Milton Erickson has been the most influential figure in my life so far since i first came across his stories
and teachings when i began to study hypnosis and NLP. Id say most of NLP and its techniques should take a bow to the MIlton
as in reading his materials and articles I certainly can see attitudes and ideas of NLP there.
Milton was born turn of the last century and was born colour blind tone deaf and dislexic. he later contracted
Polio and was written off by the medical profession as dead. Milton had his own ideas and survived the predicted coma and
after a period of almost total paraylsis learned how to walk again by observing the mind body connection and watching his
younger siblings learning to walk. At age 15 Milton was already using self hypnosis to heal himself although he didnt know
at that time it was hypnosis.
he later trained as a doctor and trained in psychiatry. Milton did a huge amount or research into Hypnosis
and hypnotic states, and continued to work with client and teach until he was in his 80s.
