https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w2GjgsyZHE&rel=0 Summary: A long recorded conversation between Andy and Roni Matar, mainly about metaphor. Topics include figurative versus metaphorical versus literal language, conceptual metaphors, clean language, and how a song's lyrics can be interpreted. They also discuss how practitioners use metaphor with clients and the claims some make about the unconscious mind.
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What Do Enlightenment and Personal Mastery Actually Mean?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKVvbUZ9VUk&rel=0 Summary: Andy looks at how the words enlightenment and personal mastery are used in eastern mystical traditions and in the personal development world. He questions what people actually mean when they say they have achieved either, and what exactly has been mastered, especially when the claim is followed by an offer to sell a..
Read moreIf NLP is so good, why is my trainer so fat?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_ukUZPJigI&rel=0 Summary: Andy responds to the comment that if NLP is so good, some NLP trainers should not be overweight. He asks whether weight is a simple individual choice, whether that framing is a moral judgement, and how addiction and denial can come into it. He says he has never known NLP practitioners claim NLP..
Read moreNew courses coming up: IEMT Practitioner, IEMT Advanced Practitioner and Metaphors of Movement Levels 1&2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BMBJ27O9d8&rel=0 Integral Eye Movement Therapy Technique Training with Andrew T. Austin: https://www.integratedeyemovementtherapies.com Metaphors of Movement Training with Andrew T. Austin: https://www.metaphorstraining.com Join Andrew T. Austin's YouTube channel to get access to loads of additional videos with new content added each week. #metaphors #andrewtaustin Summary: Andy explains that he has been teaching courses and announces upcoming..
Read more“There goes the neighbourhood.” (Mental health, cultural disrespect and lack of self discipline.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBrL7zBj8hI&rel=0 Summary: Andy reacts to a filmed street incident sent to him by a colleague. He recalls a similar situation more than twenty years ago when he attended an injured man in the street, and notes that this time everyone was filming. He goes on to discuss respect, taking offence, self-restraint and self-discipline in children,..
Read moreMental health and the ever-widening use of the term
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjLMr2us8DM&rel=0 Summary: Andy argues in this short piece that the term mental health is being applied more and more widely, for example to disagreements over pronouns or school attendance. He believes this dilutes the concept and overwhelms services, so people with serious conditions find it harder to get treatment. He also notes a report calling..
Read more“Do you believe in the occult?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcmWLvA1ZN4&rel=0 Summary: Answering a viewer's question, Andy discusses what it means to ask whether someone believes in the occult. He says people often only want a yes or no on topics such as the devil or fortune telling, and explains his own interest in the magical and ritual material. He also describes how initiatory orders..
Read moreThe Magician Archetype – Part 1: The 4 elemental weapons/tools
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFO1YDNdm6Y&rel=0 Summary: Following his earlier video on balancing archetypes, Andy begins a series on the Magician, as shown on the tarot card. He covers the four elemental tools: the wand associated with fire, will and action, and the tools for the other elements, including earth as the physical body and world. He shows examples painted..
Read moreA supermarket encounter and differing views on infection risk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usPWEpkNGvo&rel=0 Summary: Andy describes an encounter in a supermarket while looking after an elderly relative, when another shopper objected to how close he was standing. He reflects on differing attitudes to infection risk and responsibility towards other people, mentions his own previous COVID infection, and asks viewers what he should have said in reply.
Read moreVaccination and public attitudes during the pandemic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkHOB9xK5vs&rel=0 Summary: As a follow-on from the mask video, Andy shares his views on vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic. He recounts catching typhoid in 1998, explains in general terms how some vaccines are produced and why rapid development led to scepticism, and discusses how people weigh individual choice against protection of others. He gives his..
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