The Coaching Gym
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Have you ever noticed this at a social mixer or when meeting someone for the first time, the question “so what do you do?” almost always tends to come up?
What’s even more strange is that the immediate response we seem to blurt out while our brain is on auto-pilot is something like, “well I am a ______”.
The other person nods to acknowledge you as if they know all about you already…
Over the past few years I’ve had a lot of fun with this question. Sometimes, I’ll ask for clarification politely and respond with, “do you mean professionally?” and then give a description of one of the niches I focus upon in my practice. Other times, I just randomly answer with the last thing I did that day. Of course, I try to be courteous and gauge my response to the other person’s demeanor and assumed level of playfulness.
But, its still fun to have fun… 
From an NLP perspective, we are a lot more than what we believe ourselves to be. We are constant change. We are more than what we are aware of in this moment. You are pure capacity for experience. What do you want to experience? Why?
If I can help you find answers and create solutions, just let me know!
Be Amazing!
~ MikeE
Prior to 2002, I had never considered hypnosis as a serious means of personal development or personal change. In fact, it was not even “on the radar”.
I’d venture a guess that if you’re reading this post or watching this video that something has happened in your life causing you to seek solutions that are outside of society’s pop culture advice.
For me, it was an anxiety related experience that I could not seem to get over. And, probably much like you, a Google search eventually led me to hypnosis as a potential solution. Within a week’s time I had looked up a hypnotherapist and scheduled an appointment.
There was a lot of fear and trepidation going into that appointment mainly because of the negative stigma that hypnosis had been given by many of the devout religious people that I had grown up with… Yet, at that point my life, I was willing to pretty much do anything to find a solution.
In a blur of events, I recall sitting down in the hypnotherapist’s chair as he was talking to me. Approximately 90 minutes later, I walked out of his office a little confused, a little disoriented, and feeling remarkably detached from that old source of anxiety.
Now the first session didn’t cure anything per-se, but the emotional impact and feelings around that old even were greatly reduced. I found that, over time, the first hypnosis session created a lot of curiosity and possibility for me in my life.
I was completely curious to know what else was happening in my life of which I was unaware. And within a year’s time, after doing a lot of study on my own about hypnosis, NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) and other communication models I chose to become certified in hypnosis.
Personally, it was the first step in a life-calling. I don’t know if you’ve ever had this experience before, but it’s like finding the right shoe that fits you perfectly. The possibilities and potential that exist within it encompass everything that you desire in life. This is what I found in the role of a personal development coach. Within the hypnosis models that exist Ericksonian Hypnosis is the most subtle and the most effective a model that I’ve found for personal development.
In fact, its power is in its ambiguity and for this very reason as a hypnotherapist I often don’t even need to know the specific details of the client’s problem. It’s more important for me to have a general idea as to what they want to achieve and create an environment within which a client can resolve the challenge at hand. The client will give me feedback through their physiology and language which often comes out in the form of metaphor and imagery to describe their experience as we reframe their old problem.
If you’re curious to know more, I invite you to Join My Mailing List and I’ll send you the Intro to NLP audio program that I give to my AttentionShifting.com subscribers today and you’ll get the Experiencing Trance hypnosis program in a couple of days.
Should you want to know more about Milton Erickson, I recommend you get some of the books about his work. Whether you are a teacher, a salesperson, a nurse, or designer, you’ll find a tremendous insight into human communication through the stories and metaphors he shares. It will affect the way you communicate. 
