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C O A CHIN G & COUNS ELLING F E ATURE


WHEN COACHING MEETS HYPNOSIS


What happens when you add the power and potential of the unconscious mind.


By Helen Wayland


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o you want to change something in your life, and you’ve decided to see a professional about it.


You want to get slim and fit, and include exercise in your day-to-day life. You want to improve your performance in presentations, in musical performance, in exams or on the playing field. You just want to be more motivated generally. How can you make sure your investment is going to work, as you lay on the couch thinking about it, wrapped in a warm quilt? To paraphrase Jennifer Saunders’


character Edie from Absolutely Fabulous, if change was as simple as making up your conscious mind, we’d all be doing it. (She actually said, “if losing weight was as easy as eating less and exercising more, we’d all be doing it”.) What you need to do is get all the parts of your mind, conscious and unconscious, on board. If a part of you is


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feeling terrified of standing up in front of people, like you were when you were six and trying to read, after a teacher yelled at you, the symptoms caused by that terrified child will override your adult desire to be the next Anthony Robbins (who, incidentally, has based his entire career on harnessing the potential of the unconscious mind to help people achieve their goals). If a part of you is using chocolate to


comfort yourself against all the hurts and loneliness in the world, trying to say goodbye to that sweet and sticky habit is going to be much harder than if that part changes to using exercise, or music, to soothe and heal.


So how do you get the unconscious mind to agree


to your plan? You may not realise it but your unconscious mind is always seeking a


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