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Hypnotherapy is the use of therapeutic hypnosis to bring about behavioral change It results from the simple shifting back and forth between the conscious and the subconscious mind, a natural process that we naturally participate daily without effort. Since hypnosis does not involve the analytical thinking of the mind but rather bypasses it to the more intuitive, sensing, feeling, and relational capacities of the mind, we can use hypnosis for behavioral change by contacting a person through this language.
Hypnosis: Hypnosis is a state of focused heightened awareness not of sleep or unconsciousness.
Hypnotherapy: Therapy provided under hypnosis to bring about desired change.
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Hypnosis: Hypnosis is a state of focused heightened awareness not of sleep or unconsciousness.
Hypnotherapy: Therapy provided under hypnosis to bring about desired change.
Clinical Hypnotherapy involves using hypnosis for healing mind and body integratively. It requires in depth training as a therapist and in hypnotherapy techniques. Deep emotional states are accessed and healed. The clinician uses he client's own emotional process to access deep, hidden beliefs, and move through subconscious resistance, and learn effective tools for personal application.
How does Hypnosis differ from Clinical Hypnotherapy?
Hypnosis is a deep state of relaxation where the mind is open to suggestion and deeper states of inner knowing become more apparent. There are different levels of relaxation. The clinician assists the client to be able to interface with suggestions and access inner material dependent on this level, directly communicating with the subconscious mind. Strategies for communicating with the mind are employed.
Advanced clinical hypnotherapy involves working effectively managing the trance state of hypnosis at the various levels with strategies that allow for deep healing and personal integration. The clinical is skilled in psychological counseling and working with deep emotional states.
Since hypnosis does not involve the analytical thinking of the mind but rather bypasses it to the more intuitive, sensing, feeling, and relational capacities of the mind. Clinical Hypnotherapy is the sophisticated application of the laws of the mind to work directly and effectively applying the laws of the mind to remove psychological blocks and heal deeply.
When the analytical thinking of the mind is at rest (10% of the mind that thinks, plans, and memorizes), what is felt is a deep sense of peace and what is experienced is an acute sense of awareness of the hidden language of the mind. This is the subconscious language of symbols, metaphors, images, and feelings perception. We can easily access our emotions through hypnotic trance. In this state, a person is in control at all times, fully able to talk and direct therapy.
Thus the subconscious mind (nonverbal in nature but responsible for 90% of our life patterns of perception and reaction) becomes highly responsive to suggestion. It is here that we can alter, change, and accept our emotions. The Laws of the Mind are universal principles of belief and action which shape our patterns of thinking and can be worked with to create healing and change.
What is The Subconscious?
Getting to know the subconscious mind is getting to know your true self. The subconscious is the gate keeper of the mind. It is the driving force behind the ego that makes all decisions. The decisions have no strength without the support and agreement of the subconscious. The subconscious mind is that part of our mind that was formed with emotions and impressions, and deep seated beliefs. the language of the subconscious is metaphor, image, symbol, and emotion.
Facts about Hypnosis
- Going into a state of hypnosis is a very normal natural activity.
- Hypnosis is a restful state where you are still aware, in control, but very relaxed, much like the twilight time just before sleep.
- A person hypnotized is aware of everything the hypnotist says at all times.
- Persons under hypnosis will always awaken easily from hypnosis.
- During hypnosis, you will remain in control of yourself at all times.
- No person can be hypnotized without their consent, cooperation and willingness.
- No one can be made to do anything they are morally opposed to during hypnosis (in fact most people appear more ethical during hypnosis).
- Hypnosis enables your mind to access and use your own natural healing and physical abilities, to assist in healing or physical accomplishment.
- Hypnosis allows your subconscious mind to accept positive suggestions.
- Hypnotic suggestions can change or release unwanted behavior patterns.
- Hypnosis can strengthen any part of your personality or ability that you desire.
- Hypnosis actually strengthens the willpower and improves the powers of the mind.
- In hypnosis a subject can stimulate or increase healing ability.
- Hypnosis can help release unwanted patterns like post traumatic stress reactions.
- Hypnosis can permanently change habit patterns (ie: remove bad habits).
- Hypnosis can create or increase positive moods or feelings (joy, enthusiasm, etc.).
- Hypnosis can release causes for fears or phobias, then permanently release them.
- In hypnosis a subject can modify or change their emotional state or feelings.
- Hypnosis is safe, fast, and very effective!
Myths about Hypnosis
You completely loose control under hypnosis. (false)
You will loose your will power under hypnosis. (false)
You can remain hypnotized forever. (false)
Hypnosis is only a placebo effect. (false)
Something could take over while you're under hypnosis. (completely false.)
How is Hypnosis Safe?
The client is absolutely safe. Hypnosis feels much like the space between waking and sleeping with a heightened sense of awareness and sensitivity to the surroundings, including inner sensations. One has full control of a process that feels like relaxing flow. Self monitoring the process will tend to interrupt the benefit. The benefit of the choice to relax the mind becomes very apparent. There can be no hypnosis unless the client is willing to participate in their process. Entering the hypnotic state is very natural and very simple with a few words or actions from the therapist.
What Can Hypnosis Treat?
Phobias and Anxieties
Emotional Blocks
Overcoming Addictions
Psychosomatic illnesses
Pain Management
Changing Limiting Beliefs
Weight Management
Compulsive Behavior
Regressions to the Past
Emotional Release
Healing
Releasing Anxiety
Managing Stress
Spiritual Attunement
Trauma
Unwanted Habits
Emotional Blocks
Learning and Memory
Unwanted Habits
Self Esteem
And much more
Clearing up misconceptions
Public exhibitions by stage hypnotists and the portrayal of hypnosis in the entertainment and media industries have contributed to wide misunderstanding of the true nature of hypnosis. The following section will address some of the more widely held misconceptions about hypnosis:
“A person under hypnosis is asleep or unconscious.”
This is probably the most common misconception about hypnosis. You never lose your full sense of awareness or fall asleep in hypnosis. On the contrary, you are actually more fully awake. All levels of hypnosis are characterized by increased attention, and it’s this heightened concentration that increases your receptivity to suggestion.
James Braid, the “Father of Modern Hypnotism”, coined the term “hypnosis” after the Greek word hypnos for “sleep.” Braid later tried to use the term “monoideism” to explain hypnosis as a state of concentrated focus on one (mono-) idea (-ideism), but the term “hypnosis” had stuck.
Along these lines, there is no such thing as a "hypnotized feeling". It’s most likely you will enjoy a feeling of deep calmness and relaxation.
“A person doesn’t remember anything that happens while under hypnosis.”
You’ll be aware of everything while hypnotized and afterward, unless specific amnesia is suggested for a therapeutic purpose. It’s possible that you’ll have a "dreamy" feeling, or feel as if you are drifting back and forth between sleep and wakefulness throughout hypnosis. It's normal for your minder to wander at times. After hypnosis it’s likely that you’ll probably have a fading memory of the session, similar to emerging from a deep daydream or a nap.
“A person can be hypnotized against their will. Once a person has been hypnotized they can no longer resist it.”
Most stage hypnotists are skilled at creating the illusion that they possess a magical and mysterious power over other people. There is, in fact, no such "power." Hypnosis is a state of consent and cooperation. The only control the hypnotist has over you is the control you allow him to have. The normal amount of control is to allow the hypnotist to guide you into a state of relaxation, and then suggest the thoughts and imagery for your concentration. Throughout the process you can end your state of physical relaxation and mental concentration at any time.
“A person surrenders their will once they go under hypnosis, and can be made to do things he or she does not want to do. "
You are capable of making normal decisions at all times under hypnosis. You can't be ‘made’ to do anything under hypnosis that you would find objectionable under normal circumstances.
"Not everyone can be hypnotized.”
It’s not a matter of whether you can be hypnotized, but whether you’ll allow yourself to be helped to enter hypnosis. Most people go into hypnosis easily once they understand that you remain conscious and do not surrender your will. Fear of loss of control, which is just a myth, is the main reason some people won't allow themselves to be hypnotized, but if a person is comfortable with the process and with the hypnotist and knows what to expect, it's surprisingly easy.
Everyone has the ability to be hypnotized, because it’s a natural, normal state that each of us enters at least twice each day – upon waking and falling asleep. We enter a state similar to hypnosis when daydreaming, meditating, driving on the road and arriving at our destination “automatically”, or being so deeply engrossed in a project or conversation that time seems to fly. A hypnotist helps you to enter this receptive state purposefully, and then uses the state to impress suggestions and imagery on your mind.
People seem to be able to achieve different degrees of hypnotic depth, but everyone can be hypnotized to a sufficient depth to accomplish most therapeutic goals. Repetitive hypnosis can increase the depth of hypnosis, but doesn’t necessarily make you more suggestible.
“Only weak-minded and gullible people can be hypnotized.”
Suggestibility - the capacity for impressions to imprint upon your subconscious mind - is not related to gullibility, weak-mindedness, or submissiveness. To the contrary, studies suggest that people of above average intelligence who are capable of concentrating and who have a capacity for creativity and vivid imagination usually make the best subjects.
“A person has to relax deeply to be in a state of hypnosis.”
Your level of physical relaxation doe not necessarily impact the effectiveness of suggestions given during the session. There are methods of hypnosis that don’t even rely on physical relaxation.
Most people who are concerned about their ability to relax physically under hypnosis are very pleasantly surprised after a much needed mental rest.
“A person under hypnosis might reveal his or her deepest secrets.”
You don’t lose control or reveal personal secrets under hypnosis unless you wish to do so.
“Hypnosis can be used to accurately recall everything that has happened to you”
Hypnosis can be very effective for capturing lost memories, but you can also lie when under hypnosis, or even have false memories. Hypnosis isn't a truth serum.
“A person can get stuck in a trance forever.”
This is impossible. No one has ever been stuck in a hypnotic trance. Hypnosis is a natural state that we enter and exit all of the time. There are no known dangers with hypnosis when working with a normal patient.
