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What is Hypnosis? There are so many opinions and ideas floating around. Is it an exact science? Is there an absolute definition? How does it work? Does it work?
Hypnosis is a social interaction in which one person responds to suggestions given by another person (the hypnotist) for imaginative experiences involving changes in perception, memory, and the voluntary control of action.
Hypnosis, in the past, has taken a bad rap. For many years it was clothed in mystery, something from the dark ages. Wizards, witches, sorcerers supposedly used it in practices of the occult and black magic. Today, there are those who still have a dark ages mentality and fear hypnosis. They believe that in Hypnosis your mind is being controlled. Is Hypnosis mind control?
We realize that hypnosis is mind control—that is, controlling your own mind. The hypnotist is only a tour guide. Hypnosis is a state of relaxation and a heightened sense of awareness. Each of us is a great hypnotist. We have come to believe that most change takes place on an unconscious level, otherwise why can we not consciously decide to change something and do it? |
Milton Erickson once indicated that patients will be patients as long as their conscious and unconscious are not in rapport. Why do many people see Hypnotists to help them stop smoking, lose weight, for goal-setting and many more changes? Firstly, because it is most valuable to have an objective person to work with on this. It is because Hypnosis allows you to give your "unconscious", some refer to it as "sub-conscious" and a much better description is Dr. Dave Dobson's description - “other Than Conscious”, your desired suggestions, while the conscious relaxes. It can resolve the conflicts between each of both of your minds. A lot of thinking goes on outside of our conscious awareness and guides our judgments and actions. Information collected and processed in the unconscious influences (out of our awareness) our first impressions. The "ah ha!" phenomena and our intuitive decisions are drawn from the massive amount of information stored in the unconscious. We do not always know why we are doing certain things because we are influenced by feelings, memories, experiences and other information of which we are unaware. We can view the other than conscious as a vast database to draw upon. The conscious mind can learn how to tap into this resource to support our whole person. This can be done through Hypnosis.
Hypnosis is a relaxing, naturally occurring state of mind which happens to us every day. Each time we read a captivating novel, float off in a daydream or see an engrossing movie we are in a natural state of hypnosis.
For thousands of years people have recognized the power of hypnosis to enhance learning, heal emotional scars, improve performance, change habits and speed the healing process.
Science is only now beginning to understand the awesome power the unconscious mind wields. It wasn't until 1958 that the American Medical Association recognized hypnosis as a valid therapeutic tool. The medical field is also beginning to recognize the major role "psychological" factors play in illness and healing.
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 The Power of Hypnosis |
During hypnotism, direct communication with your unconscious mind can be established. In a hypnotic trance, if we are guided properly, our minds and bodies are able to accept change much more readily.
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"All hypnosis is self-hypnosis"
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Hypnotherapy is the application of hypnosis for therapeutic purposes. Hypnosis is a naturally occurring phenomenon regularly experienced by everybody on the planet. The dreamy drowsy state which precedes falling asleep or becoming fully awake is a hypnotic trance. In hypnosis, a person is neither asleep nor fully awake but somewhere in between these two states, and by no means is under somebody else's power or control. Hypnosis is experienced by most people as a state of complete relaxation of body and mind in which the person feels in control and the mind is aware of what is happening. As a natural state, hypnosis can be self-induced at will. The role of the hypnotherapist is that of a teacher and facilitator.
As the mind detaches from everyday cares and concerns in hypnosis, it becomes more receptive and responsive to positive suggestions and imagery. In hypnotherapy, the hypnotic trance can be used effectively with hypnotic suggestions to treat a multitude of psychosomatic, psychological and physical problems.
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Hypnosis also can be used to elicit unconscious material, explore repressed emotions, access lost memories or identify the root causes of a problem. This is achieved through age regressionand analysis. Regression therapy involves taking a person back, under hypnosis, to past events or memories in the person's life. This is a powerful tool for releasing negative emotions, letting go of the past and experiencing profound healing.
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| What Happens to the Brain during Hypnosis? |
Although hypnosis is commonly induced with suggestions for relaxation and even sleep, brain activity in hypnosis more closely resembles that of a person who is awake. The discovery of hemispheric specialization, with the left hemisphere geared to analytic and the right hemisphere to non-analytic tasks, led to the speculation that hypnotic response is somehow influenced by right-hemisphere activity. Studies employing both behavioral and electrophysiological mechanisms have been interpreted as indicating increased activation of the right hemisphere of the brain among highly hypnotizable individuals, but positive results have proved difficult to replicate and interpretation of these findings remains controversial.
Hypnosis is influenced by verbal suggestions, which must be interpreted by the individual in the course of responding. Therefore, the role of the left hemisphere of the brain should not be minimized. One proposal is that hypnotizable individuals show greater flexibility in using the left and right hemispheres in a task-appropriate manner, especially when they are actually hypnotized.
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| NLP stands for Neuro Linguistic Programming |
Neuro (N)
Refers to the nervous system, or the mind, through which our experience is processed via five our senses: Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, Olfactory and Gustatory.
Linguistic (L)
Refers to language and other non-verbal communication systems through which our neural representations are coded, ordered and given meaning. This includes: Pictures, Sounds, Feelings, Tastes, Smells and Words (Self Talk).
Programming (P)
This is our ability to understand and use the programs that we run (i.e. our communication to ourselves and others) in our neurological systems to achieve our specific and desired outcomes.
In other words, NLP is how to use the language of the mind to consistently achieve our specific and desired outcomes.
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