THE INFLUENCE BETWEEN US

What Is Hypnosis? The Science, the Myths and What Really Happens.   Can someone hypnotise you against your will? Are you asleep during hypnosis? And what does neuroscience actually tell us about the hypnotic state? In this episode, Susan Wallace separates common hypnosis myths from what we know about focused attention, suggestion and the science of hypnosis. From stage hypnotists to everyday experiences of deep concentration, you'll discover why hypnosis is far more familiar than you might think. We also explore what understanding hypnosis can teach parents about the influence of words, attention and communication in family life. Chapters (00:00:00) - Introduction: Hypnosis Myths and Parenting(00:00:59) - The Everyday Hypnotic State(00:02:18) - Myth: Hypnosis is Sleep(00:03:35) - Myth: You Lose Control(00:04:16) - Myth: Only Weak People Can Be Hypnotized(00:04:58) - Myth: Hypnosis Isn't Real(00:05:43) - Where Parents Come In(00:06:51) - How Words Land: The Nervous Example(00:08:35) - The Power of Positive Language(00:08:58) - Three Takeaways for Parents(00:10:46) - Closing Thoughts and Next Episode Preview

What does putting a child to bed, teaching them to ride a bicycle or comforting them after a nightmare have to do with hypnosis? Quite a lot, as it turns out. In this episode of The Influence Between Us, Susan Wallace explores the psychology of suggestion and how parents use language, repetition and reassurance to influence their children's thoughts, feelings and behaviour. You'll begin to recognise how suggestion works in everyday family life, why some words are more helpful than others and how understanding these processes can change the way you communicate. Discover more about hypnosis and join our free Online Therapy school at iHYPi.com. Chapters (00:00:01) - Introduction: Everyday Hypnotic Suggestions(00:00:29) - Bedtime Rituals as Suggestion(00:02:04) - Learning to Ride a Bike: Active Suggestion(00:02:35) - Comforting After Mistakes(00:03:29) - Soothing a Child After a Nightmare(00:05:55) - Building Agreement: Leading with Truth(00:06:50) - The Risk of Negative Suggestions(00:08:11) - Practical Tips for Parents(00:09:50) - Closing Thoughts and Next Episode Preview

You Have Hypnosis Skills. You Understand Your Child's Emotions How do you know something is wrong with your child before they've said a single word? Parents often recognise subtle changes in their children's behaviour, tone of voice and body language without consciously naming it and assume they aren't great at parenting. But those natural skills are deeply hypnotic in their own way. In this episode, Susan Wallace explores parental intuition, emotional attunement and the communication skills we develop through years of caring for our children. You'll discover why these natural skills are also important in hypnotherapy, how worry can interfere with them and what changes when you begin using them consciously. Learn more about hypnotherapy, sign up for our free online therapy school at iHYPi.com. Chapters (00:00:00) - Introduction: Hypnosis as a parenting skill(00:01:24) - Reading the unspoken: teenager comes home from school(00:02:12) - The pause in the car: knowing when to wait(00:02:54) - Soothing a frightened child without a script(00:03:36) - The phone call from college: hearing what's beneath the words(00:04:00) - Naming the skill: attunement in hypnotherapy and parenting(00:04:59) - Why parents feel like they're guessing(00:05:56) - Closing thoughts on worry

The Voice At Home Becomes Your Child's Inner Voice Have you ever caught yourself saying something and realised it sounded exactly like your mother or father? The words children hear growing up can influence their confidence, self-esteem and the way they speak to themselves well into adulthood. In this episode of The Influence Between Us, Susan Wallace explores how parental influence, repetition and emotional experiences contribute to a child's inner voice. Why do some childhood comments stay with us for decades, while others are forgotten? Discover what this means for the way we speak to our children and the small changes that can make a lasting difference. Explore hypnotherapy and the psychology of suggestion at iHYPi.com. Chapters (00:00:00) - Introduction: The Inner Voice(00:00:40) - Whose Voice Is It?(00:01:39) - How Children Absorb Household Voices(00:02:21) - Example: The Pay Rise Hesitation(00:03:40) - Why Negative Sentences Stick: Repetition(00:04:20) - Why They Stick: Feeling and Timing(00:06:20) - No Blame: Parents Pass On What They Learned(00:06:55) - Teflon vs Velcro: Positive and Negative Voices(00:08:12) - Building a Positive Inner Voice(00:08:45) - Practical Steps: Listen and Choose Words(00:09:35) - Repetition as the Key to Change(00:10:40) - Closing Thoughts and Next Episode Preview

Have you got your Hypnotherapy Driving License for hypnotherapy legal and ethical obligations, GDPR, informed consent, record keeping, online hypnotherapy law, hypnotherapy insurance requirements. Before you can offer your signature service to case study clients or fee-paid clients, you need to be fully aware of your legal, ethical, and administration obligations. This is where your hypnotherapy driving license comes in. This includes who you can work with during training, your scope, limitations, and obligations around the law in your jurisdiction, the law in the jurisdiction of your online clients, GDPR, privacy, consent, record keeping, disclosures, and reporting. On this episode we talk about why this is important. I speak openly and honestly about this because every service provider, no matter what industry they are in, has got to meet their compliance, complaints, and regulatory procedures, and so do we.  Find out more at https://ihypi.com/ Chapters (00:00:00) - Introduction and Overview of Legal Obligations(00:00:42) - The Hypnotherapy Driving License Concept(00:01:25) - Why Compliance Keeps You and Clients Safe(00:03:04) - Training to Meet Legal and Ethical Standards(00:03:42) - The Driving Test Analogy(00:05:07) - Professional Recognition and Insurance Benefits(00:06:03) - Accreditation and Professional Memberships(00:07:05) - Learning the Law Without Fear(00:08:09) - Closing Thoughts on Professional Belonging

Discover how six Gestalt interruptions to contact reveal why hypnotherapy clients can understand the change they want but familiar patterns continue to block their progress. This episode introduces Gestalt contact work for hypnotherapists, psychotherapists and coaches who want to recognise the pattern beneath the presenting problem and respond with greater clinical precision. This is a master class in soma-focused hypnotherapy where you'll become familiar with the six interruptions and how how energy moves in each one. Together we will explore introjection, projection, retroflection, deflection, confluence and egotism. From there you're invited to join me live for the UNSTUCK. 15 hours of CPD that awards you with a Gestalt-Informed Certificate in Somatic Pattern Interruption. https://ihypi.com/unstuck/ Subscribe for practical conversations about hypnotherapy, somatic practice, practitioner development and building a sustainable therapeutic career.  Chapters (00:00:00) - Introduction: What Gestalt Contact Work Reveals(00:01:49) - The Contact Cycle: Needs, Energy, and Completion(00:03:21) - Six Interruptions to Contact and Their Latin Roots(00:05:29) - Deflection: Pushing Energy Aside(00:06:15) - Introjection: Swallowing Rules Whole(00:07:03) - Projection: Throwing Energy Outward(00:08:09) - Retroflexion: Bending Energy Back(00:08:24) - Confluence: Merging with Others(00:09:27) - Egotism: Spectating on Yourself(00:10:24) - Reviewing the Six Interruptions(00:12:09) - Why These Patterns Developed and Why They Persist(00:14:36) - Applying the Patterns to Anxiety Work(00:17:53) - Turning the Lens on Your Own Hypnotherapy Practice(00:18:27) - Deflection in Practice: Avoiding the Real Problem(00:19:37) - Introjection in Practice: Subconscious Business Rules(00:20:49) - Projection in Practice: Mind-Reading Clients and Colleagues(00:21:56) - Retroflexion in Practice: Over-Rehearsing and Self-Blocking(00:22:53) - Egotism in Practice: The Inner Critic Commentator(00:24:09) - Confluence in Practice: Blending In with the Profession(00:25:18) - Introducing the Gestalt Informed Certificate Course(00:27:29) - Course Structure and Closing Thoughts

In this episode, Susan Wallace takes hypnotherapists on a guided trip through the brain to show how hypnosis fits inside modern neuroscience. Using a lamp in the shape of a head, Susan introduces the brain’s “security team”: the Spotlight of attention, the Alarm of the salience network, the Doorman of the anterior cingulate cortex, the Body Messenger of the insula, the Storyteller of the default mode network and the Cinema Screen where suggestion becomes rehearsal. This episode is for hypnotherapists, clinical hypnotherapists and hypnotherapy students who want a clearer language for what happens in trance. Susan explores how hypnosis works with attention, body awareness, nervous system regulation, suggestion, neuroplasticity and the rehearsal of new responses. If you have ever watched a client settle in the chair, respond to your voice, soften into the work or rehearse a different future before it happens in the outside world, this episode gives you the neuroscience language for what you already know in practice. Hypnotherapy is not sitting outside the science of change. It belongs inside the conversation about the brain, the body and psychotherapy. Topics covered include hypnosis and the brain, selective attention, the salience network, the anterior cingulate cortex, the insula and interoception, the default mode network, suggestion as rehearsal, neuroplasticity and why hypnosis is not sleep. Chapters (00:00:00) - Hypnotherapy and Neuroscience(00:04:03) - A Hypnosis client: Thomas Thalmas(00:06:27) - Anxious Clients(00:08:41) - Derek Dack, the doorman(00:12:37) - A Hypnotherapist's Inner Sister: Ursula Insula(00:16:51) - Damon DMN the Storyteller(00:20:56) - A Hypnotherapist's Inner Rehearsal