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Questions
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Are
your bad habits becoming increasingly irksome? Wouldn't you
love to erase the mental blocks that are keeping you from achieving
the success you desire? The good news is that you can get on the
fast track to becoming the person you want to be by using hypnosis.
Hypnosis can help you reduce pain, eliminate stress, overcome fears,
break your bad habits, and achieve your greatest desires by working
to change subconscious patterns of behaviour.
What
is hypnosis?
Hypnosis is a mental state whereby you can easily absorb new ideas
into your subconscious. In this state of mind, the limiting beliefs
of your conscious mind are subdued, while the imagination and creativity
of your subconscious mind are enhanced, allowing you to be highly
accepting of new ideas. In hypnosis, you tune out all distractions
and focus sharply on the subject matter at hand.
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What
is hypnotherapy?
Hypnotherapy is therapy performed with the client, at least some
of time, under hypnosis. It is therapy and hypnosis is a tool for
a job: the job is to resolve an issue that the client has presented
with. Hypnotherapy often incorporates other therapies along with
hypnosis.
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What
is my subconscious?
Hypnosis works because it allows you to tap into the part of the
mind that controls 90% of your beliefs, attitudes, thoughts, and
actions - your subconscious. Your subconscious is like your autopilot.
It runs things without you having to consciously think of every
command. Your subconscious directs your habits and other actions
based on information it has accumulated and stored throughout your
life. It even causes conscious thoughts and physical sensations
based on that same data. Since
your subconscious mind is your control center, hypnosis can save
you a lot of time by letting you speak directly to your subconscious.
If there are things about you that you'd like to change, the fastest
way to go about it is to use hypnosis.
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Can
I do something I don't want to do under hypnosis?
The short answer to this is no. You are aware under hypnosis and
I sometimes tell my clients that if I say anything they don't like
they will be able to ignore it or even simply get up. Often the
point of hypnotherapy is to get clients to do something they feel
they are incapable or reluctant to do. For instance to take more
exercise, and suggestions are given to this effect. However, in
this case it is something that they really want to do.
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Will
I tell secrets?
No. See above. If the hypnotherapist asks you something you don't
want to answer than you don't need to answer it. As with any therapy,
secrets may come out but they will be by you own volition.
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What
if I don't wake up?
For some reason this seems to an issue with people who have never
been hypnotised. You will wake up. Even if the worst should happen
and the hypnotist passes out in the middle of the session, you will
wake up because you are not asleep. You are under hypnosis and are
aware of what is happening.
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Will
I be able to be hypnotised?
Almost certainly. Some people are able to be hypnotised to a greater
degree than others, and practice makes perfect. If you do meditation
or relaxation exercises than this helps, but anyone can be hypnotised
to soem depth eventually.
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If
I say something to the hypnotherapist will it be kept confidential?
Absolutely. The hypnotherapist is bound by the same protocols as
any other therapist and unless there are exceptional circumstances
everything said will be kept within the confines of the therapy
room.
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Will
I remember what happened?
Most probably. Occasionally the subconscious mind will blank out
some memories that may have been uncovered during hypnotherapy in
order to protect you until you are ready to assimilate the memory,
but this is rare. usually you will remember everything.
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Is
what I've heard all myth?
Before we talk about what hypnosis is, let's take a look at what
it isn't. If you're like most people, what you've heard about hypnosis
is actually based on myths, fantasy, and fiction.
Part of the reason for these myths is the way hypnosis is portrayed
in the movies ("You're getting sleeeeeeepy.") and
by attention-seeking stage hypnotists ("Run around the stage
flapping your wings and clucking like a chicken.") - ridiculous
stuff.
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What are the
misconceptions about
hypnosis?
1. Hypnosis is magic. False.
Hypnosis doesn't use any type of magic or spells. It works naturally
with the way your body and your brain already operate.
2. Hypnosis puts you to sleep. False.
When you're hypnotized, you're fully awake and conscious. Your brain
is in a very relaxed state, but, rather than being asleep, you're
actually extremely focused.
3. People can hypnotize you against your will. False.
The only way you can be hypnotized is if you want to be hypnotized
and actively participate to make it happen by entering into a fully
relaxed state.
4. Others can control you when they hypnotize you. False.
This is a very common misconception about hypnosis. Although the
effect of your limiting beliefs in your conscious mind is minimized,
you're still very much in control.
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Are
there degrees of being hypnotised?
There are varying degrees of hypnosis. Becoming engrossed in a good
book or movie is a type of natural hypnosis. You tend to tune out
everything and become mesmerized by the story.
Extensive testing on people in a hypnotic state has shown us the
following:
1. In hypnosis, a person puts out the brain wave frequencies
of the most relaxed state before sleep.
2. In this state, the left cerebral cortex, which controls
reasoning, deduction, logic, and learned inhibitions, shows very
little activity.
3. On the other hand, the right cerebral cortex, which controls
imagination and creativity, shows heightened activity and electrical
impulses.
These tests corroborate with scientific methods that during hypnosis
we can virtually bypass the limiting beliefs of our conscious mind
to relay our desired ideas and behaviors directly to our subconscious.
Once our subconscious accepts these new ideas, it can then direct
our thoughts and actions to conform to the new data, attitudes,
or beliefs.
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History of Hypnosis.
Hypnosis was "invented" in the late 1700s by Franz Anton
Mesmer in his search for a new method to heal his patients of diseases.
Although his methods were very different from what we now use today,
he was the pioneer in the field of hypnotism.
His methods were known as "mesmerism" from his last name,
and became popular - so
popular, in fact, that this is where we got the term mesmerize.
In 1843, James Braid, a surgeon, renamed this field of study hypnotism.
The word comes from the name of the Greek god of sleep, Hypnos,
because of the sleep-like qualities of hypnotism. His research provided
a new impetus into the study of hypnotism for healing disease.
In the 1920s and 1930s there was another renewed flurry of research.
Then, in the 1960s and 1970s a researcher named Milton Erickson
brought the field into its own, providing many of the methods that
are popular and effective today.
Erickson brought hypnotism into the mainstream, showing us how we
can use it to accelerate desired changes and promote our physical
and mental well being.
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What are the benefits
of hypnosis?.
Hypnosis can help you overcome fears, pains, stresses and anxieties.
It can help you break bad habits and develop good ones. It can reduce
the symptoms of disease. Hypnosis can help you eliminate your mental
blocks to success and encourage successful actions. In short, hypnosis
can help catapult you into living the life you desire.
1.
Reduce your pain.
Do you have a physical condition that causes you a lot of pain?
Are you suffering adverse side effects from your pain medication?
You can reduce or eliminate your pain with hypnosis. Ask your doctor
about using hypnosis for your pain therapy. Some doctors and physical
therapists today recommend this over taking drugs for effective
pain control.
2.
Overcome your fears and anxiety.
Perhaps you have
a fear of flying or you're nervous about speaking in public. These
types of fears can affect many aspects of your life and career.
Many fears can even result in nightmares, but you can free yourself
with hypnosis.
3.
Eliminate your bad habits. You can lose weight and keep
it off, stop smoking, stop biting your fingernails, avoid procrastination,
and get rid of all your pesky habits by using hypnosis.
4.
Sail past your mental blocks to success. Do you find
that you're always coming up just short of success in every endeavor?
What's stopping you from succeeding? It may very well be you! Discover
your mental blocks to success and stop them with hypnosis.
5.
Get rid of your stress.
Has too much stress bogged you down lately? Stress can cause serious
health issues. Hypnosis can help your mind deal with stress in positive
ways so you feel refreshed, energetic, and healthy again.
6.
Conquer your addictions. Do you have an addiction to
nicotine, caffeine, sugar, soda, or more serious drugs? Hypnosis
is an effective tool in overcoming addictions so you can take back
control of your life!
7.
Find your lost memories. If you're unable to remember
something of great importance, perhaps a traumatic experience has
blocked your access to it, try hypnosis. Your subconscious mind
is where those memories have been stored, and hypnosis can be your
key to unlock them.
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Are There Any Negatives
to Hypnosis?
The biggest problem you may encounter with hypnosis is that you
have to want the desired change to occur in order to enjoy permanent
results. For example, do you really want to quit smoking? If you
don't, then even hypnosis won't work to stop your addiction. Somtimes
you will have to work on increasing your desire for the change before
you add hypnosis to lock in the change.
Hypnosis is an effective tool that you can use to strengthen your
strengths, minimize your weaknesses, improve your health, change your
behavior, and help you be the best you can be. It can enable you to
find self-fulfillment, peace, and happiness. Embrace it, and live
with joy!
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