I never really paid much attention to the educational work that has been done on hypnosis until I reached a certain point in my own personal development work. I finally realized that one of the big blockages for me was how much influence I had on my interactions with other people and I wanted to do something to change that.

So that’s when I decided to investigate the power of conversational hypnosis and how it would allow me to more strongly influence and persuade people to my point of view on a day to day basis. Some might call this a form of manipulation, but I prefer to think of it as a more powerful form of communication. Over the years I’ve spent a lot of time banging people (metaphorically, of course!) over the head getting them to agree with me. Read the rest of this entry »

Influencing with integrity is a quality of true leaders.

For several years now, lots of authors have talked about emotional intelligence in the family and in the business or the organization. We are now shifting towards spiritual intelligence; term popularized by Stephen Covey in his book “the 8th Habit”

I don’t think this is an improved way of thinking about leadership; this is literally a paradigm shift that people, leaders and aspiring leaders need to make in order to lead from the heart, true leadership style of the future. Read the rest of this entry »