing, and this process is a super easy way to tell your brain: it’s over!

Go for it and let me know your results!

Warm Regards,
Connie

PS:  Michael and I have 1-day seminar events coming up in September.  You can learn more ways to use pictures, feelings, sounds, to change your thinking and change your life.  More info is here:  http://www.seattlenlptraining.com

 

Posted in: Events

Updated Events Schedule – Check it out!

Mindworks NLP

Hypnotherapy Certification Program – Discover the “Magic of Hypnosis” – 4 days, October 6 – October 9, 2012.  Info link is here:   http://www.seattlenlptraining.com

Power of Mind Workshops (in Bellevue, WA)
Info link is here:  http://www.seattlenlptraining.com

NLP for Personal Change: September 22, 2012.
NLP for Sales & Business Success: September 8, 2012.
Self Hypnosis for Life Success: September 29, 2012.

Licensed Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming Certification Program:
Intensive Format, 8 days straight: October 20 – October 27, 2012
Info link is here:  http://www.seattlenlptraining.com

Licensed Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming Certification Program: (open to  Practitioner level or higher students). Intensive Format, 8 days straight:   Next dates to be announced.  Info link is here:  http://www.seattlenlptraining.com

Learn Self Hypnosis with Connie Brannan, CHt.

Connie’s Bellevue College teaching schedule:

A Chance to Trance:  Discover Hypnosis for Goal Acheivement:  August 7, 2012. ($39 through Bellevue College).  Sign up link is here:  http://www.campusce.net/BC/course/course.aspx?C=12634&pc=1066&mc=1387&sc=

Healthy Hypnosis:  Let Go of Weight.  July 17, 2012, and July 24, 2012.  A two-evening course for $89.  Learn Self Hypnosis for weight management.  Sign up link through Bellevue College is here:
http://www.campusce.net/BC/course/course.aspx?C=11559&pc=1066&mc=1387&sc=

Learning is fun, and learning these tools is life-changing.  I hope you’ll check it out!

Warm Regards,
Connie

Posted in: Hypnosis, NLP

The Snowball Effect – Positive Changes Grow with Mindworks Hypnosis

Hi, Hypno-Friends!

“My life has improved across the board!”  Michael has received a wonderful testimonial of his clinical changework utilizing Neuro Linguistic Programming.  Watch this video.  It’s longer than most, because Margot here has a LOT to say about how her life is noticeably improving.

Michael worked with this lady, and helped her with a fear of travel, and also turned “boring moments” of her life into excitement.  Boring is an attitude, a state of mind.  Change your mind and you change your life.  Michael helped her to recognize life as an exciting adventure.  And it is, for her, more and more.  Listen!  Watch!

Margot has noticed improvements in public speaking, comfort, teaching, socializing, work, travel.  Life is fun (and exciting) again.  Suddenly, adventures materialize to meet the expectations — life has a way of doing that!!  Margot here is more open to opportunities, now she NOTICES them, and that gives her more.  Nudges towards adventure.  She’s been acting on them.  Yay, Margot!

When you make positive changes in your life, many things are touched and improve as well.  NLP is a powerhouse avenue to positive changes.  It’s been described as “hypnosis on steroids.”  Yes, it is.  Look at this lady’s life transformation–spoken in her own words, after a few minutes of changework with Michael.

I have a friend who says:  “If it’s true, it ain’t bragging.”  I’m not bragging when I say Michael and I are GOOD at what we do.  Very, very good.

Michael is also available (as am I) for client sessions.  Call us:  (425) 564-8608 and discover the most effective hypnotherapy in the Seattle area and beyond.  No brag.  Just fact.  🙂  Ask Margot.

Warm Regards,
Connie

Posted in: NLP

The School Side of Mindworks – Learn NLP ®

Michael and I are in a mini video making orgy!  Having fun with it.  Here’s another video, this one about the school side of what we do – Mindworks NLP, our Seattle NLP Training.  We teach the methodologies of success that I use to help people in my office.  Here is your “take life by the horns yourself” version of success – by learning and creating a better life experience for yourself.

We’re selling power.  Get yours anytime.  Here’s the NLP website:  http://www.seattlenlptraining.com/.

We are Licensed through Dr. Richard Bandler to teach these methodologies of success.  He created NLP.  He’s the guy!!!  I call him “The King.”  It’s not some watered-down, wannabe version calling it self NLP, it’s NLP®.  Registered Trademark.  We sell the real deal.  We are the real deal, two of Dr. Bandler’s Licensed Trainers of NLP®.

It’s the not so secret secret of my success helping clients.

We offer taster seminars to full-blown certification training programs.  Learn more here:  http://www.seattlenlptraining.com.  It really is amazing!  It’s the study of successful thinking, and it’s also a “high tech hypnosis.”

If you’ve been following my blog, you know this is my passion.  I’d love to share it with you.

Warm Regards,
Connie

Posted in: Events, Hypnosis, NLP

NLP for Personal Change & Success 1Day Workshop

Your Trainers
Connie and Michael Brannan

Hello, hypnotic interested parties!

Who wants more personal satisfaction in life?  More confidence?  More influence?  More joy?  Who wants to control their habits?  NLP is a super-streamlined avenue to personal change.  It’s been called “hypnosis on steroids.”  Who wants in on our 1-day workshop this Saturday? For an investment of only $97, it may just change your life.

1 Day Seminar NLP for Personal Change & Success – Registration Closed.  Future dates to be announced.

NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) can be defined as:  the study of human excellence.  If it weren’t already taken, the slogan for NLP could be:  “Be all that you can be.”  Yes, you can.  We’ll help you get there, with the transformational secrets you’ll learn in this amazing 1-day event.

Now is the time to improve your life!! Learn and experience incredible subconscious communication tools for personal (& business) success, and pumping up your joy and fulfillment.  It’s all about crafting your own experience of life, “driving your own bus,” as co-creator of NLP, Richard Bandler, says.

Learn simple techniques you can use immediately to increase personal satisfaction, self confidence, influence and power.  Eliminate undesirable habits!  Program in more useful ones.  Control your emotional states and more!

This seminar/workshop is hands on, with class demonstrations and exercises as well as lecture.  So you can expect a very interactive and experiential training event.  You will learn with not one, but TWO Licensed Trainers of Neuro-Linguistic Programming ™, Connie & Michael Brannan.

Our price for this seminar is $97 to enjoy the FULL day’s experience.  Ample free parking available.   We’ll be providing coffee, decaf, tea, and pastries in the training room.  There’s a restaurant on site as well as numerous other choices nearby for lunch.

Space is limited, so sign up now to guarantee yours!
Location: Bellevue, Washington 98004

Call me, Connie, at (425) 564-8608 for any info or questions or sign up now.  Or, if you’re ready to rock and roll, here’s the “buy now” button.  Sometimes you’ve just got to take action in your life and GO FOR IT.  🙂  Sorry, registration is now closed for this event.  There’s still time to get in our our 2/11/12 event:  NLP for Sales & Business Success!  More here:  http://www.seattlenlptraining.com

Warm Regards,
Connie

Posted in: Hypnosis, NLP

The Art of Successful Thinking – That’s NLP

The Power of Yet
The Power of Yet

Happy 2012!  It’s a new year.

Yesterday I was talking to someone who didn’t have a clue what hypnosis is or NLP is (Neuro-Linguistic Programming ™) or what hypnotherapy is or even a very positive view of the human mind and human capabilities.  They said they thought I help “losers who need their hand held while they whine.”  Uh, no.  Gutter ball!

#1.  There are no “losers,” there are people who feel stuck because they perceive limited choices in certain contexts.  #2.  This isn’t about story telling or hand-holding, it’s about life change and behavioral change.  NOW.

NLP is my primary tool. It’s the study of successful thinking.  How successful people do what they do, dissecting their UN-conscious strategies that lead to desired outcomes.  We ALL can create new strategies that lead to success, and change our behaviors, our thinking, our lives.  We all can model excellence.  An easy way to do this is through hypnosis and NLP.

Hypnosis is simply a method of accessing more or your own mind’s power and creativity and flexibility.  When there’s a “problem,” there’s a strategy that needs tweaking that is essentially a lack of choice.  See cigarette, I must smoke.  Lack of choice.  Smell baking cookie, I must eat it.  Lack of choice.   See a spider, scream and run.  Lack of choice.

Hypnosis offers new unconscious choices, that supplant the old ones, that are more desired and lead to success.

That’s it, in a nutshell.  Hypnosis.  It’s a success builder.  And you define the success that you’re seeking.

I love what I do, and I love when someone begins to realize that they have more choices and can create their own life the way they want it.  And, they do it!  That’s when they write me the testimonials I have on my web pages.

Here’s a simple NLP thought process that can bring a new state of mind to a problem state of mind.  It involves the power of a few simple words to change how you’re thinking, and ultimately, what you do in the world.  The magic of “yet.”  That’s a  wonderful word.  So small, and so powerful.  What does it mean?  Take the following sentences in bold font and consider them fully.

 I can’t do X.  (X being stop smoking, or lose weight, or release fear or any statement of a limitation…)  “I can’t.”  Full stop.  End of story. Nothing is beyond that conclusion.
It’s a stopper thought.  And it leads to a myriad of negative emotions. Hopelessness, overwhelm, sad.

I can’t do X, yet.  The assumption, the implication here is that I will be able to do X at some time.  Eventually, I will X.  This little word “yet” opens doors to new possibilities, learning, and movement forward.  And what is the feeling with this?  Positive, motivated, optimistic.  I can’t do X yet.  But I will!

The second response to a limiting statement of “I can’t” is “What would it be like if you could?” Answer the question.  Think about it.  Seriously. Pretend it’s possible.  This drives the mind in a new direction, creating images and thoughts and feelings of
success.  What you focus on expands.  Now your mind is prompted to move in the
direction of what you do in fact want, not dwelling within the limitation of “I can’t.”  With this new focus, behavioral nudges and opportunities to move toward that goal just seem to appear.  And you’re doing what you couldn’t do before.  You hadn’t created the right
state of mind and body for it.  Yet!

To learn more about NLP for personal development, check out our one day seminar happening on Saturday,  2/4/12. http://www.seattlenlptraining.com.

I’m hoping for you a limitless 2012.  Make it so!

Warm Regards,  Connie

Posted in: Hypnosis

The Monthly Trance – Archives

Hi, Guys!

I’m working on updating some areas of my website.  One of the improvements, I’m adding up to date links to the various hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming articles I’ve written in the past several years.  These are articles I’ve shared with my free e-newsletter subscribers, and now to all of you.  Yay!!  🙂  I think there’s some GOOD STUFF in there, tips and techniques and ideas for you to use right now, this moment, to improve your quality of life. 

The Monthly Trance

Consider it a cornucopia of hypnotic plenty.  Enjoy!

Warm Regards,
Connie

If you’d like to get info, tips, insider secrets & misc. cool and amusing stuff about hypnosis and NLP, sign up!  It’s FREE!

 

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Posted in: NLP

November Freebie: Here’s an NLP Technique for Procrastination-Busting. Play with it!

Hi, Hypnosis and NLP-interested People!

Happy Autumn!  I love this time of year.  Crispy!  Fresh.  A time for changes.  Here’s a really easy, fun, fast, and amazingly powerful technique to create change–as it’s used here, a tool to combat procrastination.

Books and mountains of words of advice have been written about procrastination, that inertia that says: “Do it later.” We all know that feeling. It’s something we want to do–sort of, but are just NOT doing. Something stops us. And that something is unknown, unseen, but we feel it. Looking at that sink of dirty dishes, I know the feeling.

I get a lot of clients who express that feeling as well. They want to exercise. They just don’t. They want to start a business. They just don’t. They want to create something, write something, learn something, organize something, clean something, DO something. They just don’t. Excuses miraculously appear that “justify” delay, with an inner thought: “I’ll do it later, I’ll do it tomorrow.”   Tomorrow, the same “put it off” feeling is in place, and more excuses appear.  Is this a familiar pattern to any of you?

Any activity can elicit procrastination feelings. Some people’s joy and positive desire and “I can’t wait, I can’t wait!” is another person’s “I don’t want to. Maybe tomorrow.” Manana!

What if it were easy to change this? What if it were easy to attach a feeling of motivation, passion, joy or even just “routine” to what we want to do? It is. I like the idea of shift to routine. If something is routine, we just do it. Because we do. No thought required. No struggle.

Here’s a simple yet powerful Neuro-Linguistic Programming ™ technique to do just that. It’s officially called a “visual sub-modality shift.” Michael calls it “Magic in action.” I call it “fun!” I’m going to walk you through a process to turn an activity that you’re procrastinating on into a routine activity you do easily.

What is routine to you? We’re all different. An example from my life is “brushing my teeth.” I do that every day. No ifs, ands, or buts. No struggle. No inner discussion. I just do it. It’s not a hardship. It’s routine. It might be something different for you. You get up and get dressed every day. Routine. Michael drinks coffee every day. Routine.  You check your email. You bathe. You comb your hair.

Pick an example in your life of a routine activity. Once you’ve settled on that, create an image in your mind that represents that activity. When you create a picture in your mind, the feeling attached (this is something I just do automatically) comes with it. Ok, got it? Good.

Now, what is an activity you’d like to become more routine? The thing you may be procrastinating on, perhaps like exercise. Make a picture in your mind that represents that. Just let it pop in. Got the second picture?  Good.

Now, I’ll walk you through the process.

First, study the picture of your routine activity. Notice all the photo-shop type qualities of the picture. Is it in color or black and white? Is it three-dimensional or flat like a photograph? Is there movement in the picture or is it still? How many images? Is it landscape mode, portrait mode, panoramic? How big is the picture. Is it life size? Poster size? Index card size? How far away from your mind’s eye is the picture?

We actually carry our inner pictures floating around us in space. Some are right in front of our face, some are at arm’s length, some are across the room, some are to the right of us, the left, above, below, behind, etc. Find the picture in space. Notice the clarity, focus, contrast, brightness, the saturation of color if there is color. Notice all those photo-shop type qualities.

Step two. Take the second picture, the procrastination one, and MATCH every quality to be the same as the qualities of the routine picture. We’re not talking content of the pictures here, we’re talking those qualities I’ve just mentioned. Brightness, location, size, clarity, color/no color, etc. Make your procrastination activity picture match in every way the routine picture.

Now, count to five.  Or, look out the window for a moment. Distract yourself. Think about something else. Just for a moment.

Now, think about the activity you had been procrastinating on…how do you feel about it now? Think about doing it right now or at your next reasonable available time. How do you feel? Are you making inner excuses not to do it or are you feeling more inclined to just do it?

If the change in feeling is pleasing to you, then, snap your fingers and tell yourself to keep the activity picture just like that–with the new qualities.

NLP is the real deal for life change.
NLP is the real deal for life change.

How we feel determines how we think, and what we do. This shift in feeling and thinking right now is going to lead to a shift in behaviors, what we actually DO in “the real world.” Prove it to yourself. Play with this and write to me with your success!

Enjoy your new-found power to get things done!

To learn more about NLP, and the magic of instant changes, visit our website: http://www.seattlenlptraining.com.

Warm Regards,
Connie

Posted in: NLP

Allergy Relief in Action – “My Nose is Free!!”

Hi, Hypnosis Friends!

As well as “doing” this work to help people make healthy and positive changes in their lives in a clinical context, Michael and I also teach.  The school side of what we do is inform and prepare others, including other area hypnotherapists, in the processes and power of NLP and hypnosis.  This video, below, is part of a class demonstration last weekend of what is known as “The NLP Allery Relief Process.”  The video is not complete, but it’s a good chunk of the work.

The idea here is:  Allergies are learned responses which can be unlearned and new responses learned.  Robert Dilts, an NLP “big name” who created this process I am demonstrating, called allergies “phobias of the immune system.”  NLP fixes phobias.  NLP can fix allergies as well.  Quicker than you can imagine.

In this video, we are replacing the neurology of an allergic response Gaia had to drinking coffee (runny nose, watery eyes, sneezing, coughing–your typical too much histamine responses) with a neutral experience.  Drinking water.  She can do that.  No problemo!!  We take that as a resource for unconsciously learning a new response to coffee.

What if she could drink coffee (as she used to be able to do) as easily and as comfortably as drinking water?  She can.  She does.  Watch!  As I touch her hand (firing off the resourceful state into her neurology via what is called an “NLP anchor”) she is relearning coffee drinking comfort, as easy as drinking water.

I love me some NLP!  If you’d like to learn more about the magic in action of NLP, check out the school side of what we do:  http://www.seattlenlptraining.com.  Mindworks NLP is a fully licensed State private vocational school.

Warm Regards,
Connie

Posted in: Events, NLP

Drive Your Own Bus

NLP is the real deal for life change.
NLP is the real deal for life change.

Hi, Hypno-Friends, Enthusiasts, & Interested Parties!

There’s still a few seats available for Michael’s and my “Power of Mind” Workshop we’re offering.  It’s happening this Saturday, July 16.  More info:

https://mindworkshypnosis.net/hypnotizer/?p=1578

and http://www.seattlenlptraining.com

It’s a driving school.  Not about motor vehicles.  It’s about LIVES.  Your life! About running your life the way you want.  Taking control.  The King of NLP, and my teacher, Dr. Richard Bandler, calls learning and using NLP “Driving your own bus.”  Yes, I do.  Perhaps, you want to, too! 🙂

This powerful seminar/workshop focuses on using NLP for self development and life success.  NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) can be described as an amalgam of linguistics and hypnosis, and is based on the study of human excellence.  If it weren’t already taken, the slogan for NLP could be:  “Be all that you can be.”  Yes, you can.  We’ll help you, as you learn and experience powerful subconscious communication tools and techniques you can use immediately to increase personal satisfaction, self confidence, influence and power.  Eliminate undesirable habits!  Program in more useful ones.  Control your emotional states and more!

It’s not fluff.  It’s not hype.  It’s REAL.  The testimonials on my website (and there are dozens upon dozens) are because I incorporate NLP into my therapy work.  In one of the video testimonials we received, a woman says:  “Everyone should be required to learn this (NLP) at an early age.  It would make the world such a better place.”  I absolutely agree.

If you want in for a one-day workshop showcasing NLP and more about hypnosis in general, too…join us!  Remember that old airline slogan, “We love to fly, and it shows.”  Well, We love NLP, and it shows.

Warm Regards,
Connie & Michael

Michael and Connie Brannan, Master Hypnotists, Licensed Trainers of NLP (tm), Design Human Engineers (tm), and more!
Michael and Connie Brannan, Master Hypnotists, Licensed Trainers of NLP (tm), Design Human Engineers (tm), and more!
Posted in: Musings, NLP

How Would You Rather Feel?

Dad and the fish
Dad and the Fish!

Hi, Hypno-Friends!

I have a photograph of my dad on my desk.  Here it is!  I’m sharing it.  This is my dad the day he caught a fish–and what a fish!– and won a salmon derby in Canada.  That’s a 70+ pound salmon!!  In my mind, it was the happiest moment of his life!

Now, of course I didn’t know my dad his ENTIRE life, I showed up when he was around 30.  But in my mind, it captures the essence of happy.  What do you think?  And, thanks to Kodak, it’s captured forever.  This moment in time.  Framed.  On my desk.  When I see it, I feel happy, too.

Kodak is cool.  Photography, allowing us to capture a moment in time visually, terrific.  Well, we have something inside us that does even more than that.  We have a wonderful ability to not just capture but recreate a moment in time as well.  It’s called “memory.”  And it’s not just visual.  Not just a picture.  It’s got the vibrancy of full-sensory LIFE.  Re-LIVING.  Our memories capture all of it, sensory rich full-bodied experiences, with movement, scent, taste, breath, energy, sound, emotion, thought, etc.  It’s all in there.  Captured in our minds and in our memories.

Guess what?  This is useful!!

Thoughts are attached to feelings.  Memory is attached to all of it.  If my dad were still alive, and I asked him to remember that moment,  that day he caught “the fish” (as it’s known in family lore), he would re-experience all that emotion you see in the picture in his body now.  Just as vividly and richly.  He would “get happy.”  Guess what?  This is useful!  🙂

 Our unconscious minds (accessible more than we know) have stored the experience.  We can capture it again via memory and use it NOW.

One of the things I do for clients is create good feelings and capture them for specific contexts.  In a problem situation, I ask them:  “How would you rather feel?”  We can do that.  Capture and bring those good feelings to where they are useful.  If it’s fear, bring calm.  You can’t have both, fear and calm operating in your body at the same time.  If it’s tension, bring relaxed.  You can’t have both, tense and relaxed at the same time.  If it’s sad, bring some happy.  You can’t be both, sad and happy at the same time.  As the old song goes:  something’s gotta give!  It’s the negative, unwanted feeling which goes.  And the positive, desired feeling which stays.

That’s NLP.  Simple processes which make that happen.  So fast!

And when you change how you feel, you change how you think, and you change what you do.

 Have you ever made soup “from scratch?”  Adding  and blending spices and seasonings, salt, pepper, oregano, what have you, and tasting, adding a little more of this, and tasting, a little more of that, and tasting, until it’s JUST RIGHT.  Alchemy happens, the flavors meld and merge in the pot into something brand new, something perfectly delicious.  Well, we can do the same thing with feelings.  Create new ones.  Good ones.

 I do this with clients!  I’m a master chef and my spices are feelings, and I custom blend new, useful feelings for clients, feelings that advance them in new directions.  We even give these new feelings new names.  I’m often amused with the names my clients create for them.  Two recent examples:  girl’s resourceful new feeling a few days ago was called “Yay, me!” and man’s yesterday was “Quiet confidence with a smile.” I like both of those!!

What’s really useful is bringing these designer, resourceful feelings into life to change things.  That’s NLP.

It’s a simple process and enormously powerful.  To feel good, I mean.

Finding out how to feel good in ways and places you want to feel good is really, really easy.  Call me.

http://www.mindworkshypnosis.net

Warm Regards,
Connie

Connie Brannan, CHt., Master Hypnotist
Connie Brannan, CHt., Master Hypnotist
Posted in: Events, Hypnosis, NLP

A Chance to Trance Sat June 18 – The School Side of What We Do

Michael and Connie Brannan, Clinical Hypnotherapists, Licensed Trainers, Design Human Engineers, and more.
Michael and Connie Brannan, Clinical Hypnotherapists, Licensed Trainers, Design Human Engineers, and more.

Michael and I created and operate a private vocational school here in Washington State, Called Mindworks NLP.  We are fully licensed by the State, and offer Neuro-Linguisitic Programming ™–it’s a “high tech hypnosis,” certification trainings.  That’s a big deal, and we LOVE it.  We also are offering a few “taster” courses.  These are 1 day seminars, which are an introduction into the things we love, hypnosis and NLP.

 http://www.seattlenlptraining.com
 

The next one day seminar is Saturday, June 18th.  If any of you readers out there are interested in learning self hypnosis, and powerful goal setting techniques, as well as some language of unconscious influence, well, here’s a day well spent for you to think about joining us.  We hope you do!   Hear ye, hear ye, read all about it:

1 Day Seminar:  Discover the Power of Hypnosis to Improve your life!

–Activate unconscious problem solving
–Increase motivation, energy, personal power
–Let go of undesirable habits, install better ones
–Enhance creativity

This powerful seminar/workshop shows you how to unleash the infinite power within you to achieve all this and so much more! You’ll learn to reprogram your own mind to act in ways you desire. Your mind and your body will be working together–for your health and success!! This amazing and experiential workshop/seminar is taught by Master Hypnotists and Licensed Trainers of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Connie & Michael Brannan.

http://www.seattlenlptraining.com
 
Hypnotic change is immediate, powerful and lasting!

Our  price for this seminar is $97 for to enjoy the FULL day’s hypnotic experience.  Incredible!  This special price is time limited, and seats are limited as well, so if you want to assure your spot in this life-enriching learning experience, sign up now! 

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Here’s more info, about all our offerings.  Take a taste of what we do for a day and learn some cool tools, or have the full-meal-deal and become a “Nelper” and a helper.

Our next Licensed Practitioner Certification Program schedule:  Intensive Format, 8 days straight:  August 6 thru August 13, 2011

New:  Our Licensed Master Practitioner Certification Program (open to Practitioner level or higher students).  Discover our unique Residence Program Format, 4 full weekends:

Sept 10, & 11, 2011
Sept 17, & 18, 2011
Sept 24, & 25, 2011
Oct 1 & 2, 2011

Power of Mind Workshops schedule:
NLP for Sales & Business Success:  Saturday, June 25, 2011
Self Hypnosis for Life Success:  Saturday, June 18, 2011
NLP for Personal Change:  Saturday, July 16, 2011

Hypnotherapy Certification Program:  “Discover the Magic of Hypnosis”  4 days, July 21 thru July 24, 2011

 These tools have changed my life!  Perhaps your life/business success/communications skills deserve a pump up!  Call me and I’ll tell you more.

Warm Regards,
Connie

Posted in: Events, Hypnosis

A Chance to Trance – My New Offering at Bellevue College

Hi, Hypnosis Enthusiasts & Interested Parties!

You never stop learning!  Not ever.  That’s one of my core beliefs, and as such it leads to the possibility of creating continuously a life more in alignment with pleasure, joy, success, power, and so on.  Learning gives you the ability to rudder your own ship.  Learning is power.  Learning is magic.  Learning keeps your mind sharp and young.

Who wants an easy and FUN one-evening learning experience, which just happens to be amazingly useful as well?  (And inexpensive.)  I’m offering something new at Bellevue College, as part of the Personal Development Continuing Education program.  Info:

http://www.campusce.net/BC/course/course.aspx?C=12634&pc=1066&mc=1387&sc=

A Chance to Trance: Discover Hypnosis for Goal Achievement

Everyone can be hypnotized and learn to focus their own unconscious minds in powerful ways to achieve their goals. If you’ve ever wondered what trance is like, here’s your chance to experience it. A Chance to Trance. Experience hypnosis first hand and be guided through an ingenious process of goal manifestation by Master Hypnotist & Licensed Trainer of NLP, Connie Brannan. Bring a pillow, if you like, and bring a goal for your life success!

A Chance to Trance: Discover Hypnosis for Goal Achievement

Item: R8970 Connie Brannan
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM North Campus   Room: V1104
Sessions: 1 W Address: 14673 NE 29th Place Bellevue, WA 98007
8/3/2011 – 8/3/2011 Fee: $39.00

If you’re in the Seattle area, you’re close enough to get in on this!  It’s not just information, it’s DOING.  I guide the whole group into a wonderful trance and lead them through a change process of goal setting and manifestation.  It’s cool.  It’s ingenious.  It’s something I’ve created that I use one-on-one with my clients for their life goals, and it’s POWERFUL.  It works!

And, notice the amazingly low, low cost of just $39 for the evening’s trance experience.  Bellevue College set that price, not me.  I think what I’m offering is beyond price.  Judge for yourself.  Join me.  The sign up link (you must sign up through Bellevue College) is here:

http://www.campusce.net/BC/course/course.aspx?C=12634&pc=1066&mc=1387&sc=

Come one and come all (class size limit 20) for this unique experience.  It just may change your life.

Warm Regards,
Connie

Connie Brannan, CHt.
Connie Brannan, CHt.
Posted in: NLP

An NLP “Anchor” In Action!

Hi, Hypno-Friends!

This is a VERY cute video.  It’s not just an adorable baby laughing as Dad tears up his job rejection letter…it’s more than that.  It’s an accurate and amazing illustration of ANCHORING.

I talk about anchors, and I use anchors all the time in my work.  It’s an NLP term.  (Neuro-Linguistic Programming, a high tech hypnosis.)  In this video, every time the baby hears/sees the paper rip, he immediately laughs uproariously.  EVERY TIME.  Stimulus, response.  Stimulus, response.  Same stimulus, same response.  Over and over and over again.    Simply explained, an anchor is an unconscious association that’s been created, a link-up in the brain.  This means that, this leads to that.  When it rains, I feel sad.  When I see a spider, I recoil in fear.  When I see a stop sign, my foot moves off the gas pedal.  When I smell chocolate brownies, I remember my mother.  Anchors!

Now, laughter is a wonderful thing to anchor.  Keep it!  When a response is less than desired, however, that’s where NLP comes in.  We can change our anchors.  Absolutely easily!  I worked with a gentleman with a debilitating fear of heights this past week.   That fear response, it was simply a learned response, an anchor.  I’m in a high place, and that means PANIC!  (Not anymore, after working with me!  Now it means calm, comfortable, confident, and clear-minded.)  What we do in NLP work, we help people break out of these unconscious patterns and install new anchors, for better and more resourceful responses.

People think they’re stuck.  They’re trapped.  They’re not.  NLP creates anchors, good ones, and replaces the non-useful ones.  I’d be happy to show you how.  As a client:  http://www.mindworkshypnosis.net or as a student:  http://www.seattlenlptraining.com.

Warm Regards,
Connie

Posted in: NLP

NLP Explained – What is Neuro-Linguistic Programming and how will it help me change my life? (Easily!)

Here’s another video! (I’m just a video makin’ machine today!!) 🙂

To experience life change with this methodology:
http://www.mindworkshypnosis.net.

To learn this life-changing methodology:
http://www.seattlenlptraining.com

NLP is a conversational, high-tech hypnosis…the most powerful change tool on earth.  It’s also been called “hypnosis on steroids.”  Absolutely.  This is the primary thing which has reshaped by body (minus 75+ pounds) and my life.  Do you think I’d have been comfortable and confident enough before NLP to make a video such as the above and chat to the world?  No way, Jose.  Do you think I’d be running my own businesses?  Perhaps, but I doubt as successfully.

NLP is a set of tools for life success.  This is what sets me above other hypnotherapists’ level of success–my NLP.  There are Practitioners of NLP, there are Master Practitioners of NLP, and beyond that level of skill, there are Trainers of NLP.   I’m a Licensed Trainer of NLP ™.  And, when you come to my office, what you’re going to receive is neuro-linguistic hypnotherapy.  In my estimation, the power of this blend and the postive changes achieved through this exceeds anything else I’ve ever heard of or experienced on earth.  I’d love it if you’d let me prove it to you.

Warm Regards,
Connie

Posted in: Hypnosis, Musings

Feel Good Spin

Here is another video demonstrating the transformational power of hypnosis.

My mom was an artist.  Water color, oils, mixed media… realistic work, abstracts, she was massively creative.   She created many series of her artwork, including one I particularly love.  She called it:  “Loving the Spin I’m In.”  I have several pieces from that series on the walls in my office.

Mom art SpinShe was right.  It’s all a spin of our own creation.  She chose one that she loved.  Me, too.

If you’re sick of the negative spin of your thinking and feeling, choose something different.  Now.  It’s so easy…with the tool of hypnosis.

Warm Regards,
Connie

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Expand the Boundaries of Your Thinking.

Michael and I made a couple new videos tonight.  Here’s one.  I call this a “magic moment.”  It illustrates hypnosis without being about hypnosis.  🙂  Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to think outside the box.  Hypnosis allow you the ability to do just that, and create workable solutions to life’s challenges and dilemmas. 

Warm Regards,
Connie

Posted in: Events, Hypnosis, NLP

NLP for Life Success – 1 Day Seminar on Saturday, March 5th.

Hi, Guys!
I’m sharing what I love, again.  🙂  Here’s an exciting event we’re offering! Michael and I are putting on a 1-day Seminar on NLP for Personal Change & Success on Saturday, March 5th, 2011, in Bellevue, WA. We’d love for you to join us! In this full day seminar, you’ll learn to use amazing NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) techniques to improve your life more than you ever thought possible!

NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) can be defined as: the study of human excellence. It’s actually a “high tech hypnosis,” a conversational hypnosis.  If it weren’t already taken, the slogan for NLP could be: “Be all that you can be.” Yes, you can. We’ll help you get there, with the transformational secrets you’ll learn in this amazing 1-day event.

Now is the time to improve your life!! Learn and experience incredible subconscious communication tools for personal (& business) success, and pumping up your joy and fulfillment. It’s all about crafting your own experience of life, “driving your own bus,” as co-creator of NLP, Richard Bandler, says.

Learn simple techniques you can use immediately to increase personal satisfaction, self confidence, influence and power. Eliminate undesirable habits! Program in more useful ones. Control your emotional states and more!

This seminar/workshop is hands on, with class demonstrations and exercises as well as lecture. So you can expect a very interactive and experiential training event. You will learn with not one, but TWO Licensed Trainers of Neuro-Linguistic Programming ™, Connie & Michael Brannan.

Enjoy the FULL day’s experience for $97. Ample free parking available. We’ll be providing coffee, decaf, tea, and pastries in the training room.

You can sign up online here: http://www.seattlenlptraining.com.  For more details, call Connie at (425) 564-8608 or email connie@seattlenlptraining.com. Space is limited, so sign up now to guarantee yours!

Website: http://www.seattlenlptraining.com
Location: Bellevue, WA

NLP for Personal Change & Success
Saturday, March 5, 2011
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
Bellefield Office Park
1601 114th Avenue SE, #103
Bellevue, WA 98004

Tell your friends. We love these tools so much we want the world to know them, too.  Now is the time to enjoy life more!! Learn incredible NLP subconscious communication tools for personal enhancement, self development, and success.

Warm Regards,
Connie
Posted in: Hypnosis

Hypnosis Expands the Boundaries of Your Thinking

Hi, Hypno-Friends!

Michael and I had some fun today, filming what we call “magic moments.”  They’re not hypnosis, per se, but they’re entertaining and they do illustrate something about hypnosis.  Watch this video carefully, and follow the directions to see something totally amazing!  You really do grow your brain with hypnosis, grow your resourcefulness, grow your joy, grow your life success.

Warm Regards,
Connie

Posted in: Hypnosis, NLP

Put a New Frame on it!

A problem is simply a frame of mind, a way of looking at things.  If it’s not a problem to YOU, it’s not a problem.  Think about flying on an airplane.  After all the hustle/bustle of travel arrangements, packing, airports, and etc. when I get on a plane, I settle into the seat and go:  “ahhhhhhhhh.”  Now it’s time to relax.  No worries.   All I have to do is sit here and enjoy myself.  Perhaps for someone else sitting down a few rows,  it’s churning turmoil inside, it’s white-knuckle time.  It’s visions of disaster.  It doesn’t have to be.  You can change your mind.  And experience life differently.  Yes, about flying, and pretty much about ANYTHING!  That’s what hypnosis can do!  It’s called “reframing.”

Perhaps you’re skeptical about those statements.   Here’s a few recent examples of reframing from my life, for further illustration.

I got caught up in the shopping frenzy last week.  My husband and I were at the mall, and I found a shirt I loved.  The color in particular was appealing to me.  Hypnotists have an “inside joke” about the color purple being hypnotic, because one of the most famous and successful hypnotists in the world, Milton Erickson, was fond of wearing bright purple jumpsuits.  Color analysis books describe purple as the dreamer color.

I found a purple shirt.  Not just any old purple, this was a rich, deep royal purple, a magically hypnotic jewel-tone purple.  I was excited to find it, and on sale!  🙂  As I was checking out at the department store, the clerk commented on the “grape” shirt.  Grape?  Yikes.  I almost put it back.  I don’t want a grape shirt, as that sounds utterly unappealing.  Purple, yes.  Grape, forget about it!  One word flipped my state of mind about the shirt, and not in a good way.  She reframed my shirt (negatively) and almost lost the sale.  This is something we teach in our NLP for Sales courses, how to reframe in a way that sells, not creates aversion.

Here’s another example of reframing.  This is a sign.

Crosswalk Sign

Perhaps you’re familiar with it.  It indicates a pedestrian crosswalk.  It’s a stylized guy crossing the street.  You can see that.

Here is a sign I saw today in a parking garage.

Pedestrian Crossing

They’ve shifted the sign slightly, and the meaning massively.  What it thinks it’s saying is “pedestrian crossing,” but what I see is a pedestrian falling, and flying through the air, obviously after being struck by a moving vehicle.  Yikes, again!  A different angle on the picture, and the whole meaning changes.  That’s reframing.

Here’s a classic example of reframing.  Imagine a roaring fire in a fireplace.  That elicits positive feelings, right?  Cozy, nice, warm.  Now, expand the picture’s parameter, and you see the house is on fire as well.  Oh, no, run for your lives!  Negative feelings.  Now expand the picture further and you see it’s all a movie set and they’re only filming a controlled reproduction of a house fire.  Positive feelings, again.  A shift of frame changes everything.

What makes this “reframing” process cool of course is changing things that are problems in your life to non-problems.  Like the fear of flying.  What if your experience of planes and flight became a frame of relaxation, like lounging on a tropical beach or sitting in your easy chair at home?  Hypnosis can do that.

Big secret:   How we feel and how we respond to things and the thoughts/frames we create around them:  it’s all moveable furniture.  Within our control.  If you want to rearrange your mental furniture in a way that creates more beauty and ease  and success in your life, I can help.  That is my gig.  My passion.  My joy.  Come see me and we’ll reframe those problems out of existence.

Warm Regards,
Connie

 

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Confidence Booster – Michael’s Tirade

Connie Brannan, CHt., Master Hypnotist
Connie Brannan, CHt., Master Hypnotist

Hi, again!  The other day my husband and fellow hypnotist, Michael, was reading the Sunday paper. He likes to do that! 🙂 In particular, he was reading Parade Magazine, one of the little inserts next to the grocery ads, coupons, and TV schedule. Under “Healthystyle Cheat Sheet” they had a little article called: “Two-Second Confidence Booster.” Basically, it was about a study and “growing research” that “found” that your body position affects your mood. Specifically, that sitting up straight can affect confidence.

Well, duh!

Michael was irritated that this was being presented as something new and groundbreaking. It’s not! This is something NLP, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, has known and advanced upon a hundred-thousand-fold over the past several DECADES, how the mind and body are linked and processes to change how you feel, how you think, how you act. I said: wow, talk about just the tip of the iceberg, that this little article shows just a tiny, tiny, miniscule understanding of our power for change and presents it as something so exciting and “new!” Michael said: it’s NOT even the tip of the iceberg. It’s less than that!

Our conclusion: more people need to know about NLP!!!

In the 70’s, NLP founder (and our teacher!) Dr. Richard Bandler developed an entire methodology that allows people to control their own lives, in his words: “get through it, get over it, get to it!” Motivation. Healing past hurts, letting go of fears and limiting beliefs, changing your current state of mind and life, and so much more, through such easy yet powerful techniques. As Richard also says: With NLP you are learning to “Drive your own bus.” I love me some Richard Bandler. He’s the KING! He’s licensed us to teach these materials, which we do through our school in the Seattle area: Mindworks NLP. If you’d like to know more about that, call me or look here:  http://www.seattlenlptraining.com.

NLP is hypnosis on steroids!

Connie and Michael with the KING, Dr. Richard Bandler.
Connie and Michael with the KING, Dr. Richard Bandler.

Michael and I are going to go study further with Dr. Bandler in Orlando, Florida in a few months! Yay!!

I use a blend of NLP and hypnosis in my therapy practice. Like chocolate and peanut butter! Two great things that go great together! I think it’s super powerful this blend of hypnosis and NLP, and my initial certification is as a “Neuro-Linguistic Hypnotherapist.” I love these tools for change. And there’s a hell of a lot more power to it than “sit up straight!”

Learn more about NLP here:
http://www.seattlenlptraining.com  We also offer 1 and 2-day seminars on NLP topics such as NLP for Sales and Business Success, NLP for Personal Development, NLP for Therapists.  It’s good stuff, and benefits anyone and EVERYONE who wants to live well.

Warm Regards,
Connie