Interviewer: Jonathan struck me as a piquant exponent of personal development. I was so impressed with your skill and depth of knowledge and capability to help habitancy truly turn their lives that I invited you to talk at my company seminar, which you did and it went down a storm so things have indubitably advanced since then, haven't they, you've now advanced your own methodology called Hge, it's a specific breakthrough or progression or evolvement might be a more suitable word from Nlp I think, and its indubitably piquant to me because I think Nlp as I'm sure you'll clarify later on, has done the world an thinkable, service but at least to me seems to
have stopped progressing, but I think indubitably what you do Jonathan is a indubitably fresh and by what I'm finding a more rapid way of truly evolving all these desires we have as human beings in health and relationships, money, company and so its very, very piquant so you've written a book - we are now basically talking about that book or talking about Hge really. . So formally hello
Let's get straight into it, because we would like pack this with as much data for habitancy listening as we potential can so why don't you start Jonathan if you would like to with a brief history of what Nlp was and why you got involved, and then what began to frustrate you foremost to your own Hge involvement.
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Jonathan: Well there's an old phrase that says that habitancy get into personal development either out of desperation or inspiration and I've yet to meet someone who is inspired to do it. habitancy often go into a doctrine or a mind set or a set of techniques to try and get them straight through the day, I was no different from that. I was the shy specky kid with asthma and a duodenal ulcer by the time I was sixteen because I was so scared of talking to people, and I got into it purely because my brother studied science of mind and I read all these books and found it fascinating. If I could burn a whole in my stomach with my brain what could I do that was a puny bit more useful?
And so I started learning all these things for my advantage - I got into personal development, read all the suitable books most habitancy have read and then started to kind of push it a puny because a lot of that stuff was very conscious, very techniquey, very kind of... You had to force yourself to do it, it was like affirmations, telling yourself "you're happy, you're happy, you're happy" when the other part of brain was screaming at you that you're not happy at all.
So I started to look at things like Neuro Linguistic Programming, Nlp, hypnosis, life coaching, and some other esoteric things like Feng Shui,, energy work and all that kind of stuff, a lot of the habitancy I was listening to had some sort of esoteric discipline as well and in fact if you look at all of the major personal development people, all the big names they all look at some kind of esoteric spirituality aspect and that intrigued me - I plan maybe I'm missing something, maybe there's a side of life I don't know whatever about, because at the time I didn't ever look at that kind of thing, in fact I poo poo'd it.
Nlp I found to be very practical hands on, you could read it and use it the same day - you could fix phobias in under an hour, you could take away nerves, you could make habitancy confident, you could turn beliefs, you could do marvelous marvelous things in a very short space of time which indubitably blew my head off - if you know how the brain works you can basically program it to do whatever you want, so that fascinated me, the ulcer disappear, my asthma disappeared, I got fitter and healthier, started taking care of my bodily body, changed work completely.
Interviewer: Ok and this is all self done.
Jonathan: Incredibly grand self-work, and I had never seen it fail, I had only ever seen Nlp work, so my enthusiasm took off like a house on fire and I started sharing it with people, I started running seminars at weekends, I started working with individuals and because I didn't know it might not work it always did. It was only later on I found some Nlp habitancy have problems with that and after 2 years of working with habitancy in the field, and indubitably working with exam nerves and phobias and confidence, Me, huge health shifts in people, stuff you wouldn't believe, transformational health changes, I plan one day somebody might indubitably ask me for a certificate, or a qualification and because my background was financial services I very much believe in that stuff, I plan right I'm going to have to go and get trained.
Then I discovered that issues would come up with students and the trainers were unable to bail them out, the trainers indubitably had no field experience, they were textbook excellent but had never worked with habitancy in the real world so I had to keep bailing habitancy out because I had been doing in for two years, and that indubitably was a huge convincer to me about my ability, and it surprised me and also kind of disappointed me as well that the household names in the field weren't indubitably up to scratch, in my opinion, I coined a phrase "always a trainer, never a therapist" because they could talk about it, there's a lot of text book habitancy out there but when it comes to the real world application they just haven't got the chops for it.
Interviewer: It's the age old thing about teachers isn't it?
Jonathan: Correct, teachers you know, as apposed to coaches. . Coaches do it. But, so having done that for a while I decided I could help habitancy more than what I am currently doing in my current career, which is a financial advisor, I was getting great results using Nlp in the financial services, my sales doubled and my appointments halved, and my managers wondered what I was doing, and all I was doing was some of these techniques, rapport techniques, construction connections with people, having habitancy like you and trust you, having two way trust going. I then
decided I'm going inaugurate my own company and do this on the side, build it up and then finally go self-employed. I did that, my wage immediately doubled after two months I was working half the hours, and I had always been taught that self-employed businesses fail within the first two year and those that corollary fail within the next two years. I'm helping habitancy and doing something that I felt I was born to do and I've basically been doing that ever since. Now I have looked at the current stuff that I've been training and thinking this needs to grow and evolve, there are inevitable things that most personal development areas don't cover, or there's inevitable holes or inevitable gaps, I've plugged them and I now want to get them out to the world.
Interviewer: Ok, so now tell us what Hge is and maybe you can preface that by saying what these missing links were that were frustrating you.
Jonathan: Well, what often happens with most technique based skills is that there's often heart missing, there's often a kind of humanity aspect, and they become very cold and calculating and very kind of logical and sensible, and for a lot of habitancy that's not enough, a lot of Nlp habitancy are very academic and very much into systems orientation and the way things work, however, for something to give you faultless balance, if you indubitably want to be prosperous in all areas you need to consist of a more humane, what would you call it . . holistic approach as well, so there has to be some kind of higher purpose, there has to some kind of creativity or inspiration behind it.
Another hole I noticed was that very often habitancy wouldn't use a lot of the techniques that they'd learned because it was full of technical jargon that put habitancy off. They start to sound as if they were into some strange cult. It also excluded habitancy who wanted a more spiritual experience, typically if you look at any of the mind disciplines out there they'll either be very conscious, logical academic or they'll be very kind of spiritual, esoteric and kind of 'green' issues and most camps that I meet, most habitancy fall into one or the other, what I wanted to do was bridge the gap and clarify why both sides have advantages.
Also the majority of the technologies out there have been nearby for a long, long time and aren't developing and aren't evolving themselves, there are too many cliques, too many politics and habitancy arguing who the traditional inventors were and not adequate making it user kindly and making it publicized.
In most complimentary alternative methodologies, as these might called, I think the aromatherapy guild released statistics last year to say that 25% of grand aromatherapists indubitably earn a living doing it. Coach University recently sent out statistics talking about the 30,000 life coaches on the planet, I think 10% of them make a living from it, and making a living was £15,000 a year or less.
Interviewer: Doesn't surprise me, is seems that any training method, it's very few habitancy who indubitably apply it and indubitably hold it.
Jonathan: That's the problem with most accepted training, it doesn't do that, what I looked at was answering these niggles that had always been nearby for me and habitancy would bring these up to me and I had the sort of suitable stock party line phrases that everyone else had but I just felt as if I wasn't walking my talk and I was hypocritical until I got them fixed, so I've spent the past sixteen years tweaking this, developing it and answering those questions for myself. I don't believe I've got the right to propose someone else unless I'm doing it myself, so I had to fill those holes, and I feel as if I have.
Interviewer: Yeah ok . . . Good.
Jonathan: For those of us who want the balance and the success and want to 'thrive' instead of just 'survive', then there's a kind of four areas you need to look at, and the big photograph is naturally that, there's four aspects to you, you have a spiritual aspect, you have a thinking aspect, you have an emotional aspect and you have a bodily aspect, and if you fail to take care of one of those areas in your life . . . It will bite you! It is as simple as that, habitancy who have the money, the toys, the things they want to play with, the supportive environment, the bank account, the relationships and all the external bodily tangible things, those are great, but not just on their own. Ideally you also want to have the capability to understand your own emotions and to be able to turn your emotions, not be burdened with traumas and hassles from the past, ideally to turn that and let it go, also the capability to think flexibly and creatively, so that you can think covering the box and think laterally and come up with solutions to your problems, and also to have the leisure to choose your spirituality or your esoteric development or whatever path you want to follow. I think we all have those four god given ownership and the one that you fail to nourish and nurture, is the one finally which will come up in your life as a problem.
I think this is the key, I think insight Hge enables you to understand every other custom discipline, procedure, process, every other 'ology' out there. Hge explains the mechanics of how they work, so that's going to save you a lot of time and money buying useless books or pointless treatments or courses that promise a lot but don't deliver much. You'll indubitably be able to predict and understand how something works and why it works or also predict why it won't work in advance. That's the way I look at it, I've spent 16 years mastering this stuff so you don't have to. Let's cut to the chase. The full story is a free record at http://www.Nlpandbeyond.co.uk
Interviewer: Alright, so what's your universal message, when you say it like that?
Jonathan: You can turn whatever about yourself that you don't like and you can have whatever that you want. The book you will find is more of a training by hand than it is a text book, it's full of exercises, it's full of real practical 'hands on' go and do this now, you've learned about it now go and do it. If you're willing to do those things you will get immediate results in your world, that are indubitably there in front of you, tangible. And that's what personal development fans want.
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