Exploring Hypnosis

Hypnosis can be very effective when assisting students with study skills. I personally have experience with helping people overcome test anxiety and helping them pass their licensing tests for various professions.

Hypnosis is also effective in helping people develop the belief that they are capable of learning.

There a stages of learning and hypnosis can be effective in assisting in all of these stages,

Hypnosis can also be effective in aiding with concentration, memorization and understanding,

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Hypnosis has been recognized by the AMA as a legitimate medical treatment since 1958.  I b elieve that the main reason Physicians don’t practice hypnosis is simply because it takes too much time to adequately offer an intervention.

Hypnosis is extremely effective with pain management but a ethical hypnotist will require a prescription from the clients doctor.  A hypnotist working in conjunction with a medical professional can effectively be a part of the treatment of stress related disorders: irritable bowel syndrom, diabetes, cardiocascular disorders and even cancer.

Beware of the hypnotist that claims to be able to treat these problems as an alternative to medical care.  It may be possible but it is much more safe to have a medical professional at least monitor the progress of treatment.

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Fair new on the scene is the idea of using hypnosis to facilitate child birth.  More women are becoming aware that they can birth children in a safe manner, without drugs, anesthesia and with a minimum of discomfort.

Theory here is that people in general and women specifically have been convinced (hypnotized) into believeing that child birth should be an unpleasant experience.  Through hypnosis a woman can get rid of the old programing and prepare for a wonderful and fullfilling childbirth experience.

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Hypnosis is a safe and effective way to loose and maintain weight.  It can help you loose the weight you want and to develop a healthy eating plan and increase physical activity.  The key is to change behaviors by focusing on change in the subconscious mind.   The conscious mind can know that the behavior change is needed and wanted but until the subconscious mind accepts and believes that weight lose is in your best interest, it will not allow it.

There can be many reasons for the subconscious to believe that it is in your best interest to retain the weight but it must become ready to release the weight for it to happen.

There are many ways for a Hypnotist to access the subconscious and they can all be effective.  The key is to  find a hypnostist who has a program that has proven effective.  Self-hypnosis can also be effective and there are several hypnotists offering programs on CD.  Another possibility  is to have a custom made program made for CD.

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This article was originally published on February 28, 2008

I chose this book to review because it is another of the books that changed the way that i do Hypnotherapy. The subtitle is Basic to Advanced Techniques for the Professional.

Until I read this book I had done mostly direct suggestion hypnosis and read or memorized scripts for clients. This book opened my eyes to other ways of helping my clients be successful with their hypnosis experience,

The book starts with describing the best ways to learn hypnosis and moves on to how to set up a Hypnotists office. In my opinion the meat of the book is when they discuss age regression and the use of the affect bridge. Actually Calvin Banyan has developed a system of Hypnotherapy based on these concepts called 5 Path Hypnosis. I have been certified in this method and have found it to be very successful. It is my opinion that nothing has been held back that would enable one to become more proficient in this craft.

There are many more concepts discussed in this book and I believe that even the most experienced Hypnotist can find some value in the pages. of thios book The book concludes with a script for a a modified Elman Induction that is very effective. I recommend this book for any practicing or aspiring Hypnotist or Hypnotherapist

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This article was first published on February 20, 2008

I was thinking about the average new client that comes into my office. Usually, they have tried several (or many) other solutions to their partiuclar problem. Many time hypnosis is a last reosrt. As I have discussed in an earlier post, they are sceptical and nervous. But most of all I think that they believe that the hypnotist has some type of occult power that will rid them of whatever issue that they have come to deal with.

Well, almost all of us would rather have someone take responsibility for our behavior. I would love to be able to take some type of magic pill that would take away all of my problems. I think that most of our new clients are hoping for just that. They hope that we can do some type of hocus-pocus and their problem will just go away. And for some of them, it does. But the truth is that for most of our clients, there has to be some type of personal responsibility on their part to solve their issues.

As a Hypnotist, I can offer support and and help provide tools that my clients can use to solve their problems but I cannot do it for them. I can offer interventions that I have been trained to use to help them The bottom line is that we all need to avail ourselves of whatever tools we can find and take responsibility for solving our on problems.

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This article was first published on February 21, 2008

88I enjoyed publishing the book review on Roy Hunter’s book. I intend to publish regular reviews of books on hypnosis, self-hypnosis, NLP, and other self-help books that I think would be of interest to professionals or the general public.

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