Introduction By Rick Collingwood

There can be no result without thought and effort. The quality of the thought and the strength of the effort always accumulate as an equal and proportional result.

To control your thoughts is to control your own belief system, and also your emotions. Whether for positive or negative results, your emotions are a strong driving force and a very deep well of pure creative energy.

In combination with this, is the reality that you cannot have a feeling without first having a thought. Whether at a conscious or a sub-conscious level, your thoughts create emotional energy which results as your feelings. Your emotions add either positive or negative energy to your action. Hence everything created or enacted in this world beyond the nature realm began simply as a thought. An internal energy empowered with emotional energy, and combined with physical energy to produce a tangible third dimensional result.

Thought. Feeling. Effort. Result. All feeling results from thought. All results come only from effort. When you control your thoughts, you control your emotions. Your emotions are forces of unimaginable power. Changing your sub-conscious mind will change your conscious mind and also your conscious actions.

For humans, this is the only way it can be.

Rick Collingwood.

About Rick

Rick Collingwood is one of the world's leading professional clinical therapeutic hypnotists. He is an internationally renowned hypnosis trainer, author, counsellor, public speaker, sales motivator, corporate speaker, and the founder of Mind Motivations & The Australian Academy of Hypnosis. Rick is also on the committee of The Council of Clinical Hypnotherapists. Australia’s most progressive and prestigious national hypnosis association.

Since 1995 Rick has personally assisted countless thousands of people, using his own unique therapeutic hypnosis techniques. His client list includes Sales Motivators, Commercial Airline Pilots, Psychologists, Medical Professionals, Business People, Home makers and Children. People from all walks of life, facing challenges such as stress disorders, nicotine and drug dependency, gambling, addiction, pain management, depression, panic disorder, insomnia, motivation, chronic fatigue syndrome, and many other various behavioral challenges. He has also conducted group hypnosis sessions with attendances of up to almost 900 people.

Rick has accredited training in hypnosis, counselling, and mental health issues. His extensive knowledge of all aspects of all styles of hypnosis, combined with his many years of practical experience, continually demonstrates that the effectiveness of his hypnosis and sub-conscious counselling skills are unequalled by many other hypnosis methods and hybrids.

Rick is acknowledged as one of the world’s most skilled professional hypnotists and hypnosis trainers. He is the principle of The Australian Academy of Hypnosis and has trained more than 700 therapists in the correct and effective use of his unique therapeutic hypnosis styles.

In 2006 Rick's Lose Weight Now! Hypnosis CD earned him a gold ARIA Award with annual sales of more than 45,000 units. This is believed to be the first Gold Record ever achieved by a hypnosis CD. Between January 2002 and July 2007 The Life Improvement Series Personal Hypnotherapy CDs has sold more than 350,000 copies all over the world.

In 2005, in conjunction with a Pharmacist colleague, Mr. Nathan Elliott, Rick conducted Australia's first monitored clinical study to evaluate improvements in the quality of life, using hypnosis as an adjunct to conventional medical treatments. The participants of the trial were nine, medical doctor referred and monitored, volunteers suffering various types of cancers at various stages of progression. Both the Clinical and the experiential results were very positive and ethics approval is being sought to conduct a much larger study (all study participants were signed into the trail and monitored independently by their Medical Doctors).