IMT

In researching Integrated Mind Techniques (IMT), I realised something quite shocking: most approaches to personal development don’t work! Why?

Because most of them are based on theories, not on what really works. What’s even more sad is that if one of these theorists is faced with something that works but doesn’t fit into their neat theories, they dismiss it even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary!

Find Out What Works!

I’m the other way round – I’m into modelling what works, regardless of the theory. I come from a sports background where this is the common approach: find out what works, copy it, remove anything that proves to be idiosyncratic and you have the solution.

I was surprised when I first became interested in psychology and personal development that most approaches are the other way around! For example, when seeking to sell people with phobias, the theorists will take 150 people with phobias and try to establish what these have in common. So the theorist becomes an expert in defining phobias.

Integrated Mind Techniques (IMT) – Built on What Works!

I’m not interested! I want to find people who have overcome their phobias and establish how they did it!

I wanted to find out how to change habits instantly, or at least very quickly. So I sought out people who were able to make instant, productive changes in their life and in other people’s lives.

This has led to the development of Integrated Mind Techniques (IMT). It’s a collection of techniques that work, There’s little that’s new in IMT – what is new is the way some of the techniques have been combined.

Integrated Mind Techniques (IMT) Principles

1. The most powerful keys at our disposal are the belief and expectancy of both practitioner and client.
2. IMT depends on the client’s cooperation, not on confrontation or on being controlling.
3. Change is made so much easier if the client believes in the practitioner and in the process so as to harness the power of the placebo effect.
4. The unconscious mind is more powerful than the conscious mind. IMT works by getting the client into a state of relaxation and then getting them to focus on one thing to the exclusion  of everything else, bypassing the critical area of their minds.
5. In other words, by creating a state of deep relaxation and combining to with NLP etc., IMT closes off the critical area of the mind that acts as a gatekeeper, going directly to the unconscious mind. This is the core of the Integrated Mind Technique
6. The unconscious mind responds best to  vivid language, metaphor and analogy.
7. To sum up the above, relaxation + imagination are the keys to opening the door to the unconscious mind.
8. All change comes from within the client. the practitioner is merely a catalyst.

 


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