In his article titled ‘The Miraculous Mechanics of Manifestation’ Mike Dooley asks the question “What better place to begin a talk on the miraculous mechanics of manifestation than with the very first manifestation ever, the jungles of time and space? Don’t you wonder how they all came about?”

He goes on to ask:
“Did you know that modern-day scientists estimate that there are more than one hundred billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy alone! And further, they estimate there are at least 100 billion more galaxies! That’s ten sextillion stars, not even counting planets. Yet, on this emerald floating space that we call home, scientists also estimate that there are at least one hundred million different species inhabiting air, land, and sea. Every crack, crevice, nook, and cranny on this planet is teeming with life!

Did you know that there are micro-organisms that thrive in hot lava pits? Did you know that there are whales off the eastern coast of Canada that communicate by song to whales 2,000 miles away in the Caribbean? Did you know that the Arctic Tern that takes off every year from Siberia at the onset of winter to fly 8,000 miles away to Australia, doing much of its flying while it sleeps? And in our own backyards, parks, and gardens there are caterpillars that fall asleep only to wake up as butterflies! Isn’t it amazing?Don’t you wonder how it all came about? Have you considered what kind of mind could have fathomed the details?”

He recounts at time he got an insight to these questions.
“I used to ask myself these questions to the point that my brain would sometimes ache. And then one day, kicking pine cones in my backyard to my dogs, as if struck by lightning, I got the answer! Rushing inside, I excitedly wrote it down as A Note from the Universe:

Isn’t it grand? Doesn’t it boggle your mind?
The harmony, the splendour, the beauty, the intricacies,
the synchronicities, and the staggering perfection

And that’s all you ever have to do!

He goes on to  ask:
“Do you get it? All manifestations are brought about in exactly the reverse order shown to us by our physical senses! The Universe didn’t think small and then think bigger and bigger and bigger. The Universe didn’t sit down and say, “Oh my gosh, science! Almost forgot science. We’re going to need biology, chemistry, physics, quantum physics—oh—and math. We’re going to need a lot of math for reality! ” No, the universe wasn’t assembled on a timeline! Though that’s how we typically assess any creation—using our physical senses alone, thinking in terms of beginnings, middles, and ends.Completely forgetting that time is an illusion. Instead, the Universe began with the end result: the spectacular beauty, the impossible perfection, and the infinite vastness. And in that instant, all of the mathematics, all of the sciences, everything necessary to support life as we now know it in time and space, fell into place. In an instant! The greatest secret of the miraculous mechanics of manifestation is that the entire process happens in exactly the reverse order shown to us by our physical senses. In other words, an imagined ending point forces the means (the right people at the right times) that will bring about the manifestation. The starting point of all creation, and certainly with any change we wish to manifest, is with the desired end result in mind.”

Start with the end you want in your mind. Steve Jobs would use the system of – Ask yourself ‘Why’ you want this end result rather than simply saying what you want.

It will give you a truer sense of your mission or outcome.

By finding your ‘why to’, you can accomplish any ‘how to’.

WASHINGTON- April 28, 2013- “Hypnosis seems helpful in treating addictions and the depression and anxiety associated with them”- Psychology Today

Hypnosis and hypnotherapy has been rooted in science with evidence based results reported for many years. Although the American Medical Association (AMA) currently has no clear position on the effectiveness of hypnosis and hypnotherapy, in 1958, the AMA reported hypnotherapy has a recognized place in the medical armamentarium and is a useful technique in the treatment of certain illnesses.

Hypnotherapy is considered an effective adjunct in psychotherapy for many issues, and more are being studied. On its own, hypnotherapy is reported to be beneficial: In 2001, the British Psychological Society commissioned a group of expert psychologists and published a report that declared hypnosis a proven therapeutic medium and valid for study.

The report went on to say hypnotherapy is beneficial for a wide range of issues encountered in medicine, psychology and psychiatry with regard to stress, anxiety, pain, and psychosomatic illnesses. Some illnesses described are insomnia, irritable bowel syndrome, headaches and migraines, asthma and a variety of skin maladies. Weight reduction was also cited as benefiting from hypnotherapy.

A comparison study reported in 2007 by American Health Magazine indicates some psychological issues benefit more from hypnotherapy than psychoanalysis and behaviour therapy.  A German university meta-analysis of 444 studies supported this claim, concluding a 64 percent success rate with hypnotherapy for stress, anxiety and chronic pain.

According to Sanjay Paul, A psychology instructor at several universities, hypnosis is a heightened sense of suggestibility for accessing the subconscious mind which is responsible for up to 90 to 95 percent of our thoughts and actions. No one can be made to do anything they do not wish to under hypnosis. That old, inaccurate reputation stems from night club acts.

Paul goes on to say hypnosis can provide lasting change by “cleaning the bottom of the mental fish tank” and it is the sub-conscious that helps to maintain ones self-image and record all memory via sensor input as a 24 hour mental tape recorder.

Ohio based certified hypnotherapist Janet Berg describes hypnosis as the state one must achieve in order to be receptive to hypnotherapy. She describes hypnosis as a state where the sub-conscious can readily accept and act on new information and suggestions for healing, change, growth and attainment of individual goals.

The experience, according to Paul, is the phase one enters directly before falling asleep or upon awakening and Berg claims those under hypnosis can leave this state voluntarily at any time and those who receive hypnotherapy describe the experience as relaxing and refreshing.

The American Psychology Association (APA) website has declared most clinicians now agree hypnotherapy can be a powerful, effective therapeutic technique for a wide variety of conditions.

Apparently, hypnotherapy is gaining ground fast as a respected form of therapy within the corridors of the scientific community.

Taken from an article by Paul Mountjoy, a Virginia based writer and a member of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science.

Hypnosis works wonderfully but not the way the marketing companies would have you believe.

Their strategy is to take an isolated example and write their ad in a way to makes you believe that’s how it works for everyone which is does not.

We are all individuals and although we may have similar symptoms and behaviors, everyone has a different experience of events, including hypnosis.

Here’s a made up example of stuff thats made up by marketing companies to sell a product: 
“There must be something to this hypnosis stuff. I stopped smoking in 10 minutes. Talk about amazing results. There was no effort on my part. This is crazy, but it works.”

Unfortuantly this gives the wrong impression and that in some way Hypnosis it is a magic bullet that will require no work for those who go to see a Hypnotherapist.

Working in Cognitive hypnotherapy I have seen amazing and lasting changes happen in a short amount of time this is true.

However It is my belief, that the magic is in empowering people. By understanding in our own way what we are doing that creates our problem, we can also choose how to make changes – in our own way. It then becomes our idea and desire to change, rather than being told what to do. This is what makes it feel natuaral and effortless rather than the idea of an external spell that has been cast by the therapist, that the marketers would have us believe.

For example when you where young you may have believed in Father Christmas. When you found out the truth, it took no effort to adopt the new belief. You did not have to try and convince yourself even though Christmas may not have been so much fun afterwards! You may still reminisce and think of Father Christmas but you do not slip back into believing in him. That’s because now, you have a new belief.

Contrast the first testimonial with a real world testimonial from one of my clients for smoking and see if you can see the difference.

“I went to see Jon Young regarding my smoking habit. 
In the past I have used everything from patches to Gum and even E cigarettes but I would always revert back to cigarettes.
I went to see Jon and he made it very difficult for me to justify to myself a reason why I smoke and the more weighted this argument was, the easier it was for me to kick the habit.
Jon took me through a multitude of areas including the root cause of when I started smoking. When he identified this point, I felt this was not the person I am today which also changed why I believed I needed to smoke.
I believed mind-set was a very difficult thing to change, but Jon seemed to be able to do this with ease.
In addition to the sessions, I had Jons support along the way which was amazing because at times I needed that extra support to stay on the tracks.
I am now, not only able to deal with not smoking, but I am also very confident in situations that would have, in the past made me want to smoke.
I am very grateful to Jon and would recommend seeing him to anyone who wants to stop smoking. “

Anything worth doing takes work. How you see that work depends on what you believe about what you are doing. If we have to do anything against our will, it will always appear like hard work and we are likely to give up. If however, we believe in what we are doing, the same amount of work can seem effortless, fulfilling and enjoyable.

Its all just a case of perspective and what you currently believe.

Many of us have good friends who have great advice or push our buttons in a way that makes us reflect on what we are doing in certain aspects of our lives.

It’s not always what we want to hear, but for me it’s not always the advice, but how we react to that advice that gives us clues as to what is keeping us stuck. Its then how we constructively respond to that information which will allow us to move forward.

Something I know I do is over analysis or counter argue ideas or facts. This can be great because I can see other perspectives. The problem comes when it keeps me stuck.

Something I noticed on reflection yesterday was when my good friend Alex Tumulo was busting my balls again, was my response to her ‘humble opinion’ as she put it.

My first line of defence was attack. My heckles went up and I got all the physical feelings of being under attack, which often shows, what the person has said resonates with you at some level!

I am big believer in writing your rage down because it traps it and stops It running around in your head and winding you up even more!

I grabbed my pad and went to work on my response.

One of the things that occurred to me after I had written my argument busting response and theory that would make me right was that I was spending all my time and creative juices in attack and staying stuck.

I thought if I spent this time – (an hour of angry writing) – on finding out  what I do want, and what is at present making me want to fight, then that’s got to be a better idea.

I was spending my time trying to be right rather than looking at how I could be better.

Many of us see the world from our own perspective and it’s easy to make others wrong. We can spend our time blaming people and circumstances and wind up in a spiral of self-destruction, anger and resentment.

As someone put it ‘ we drink the poison but expect the other person to die’.

It’s certainly a lot easier to blame others and victimise ourselves, but I found yesterday it was a lot less tiring when I stopped attacking and being ‘right’ and started looking internally at what was really going on for me and how I could change it to get a positive outcome and move forwards.

In a recent interview with ‘Idea Mensch’ one of my mentors and the creator of Cognitive Hypnotherapy was asked, what as an entrepreneur is the one thing you do over and over and recommend everyone else do? He replied

I have a Bruce Lee quote hanging in my gym: “Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”

He went on to say I think consistency is the single-most important trait for business people. Most let life get in the way, but you can’t negotiate with success; you either give it what it wants, or it goes to someone else.

And what it seems to want most is some of your time, every day.