Head of the Tanks

If you think of your thoughts as your tools or implements, you may find it’s time to start cleaning out your toolbox. When you get rid of your negative and other unnecessary thoughts, unnecessary feelings such as worry and anxiety and various types of physical symptoms such as eg unnecessary tension, ie everything that the […]

Are you your thoughts?

“I’m an idiot,” says my client Vivi when she enters my office. My questioning supervision makes her immediately justify her claim. She tells how she recently behaved when she visited the toilet in the waiting room, how she did not dare to lock the door, but instead held the door handle convulsively to prevent anyone […]

Entering Hypnosis: A Client’s Description

What is it really like to move from an ordinary waking state of consciousness to a hypnotic one? Many people ask that question. It can be difficult to give a general answer to the question of how hypnosis is induced because there are different hypnosis methods that result in different types of altered states of […]

“No one could ever hypnotize me”

Let’s examine this not entirely unusual claim in the light of what we know today about modern hypnosis. People’s ability to enter hypnotic states varies but anyone can learn hypnosis. In the past, it was believed that some, about twenty percent, could not make it, but luckily that is not true. With individually adapted preparation […]

The conscious subconscious

What or who is it that gets you out of bed when you wake up in the morning? Turning off the alarm clock before you’ve even woken up? Showering, getting dressed, doing all this that happens completely automatically without the slightest thought or intention? You might answer: It happens completely unconsciously. We look up the […]

Observation training – the first step on the way inward

We can sometimes understand phenomena and processes more easily if we imagine them in pictures and similes. I therefore ask you to imagine that you are like a fruit, e.g. a peach, with a skin, pulp and inside a core. The shell is what is usually called consciousness but which I prefer to call your […]

Boss of the thoughts

If you think of your thoughts as your tools or implements, you may find it’s time to start cleaning out your toolbox. When you get rid of your negative and other unnecessary thoughts, unnecessary feelings such as worry and anxiety and various types of physical symptoms such as e.g. unnecessary tension, i.e. everything that the […]