https://rickcollingwood.com/blog Articles on hypnosis, hypnotherapy training, technique, client work and the history of mesmerism, by Rick Collingwood. en-AU Rick Collingwood | Global Hypnosis Academy Thu, 20 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0000 720 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/hypnosis-training-a-many-varied-thing-2020-11-20 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/hypnosis-training-a-many-varied-thing-2020-11-20 Training Thu, 19 Nov 2020 23:00:00 +0000 As clinical hypnosis (hypnotherapy) has gained a greater and valid acceptance as a helping and allied healing modality during the past ten years or so.... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/hypnosis-medicare-and-health-funds-2020-11-20 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/hypnosis-medicare-and-health-funds-2020-11-20 Training Thu, 19 Nov 2020 23:00:00 +0000 I am often asked by hypnotherapists about Medicare and private health fund rebates, there seems to be more confusion about this among professional... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/can-anyone-learn-hypnosis-2020-11-20 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/can-anyone-learn-hypnosis-2020-11-20 Training Thu, 19 Nov 2020 23:00:00 +0000 The answer to the question is yes, as long as the individual has some intelligence and is capable of speaking. The complexity of the matter is that there are... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/how-to-choose-a-hypnosis-academy-2020-11-20 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/how-to-choose-a-hypnosis-academy-2020-11-20 Training Thu, 19 Nov 2020 23:00:00 +0000 If you're thinking about learning hypnosis or hypnotherapy or ehancing your present hypnosis skills, you should consider what type or style of hypnosis do... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/some-guru-wisdom-2020-11-20 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/some-guru-wisdom-2020-11-20 Mind and self-help Thu, 19 Nov 2020 23:00:00 +0000 The internet has created an atmosphere where it appears that the world is filled with many self appointed experts. Some in fact have done the study and run... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/mesmerism-and-hypnosis-training-melbourne-australia-2014-01-13 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/mesmerism-and-hypnosis-training-melbourne-australia-2014-01-13 Training Sun, 12 Jan 2014 23:00:00 +0000 Mesmerism is commonly defined as the transfer of ethereal fluid (energy) from the Mesmerist to a client to induce a trance state. It was developed in the... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/difference-between-mesmerism-and-hypnosis-2014-01-13 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/difference-between-mesmerism-and-hypnosis-2014-01-13 Hypnosis history Sun, 12 Jan 2014 23:00:00 +0000 The Differences between Modern Hypnosis and Mesmerism Modern Hypnosis relies on sound and words to induce a state of trance whilst Mesmerism uses very few... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/cleaning-blood-hypnosis-2013-03-10 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/cleaning-blood-hypnosis-2013-03-10 Client work Sat, 09 Mar 2013 23:00:00 +0000 On September 30th, 2008, I went into hospital to have a minor nose operation. Little did I know that on entering the hospital I would end up with blood clots... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/commissionaires-reports-effectiveness-and-existence-mesmerism-2013-03-10 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/commissionaires-reports-effectiveness-and-existence-mesmerism-2013-03-10 Hypnosis history Sat, 09 Mar 2013 23:00:00 +0000 There were three reports submitted by the Commissionaires. The first report found in favour of Mesmer and Animal Magnetism; so the Royal Society refused to... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/difference-between-direct-indirect-suggestions-2013-03-10 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/difference-between-direct-indirect-suggestions-2013-03-10 Technique Sat, 09 Mar 2013 23:00:00 +0000 Read each pair of the following statements slowly and with deliberation. It’s no secret which is a direct and which is an indirect version. The question is... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/energy-2013-03-10 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/energy-2013-03-10 Mind and self-help Sat, 09 Mar 2013 23:00:00 +0000 The entire universe, this world, and everything within it is vibrating energy, combining and solidifying into matter, then reverting to wave form energy... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/hypnosis-and-chronic-fatigue-2013-03-10 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/hypnosis-and-chronic-fatigue-2013-03-10 Client work Sat, 09 Mar 2013 23:00:00 +0000 In May 2004 I received a phone call from a distressed mother desperate to find some help for her son who had been diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue, then cast... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/hypnosis-facts-fallacies-rick-collingwood-2013-03-10 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/hypnosis-facts-fallacies-rick-collingwood-2013-03-10 Technique Sat, 09 Mar 2013 23:00:00 +0000 The phenomenon of trance has a long history stretching beyond ancient Egyptian times. Hypnosis by comparison has a much shorter history, which somewhat... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/hypnotic-reality-2013-03-10 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/hypnotic-reality-2013-03-10 Technique Sat, 09 Mar 2013 23:00:00 +0000 It's all a matter of having a good imagination. https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/immune-system-and-stress-2013-03-10 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/immune-system-and-stress-2013-03-10 Client work Sat, 09 Mar 2013 23:00:00 +0000 Doctors still don't fully understand the immune system... or what happens when it turns on us. Currently, doctors know of at least 80 autoimmune disorders -... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/inception-hypnotists-point-view-2013-03-10 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/inception-hypnotists-point-view-2013-03-10 Technique Sat, 09 Mar 2013 23:00:00 +0000 The new movie Inception has already made it to number 7 on the Internet Movie Database's top movies of all time! This is in just a couple of months - quite... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/intuition-human-sensing-systems-2013-03-10 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/intuition-human-sensing-systems-2013-03-10 Mind and self-help Sat, 09 Mar 2013 23:00:00 +0000 This article is an extract from The Secrets of Power Vol 1; NEW SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES REGARDING THE EXISTENCE OF CERTAIN PSI FACULTIES. Ingo Swann 1996 -... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/past-masters-mesmerism-hypnosis-2013-03-10 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/past-masters-mesmerism-hypnosis-2013-03-10 Hypnosis history Sat, 09 Mar 2013 23:00:00 +0000 Some Important Historical Figures of Hypnosis https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/persuasion-techniques-2013-03-10 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/persuasion-techniques-2013-03-10 Technique Sat, 09 Mar 2013 23:00:00 +0000 Persuasion isn't technically brainwashing, but it is the manipulation of the human mind by another individual, without the manipulated party being aware what... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/remote-viewing-possibilities-consciousness-2013-03-10 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/remote-viewing-possibilities-consciousness-2013-03-10 Mind and self-help Sat, 09 Mar 2013 23:00:00 +0000 This is a small section taken from Rick Collingwood's book Go Deeper entitled *'It's all in the Mind'.* https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/scientific-assessment-neuro-linguistic-programming-nlp-2013-03-10 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/scientific-assessment-neuro-linguistic-programming-nlp-2013-03-10 Hypnosis information Sat, 09 Mar 2013 23:00:00 +0000 I am sure that we have all read and learned something about the theory and techniques of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP). But it is possible that some of... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/when-hypnosis-not-hypnosis-2013-03-10 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/when-hypnosis-not-hypnosis-2013-03-10 Technique Sat, 09 Mar 2013 23:00:00 +0000 I have been fascinated with hypnosis from the age of about 12 when my father gave me a small thin book written by Franquin a New Zealand Hypnotist who gained... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/word-rick-collingwood-2013-03-10 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/word-rick-collingwood-2013-03-10 Hypnosis information Sat, 09 Mar 2013 23:00:00 +0000 My interest in hypnosis began when I was about 12. From then, it took me until 1992 to finally relinquish a very successful career in the automotive... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/aftermath-suicide-2013-03-07 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/aftermath-suicide-2013-03-07 Client work Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:00:00 +0000 You come home from school one day. You’ve had yet another horrible day. You’re just ready to give up. So you go to your room, close the door, and take out... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/personalized-hypnosis-mp3s-2013-02-27 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/personalized-hypnosis-mp3s-2013-02-27 Client work Tue, 26 Feb 2013 23:00:00 +0000 Why pay many hundreds or even thousands of dollars to visit a hypnotherapist who may or may not even have the experience to help you? Now you can have your... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/anton-mesmer-beginning-modern-hypnosis-2013-01-18 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/anton-mesmer-beginning-modern-hypnosis-2013-01-18 Hypnosis history Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:00:00 +0000 Franz Anton Mesmer, Hypnosis History, Hypnosis Information https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/benefits-clinical-hypnosis-2013-01-18 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/benefits-clinical-hypnosis-2013-01-18 Client work Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:00:00 +0000 Hypnosis induces a person into a trance with the help of techniques which are clinically proven to be effective to help people make changes; more easily... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/benefits-using-ricks-hypnosis-mp3s-2013-01-18 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/benefits-using-ricks-hypnosis-mp3s-2013-01-18 Client work Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:00:00 +0000 The awareness of therapeutic hypnosis is on its rise and many people are discovering the power of self-hypnosis MP3s. They have the potential to eliminate... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/hypnosis-and-stress-management-2013-01-18 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/hypnosis-and-stress-management-2013-01-18 Client work Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:00:00 +0000 Most people have some level of stress daily and we each have our own way of handling that stress. There are many situations that can make our lives stressful... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/hypnosis-pain-management-2013-01-18 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/hypnosis-pain-management-2013-01-18 Client work Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:00:00 +0000 Hypnosis is a state with certain physiological attributes resembling sleep at a superficial level and it is marked by a functioning of the individual at a... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/modern-day-mesmerism-2013-01-18 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/modern-day-mesmerism-2013-01-18 Hypnosis history Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:00:00 +0000 Without Mesmerism modern hypnosis might never have existed, or even become a therapeutic profession at all. Contrary to modern perceptions, Franz Mesmer... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/use-hypnosis-20th-century-and-beyond-2013-01-18 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/use-hypnosis-20th-century-and-beyond-2013-01-18 Hypnosis history Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:00:00 +0000 Hypnosis has been proven to very beneficiary in medical practices. In the 20th century, after the breakthroughs of the 19th century, when hypnosis was freed... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/setting-goals-2013-01-11 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/setting-goals-2013-01-11 Mind and self-help Thu, 10 Jan 2013 23:00:00 +0000 A lot has been said on the importance of setting goals, so it’s nothing new. However there’s a certain way to set goals. Goals get you thinking in the right... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/wealth-and-attitude-2013-01-08 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/wealth-and-attitude-2013-01-08 Mind and self-help Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:00:00 +0000 Some studies show that many people who win over $1 million in lotteries end up worse off financially than they were before they won. Many lose all their... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/gambling-problems-2013-01-07 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/gambling-problems-2013-01-07 Client work Sun, 06 Jan 2013 23:00:00 +0000 Australians lose more money gambling than any other citizens in the world - about $19 billion each year, with $12 billion poured into almost 200,000 poker... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/light-or-solid-2012-12-29 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/light-or-solid-2012-12-29 Technique Fri, 28 Dec 2012 23:00:00 +0000 If you were you to examine it under a microscope your body is over 99 percent “space”. The rest of it, the solid part, is just a collection of the exact same... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/beginnings-hypnosis-2012-12-24 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/beginnings-hypnosis-2012-12-24 Hypnosis history Sun, 23 Dec 2012 23:00:00 +0000 Although the word Hypnotism was not coined until 1843, its practice, in one form or another, is as old as human tradition. Ancient civilisations have left... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/not-all-hypnosis-ericksonian-2012-12-21 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/not-all-hypnosis-ericksonian-2012-12-21 Technique Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:00:00 +0000 For three years I was a dedicated Ericksonian practitioner and had a rather dubious opinion about the rapid hypnosis performed by so called stage hypnotists.... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/getting-what-you-want-2012-12-20 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/getting-what-you-want-2012-12-20 Mind and self-help Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:00:00 +0000 There is nothing that is too good for you, no matter how great the thing may appear to be, and no matter how undeserving you may appear to be. You are... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/hypnosis-training-2012-12-19 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/hypnosis-training-2012-12-19 Training Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:00:00 +0000 When I was initially looking to learn hypnosis I was under the misconception that soon I would be able to walk up to people, look in their eyes, snap my... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/without-mesmer-2012-12-18 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/without-mesmer-2012-12-18 Hypnosis history Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:00:00 +0000 Without Mesmerism modern hypnosis might never have existed, or hypnosis may never have become a therapeutic profession at all. Contrary to modern... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/hypnosis-skills-learned-or-inherent-2012-12-17 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/hypnosis-skills-learned-or-inherent-2012-12-17 Training Sun, 16 Dec 2012 23:00:00 +0000 Hypnosis has now been diffused into many sub modalities such as NLP, which profess to be hypnosis but are not hypnosis at all. By trying to put hypnosis into... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/australian-hypnosis-legislation-2012-10-16 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/australian-hypnosis-legislation-2012-10-16 Hypnosis information Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:00:00 +0000 The practice of hypnosis is no longer overseen by any particular State or Federal Government body, and complaints against hypnotherapists are attended to by... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/different-states-mind-2012-10-16 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/different-states-mind-2012-10-16 Mind and self-help Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:00:00 +0000 The human mind is a wonderful and amazing piece of intricate machinery. With particular regard to hypnosis, the different states of mind we experience, are... https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/free-ebook-you-think-2012-10-16 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/free-ebook-you-think-2012-10-16 Mind and self-help Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:00:00 +0000 New Age & Philosophy, Resources and Free Stuff https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/nlp-hypnosis-there-difference-2012-10-16 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/nlp-hypnosis-there-difference-2012-10-16 Technique Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:00:00 +0000 The Australian Academy of Hypnosis does not significantly agree with the tenets of NLP and/or its many claims. https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/television-mass-manipulation-2012-10-16 https://rickcollingwood.com/blog/television-mass-manipulation-2012-10-16 Mind and self-help Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:00:00 +0000 The more that is discovered about human consciousness and behaviour, through observation and ever improving advanced technological research, the more is...