International Hypnosis Research Institute - Coaching

Healing Treatments for Creativity

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:12:00 -0500

Massage, hypnotherapy, and many other forms of alternative healing enhances creativity. There are no ifs, and, or buts about it. The relaxation that occurs stimulates inspiration, because a relaxed mind in a relaxed body are more receptive to the impulses of creativity than their tense counterparts. Is there any surprise that so many of the world's great scientific insights and artistic conceptions occur in a restful state rather than a restless one? The famed "a ha" experience of eureka that can make you laugh in delightful "ha-ha," happens when you're most relaxed, not when you're most worried or irritable. While receiving an Indonesian massage on a luxury yacht off the coast of Thailand (I know...that sounds good to me while I read it, too, even a year after the fact), I gained inspiration for this column, as well as for one on tuning in to what your healing clients experience from your treatments. During other massages and coaching sessions that I've received in the past, I've gained ideas for other columns, for new workshops that I would eventually give, and for new books and mini-books that I would write. [More]

Your Clients are Already in Your Own Backyard

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:51:00 -0500

By Coach Cary Bayer Recently, while doing a Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle, I was stumped by a clue for a four-letter word. The clue was "Grant." I ran through the Rolodex in my mind and came up with answers like award, prize, and so forth. None of them were four letters. Finally, I got the first letter; it was a "C." But that didn't help me either. Eventually, the light bulb went off in my mind--Eureka. (No, not that endearing term of excitement--it's got six letters.) The answer wasn't a grant of money, it was a Grant of Cary. The irony in this story is that there were only two men who ever made my mother's heart race, and they were Cary Grant, and my father, Sam Bayer. And that's why she named me Cary Bayer. [More]

Keys to Strengthening Buy-in, Trust and Team Coordination... - Part II

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 03:06:00 -0500

by Mark Gorkin, LICSW Keys to Strengthening Buy-in, Trust and Team Coordination in a Generationally-Culturally Diverse (Military) Workforce -- Part II Part I of this two-part series has delineated five of the "Top Ten Tools and Strategies for Strengthening Buy-in, Trust and Team Coordination among a Generationally-Culturally Diverse (Military) Workforce," including building communication bridges and fostering a team/systems concept that has application for both military and non-military work settings. [More]

Keys to Strengthening Buy-in, Trust and Team Coordination... - Part 1

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:35:00 -0500

by Mark Gorkin, LICSW Full Title: Keys to Strengthening Buy-in, Trust and Team Coordination in a Generationally-Culturally Diverse (Military) Workforce - Part I I'm preparing for a major offsite event with the Command Teams of the 1st Cavalry/Ft. Hood, TX. I've been asked to explore new (for me) conceptual territory -- Generational Diversity. More specifically, the Army wants me to provide some fresh ideas and exercises for "Communicating with the Younger Soldier." To oversimplify matters: how can the predominant generations in authority -- the Traditionals and Boomers -- connect with GenXers and Millennials. And in today's 24/7 always on world, rapidly cycling between constant upgrading and "doing more with less," creating communication and team coordination bridges among the military (and civilian) generations -- and among all its culturally diverse components -- is mission and morale critical. [More]

Word Watchers: Putting Your Vocabulary on a Diet

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:52:00 -0500

By Coach Cary Bayer Norman Vincent Peale, one of the 20th century's great positive thinking gurus, once said: "Change your thoughts and you change your world." To that I would add the following idea; namely, that it's just as wise to change your speech. If you want to lose weight, it's obvious that you have to watch what you eat and change how you exercise. A veritable fortune has been made by Weight Watchers with such a formula. If you want to prosper as an alternative healer, then it's also important that you watch what you say. I call this article Word Watchers. [More]

How to Stay Focussed in a Distracting World

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:16:00 -0500

by Lorraine Pirihi What are you focussing on achieving in your business in the next 90 days? Do you have any idea? If you don't then you better come up with a goal or outcome otherwise you may find that another 3 months has passed you by and you're no further ahead than where you are right now. [More]

Get Into Flow

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:02:00 -0500

by Michael Licenblat When people produce their best results, they talk about being in a state known as 'the zone'. Put simply, this is a highly productive state of mind and body where you are simultaneously intense and calm, able to focus on the specific whilst monitoring the big picture, all whilst appearing natural and effortless. [More]

How Your Cat Can Help You Grow Your Business

Thu, 20 May 2010 00:29:00 -0500

By Coach Cary Bayer My cat is a 10-pound Buddha named Ananda (Sanskrit for bliss) because she's the fastest purrer in the West. This calico has taught me volumes about how to succeed in the healing arts business. They can teach you, too. [More]

Being Consistent Will Get You Results

Mon, 17 May 2010 00:46:00 -0500

by Lorraine Pirihi Many business owners try something once and if it doesn't work, they don't usually bother again. A great example of this is sending out a newsletter to your database. [More]

7 Leadership Steps to Create High Performance in Your Organization

Tue, 11 May 2010 00:56:00 -0500

by Sam Slay 1. Stakeholder Surveys - You must determine a base line for your employees. You should conduct a series of surveys designed to find out what your employees know, what they don't know and what they think they know. First, do they understand the true mission of your organization? If you think so then think again, because making money is not the mission. [More]

If You Schedule it, They'll Come

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:26:00 -0500

By Coach Cary Bayer "If you build it, he'll come."--The Voice, in A Field of Dreams Recently, while communicating on my Facebook for massage therapists, an LMT in New York State asked me how to get more clients. I asked her how many more sessions she wanted to do each week, and how much time she had for them. She said she wanted 10 more weekly clients. A business coach for massage therapists and alternative healers, I proceeded to teach her a secret for manifesting that I teach in some of my continuing education courses that wasn't mentioned in The Secret, the best-selling video and book. In other words, you heard it here first. [More]

Stop Procrastinating And Take Action

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:38:00 -0500

by Lorraine Pirihi How are you progressing with the goals you set yourself this year? Have you made a start? Or are you still procrastinating or caught the very popular "I'm too busy" epidemic? [More]

Personal Coaching: Going Bigger, Moving Faster and Finding Transformation!

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:25:00 -0500

by Louise LeBrun Our world is not about to change, it already has changed! We can no longer simply presume that what was, still is; and that what we once held to be true can still be relied upon to continue to be true. From the more obvious effects in our physical world of global climate change to the more subtle changes in our thoughts - our beliefs about ourselves, our world and our ability to move effectively through that world - we know intuitively that something is moving and we're right in the middle of it all! [More]

Don't Advertise What you Do, but What your Client Receives

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:19:00 -0500

by Coach Cary Bayer Earlier this year, I was teaching a series of classes in our nation's capital and, wanting to get some fresh fruit for a post-seminar snack, I went into a Giant grocery store in Silver Spring, Maryland. Unlike just about every other supermarket and retail outlet that I've ever walked through throughout this vast nation of ours, it, surprisingly, did not have a customer relations department. But don't be shocked. That's because this Giant had already awakened its own inner giant: it has a Solutions Center. The difference is quite palpable. Customer relations is what stores offer; solutions are what customers desire. Going into a store that sports its own department for solving your problems is a fresh breeze that would make anyone a loyal and devoted customer. [More]

Expanding the Stress Response through an Organic/Poetic Mindset

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500

by Mark Gorkin, LICSW Expanding the Stress Response through an Organic/Poetic Mindset: "Fight and Flight" and "Freeze and Flow" According to the leaders of a two day conference on "alternative health," language frames the essence of health and illness. For example, the workshop leaders were uncomfortable with the use of the word "stress" regarding the human condition. Stress, of course, was first defined as a property of metals, specifically an ability to withstand tension. For the instructors, stress terminology turns the body into a machine, something that can then be operated upon and repaired. With a mechanical mindset, however, the essence of the individual (also from my perspective, the team) as a living and evolving (also devolving) organism is easily lost. The human capacity for natural growth and innate healing when mind-body-spirit and the relationship with nature are in harmony can too easily be bypassed or undervalued. Before the mid-20th century takeover by "stress" terminology, the much more human notion of "grief" captured the tensions, trials, and tribulations and "sadder yet wiser" triumphs or, at least, "growing pains" of everyday life. [More]