Change your Mind and Keep the Changes




What is NLP and how does it relate to hypnosis?

NLP, which stands for Neuro Linguistic Programming, and Neuro Semantics were both terms originally defined by Alfred Korzybski, writing about a theory he proposed under the heading of General Semantics. In the early 1970s Richard Bandler and John Grinder worked together to formulate an understanding of how the brain worked like a computer and was programmed using a relatively simple system. The study of how the mind could be reprogrammed linguistically arose under the general title of NLP. Later on Michael Hall added another branch of the study under his own title of meta-states, and later Neuro Semantics.

NLP works by altering the way connections are made in the neurology of the brain. As a result “magical” healing can take place. NLP is often confused with a set of models that make change easy, but NLP is not these patterns but a far wider study. Because NLP patterns are so powerful change mechanisms as much damage can be done as improvement in the hands of a less than skillful operator

The language patterns of NLP are closely associated with those often used in hypnosis, yet hypnosis is not always NLP. Hypnotic language speaks to the unconscious parts of the mind in ways that that part ca understand. Sometimes hypnosis can be used to circumvent aspects of a person that are hindering positive changes.

The purpose for all mind therapies is to encourage you to bring your overall life into harmony and balance. As an NLP hypnosis therapist, I use a wide range of tools to find ways to alter the patterns that create limitation in a person’s life. NLP is a strategic method based on a principle called TOTE. These letters stand for the process of Test – Operate – Test – Exit. As a therapeutic approach, NLP always contains a test for an existing state, a process for change and a test that the process has generalised before ending the session.

The TOTE structure is used in a way that:-

1. recognises the existing comparative desire potential.(ie)What you want compared to what you don’t want
2. designs a well-formed mental strategy for utilising the desire (what you do want) potential
3. sets up a series of experimental actions under supervision that leads you to experience a collapse in the old behaviour
4. Creates a new behaviour experientially that gives you what you actually want.

This just means learning to behave to get what you want while making sure that it is what you “really” want.

My therapeutic interventions, whether for personal or business coaching, can be challenging, and always productive. I believe that there is no point paying for coaching if one is not prepared to make the changes wanted and needed.

“My methods stand on an underlying foundational belief, that each one of us has a life purpose, and we need a plan of action to actualise ourselves.

To achieve “success” in whatever way you understand the term, means setting a direction to sail, motivated and aligned by clear concise knowledge of our own values, with clear, concise, measurable outcomes along the way. All this is known as a wellformed outcome.

Strategic Astrology

Another unique approach to counselling developed by Francis is Strategic Astrology. Astrology is used in this as a way of uncovering the hidden resources each one of us has as part of their personality, and then using therapeutic change techniques to develop your full potential. The natal birth chart is a symbolic representation of the potential of a soul-being within a social, cultural and familial context. The cycles of transits are external pressures that are always bearing down, and progressions represent responses made to those pressures. Through discussing these three aspects and other factors with a client, I can place life challenges into perspective, and identify the timing of the major wounding experience that most people continue to reproduce in an endless cycle.

By uncovering the balancing potentials every person has we develop a strategy and direction forward. With these understandings in place, we can use the change technology of Neuro Linguistic Programming, Neuro Semantics, and Hypnosis to align the presiding mental strategies with the desired outcomes.

I have prepared this method as an on-line counselling process.
First Session: Engaged in through email connections, you send:-

• A brief description of the life challenges that you are experiencing. (Use the Well-Formed Outcome process at the bottom of this page to help focus on what you want different from what you are already experiencing).
• Your date of birth
• The place where you were born
• The time you were born, if known accurately
• The place where you currently live
• A current passport type photograph or scanned picture
• A short history, including such things as

1. The first time you moved house
2. Th e date you first went to school
3. The date of any major illness or hospitalisation
4. The dates of marriages, deaths of parents, and any other significant factors

You will receive:-

• natal plus transits/progressions charts in jpeg format.
• A detailed personality profile related to the life issues (not computer generated)
• A brief description of where you are up to and the sort of external pressures that may be applying to you and where that may lead
• Suggestions for the directions and ways to address the issues

Session 2: In the next part of the process, you write an conclusions, insights, reflections and clarifications that come to you after reading the personality profile. This is limited to 2 pages of text.

Then I send you my responses to your insights, and further develop the diagnostic astrology. I also send you written and practical exercises to do over a set period.

Remaining Sessions: You send in the results from the exercises and experiments, along with any insights, consclusions and any noticeable changes in behaviour and feedback from significant other people.

I send you extracts from texts, or recommend reading, along with more exercises. If desirable I send hynotic tapes or CDs (extra charges for these).

At other times telephone contact can be made when personal contact is desirable.

The specific tools used can, yet not necessarily do, include:

• Incorporation Spiritual Astrology and esoteric Psychology
• Natural Hypnosis and Trance Phenomena
• NLP interventions and Time Tracking
• Provocative Interventions
• Activating the Soul Purpose
• Other tools for changing consciousness




Click here for therapy models used by Francis

Setting a Wellformed Outcome Exercise