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Understanding Hypnosis & It’s Benefits
If you are interested in healing the deeper parts of yourself, getting rid of unconscious self sabotage, bad habits, or creating new habits to help you be healthier, happier, and more confident, hypnosis is a powerful tool to learn. It’s helpful first, though to fully understand what hypnosis is, and what it is not. Let’s start with what it is. Hypnosis is a trance or mental state in which you experience increased attention, concentration and suggestibility. Now, we’re always in a state of suggestibility, but hypnosis increases that effect. It’s often described as a sleep-like state, but it’s better expressed as a heightened sense of concentration, focused suggestibility, and vivid fantasies. People in a hypnotic state often feel zoned out, sleepy, and very relaxed. They are in a state of hyper awareness.
Disappearing The Myths About Hypnosis
There are a lot of myths surrounding hypnosis, and a lot of these myths come from pop, movies, and media culture.
#1 There’s people than can be hypnotized, and people that can’t be hypnotized.
Anybody can be hypnotized. And that is because hypnosis is not a “do-to” process. It’s a “do-with” process. And because it’s simply a state of trance, there are various levels of hypnosis. So they’re light hypnosis, medium hypnosis and deep hypnosis. People who say, “I cannot be hypnotized,” may have a little bit more difficulty going into a deeper state of trance because of the analytical nature of their brain. But with practice, it is easier and easier to go into trance.
#2 People hypnotize you.
Hypnosis is a do-with process. That means together with a guide – a trained hypnotherapist or a trained hypnotist – you will go into trance, and then with permission, experience whatever the therapeutic nature of that hypnosis is. A hypnotist or a hypnotherapist cannot make you do anything that you do not want to do, or that is not present in the value system in which you operate. People often think, “Oh, the hypnotherapist is going to make me give them my personal information or give them my account numbers or bark like a dog” or any of those things. But the truth is, if it doesn’t exist within your personal value system to do these things, then you will not do them. Furthermore, all hypnotherapists take an oath to be ethical in their use of hypnosis, especially therapeutically.
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Benefits of Hypnosis
There are a lot of benefits to hypnosis – such as eliminating unwanted habits like smoking or overeating, helping with anxiety, with sleep, and even with specific performance anxiety related to things like public speaking or flying.
Here are some of the specific ways people benefit from hypnosis
- People use hypnosis to treat acute and chronic pain. I personally used it in childbirth, which is a common use for hypnosis. It can also be used in the pain of fibromyalgia, TMJ, migraines headaches, irritable bowel syndrome and some neuropathies.
- Dentists have used hypnosis as anesthesia during surgical procedures. It has even been used as an anesthetic in major surgical procedures.
- Hot Flashes. Hypnosis may relieve symptoms of hot flashes and insomnia associated with menopause.
- In children, hypnosis has been used to treat anxiety, and in conditions such as ADD/ADHD, bedwetting, and nightmares in children and adults to help them focus and concentrate better.
- Hypnosis has been shown to improve symptoms of nausea during treatments like chemotherapy or radiation in cancer patients.
- Hypnosis also helps in behavior change such as overeating, smoking cessation, procrastination
- Mental health conditions. Anxiety, depression, insomnia, phobias, insomnia, and post-traumatic stress
How is Hypnosis Done?
There are a few different ways that hypnosis can actually be done.
First is self-hypnosis, and this is the process when the person guides themself into a hypnotic state. And oftentimes this is akin to going into a very deep meditation. This can be helpful for things like pain or anxiety and even insomnia.
There’s also guided hypnosis. This is when you listen to instructions, sometimes recorded, that lead you into a hypnotic state. There are a lot of mobile apps and audios that can be used to do guided hypnosis.
The third way is the use of a licensed hypnotherapist or a hypnosis practitioner. This method is mostly used to specifically treat conditions like PTSD, anxiety, depression, or specific phobias. Even to help eliminate unwanted behaviors or cravings (such as cigarettes or particular foods).
Why do People Use Hypnosis?
There are a variety of reasons that people might use hypnosis.
• People use hypnosis to treat acute and chronic pain. I personally used it in childbirth, which is a common use for hypnosis. It can also be used in the pain of fibromyalgia, TMJ, migraines headaches, irritable bowel syndrome and some neuropathies.
• Dentists have used hypnosis as anesthesia during surgical procedures. It has even been used as an anesthetic in major surgical procedures.
• Hot Flashes. Hypnosis may relieve symptoms of hot flashes and insomnia associated with menopause.
• In children, hypnosis has been used to treat anxiety, and in conditions such as ADD/ADHD, bedwetting, and nightmares in children and adults to help them focus and concentrate better.
• Hypnosis has been shown to improve symptoms of nausea during treatments like chemotherapy or radiation in cancer patients.
• Hypnosis also helps in behavior change such as overeating, smoking cessation, procrastination
• Mental health conditions. Anxiety, depression, insomnia, phobias, insomnia, and post-traumatic stress
What does hypnosis feel like?
Maybe you can think of a time, while you were sitting, watching TV or listening to a song, and you were so deep into it that the whole world shut down. So much so that maybe someone came in the room or called your name and you didn’t hear it. This is one of the aspects of hypnosis or going into trance. Thinking about something, focused on your thoughts, listening to music. focused on the road… You may have also heard about highway hypnosis.
Another sensation that people feel when they go into trance is the sensation of deep relaxation and open-mindedness. The experience of deep relaxation and open-mindedness, which allows you to visualize and experience, have certain experiences that bring in creativity, that bring in new thought, that allow for new behavior patterns to come in. Some people even have the feeling of floating, floating in the sky, or maybe tingling of the fingers and toes. Others feel very heavy. Others become somewhat energized.
Whatever’s the case, you will feel hyper awareness of what’s going on around you. And then under hypnosis, some people experience a sense of detachment. Like they’re slightly removed from what they’re experiencing. Some people actually describe it as feeling like they’re observing themselves. But the most common way that people feel inside of hypnosis is a sense of deep relaxation, and calmness. And some people when they wake up from hypnosis, actually have this sense that they’ve taken a nice long nap, feeling rested, energized and ready to go.