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Training 5 min Hypnosis Training, A Many Varied Thing All hypnosis is not the same thing. The three distinct aspects behind the courses on offer, and what the labels actually mean when you choose a training. 20 November 2020 Training 2 min Hypnosis Medicare And Health Funds Medicare covers hypnotherapy only when a clinical psychologist performs it on referral. What that means for provider numbers and private health fund rebates. 20 November 2020 Training 3 min Can Anyone Learn Hypnosis? Anyone who can speak can learn hypnosis. Why the styles differ, why some things sold as hypnosis are not, and why the skill takes practice not a weekend. 20 November 2020 Training 2 min How to Choose A Hypnosis Academy Ericksonian, traditional, conversational and street hypnosis do different jobs. How to decide which style to learn before you pick a hypnosis academy. 20 November 2020 Mind and self-help 10 min Some Guru Wisdom The internet is full of self-appointed masters selling the secret to everything. How to tell earned experience from a title bought a year ago. 20 November 2020 Training 1 min Mesmerism and Hypnosis Training in Melbourne Australia Mesmerism induces trance through energy rather than words. What it is, how it differs from modern hypnosis, and how Rick Collingwood teaches it. 13 January 2014 Hypnosis history 2 min The Difference Between Mesmerism and Hypnosis Modern hypnosis works through sound and words. Mesmerism uses very few. Why the two trance states differ and which conditions each one suits. 13 January 2014 Client work 7 min Cleaning Blood With Hypnosis Blood clots in both lungs put Rick Collingwood in intensive care in 2008. A first-hand account of what he did with hypnosis while he was wired to the monitors. On or before 10 March 2013 Hypnosis history 22 min The Commissionaire's Reports Into The Effectiveness and Existence of Mesmerism Three reports were written on Mesmer and animal magnetism. The first found in his favour, so the Royal Society refused to publish it and ordered two more. On or before 10 March 2013 Technique 2 min The Difference Between Direct & Indirect Suggestions Paired direct and indirect suggestions, set side by side, so you can feel which one draws you in. A practical way to test your own responsiveness. On or before 10 March 2013 Mind and self-help 8 min Energy The universe, and everything in it, is vibrating energy solidifying into matter and reverting again. What that means for the atoms making up a human body. On or before 10 March 2013 Client work 3 min Hypnosis and Chronic Fatigue A mother rang in 2004 about a son written off as incurable with chronic fatigue. What the case involved, and the results Rick Collingwood has seen since. On or before 10 March 2013 Technique 6 min Hypnosis The Facts & Fallacies - Rick Collingwood Trance predates ancient Egypt, but hypnosis is traced to Franz Anton Mesmer in the 18th century. Separating the documented history from the folklore. On or before 10 March 2013 Technique 2 min Hypnotic Reality Vivid imagination and hypnotisability are not the same thing. What relaxation actually does in hypnosis, and why the two are routinely confused. On or before 10 March 2013 Client work 2 min The Immune System and Stress Doctors know of at least 80 autoimmune disorders and cannot do much beyond treating symptoms. What stress does to the immune system, and where the mind fits. On or before 10 March 2013 Technique 3 min Inception From A Hypnotist's Point of View The film Inception put shared dreaming in front of a mass audience. A working hypnotist separates what the mind can actually do from the screenwriting. On or before 10 March 2013 Mind and self-help 8 min Intuition & Human Sensing Systems An extract from Ingo Swann's The Secrets of Power on scientific discoveries regarding psi faculties, and what they suggest about human sensing systems. On or before 10 March 2013 Hypnosis history 11 min The Past Masters of Mesmerism & Hypnosis The figures who built hypnosis: Mesmer, Puysegur, Braid, Esdaile, Liebeault, Bernheim, Charcot, Coue, Elliotson, Lafontaine, Erickson, Arons and McGill. On or before 10 March 2013 Technique 10 min Persuasion Techniques Persuasion is not brainwashing, but it does shift opinion without the person noticing. The right-brain access that a handful of common techniques rely on. On or before 10 March 2013 Mind and self-help 3 min Remote Viewing & the Possibilities of Consciousness A section from Rick Collingwood's book Go Deeper on how consciously observed perception builds reality, and what out-of-body accounts do to that idea. On or before 10 March 2013 Hypnosis information 4 min A Scientific Assessment of Neuro Linguistic Programming (N.L.P) Dr Heap of the Sheffield Health Authority reviewed all the research behind NLP's central claims. What that careful and thorough assessment actually found. On or before 10 March 2013 Technique 11 min When Hypnosis is not Hypnosis Rick Collingwood's first hypnosis workshop in 1992 was five days of lectures and videos. Why so much of what carries the name is not hypnosis at all. On or before 10 March 2013 Hypnosis information 11 min A Word From Rick Collingwood Rick Collingwood left a career in the automotive industry in 1992 to study hypnosis. His account of the training that taught him almost nothing. On or before 10 March 2013 Client work 4 min The Aftermath of Suicide Suicide does not end with the person who dies. A direct account of what the hours and years afterwards look like for the family left in the house. 7 March 2013 Client work 1 min Personalised Hypnosis MP3s A one hour hypnotherapy session recorded for one person and delivered within four days, from a hypnotist whose generic programs have reached a million people. 27 February 2013 Hypnosis history 26 min Anton Mesmer & the Beginning of Modern Hypnosis Modern hypnosis is not Mesmerism. What Franz Anton Mesmer actually practised in the 18th century, and how the two came to be treated as the same thing. On or before 18 January 2013 Client work 4 min The Benefits of Clinical Hypnosis Clinical hypnosis gives the therapist access to the subconscious mind to correct habits and psychosomatic conditions. Why results rest on the therapist's skill. On or before 18 January 2013 Client work 4 min The Benefits of Using Rick’s Hypnosis MP3s Self-hypnosis MP3s can clear unwanted habits and set a new outlook. The trouble is a flooded market, so this covers what separates a good recording from filler. On or before 18 January 2013 Client work 4 min Hypnosis and Stress Management Everyone carries daily stress and everyone handles it differently, some in ways that cost them. Where hypnosis fits alongside the usual coping habits. On or before 18 January 2013 Client work 3 min Hypnosis for Pain Management Hypnosis resembles sleep on the surface but the subject is awake and responding to suggestion. How that interaction is applied to managing pain. On or before 18 January 2013 Hypnosis history 4 min Modern Day Mesmerism Franz Mesmer was a magnetist, not a hypnotist. The lineage from Paracelsus and the Egyptian temple masters through to the Marquis de Puysegur. On or before 18 January 2013 Hypnosis history 4 min The Use of Hypnosis in The 20th Century and Beyond Freed from its mesmerist trappings, hypnosis spent much of the 20th century as a closed academic pursuit. The shifts that moved it back into practice. On or before 18 January 2013 Mind and self-help 5 min Setting Goals Goals focus your thinking, but only when they are set the right way. The format, the consistency and the specifics that separate a goal from a wish. 11 January 2013 Mind and self-help 1 min Wealth and Attitude Many million dollar lottery winners end up worse off than before they won. Why money alone does not make a person wealthy, and what wealth consciousness is. 8 January 2013 Client work 2 min Gambling Problems Australians lose about $19 billion a year gambling, $12 billion of it into poker machines. Why betting is so ingrained here, and what can be done about it. 7 January 2013 Technique 2 min Light or Solid Your body is more than 99 per cent space, and the solid remainder is made of the same particles as light. What holds it together as an apparently solid unit. 29 December 2012 Hypnosis history 2 min The Beginnings of Hypnosis The word hypnotism was coined in 1843, but the practice is as old as human tradition. The ancient records of sacred sleep, divination and miraculous healing. 24 December 2012 Technique 2 min Not all Hypnosis is Ericksonian After three years as a dedicated Ericksonian practitioner, Rick Collingwood tested the rapid inductions he had dismissed. What changed his opinion of them. 21 December 2012 Mind and self-help 2 min Getting What You Want Nothing is too good for you and nothing is owned by a favoured few. A case for asking plainly for what you want rather than waiting to be judged deserving. 20 December 2012 Training 1 min Hypnosis Training Rick Collingwood expected to snap his fingers and entrance people. The training began with a video of Milton Erickson, and the reality was nothing like it. 19 December 2012 Hypnosis history 2 min Without Mesmer By his own admission Mesmer was not a hypnotist. Without his work hypnosis may never have become a therapeutic profession. Where the techniques came from. 18 December 2012 Training 1 min Hypnosis Skills Learned or Inherent? Genuine hypnosis is as much an art as a learned process. Why forcing it into an academic framework, and into sub-modalities like NLP, has cost the modality. 17 December 2012 Hypnosis information 4 min Australian Hypnosis Legislation No state or federal body oversees hypnosis in Australia. Practice is self regulated by the associations, and complaints go to state health departments. On or before 16 October 2012 Mind and self-help 10 min Different States of the Mind The conscious mind decides and the deeper mind runs everything else. Understanding the states of mind is what makes it clear how hypnotherapy works. On or before 16 October 2012 Mind and self-help 3 min Free eBook "As You Think" A free modernised version of James Allen's 1902 classic As A Man Thinketh, now public domain, with a note on why it shaped so much modern philosophy. On or before 16 October 2012 Technique 20 min NLP & Hypnosis: There is a Difference NLP is not hypnosis, and the studies looking for its effectiveness have not found it. Why the two get confused, and what to check before you enrol. On or before 16 October 2012 Mind and self-help 4 min Television for Mass Manipulation Watching television drops you into an alpha state and shifts you into the right brain. What that does chemically, and why it makes the set a powerful medium. On or before 16 October 2012