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Wire Break

EW June 23, 2024

Hurrah! Paul runs again!

A little thing caused all the trouble: It turned out that a broken wire triggerd the electronics to shut the car down.

I’m grateful that the mechanic took the pain to locate the source of the problem rather than exchanging the whole part, which would have been quite expensive.

Well, I took several trips to the shop to talk to the guy in order to persuade him to take Paul in despite his full schedule.
Luckily, the weather was mostly decent which allowed me to take my bike for the ride. Public transport around here is … let’s say “challenging”.

On YouTube you can see a video of my final ride home from the shop: https://youtu.be/fe79BEQOyNc

This afternoon, I will take Paul on an extended ride. So, please cross your fingers that everything works fine again.

That’s it for now. More to come.

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Exploring Consciousness

GEF June 23, 2024

In a recent blogpost I wrote about my journey from offline to online.

Well, focusing on a future laptop business doesn’t mean I’ll quit the offline world altogether.
It’s way too much fun. I guess, a stage hog stays a stage hog.

I hadn’t done any group coachings for a while. But then I took the chance again.
Friends invited me to give a little workshop in their home.

Our lovely host served a tasty lunch and then we felt ready for take-off.

I gave them an introduction into hypnosis and then started with the first exercise.

Letting the subconscious write

Ever heard of uninterrupted writing?

This is what we did to prepare for our group trance. A wonderful exercise to take your mind off duty, relax and get your brain ready for a deep hypnosis.

If you want to give it a try yourself – just take a pen and paper and write for 10 minutes (or longer, if you wish) without a break. You will be amazed what pours out of you, if you don’t lift your pen, but keep it on the paper, just jotting down uninterruptedly what comes to mind.

Maybe it’s just something like „I can’t think of anything, my head’s empty, no idea, no idea…“ Don’t worry. Don’t think twice. Write it down.

It won’t take long, before your subconscious steps in and gives you hints. Don’t ask. Don’t think. Continue to surrender to the writing flow.

When the time is up, read what you have written and mark the topics, ideas or statements that seem to be important. Let your feeling, your intuition, decide.

In the next 5 to 10 minute round, first let your fingertips slide across the marked statements on your paper. Your subconscious will guide you to the most important one it wants you to work on in the trance.

If you have marked only one idea in the first place, ask your subconscious to clarify a little more.

Then ask your subconscious to come up with a corresponding open question. That means, a question that cannot be answered with a straight yes or no.

Example: What can I do to calm down my stage fright? What will help me come to a good decision according to my job change? How can I get more ease and flow into my life?

Magical trance

In my little workshop, everybody came up with a topic they wanted to work on.
Then I guided the group through the trance.

They all drifted off and let their subconscious do the job. It took more than half an hour and when they came back, they thought, only a couple of minutes had passed.

It was amazing! I looked into radiant faces, joyfully relaxed, not really able to pinpoint what had happened, but knowing it was good.

Some had found a solution that was clear and fully present.

Others felt it was something to develop over a period of time by not thinking about it but letting the subconscious do the work and deliver it later, when the time was right.

Time to party

We celebrated our successful trance with a round of home-baked cakes and sweeties, some of the participants had brought to the party and had a great time altogether.

What an inspiring day and what a fantastic co-creation of friends, who were ready to explore and trust the process. Everyone of us made a great step forward in our life’s journey!

It’s this non-intrusive discreetness that I love about trance work.

I meet my clients on eye level. As a group coach and hypnotist, I don’t have to know the solution. I don’t poke around in their past and their pain.

Nor do I have to consult or advise them or teach them anything. My clients are most competent when it comes to their personal, individual solution. Usually, their subconscious is wiser than their mind. So I help them send their logic into the rocking-chair and sip a tea, while their deeper intelligences take over.

My clients‘ problems are solutions they haven’t discovered yet. And it’s my job to guide them and help them reconnect.

The power of a live group

Of course, this can be done online as well. I did hypnotic trances with 1:1 test clients and it worked very well. It’s a matter of trust and an atmosphere of kindness and well-meaning that creates and holds the space for an easy and relaxed transformation. You can do this from your laptop, if you want to.

But of course nothing can substitute a gathering in person, because the direct contact and the tangible power of the group energy brings so much more to the event.

I will bear this in mind when I start my online business.

That’s it for now. More to come.

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A mighty Exercise

EW June 16, 2024

This week presented me with a mighty exercise in letting-go and go-with-the-flow.

Paul is still in the shop.

Yes, they know what’s wrong, I guess.

However, finding a time slot for the repair seems next to impossible. Too much work, not enough staff and, good riddance, workers got sick …

I wait … and wait … and wait …

Well, it is proposed by the gurus to accept the things that you cannot change.

I find that very hard in the face of all the plans I had.

Sit down and relax!
I try, but grinding thoughts throw me right out of track.

Yes, I learned tools to tame the monkey mind.
And they work … temporarily.

Sitting here, I ask myself if really anything went wrong?
Or is what happened merely an unexpected turn of our journeys path.

That’s it for now. More to come.

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The Power of Listening

GEF June 16, 2024

Europe has voted and our politicians have a hangover. At least those, who lost considerably in the elections to the EU parliament. So far, so normal.

Don’t worry, I’m not going to make this a topic, this blog is not about politics.

What I find interesting though about the wailing and teeth-gnashing all over our news media now is what the politicians talk about.

Neither losers nor winners really care about what the voters think and want. They indulge in their own interpretations.

Most of them use up a lot of airtime on TV and media to tell everybody what they want and why their work is great. And that people just don’t understand, so that they have to explain their ideas even more explicitly.

The peak of ignorance: One party leader told the audience very eloquently what their problems were and how they felt about it.

„Pressure fueling“ of political opinion instead of shutting up, taking a deep breath and listening to the people.

Who the h… wants to buy something like that?

The first thing I learnt in marketing was: Define your ideal target group and then listen to them. Then find the intersection between what you want to do and the wants and needs of your people.

This is what finally creates your chances for sales.

Or votes …

Very rarely, I have seen a politician do that, at least not with the necessary wholeheartedness.

Your customers are your best teachers

When I think of my own business, I know I rely on my customers.

Actually, I learned so much from my best clients. Workig with them made me realize it’s always about relationship, a good connection. Taking them seriously. Finding out what makes them tick and what really drives them. Establishing trust and liability. And then help them solve their problems.

Everybody tells you, it’s sooo easy to start an online business. True. You can reach millions of people just by a mouseclick. In the offline world this was only possible via TV. What was almost inaccessible for small business owners.

Today, the internet helps you find and connect with your market easily and fast.

No way to avoid your homework

What those online marketers forget to tell you is that you need to do your homework first.

This means clarifying these important aspects:

Who I want to work with
Which needs and wishes I have the competence to fulfill and want to take care of
What my ideal customers really want me to do for them
Gaining enough visibility so that future customers get to know me and my services
Creating the necessary “impact”

I’m working on it … And I like the idea that I can do it with my laptop sitting outside where it’s beautiful and peaceful.
And listen to the birds and smell the roses every once in a while.

That’s it for now. More to come.

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