Mindskills Training

Mindskills training has been one of the main focuses of Bronze Dragon training for many years, alongside my energy, healing and shamanic trainings. It has been my passion to develop and teach mental abilities for healing, personal development and raising human consciousness.

This has been a fascinating and successful phase, as I developed and taught my own unique style of Mindskills, NLP and related trainings, such as Alpha Mindskills, under the banner ‘Bronze Dragon: training Mindskills for the future’.  

Now times have changed, and the emphasis of my own work and interests with them. I have become more and more aware that the urgency for humanity now is to focus on the heart. It is time for me to drop the ‘mindskills’ and ‘alpha mindskills’ names as well as NLP practitioner and master practitioner trainings and to focus on my core shamanic, healing and energy work.

So before I finish this phase, here’s a history of the mindskills / NLP adventure so far, and then a glimpse of the way ahead:

The first formal training I attended, back in 1986, was the Silva Method, which claimed that people only used up to 10% of their brain and offered to teach students how to ‘use more of their mind.’ The creator, Jose Silva, developed his system from his study of meditation, hypnosis, creative visualisation, positive thinking and esoteric systems of learning. He discovered that when you learn to control your brainwaves, to access alpha and theta states reliably, you access both logical and creative skills in balance and your mind works more effectively. Interestingly people can start to access ‘psychic’ skills more consistently too.

My fascination with the possibilities of the other 90% of brain power has continued ever since. Finding out how the mind works has led me to qualify as a Counsellor, Hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer as well as exploring esoteric practices, shamanic, energy and ESP systems of training.  

I am an avid reader and a bit of a ‘course junkie’ - I love new learning and new experiences, and so I have travelled extensively to study with those who demonstrate unusual mind skills and abilities. I have also been fortunate to be in the position of running my own training business, which has allowed me to push the boundaries of mind skills training and development, through designing and testing new courses.

I developed methods that could get people seeing auras in 5 minutes, demonstrating ‘psychic’ skills within a couple of hours, and changing their beliefs, behaviours and the course of their whole lives through our unique 7-day intensive practitioner trainings.  

NLP was very useful alongside Silva and hypnosis methods to change thinking, beliefs and behaviour. NLP added language skills, techniques and detail that helped to fill the gaps in the ‘big picture’ of creative visualisation, affirmations and positive thinking. Add the ability to flow energy through the whole, and you have a very powerful system and skills indeed.

Our Bronze Dragon NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner trainings offered the framework of a known, accepted, effective training program, with the benefit of a recognised qualification. At the same time I could play and experiment with new techniques during the training, much as Richard Bandler does himself.

When I first started ‘Alpha Mindskills’ training in 2003, it was intended as a one-off, to offer Bronze Dragon trainees the excellent mental discipline and specific personal development aspects present in Silva training, that are missing from NLP training.  

Alpha Mindskills was so successful that I was persuaded to run it again…and again.

NLP and Alpha Mindskills / Mindskills training are essential parts of the basic all-round life skills that I feel everyone should receive – ideally in school. I have therefore felt a responsibility to keep teaching them, long after I knew I was meant to focus more on Shamanix and the unique energy and shamanic skills it has been my fortune (or fate!) to learn.  

More and more new companies are offering NLP practitioner and master practitioner training, so there is no need for Bronze Dragon to continue this now. There are a couple of very reasonable Silva Ultramind ESP CD sets and the Silva method system to take people through the basics of this training. Plenty of signs that I could let go of the ‘responsibility’ of teaching these technologies.

Then a former trainee who did the Bronze Dragon website updates made off with Mindskills Training and my NLP business contacts. Discouraging as this was, in meditating on the experience I took it as a sign to finish with these things. In the end it helped make it easy for me to let them go.

Bronze Dragon is about much more than training the mind, underneath all this, it is about heart, soul and spirit. I have always emphasised strong ethics and teaching practical skills in a down-to-earth style. I kept the rest private, because I wanted to bring the skills to as many people as possible, in as open and ‘neutral’ a way as possible.

Even trying my hardest, I find I cannot ‘please’ everyone, so maybe now is the time to teach what I have, from the heart of who I am, and let those who are drawn to this way, be most welcomed.

But how should anyone know my true secret passions, unless I ‘come out’ and state them clearly?  

So watch this space as the emphasis shifts to heart, creative joy and spirit!

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