Girl in Hypnosis: This could be you!

              Hypnosis is not a magical, mystical state in which miracles occur.  While the results obtained using hypnosis can seem magical or miraculous, hypnosis is naturally occurring state of mind/brain. There are specific and measurable brain wave frequencies that occur when a subject is said to “be in hypnosis”.

Hypnosis works because it guides subjects into a natural state of enhanced learning. At the same time, in this state of enhanced learning, the “thinking and reasoning” part of the brain relaxes its critical filtering system so that information can make changes to the original “blueprint” with less interference.

The other important component of hypnosis is that the brain’s critical filtering system (the conscious mind) becomes less engaged. This enhanced learning state (hypnosis) plus relaxation of the conscious mind (the thinking and reasoning part of the brain), is what we call hypnotherapy. That, in a nutshell, is how hypnosis works.  Relax into daydreamy imaginings and those imaginings create your reality to come.

Let’s look at the procedures, protocols and suggestions that we would use for any hypnosis intervention.  The first thing would be to take a good intake.  Where do you feel it in your body?  Describe how it feels in your body? When does it occur?  What triggers it?  What relieves it? Questions like that will provide the specific responses that we want to change.

Once the triggers have been discovered and the way those triggers feel in the client’s body is determined, the client is taken into hypnosis.

Suggestions might be understood as being the self-talk we use all day everyday but when used in hypnosis to effect change, the self-talk will involve the changes we want to create. You might of it as the self-persuasion we do to ourselves when we are trying to get something to change in our lives.

There are a number of different ways we deliver suggestions.  A direct suggestion is based on exactly what behavior change we want to occur.  “Each and every time you feel the sensation of nausea beginning, you will stop, breathe, and your nervous system will become calm, still, placid and you will experience complete comfort.”

An indirect suggestion might be more like: “It may be that when you begin to notice that sensation that might mean nausea is soon to follow.  Of course, I can’t know exactly when you might feel that or where, exactly, in your body, you might feel that, but your subconscious mind knows exactly how to handle that sensation so that you remain calm and comfortable.”

Indirect suggestions might include metaphors, stories, allegories, similes because the subconscious mind understands symbols better than it does language.  Why? Because language has to be translated into symbols for the subconscious mind to experience and understand it.

Different subjects respond differently to the various kinds of suggestions, so the type of suggestion is chosen individually for each subject.

Pictures are presented to the subconscious mind.  Feelings, emotions and sensations are presented to the subconscious mind.  Choices are experienced and decided upon.

The object of the hypnotic intervention is to “sell and persuade” the subconscious mind to begin to behave in the preferred way.

If you’re curious, call for a free consultation.

Here’s to your success…