Category: NLP | Neurolinguistic Programming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bdFmVOLex8&rel=0 Summary: Andy reviews the hoarding chapter and admits it now makes him uncomfortable, because it suggests obsessive compulsive disorder is easy to fix. He discusses why people keep things they may never use, including unreturned borrowed items and unfinished business, and suggests that avoiding shame may play a part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82SvS91A7BY&rel=0 Summary: Andy reviews the complex equivalency chapter of Tales from The Rainbow Machine. He explains the NLP idea of treating two things as the same, using a person who likened an interview to an execution, and links it to submodalities and to identity-level problems such as 'I'm a smoker'. He asks viewers to suggest..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWKIFSzCbXU&rel=0 Summary: Andy comments on two chapters that were originally one, The Endless Loops and Obsessions and Compulsions. He uses an example from a television series to illustrate a repeating test-and-operate loop, discusses 'what if' loops, says he thinks the term OCD is often used loosely, and describes his own inner OCD tendencies. He argues..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2peJnc7S9Mk&rel=0 Summary: Andy is the guest in episode seven of the Dare to Bare interview series on another person's channel. According to the video description, the conversation covers his career choices, therapy in today's world, narcissists and the paradoxes of life, and his personal choices and work, including IEMT and Metaphors of Movement. It runs..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tds1_07ifdk&rel=0 Summary: Filmed in his cold attic, Andy comments on the chapter about towards and away-from values, which looked at weight loss. He describes how some apparently towards goals are really about returning to the past, such as wanting to go back to who someone was before a traumatic event, and suggests this can mean..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymjuyiVr3IA&rel=0 Summary: Filmed in his attic, Andy comments on the chapter A Therapeutic Relationship. He questions what kind of relationship coaches, therapists and trainers try to form with clients, including the emphasis some place on impressing people and on being fully insured, and suggests that some practitioners need their clients more than clients need them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLe588WJogc&rel=0 Summary: Andy comments on The Television Set, a chapter he says is a fabrication combining several events into one person. It concerns an elderly man attending a service for older people with mental illness, where activities such as patting a balloon seem patronising, and looks at identity, the sick role and the idea that..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpMwKRLpHaA&rel=0 Summary: Andy comments on the Heaviness chapter of The Rainbow Machine. He discusses hypnotherapy for classic problems such as stopping smoking and weight loss, why these can seem simple for new therapists but are harder in clinical work, and the identity shift involved in becoming a therapist. He also gives his view that food..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIT2Pc5PgW0&rel=0 Summary: Filmed from Andy's new attic space, this video comments on the Problem Parts chapter. He discusses parts-based approaches in therapy, his concern that parts can be created by the therapist or other people, and how clients sometimes describe depression or anxiety as a separate thing that needs fixing. He also mentions that YouTube..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE6FmUPTB30&rel=0 Summary: Andy comments on the Critical Self-Talk chapter. He describes becoming aware of constant internal dialogue through meditation at around 18 or 19, the place of hate and self-directed hate, and how voice hearing relates to internal dialogue. He mentions a book he considers essential reading for therapists and invites viewers to suggest others.