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   Alex Evans on February 7, 2017 at 11:15 pm

   There should be a differentiation between single session issues like performance enhancement, quit smoking, simple phobias compared to deeper issues that require multiple sessions like child abuse, PTSD, social anxiety etc. This oversimplification confuses beginners because the colour changing, spinning techniques taught by hypnotists and NLP masters won’t work with deep down, multifaceted issues.
   One of the reasons Feud moved away from hypnosis was realising that discovering the cause didn’t produce change in itself. Which is true, but he didn’t posses the techniques to reprocess the cause with informed adult/child, forgiveness, future pacing etc.
   Regression is not a stand alone therapy but it’s the most powerful tool in a hypnotherapists toolbox. It saddens me to see it constantly dismissed by hypnotists selling’rapid’ change workshops that over simplify Hypnotherapy.
   Also the old chestnut about retraumatising clients by regressing to cause is also quite misleading. A proper reprocessing of the cause adds understanding and empowers the client defusing the negative emotion permanently.
   If you want to make permanent changes stop gambling by dealing with syptoms. Discover the cause and reprocess it for permanent change. That means tackling emotions head on instead of using ‘safe’ disassociated techniques for fear of abreaction.
   You of course need proper training in these techniques which are by no means outdated…

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     Howard on February 8, 2017 at 11:08 am

     Hi Alex,

     Thank you for your comments…

     The podcast is indeed intended to spark exactly this kind of interesting discussion so thank you for taking the time to put these thoughts together.

     In fact, I may start asking on future interviews for their take on “differentiation of issues” in terms of approach and indeed how would they define “simple” vs. “deeper” issues. (I hope you don’t mind me stealing this question ;-))

     It certainly saddens me too… when people put down or dismiss ideas/tools and techniques that many of us use and have used with great success. Having said that… I don’t think it means that we can’t explore other ways in which we can look at “change-work” as part of our professional development.

     Over the course of the series I am interviewing a variety of different change-workers with very different ways of working and from very different models of therapy (although I know we have a had few hypnotists so far!) And as such, I certainly won’t be able to agree with every view, method and strategy that everyone I interview has… but it’s simply a format to allow us to hear a little more about what others are doing.

     Thanks for tuning in… and thanks for sharing your insights…

     Howard

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     Anthony Jacquin on February 9, 2017 at 10:44 am

     HI Alex,

     Thanks for listening and for your considered response.

     I agree, some issues need more than one session. It is useful to make that clear.

     I took a look at your website and see you are a ‘skilled analytical hypnotherapist’. On there you say ‘On average deep seated trauma resolution, depression, social anxiety, panics attacks, PTSD and phobias can be dealt with in 4 sessions.’ Is this the distinction you would like to make – the difference between one and four?

     In those four sessions, how many of them would involve regression?

     What evidence is there that regression is ‘the most powerful tool in a hypnotherapists toolbox?’
     There is a great deal in the Evidence Based Hypnotherapy book I mentioned that it is not. There is a great deal more in Victim’s of Memory by Pendergrass.

     On your site it suggests you trained with Chrysalis, and with Richard Bandler, and also with stage hypnotist Jonathan Chase?

     Did either Chrysalis, Bandler or Chase teach you that ‘regression is the most powerful tool in a hypnotherapists toolbox? or did you reach that conclusion yourself?

     You suggest people interested in regression get proper training in such regression techniques. Where would you suggest they can get such proper training?

     Thanks again for taking the time to read and reply.

     Best regards,

     Anthony

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   Korey Samuelson on February 8, 2017 at 9:36 pm

   Hi Howard,

   Thanks for putting these interviews together.

   Every time I listen to Anthony Jaquin speak I have an “Aha” moment. If I understand him correctly he says that the hypnosis feels real for the client when it feels like a happening, as opposed to something they are doing themselves. In this interview he said that the client feels as if their problem/issue occurs as a happening. (Aha!) It feels as if the problem behaviour just happens and they have no control over it.

   What struck me is that both scenarios are the result of the client’s own imaginings taking on a life of their own. They have created their own experience of reality then forgotten, disavowed any responsibility, or can’t understand how they are doing it to themselves.

   This has given me some great thinking material. Very cool!

   As to regression, I do not believe in its necessity. But if the client believes there is value, as Anthony said, then it can be useful.

   Korey

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     Howard on February 8, 2017 at 10:38 pm

     Hi Korey,

     Thanks so much for taking the time to comment…

     Aren’t those “Aha” moments great! One can already be very familiar with ideas and even just hearing it said in a slightly different way or in a different context can trigger a whole new set of thoughts.

     Pleased you are enjoying the interviews.

     Howard

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     Anthony Jacquin on February 9, 2017 at 10:50 am

     HI Korey,

     Thanks for taking the time to listen and feedback.

     The doing / happening distinction really gets to the heart of the cognitive behavioural view of hypnosis that I have settled on. All behaviour is automatic. We just have a subjective accompanying sense of control or nonvolition about it. This has implications not just for theories of hypnosis, but for our work as hypnotherapists and ultimately philosophical questions regarding our nature as human beings.

     You can learn more about this theoretical position on a CD produced by myself and former business partner at Head Hacking, called Ripped Apart: The Automatic Imagination Model, available from my shop http://www.anthonyjacquin.com/shop

     Checking out the work of hypnotism academics Barber, Spanos, Kirsch and Lynn will be of interest too.

     Anthony

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   Deborah Plumb on February 10, 2017 at 10:38 am

   I’ve just listened to Anthony Jacquins podcast with great interest and I thought I would comment , not as a professional but as a recipient of rapid change therapy – I was treated by Anthony’s father Freddy Jacquin for pain – this was long term pain that I had had for over 15 years and had been told by the medical profession that I would never be free from – it took only one session to be free from this pain – that was over six months ago and having gone from taking 26 prescribed tablets per day to zero, I now have my life back – Rapid change certainly worked for me !

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     Howard on February 10, 2017 at 10:41 am

     Hi Debora,

     Thanks so much for taking the time to comment… and thank you so much for sharing this!

     As you can probably tell, I have a great passion for getting the world to see that Rapid Change can indeed take place… so these contributions are wonderful!

     Thank you and pleased to hear that you have your life back!

     Howard

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     Howard on April 12, 2018 at 11:16 am

     Hi Deborah, thought you might be interested that I have just released an interview with Freddy Jacquin! Enjoy… and hope you are well.

     https://rapidchangeworks.co.uk/blog/2018/04/09/interview-freddy-jacquin/

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