Posted by Jamie Dixon on Oct 12, 2009 in Daily Blog
I’ve recently designed an introduction to a fun and exciting journey called HypnoDrunk, available as as downloadable MP3 (20 minutes long).
Now for those of you who know me, it comes as no surprise that my first product would be something a bit outrageous and from the feedback I’ve had so far, you guys have been having a lot of fun with it!
Ever since I became involved with Hypnosis I’ve searched for ways in which people can try out new things and discover more about the way your mind work. HypnoDrunk is a natural progression in this line of thinking and is the first in a range of products I’ll be releasing that teach people how to have more fun and unique experiences connecting their mind with powerful physical phenomena.
Over the years of working with people to help them overcome their limitation, shyness, social anxieties and phobias, I learned that’s it’s not enough just to help people get rid of these things. People want more fun and interesting things to put in place of their old behaviours that make their lives more compelling, joyous and filled with more love.
As I continue to work with people, I find myself adding these things into each session I do with my clients so that not only do they get the results they came in asking for, they also find their lives getting richer and more amazing than they could ever have thought possible when they first came to see me.
This is where my idea for HypnoDrunk first came in. I started to ask myself, “If people are capable of doing such amazing things with their minds, why not use this so they can experience more of the good stuff right off the bat?”
As human beings we have the amazing capability to remember things from the past and feel exactly how we did at the time they happened. For some this had led them into reliving traumas and negative experiences, but the same is even more true of the amazing experiences we’ve had in our lives.
Remember something you did that made you feel amazing. Perhaps a night out, an amazing holiday or a shared moment with someone special. Remember where you were, what could you see, hear and feel right now, and while you think about that, notice how those feelings have already started to come back. Perhaps even a little smile started to make it’s way to your lips.
Your mind is so powerful that with just a few seconds thought, you can begin reliving fantastic experiences all over again almost as-if you were back there in the moment.
Just recently I helped make a documentary for Sky that asked the question, “Can I Hypnotise myself drunk”. The answer, it turns out, is Absolutely! Right after this aired on TV I was invited to The Sun newspaper to work with one of their journalists who was interested in experiencing this directly. This was a great opportunity to really put these ideas to the test and demonstrate just how powerful the mind is.
My passion is in teaching people how tap into the true capabilities of their mind. To be able to not only re experience intense and powerful feelings from the past, but also to start mixing great feelings to create the kinds of experience that some people have only dreamed of. This introduction to HypnoDrunk is just the start and I’m very excited about what’s to come!
Posted by Jamie Dixon on Jun 3, 2009 in Daily Blog
I was sat in my living room the other day just thinking about all the great things that have happened in my life over the past three or four years and I started to wonder about all the changes that have happened.
I got to thinking about how the coaches I have, the friends I have and the people I surround myself with have, in their own way, created changes in my life. The more I thought about this and wondered how they helped me to change, I started to realise what it was.
People change when you give them space to change on their own
When a Formula One racing driver is speeding along the race course at over 100MPH, he knows which way to go because the road twists and turns in certain ways and in that moment, he’s happy to follow that route because he knows it leads to the finish line. It’s not the only finish line the racing driver will ever come across because each race has it’s own path, each has it’s own twists and turns and each one has a different route to the finish line.
It’s not the road that makes the racing driver good or not, it’s his ability to use what’s available to him and to be tenacious about getting where he wants to be. The road is just the guide that shows which way to turn at which point and when it’s a good time to put your foot down and really go for it full speed.
The road also helps the driver to know when it’s a good idea to slow down and take it easy, because sometimes, the best way to get around a corner is to just slow down, aim the car, and let the road take you in the right direction.
To me, coaching is similar in many ways. Sometimes people come to me an expect me to perform miracles in their lives. I always explain to them that miracles will happen, but they won’t be because of me. Just like the road acts as a guide for the race driver, so too does a coach act as a guide to their clients.
Michael Neill often tells the story of a stick that was floating down a river and got stuck in the weeds. The stick didn’t need therapy, it just needed a small nudge to get it flowing back down the river.
When I think about all of the wonderful changes that have happened in my life over the past few years, I realise that a lot of those changes happened because I was able to let them happen. The people around me were able to help my life to transform by just being around and acting as guides in my life.
Change happens inspite of therapy, not because of it. One of the truths about being a coach is that we’re here to help our clients aim their changes and transformations.
It’s one thing to laugh and it’s one thing to change, but to aim that laughter at the problems of the past and direct that change to an even more inspiring future, to me, that’s what sets my soul on fire and that’s what I love about the work I have the pleasure of doing.
Posted by Jamie Dixon on May 19, 2009 in Daily Blog
Today I’d like to announce the release of a new project we’ve been working on over these past few months. The Coach Crowd (http://www.thecoachcrowd.com).
This project aims to bring coaches together from all over the world by giving them a place to organise and RSVP to “meetups”. A meetup can be held anywhere. From the pub to a resteraunt to a picnic in the park. Thecoachcrowd.com aims to bring coaches together in the real world so they can socialise, coach each other and generally share experiences and have lots of fun.
Here’s what it says on our About section over at thecoachcrowd.com
Are you a coach or involved in coaching type work? Perhaps you’re a therapist or god forbid a psychologist
TheCoachCrowd is the place where real people arrange to meet in real life. It’s a strange concept, I know, but I thought it’d be a good idea for coaches to have a place where they can arrange meetups.
Want to find out what events are already planned? Why not View All Upcoming Events. Interested in hosting your own meetups? Start now and Host a Meetup.
You can arrange to meet anywhere you like. The pub, a restaurant, the park, anywhere.
If you’re not already a member Register now!!!
The service is completely free so come on over, register, and join in the fun !!
Posted by Jamie Dixon on May 11, 2009 in Daily Blog
One of the greatest things about being a coach is the vast array of amazing people I get to meet. Whether it’s my clients, my colleagues or people I meet at different events, I’m always in awe of the fantastic work people are doing.
One of the things I hear from coaches quite often is their fear that other coaches are going to take business away from them. Not because they mean too but just because there’s a lot of people doing coaching these days.
That kind of belief can only exist if you’re working from the assumption that every client should come to you and that you as a coach need more clients. The truth is, it’s not the number of clients you see that makes a successful coaching practice, it’s the transformations you help your clients to make.
When you start to work from a place of freedom and transformation, you’ll start to get the clients that you really want. If needing clients is the primary driver then it’s going to change how effective you can be as a coach, but seeing clients because they excite you and you know you can truly help them, makes it so both you and your clients have the freedom and opportunity to trully change.
On this note, I’d like to introduce you to some coaches who I think do amazing work. “Woah, hold your horses lad!!” I hear some of you shouting. “You’re promoting the competition?”. The true answer that that is no. I’m not.
The reason I’m not is because each of these people in their own right are amazing coaches and do wonderful work. One of the things that makes the work they do so wonderful is that they only see clients they really want to see. Competition only exists when coaches are all fighting for the same clients. It’s simply not true that every coach is right for every client and every client should want to see you. The more-than-likely-truth is that each coach and each client are unique and because of this, different people will be more suited to working with different coaches.
My prime objective is the transformations of my clients. When I know they’ll benefit hugely from the work of other coaches, these are the people I refer them to:
Steve is a fantastic coach and friend living and working in Horsham, West Sussex. Steve and I have trained together for over 3 years and in that time I’ve come to recognise him as one of the best coaches in the UK. His genius is his ability to take what seem like complex problems and to turn them quickly and elegantly into things that can be easily solved.
Jenny has been a friend and colleague for around 4 years now and she’s one of the people I go to for my own coaching. One of Jen’s specialities is Confidence Coaching and Coaching for Job Seekers. Read what her clients say about her, you’ll be amazed.
Chris is one of the most inspiring people I know. As a young man he was already changing political policy and now he’s helping people to become amazing at what they do. Chris works with people who want to take what they already have and become even better at it. The work Chris does truly is about creating the kind of future for yourself that makes you go “Wow!”
I met Katie in January 2009 at a training course in Mexico and since then she’s been one of the few people who inspire me just by being around her. Katie’s flair and positivity absolutely shine and it’s hard not to change when you’re around her.
Steve is a down-to-earth yet business minded coach, consultant and trainer. Steve will open up a whole new realm of ideas and possibilities and, exploring these things with him is worth it’s weight in gold. I’ve been around Steve for a couple of years now through various trainings and each time we meet up I’m amazed at how much more skilled he’s become. Truly inspiring.
These are just some of the fantastic coaches I know that make this work truly magical. There’s enough room in this world for everyone and the more we build one another up and inspire each other into creating new and exciting things, the more successful and amazing we’re all going to become.
Posted by Jamie Dixon on Mar 25, 2009 in Daily Blog
As many of you know, music is something I’m passionate about. Having been a drummer since the age of 9 and loving all different types and styles of music, I’ve grown to love anything that makes my skin tingle and my soul dance.
Today I’d like to introduce you to Manu Delago playing a Hang Drum solo.
I love the seeming simplicity of this instrument and yet the total complexity of what this guy does as he plays. To me this is true magic and I hope you enjoy listening to this as much as I enjoy sharing it with you. Many thanks to my friend Keely for sending me this link. Enjoy.
Posted by Jamie Dixon on Mar 24, 2009 in Daily Blog
I’ve just returned back from an evening in London with Michael Neill and as always it was an excellent night.
Michael brings with him years of experience working with many people from many walks of life, but more than that, be brings a real sparkle and true passion to the work he does. What Michael does seems to really work and he’s a great demonstration of really putting into practice what you preach.
What Michael excels at on the stage is making coaching and NLP seem easy and doing it with a kind of kazazz that isn’t cheesy but captivates his audience. I s’pose his years of acting play a part in that but he always seems genuine and caring and when answering questions from the audience, sometimes on a sensitive subject for the person asking, his love and caring really shines.
If you haven’t yet seen Michael do his thing I highly recommend his work and he’ll be back here again on the 9th May for a day of Effortless Success.
One of my favourite quotes from Michael is the metaphor of pooh sticks:
“You throw the sticks in the water and they float down, and sometimes a stick gets stuck. The stick doesn’t need therapy, it just needs a nudge”.
To me, this is a great analogy for the work we do because it’s all too easy for people to think that being stuck means they need therapy and they need this and need that.
Sometimes all people need is a nudge here and there to get them un-stuck and floating back down the river of life. That’s the work I do and that’s the work I love.
Posted by Jamie Dixon on Mar 23, 2009 in Daily Blog
To me, Music is one of the most important things in my life. I love everything from HipHop to Rock, Classical to Funk. It’s what lights up my soul and makes every fibre of my body tingle.
When I hear great music or even music I simply appreciate, I just want to share it. Today I’d like to introduce you to Ronald Jenkees.
This guy didn’t study music, he wasn’t born with ‘musical tallent’ and yet he’s writing music to rival even some of the best in the industry. To me, that’s an amazing feat and my admiration goes out to anyone who accomplishes new things in life like Ronald has.
You can find Ronald at his website http://www.ronaldjenkees.com/ and here’s a video of him creating some fantastic music:
Jamie Dixon
Using the latest findings from the fields of Hypnosis, Neurology, Linguistics and Positive Psychology, Jamie Dixon has created a hypnotic journey that will take you into the adventures of your own mind.
