Author: Will Williams

  • “Mind Over Illness”: What Doctors Don’t Tell You (for a good reason)

    I happened to stumble upon an article called “Mind Over Illness” in a magazine called What Doctors Don’t Tell You (Oct 2017 issue), written by Lynne McTaggart (author of The Intention Experiment and The Power of Eight. By the way she’s also a self-acclaimed “Intention Guru”). It had a nice big stock-photo of hands you…

  • The Myth of the Conscious/Subconscious Minds

    Its really just a metaphor to distinguish various psychological processes and phenomena into “aware” and “not aware”. The subconscious mind isn’t really a “thing” like many hypno sorts would have you believe – and used as such, the metaphor can actually be very limiting. Let me explain why, because this gets very interesting.

  • UK Hypnotherapy = Relaxotherapy

    There’s a lot messed up about the UK hypnotherapy scene. Here’s the basic unfortunate pattern, and it doesn’t seem to change: 1) Someone burns out of a sales or IT job, normally in their forties.

  • Learning from a Stage Hypnotist

    So I went to a stage hypnosis show, with the eager goal of going on stage and experiencing it. I wanted to have a greater appreciation of how stagecraft, lights, audience and unpredictability affected things, as well as to experience being a hypnotic subject with a seasoned professional. Unfortunately, the night didn’t live up to…

  • The exaggerated and misjudged nonsense of NLP – as shown in the words of Richard Bandler

    I recently read Richard Bandler’s “Make Your Life Great” (2008). It reawakened my frustration with NLP as a whole, and how it preys on a crowd hungry for hope (the customers) or power (the practitioners) to perpetuate its inflated promises and flimsy doctrines. Here’s an example of the kind of bullshit I’m talking about: “I…

  • Compliance – is it Hypnosis, or just being nice?

    Compliance vs Unconscious Response I saw a hypnosis demonstration recently in a lecture hall of professionals. The speaker asked for a volunteer, then selected one based on their prior suggestibility. As the volunteer stood up, the speaker said “and you can just go into a trance right now… as you come up to the stage”.…

  • Hype-nosis

    On most occasions, when I’ve met highly reputed hypnotists, I’ve had that realisation of “oh, they’re just people too”. What was I thinking? Many seem to become these almost mythical figures, wielding some special power that isn’t available to anyone else. Its all hype of course – suggestion and influence being the very thing that…

  • The Dark Imagination: My Theory for Hypnotic Phenomena

    There are a few theories that attempt to explain hypnosis, all with their own strengths and weaknesses. I don’t particularly want to get into them all here to prove anything, but I will touch on a few that resonate with my intuitions and experiences the most. Recently through studying the idea of conscious will being…

  • Why Hypnosis is Real, in 1 Min

    Why Hypnosis is Real, in 1 Min

    Its a question that everyone asks, because hypnosis a hard thing to understand (and most people are afraid it). Well here’s a really fascinating thing that will make you look at hypnosis in a different way:

  • A fear of not belonging taken to the extreme – the reclusive world of a Hikikomori

    A fear of not belonging taken to the extreme – the reclusive world of a Hikikomori

    Its shocking and frightening to think just how many people are so afraid of not being good enough, that they don’t have the courage to interact with society and feel worthy of connection. So much so, that they never even leave their own house.