Jonathan Chase the Hypnotist

Persuasion and Influence. You nearly always see these two together don’t you? I use them together because thanks to usage what they actually mean is lost behind what people think they mean.

The truth is that one is usually hard work and the other – well the other just happens.

Because the law sees hypnosis as ‘sleep’ could this lead to some real Svengali stuff? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8370674.stm Rock star Peter Buck used automatism as a defence in court. In court he has been found not guilty of assault on airline cabin crew and to be suffering from “non-insane automatism”, basically his mind is not in control [...]

You are mental! Oh yes you are. You are a Subconscious Mind and Conscious Brain. That is,  your mental process looks like that. There are without doubt 2 mental process’s at work, one is called the conscious and the other the subconscious. I think the easiest way to think of them, and to get a [...]

Well sometimes you just have to smile – even when the truth isn’t being stretched all that far.

Your subconscious mind should be thought of as a bright 9 year old child. That is the level of emotional maturity we get before ‘Grown Up’ becomes our preferred mask.

Video 2 of Mike on the learning in Wolverhampton. Most people, especially those with the formal ‘relaxation is hypnosis’ background have the idea that hypnosis is all about sleep like states. I prefer to work with people who are deeply hypnotised but to all intents and purposes are otherwise ‘awake’.

This video has been watched by over a quarter of a million people on YouTube alone. It is what you see. The full story was Mike – the Victim – was bet by Andy a fellow attendee at a class I run in Wolverhampton when camcorder were still called video cameras and had a handle [...]

There is a term used in NLP, Presupposition. Before presupposition the French had a term for it which pre-dates presupposition by about a hundred years first appearing around 1845 in a history of a Franco army triumph. The term? Fait Accompli – which means ‘the deed is done’.That roughly means to suppose that something has [...]

Got an email the other day, “Dear Sir. I have studied both your work and that of Erickson and would ask of you if there is some step I should first btake to become a hypnotist as great as you peoples? Pepé from Brazil” So I looked at what Erickson and I have in common [...]

What’s all in your head? Well everything. The body can live without the brain but it doesn’t experience anything. Even you think of the mind as external it still needs the process of the brain to connect. Some one once said that it isn’t the eyes that see, it’s the brain that see’s! Perception is [...]