Time for a Change

by Richard Bandler

This book will give you new ways to do deeper, more effective hypnotic and belief work with yourself and clients. The light and entertaining style sustained throughout the book belies the density of presentation. Bandler describes belief and hypnosis as closely related allies in healing and transformation. Through hypnosis we can create powerful beliefs, and beliefs are “the express train to hypnosis.” His NLP attitude installation, in the first chapter, works impressively well. Readers progress systematically to develop the skills necessary to build your own mind machine. You can automatically change destructive beliefs to doubts, and replace them with valuable beliefs, as fast as you can find them. Later chapters polish off hypnosis with Bandler's “favorite hypnotic phenomenon,” time distortion. He gives us surprising ways to elicit and apply them. He leads us beyond hypnosis to hyperesthesia. Have you ever been lusciously aware of every detail of an overwhelming sunset or symphony, or massage? Would you like that to happen more? Finally, and too soon, the book closes with suggestions.

155 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

Reviews

[Roni Matar · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a journey in a training or presentation of Richard Bandler. People who know NLP and hypnosis will thoroughly enjoy it.
If you have not had any experience with either, this book is not for you.
For me it is a great learning resource and an enjoyably easy read.

[David Clark · Rating 5 out of 5]

Since my diagnosis of bipolar disorder in 2011, I have invested a decade in seeking answers.

To find them has been so wonderful.

To effect a healing and recovery aligned to something akin to The Hero's Journey - well I'm still processing that.

Richard Bandler - to read his books, to attend his Master NLP Practitioner training, to have the man sitting next to me - what a journey. He's the go to in understanding the patterns of our behaviour and understanding the underlying causes of mental illness and mental health.

Time for a Change is pure Bandler.

The table of contents:

I Believer Modification
II Believe in Laughter
III Tips from the Lost Manual
IV Non-Verbal Hypnotic Inductions
V The House Cleaning Pattern
VI Getting More Time For a Change
VII Slow Time Patterns
VIII The Trance Phenomenon of Hyperesthesia
IX Reprogramming Limiting Decisions

A gift to humanity.

[Justin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mostly about hypnosis and trances. Not for me

[Wily Walnut · Rating 5 out of 5]

The genius of Richard Bandler shines through in this book. I'd read all the earlier Bandler & Grindler books, but this is my favourite. I think it's much easier to read for one thing. It also spotlights Bandler's humor, outrageous creativity and leaps of mind.
I think what I love about Bandler is that he is so much FOR life. He is progressive, and forward thinking. Sure he can cure people of their psychological afflictions, and does so in hilarious fashion (as revealed in some of the stories herein), but his main focus is on using these mind technologies (NLP, hypnosis, DHE) to enhance and improve life.
Bandler is one of my heros for sure, and this is my favourite book that I've read of his.

[Dr. Barrett Dylan Brown, Phd · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing NLP primer. The writer is a very lucid lunatic.