About Mind Motivation

Gerry Tosh is a member of the General Hypnotherapy Standards Council, The British Institute of Hypnotherapy , The British Board of NLP and is a licensed practitioner of Hypnotherapy, NLP, Stress Management, EFT and Motivational coaching.

I am often asked what NLP and hypnotherapy are and why I studied them as subjects. Friends that know me see me as a wee bit off the wall at times and some were bemused that I should take an interest in Hypnotherapy. I have had a lifetime in sales at a reasonably high level with some large companies and written sales manuals and coaching courses for sales managers. I was on the graduate intake induction panel for Grand Metropolitan interviewing graduates from some of the world’s great universities and I was always interested in why some with the same degrees stood out from others. I have owned and run many companies in fields as diverse as furniture manufacture to mortgage broking and lots more in between. I am not writing my CV here but just giving a little background into where I approach this subject from.

So why the interest in hypnotherapy and NLP?

These are good questions but the answers are not as straight forward as you might expect. Most of my business life has been in sales of one type or another and I have always been interested in increasing the effectiveness of my own performance and that of others. What makes the difference of one sales person to another and one sales division to another, has always fascinated me. What makes the difference between a manager in a local company and the top manager of an international one is huge in the comparison of salary and benefits but not always in terms of ability. Is it then just opportunity? Well I believe it starts before that. If you have a place in your imagination for something you will have a place in your life for it and of course the reverse is also true. How can I motivate myself to achieve great things whether in business, sport or in my personal life? These are also great questions.

Why did Richard Branson make it to the top when millions of others equally as clever didn’t? We think of him as special but how different is he? Sir Steve Redgrave’s record in rowing is nothing short of remarkable. This giant of Olympic rowing has achieved record after record and medal after medal. Will we see his likes again? Could someone else do what these men have achieved? What makes Tiger Woods the best golfer on the planet? You can see in all these cases and millions more that by looking at how they achieved their greatness would help others to achieve theirs.

Einstein said he knew that imagination was more important than knowledge. Think about that! Why would that be true? Surely a university education with a top degree is the key to making your way in life? Well actually it could help but if you can not imagine the benefits it will give you and the use you can put it you will never get the real benefits.

Remember Einstein said IMAGINATION was more important than knowledge not that knowledge itself was not needed.

So what is NLP or Neuro Linguistic Programming to give it its full handle?

Put simply it is getting the best out of yourself and others.

Let me give an example. Do you always see the glass half empty or half full? What are you like as a person to be around? Are you fun happy and enthusiastic, or dour melancholy and depressing to be with? I know which type of person I would want to associate with or buy something from! I want you to consider this. If you change a belief or an attitude you also change the outcome. That is true. You only need to change a small thing in your thinking or behaviour to achieve a totally different outcome. People who say “I can’t” actually are saying they “won’t”! Rather than say “cant” say OK I will try that and see the difference it makes. If you can imagine it…you can do it!

One of the pre-suppositions of NLP is this. If someone can do it…someone else can learn to do it. That’s right, if someone can be a good salesman, a good business man, a top sportsperson, a great driver, a great athlete or anything else you can imagine….so can others by copying or modelling the way they achieve things. I believe that by using NLP it will help us achieve greater things.

Hypnotherapy is another subject but surprisingly similar to NLP. I will not attempt to say here what hypnosis is as there are reams of material on the web or in thousands of books, save this. Put simply it is the ability to put yourself and to help others to be in an altered state of consciousness, (a.s.c) to be able then to contemplate, to find, to consider solutions to problems or to achieve best performance. Think of this as a simple example. When you are speaking to someone do you ever get the impression you could tell them their clothes were on fire and they wouldn’t hear a word? On the other side can you also remember speaking to a child or another person when you had their undivided attention? Isn’t there a huge difference? Well being in a hypnotic state is very similar. You are ready to think because you are now in a different, altered state. Hypnotherapy can help with all sorts of things from deep relaxation through phobia cures to pain relief and almost anything else. Sometimes your brain gets a little out of whack, out of sync and hypnotherapy can help get it back to normal.

These are some of the things that made me interested in what is a very large and varied subject. You will see that there are other examples here as well that may interest you and I would be delighted to help you improve your life in almost any area. Be all that you can be. Take responsibility for your life now. Enjoy now who you are in this time. It sounds corny but yesterday is in the past and you can’t do anything about it. It is over and that’s a good thing. You are living now in this moment and that’s what is important.

Enjoy life now, you owe it to yourself.
Gerry Tosh