Conversations with Alan Eisenson

Peter Blum

The art of hypnosis has been a curiosity to people throughout history. Hypnotists have been thought to have magical powers and the process of hypnotherapy was often misunderstood. Naturalistic hypnosis, based largely on the work of Dr. Milton S. Erickson, is a gentle, effective tool for short-term therapeutic change. The hypnotic state is one of relaxed alertness, in which clients are quite aware of their surroundings, and genuinely have the feeling of choice in their future behavior. Hypnotic work is always conducted in an atmosphere of trust and respect. What Is NLP? Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) represents a relatively new discipline dating back to the mid-70's. NLP is a synthesis, organized by two primary co-founders, Richard Bandler and John Grinder, which draws from the genius of Virginia Satir, Dr. Milton Erickson, Fritz Perls, Gregory Bateson, and the field of General Semantics. A systematic study of human performance. NLP shows how the structure of subjective experience can be broken down into its smallest components (chunks), and changed, modified, improved upon, or removed. There is a great deal of overlap between NLP and Brief, Solution-Oriented Therapy. NLP is valuable wherever human communication skills can enhance results - in business consultation, management, negotiation, education, counseling, therapy, relationships, parenting, nursing, public speaking, sports performance, and many other areas. Neuro-Linguistic Healing™ is the application of the primary concepts of NLP toward a focus of healing, both self, and others. It is somewhat inevitable and actually of great value that each person who becomes a healer brings their own particular past skills and competencies to bear in their individual approach. For me, growing up in a musical household, and having had a lifelong love affair with music, it was quite natural that sooner or later, I would begin to appreciate some of the applications of sound and music for healing purposes.