Hypnosis
Change your mindset using the unconscious mind.
There is the general consensus that we have a Conscious Mind and an Unconscious Mind. Changing our attitudes, beliefs, and values, for the most part, is not easy to do, because we are usually in our conscious mind. That 5% of our mind that we are aware of. For change to happen we need both the Conscious Mind and the Unconscious Mind- we need the other 95%. Hypnosis facilitates change by making the Unconscious Mind more accessible.
The Unconscious Mind is the part of you that runs your body. It digests your food and controls your heartbeat. The Unconscious Mind is the source of the intelligence of your body and Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy allow you to tap into the power of the Unconscious Mind to change your life for the better.
Hypnosis is a credible, scientifically-based process for successfully creating change at the unconscious level.
What does hypnosis do?
Hypnosis is a relaxed condition of mind and body whereby the conscious mind quiets so one can have access to the unconscious one. During hypnosis, you are in a state of semi-consciousness with an active imagination in a rather relaxed state of mind.
Online Hypnotherapy or in-person, lets you change your thought processes and influence your thinking patterns easily. It places you in a state of heightened suggestibility. The critical faculty, our conscious analytical mind is relaxed and subdued so we can accept and surrender to new more empowering thoughts and instructions.
Hypnosis is arguably the fastest way to access the unconscious or subconscious mind. During the process, we gain a deeper level of change, empowerment, and accessibility.
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I'm worried I will have no control and do something silly
Most fears surrounding Hypnosis stem from giving up control. If you’ve seen a stage show or outdated representations of Hypnotherapists, you might have visions of a swinging pendulum that renders you powerless and under the control of the Hypnotherapist. OR where people run around quacking like ducks or doing other crazy stunts. However, if you remember no one can hypnotise you but you, you realise that you are always in control.
In the case of stage shows the participants are always fully aware of what will be asked of them and only do what they want to do. Hypnotherapists cannot make a client do anything they do not already want to do. You are simply following instructions that allow you to relax and open up to deeper levels of your own mind.
Self Hypnosis as I prefer to call it is more about what you want rather than what you don’t want. Letting go of what is causing the experiences in your life. Then installing inspired instructions that support the changes and outcomes you want to experience.
What is self hypnosis?
You already do this every day; trance is a very natural and common state to experience. Without realising it, you often transcend into a trance-like state. We use colloquial expressions that describe it:’ I was off with the fairies’, ‘on autopilot,’ ‘I was in my own world’, ‘I zoned out a bit, ‘I was not focusing’, or when you say, ‘I was daydreaming’. Going off to sleep every night, we go into trance before moving into sleep. We often drive the car in trance not realizing how we even got to our destination. Have you ever driven to your old house or work?
How many times a day are you going into trance and following an automatic program that creates outcomes you would rather not experience? During the process of trance, you shut out your conscious mind to connect with your subconscious at a deeper level. You still remain in full control of your mind and can bring yourself out at any moment!
Hypnotherapists only play the role of facilitator during the process. They provide the journey but they can’t do it for you, or to you. You are the one that has to follow the instructions and connect to a deeper place so you may better cope with the challenges you are experiencing. Whereby you can change the unconscious programs to take you to the destination that you want, rather than continuing with the old patterns that you want to leave behind.
How does self hypnosis work
When you think about this, it is extremely empowering because you are always in control. You see the person who is the hypnotherapist or provides the hypnotherapy for the session only guides you through a process, however, each step is allowed and dictated by you. A Hypnotherapists’s job is to give instructions and provide a pathway and for you to follow.
As long as you follow the instructions, you will go into trance which is the gateway to hypnosis. In this state, you change your brain waves. Hence, the expression, ‘All hypnosis is self hypnosis’.
What is the difference between self hypnosis and Meditation
Hypnosis can be described as hyperawareness in an ultra-relaxed state. So, technically, the mind is awake and the body is asleep- which is meditation. The difference between hypnosis and meditation is that hypnosis involves embedded commands while meditation does not.
These commands are designed by the hypnotherapist and the client depending on what changes the client would like to make. These become the unconscious instructions by which you would like to live your life. During trance your conscious mind is subdued and you are more suggestible. As a result, we can install and reinforce new thoughts and ideas. These empowering thoughts help you to relieve your stress, anxiety and enables you to rid yourself of thoughts that nag you; that are focused on what you do not want.
When you can accept, believe, and surrender to these powerful thoughts that are aligned with your goal, favorable results, and preferred outcomes ensue. When you experience hypnosis you feel relaxed and calm. Hypnotherapy can be life changing as it empowers you and helps you let go of the triggers and behaviours you don’t want. Creating the life experience you do want.
The fact that we experience our issues is partly because we are not always aware of the unconscious thought patterns and programs that are driving our choices and behaviour and therefore our experience. Hypnotherapy works specifically with these unconscious programs and thoughts so you can change what is not serving you. This is why online hypnotherapy is a very effective process to address any concerns or challenges you may have. You can just listen at your leisure and make profound changes in the way you think and therefore behave.
The historical aspect of self hypnosis
The history of hypnosis is as old as Egyptian and Greek history. The word, ‘Hypnos’, has Greek roots, which means,’ sleep’. However, hypnotherapy does not precisely simulate the condition of sleep. The most direct comparison would be that your body is so relaxed it mimics sleep. Your mind on the other hand is highly alert.
One of the notable pioneers was Franz Mesmer, who came up with the notion of ‘animal magnetism’- diseases are the product of the turbulence in the magnetic fluid. You can get a deeper insight into the theory of animal magnetism here. Criticized for many reasons, this theory still provoked a lot of minds to raise questions, paving a way for extensive research in the times that followed.
The notion of the Placebo effect is also very significant in the context of self-hypnosis. Patients effectively cure themselves through thought alone. They accept and surrender to the ‘thought’ that they will heal from the fake medicine which instructs their body to produce the same chemicals as if they were taking them. The Placebo effect says that despite the intake of a benign substance, a patient starts to show an improvement due to psychological factors- the belief in the thought and recovery.
Hence, online hypnosis is now becoming a popular trend. As our understanding of the power of our unconscious thoughts and beliefs over our experience grows we can understand why hypnosis works. Couple that with the foundation of hypnosis being self-hypnosis and the nature of online technological advances- online hypnosis is a powerful resource for change.