Hypnosis Master – Andrew Austin How To Hypnotically Use Peoples' Own Behaviours To Make Them Change Forever, Even The So Called 'Hard Cases' Once You Know How To Spot Their 5 Chronic Problem Patterns © Street Hypnosis Publishing All Rights Reserved 1 Hypnosis Master – Andrew Austin Contents Page WELCOME 3 INTRODUCTION 4 INTERVIEW – PART 1 5 INTERVIEW – PART 2 31 SEMINAR 1 – PART 1 56 SEMINAR 1 – PART 2 76 SEMINAR 2 – PART 1 97 SEMINAR 2 – PART 2 114 END OF SEMINAR 133 MEET YOUR HOST 133 © Street Hypnosis Publishing All Rights Reserved 2 Hypnosis Master – Andrew Austin Welcome Welcome To The Hypnosis Masters Series In this series, you will be getting interviews and special seminars from some of the worlds best Masters of Hypnosis. Each Master Hypnotist is a specialist in one particular field and will be revealing his or her hypnosis secrets for you. Meet This Month’s Master: Andrew Austin Andrew is the author of the bestselling book, "The Rainbow Machine - Tales from a Neurolinguist's Journal". Based in the seaside village of Rustington, West Sussex, England, He’s a licensed NLP Master Practitioner (Society of NLP, Paul McKenna, Michael Breen, Richard Bandler) and Clinical Hypnotherapist (British Hypnosis Research, Royal Masonic Hospital, London) with a background clinical experience of Neurosurgery and Clinical Neurology at the UK's largest teaching hospital as a registered nurse. Since 1996, he’s been teaching Hypnotherapy and Brief Therapy techniques and more recently, Integral Eye Movement Therapy in the UK, Poland and India. In 1994, he formed the popular South Hants Hypnosis and NLP Study Group and he’s trained with such notables as Richard Bandler, Paul McKenna, Frank Farrelly, Sidney Rosen, Joseph Griffin and Stephen Brooks. Andrew has many articles which are recommended by a number of leading universities as study material for psychology students. He is regularly consulted by television production and media companies regarding alternative psychology, hypnosis and neurological syndromes. He can be as controversial as he can popular, and his services include one-to-one and group or family therapy as well as training/seminars. He’s often called on to advise families of clients who are under a compulsory treatment order of The Mental Health Act and also works with families of such clients in a therapeutic and interventionist role. © Street Hypnosis Publishing All Rights Reserved 3 Hypnosis Master – Andrew Austin Introduction Welcome to StreetHypnosis.com. My name is Igor Ledochowski and what you’re about to hear is a very special interview with Master Hypnotist Andrew Austin, which was recorded for us at a Private Hypnosis Club as part of our interviews with the Hypnosis Masters Series. As you will hear, Andrew Austin is not just a Master Hypnotist he’s also a Master Innovator in this field. Andrew’s interview and seminar will take us on a fascinating tour through advanced hypnotic principles, the secrets behind advanced covert hypnotic language patterns, as well as other hypnotic innovations and special insights that can turn almost anyone into a genuine master of hypnosis. Listen on at the end of the interview to discover how to get your hands on over four hours of seminars and interviews revealing his fascinating insights. © Street Hypnosis Publishing All Rights Reserved 4 Hypnosis Master – Andrew Austin Interview – Part 1 Igor: Welcome to StreetHypnosis.com. My name is Igor Ledochowski and I’m here with Master Hypnotist Andrew Austin, from AndrewTAustin.com. First Andrew, welcome online. Andrew: Thank you, Igor. Igor: I’m very excited to be speaking to you. Andrew Austin is the author of a famous book called The Rainbow Machine. He has quickly become known in England and in the U.S. as the maverick NLP hypnotist guy who basically tells it like it is because there’s no point in beating around the bush. The thing I really like about Andrews work is the whole mindset and attitude is one about no-holds bar pragmatic approach, does it or doesn’t it work? We don’t want any crazy theories or ideas, just plain old does this work and how to make it work. I’m very excited to pick your brains on that subject today Andrew. Andrew: Thank you, I’m looking forward to this conversation and have been for a while. Igor: Let me launch into the standard question to give people a little idea of your background. How did you get into hypnosis? You didn’t get born into the role of a master hypnotist straightaway did you? Andrew: No, I didn’t, but I have to say that for many years I thought that’s how it worked. I never realized and didn’t know that hypnosis was a trainable skill; I just thought it was something that people were born with, like magical powers. I grew up on a regular diet of every Saturday with Marvel Comics and various other comic book heroes who were either all born with magical powers or something happened to them where they inherently had these skills and abilities to change things and shoot lightning bolts from their fingertips or whatever else. One of the magical powers I always wanted was to shoot laser beams out of my eyes and capture somebody’s attention, to fixate them with something, some sort of hypnosis ability. So I’d always had an interest in the bizarre as © Street Hypnosis Publishing All Rights Reserved 5 Hypnosis Master – Andrew Austin a child, but it was many years later that I actually discovered that there were courses and such things. So, I think I always had an interest in working in the strangeness of things that were possible about human experience. It was whilst I was a student nurse that I met someone who was a hypnotist who taught me basic hypnosis. Then it was a few years after that, after qualifying that I saw an advert in a paper for a hypnosis course, which caught my attention. I thought wow, there were actual courses on these things so you can learn to do these things, so I filled out an application form and sent it off within minutes of seeing this advert. I had to find out what it was all about. I knew nothing, apart from a little bit of informal training as I mentioned, I didn’t know anything and had never heard of Milton Erickson, NLP or any form of talk therapy that wasn’t psychoanalysis. Then, from day one of the course, that was it I was hooked and that’s where the journey began. Igor: That sounds quite like jumping into the deep end. Just to put things into perspective, it wasn’t like you started your journey and one week later you finished it, that’s it and I’ve now got the magic powers I was looking for was it? Andrew: Do you know what, the amount of people that take training, they will sign up for a week long course or a course that’s over a few weekends and they expect from that training to not only have the amazing wonderful skills where people will fall at their feet and worship them, but also then to set up a clinical practice, be successful and admired by everybody within a week; but, of course, that’s not how it happens. From point of beginning to the level that I would regard as fairly expert, although it always makes me nervous when people refer to themselves as experts. I first started all of this in 1994 and I would actually regard myself as being any good at what I’m doing, probably within the last three or four years, if not slightly less then that. Igor: I’m presuming there are a lot of mistakes and learning that you have to make along the way, not just things you learn at seminars, but things you only learn by actually doing them in the real world, correct? Andrew: It’s one of the problems, working with people where, in order to get the experience and to get good at what you’re doing, you have to work with people, which is a difficult area. © Street Hypnosis Publishing All Rights Reserved 6 Hypnosis Master – Andrew Austin With ethics and all the moral and legal implications as well, how does one experience in an area where getting experience requires, to be inexperienced working in areas that you must have experience in and it’s a difficult one. So, along the way I think I’ve made quite a lot of mistakes. I’ve certainly upset a lot of people. I’ve even had a number of complaints over the years. I’ve had a lot of sessions where simply nothing happened. I tried this and that, broke out in a sweat, sometimes the client broke out in a sweat and sometimes there would be tears forming in their eyes where they would be looking at me in despair going, what the ‘fuck’ are you doing Austin? It would be this kind of, ugh, I’m just trying everything that I can and whilst mistakes have been made fortunately, I’ve never had a disaster. Igor: That brings up an important question, which is something that’s not very often talked about in the path to mastery. There’s this dilemma between how much practice you can get and what you can ethically do with people; otherwise, you’re risking damaging them and so on because to get good you need practice, but to need practice you have to be good.