How Does It All Work?
What make these therapy methodologies such a sought after and "prominent tool"?
While NLP techniques will get you to know how your mind interprets and processes the information it gets from the outside world, mindfulness/conscious awareness focuses on the here and the now, improving the ability to manage pain, stress, anxiety, eating disorders, addictions, etc. In turn, the process of Hypnotherapy involves getting someone in a highly relaxed state/zoned out/daydreaming state and different parts of the brain are connected to allow for new action or behaviour, whether it is conscious or subconscious, eg new types of thoughts or feelings or physical actions to improve your responses. It helps us to identify and overcome the areas where we think, feel and behave unresourcefully. The brain soaks up the suggestions that you already want to create (e g to stop smoking) in terms of new behaviour or habits/reactions to old situations that used to suck.
Hypnotists guide you through the state of daydreaming to stay in this state a little longer and to accelerate your change process.
Let us have a closer look at hypnotherapy:
Hypnosis is also a meditation state/prayer state where you focus on something that is very important to you.
So, yes hypnosis will work on you, but you also have the ability to resist if you want to.
All therapy normally involves a minimum of 3 sessions, although more sessions might be needed from time to time, depending on the specific issues involved.
The sessions are there to resolve inner conflict and to create conscious and subconscious alignment - necessary for sustainable change.
My role as your therapist in all of these is to create awareness with you in terms of the decisions you make every day. These choices are paramount in creating or upsetting the very essence of what makes life meaningful. Being aware makes you own the playing field (context) and then you can choose what game (content) to play on it. If you don't own the playing field, then you are compelled to play whatever game is currently underway and take whatever life decides to throw at you! (Marc Steinberg - Consciousness Coaching).
While NLP techniques will get you to know how your mind interprets and processes the information it gets from the outside world, mindfulness/conscious awareness focuses on the here and the now, improving the ability to manage pain, stress, anxiety, eating disorders, addictions, etc. In turn, the process of Hypnotherapy involves getting someone in a highly relaxed state/zoned out/daydreaming state and different parts of the brain are connected to allow for new action or behaviour, whether it is conscious or subconscious, eg new types of thoughts or feelings or physical actions to improve your responses. It helps us to identify and overcome the areas where we think, feel and behave unresourcefully. The brain soaks up the suggestions that you already want to create (e g to stop smoking) in terms of new behaviour or habits/reactions to old situations that used to suck.
Hypnotists guide you through the state of daydreaming to stay in this state a little longer and to accelerate your change process.
Let us have a closer look at hypnotherapy:
- Hypnosis is like accelerated learning/ LEARNING WITHOUT REPETITION. It allows for the creation of new neural pathways in the brain, e g when you first started driving – you had to think about everything you do. Then one day, you were very close to making an accident because you were busy fiddling with something and you did not notice the car in front of you stopped at a red light. What happened in that moment is that your brain learned very quickly to use peripheral vision to avoid the same thing from happening in the future.
- Will hypnosis work on you? Ask yourself: can you learn French? Yes, if you want to. As a human species, we can learn and adapt to any situation we want to.
Hypnosis is also a meditation state/prayer state where you focus on something that is very important to you.
So, yes hypnosis will work on you, but you also have the ability to resist if you want to.
- You ALWAYS have control over yourself. We hypnotherapists have the saying: “All hypnosis is self hypnosis”. Everybody has the ability to resist hypnosis. The hypnotist does not have control over you. You control your self. (Not like stage hypnosis which is staged for performance. People who go on stage have the intent of doing what the hypnotist tells them. Even so, none of these people will ever do something that goes against their true values.)
- Is hypnosis dangerous? Yes, extremely dangerous when you are driving! If you listen to a hypnosis CD, for example, don’t drive! Same as don’t drink and drive. You are in an extremely relaxed and dreamy state. Other than that, all side effects are positive. (Better, deeper, more relaxed sleep, less stressed out. Calm, cool and focussed, mentally sharper, clearer, keener, better memory, better thinking, etc
- Can you get stuck in a catatonic state? Look in the “In Memoria” section of your paper/hospital: has anybody ever died as a result of being permanently hypnotised? It is just like going in and out of daydreaming – you are willingly holding yourself in this state for as long as you wish.
- Is hypnosis mind control? In a way, it is. You are giving the hypnotherapist permission to help you gaining better control over your mind. You have better control over your mind. Never in the history of mankind we’ve had hypnotically induced bank robberies, for example.
- Are people who are able to be hypnotised weak minded? NO – if people have extremely low IQ’s or other mental disabilities, it is very difficult to hypnotise them. Really strong willed/critical people might be more difficult to be hypnotised, but if you are ready and take control over your own mind, you will do well under hypnosis. It is a natural capacity we all have.
- You will remember the session afterwards. It may feel like you fall asleep. But no, it only feels that way. You are only in a daydream state. Hypnosis is all about going into a state between being awake and asleep. Between being conscious and unconscious, like the daydream state. In hypnosis you will remember certain things but will not consciously be aware of other things. If you are really tired, you might fall completely asleep. Even so, the unconscious mind will still be processing information.
All therapy normally involves a minimum of 3 sessions, although more sessions might be needed from time to time, depending on the specific issues involved.
The sessions are there to resolve inner conflict and to create conscious and subconscious alignment - necessary for sustainable change.
My role as your therapist in all of these is to create awareness with you in terms of the decisions you make every day. These choices are paramount in creating or upsetting the very essence of what makes life meaningful. Being aware makes you own the playing field (context) and then you can choose what game (content) to play on it. If you don't own the playing field, then you are compelled to play whatever game is currently underway and take whatever life decides to throw at you! (Marc Steinberg - Consciousness Coaching).
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