NLP Podcast Extract : Brian Mahoney on Hypnosis

Brian Mahoney is a certified hypnotherapist and master hypnotist who runs Boston Hypnosis. He has trained with many of the worlds leading NLP and hypnosis trainers and practitioners.
"I am Brian Mahoney, I run Boston hypnosis in Boston Massachusetts, over in the US, I do therapeutic hypnosis on a really wide area of issues, mainly behavioural, emotional, although there are some physical issues as well."

"Well, you've got the textbook definition 'a state of highly focused attention - for the purpose of selective thinking' and there's others as well. For my purposes, hypnosis is a state, it's a state for people to get some work done so people can get some things solved for themselves."

"Well, it's kind of interesting. I think with a lot of people in the NLP community my door was Tony Robbins. I did a lot of his stuff through the nineties, as I was in a more traditional business career, and at the tail end of that I began to do some coaching work with some guys that I was managing."

"And I was just wowed by the quality of results that these guys got for themselves, with this pretty basic stuff that I was teaching them from Tony Robins, Dale Carnagy, Steven Covey, so I decided that I liked coaching. and when I left the company I was with I began to do some coaching work and I pretty quickly realised that the type of tools that I had didn't really have the horce power I needed to really help people sort some things out within themselves."
"And I knew that Tony came out of NLP so I decided 'well, I should learn this stuff.' so I went to see John Grinder in London in 2003, and from then it was just a whirlwind of training, with who I think really are the best minds in NLP, and hypnosis. And in 2004 I opened the doors at Boston hypnosis."

"Well from the career standpoint it's enormously rewarding, it's rewarding in the way that every day I get to see people solving major life problems for themselves, or almost every day anyway, and there's a lot of satisfaction to be found in there."

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