Everyone is aware of using hypnosis to help them quit smoking, increase confidence, release their fears or lose weight and if you think about all these different effects, they are all changes to your life. At the end of the day, you need motivation to make change or you wouldn’t change. However, even with motivation, even with wanting to change, change is not easy.
Hypnotherapy helps with motivating you to change – from the inside, really motivating your unconscious self so that it is easy to make that change. You may need motivation for other changes, so think of all the things can hypnosis can help simply by focussing on your motivation for the task in hand.
You might need motivation to set up your own business, focus on a particular task at work, or anything. Hypnosis will focus your mind and help you to concentrate. You can only work on one change at a time to help your unconscious mind to absorb the changes you need.
Hypnosis can help remove those littles voices in your head that stop you from achieving your goal, voices like ‘you don’t deserve it’, ‘you’re not good enough’, ‘you have no time’ and more. Hypnotherapy can help to quieten those voices and even remove then. Don’t let a lack of motivation stop you getting or doing what you want to in life.
Although this may sound a bit of a daft question to some, it is in fact a very common fear amongst those unfamiliar with hypnosis and how it works.
The simple answer is that this cannot happen. In all the centuries of hypnosis being used, there has never been a single report of someone getting stuck in hypnosis.
People fear that they might not be able to come round or that if something happens to the hypnotherapist, then they will be left stuck in hypnosis.
If something were to happen to the hypnotherapist, the hypnotised person would either awake straight away or they would simply drift off to sleep and wake up when they were ready. This misconception may have arisen when people have watched, usually on television, a hypnotised subject seemingly struggle to come round when the hypnotherapist asks them to. This is usually a simple case that the subject is enjoying the relaxed sensation so much that they don’t really want to come out of it. Hypnosis is a really relaxing feeling.
Indeed, patients remain in control at all times. It is very rare for someone to go into a deep trance so that they can’t hear what the hypnotherapist is saying. Many people can hear every word that is said. If they wanted to come out of the trance, they could do so easily by just opening their eyes at any time.
Mediation is when two parties involve a neutral third party to help them overcome or resolve a dispute or argument. The third party is not advisory in any capacity but merely there to help the parties to come to a shared understanding of the situation and to work towards an agreed resolution.
Mediation is also sometimes called ‘alternative dispute resolution’ (ADR). It can be undertaken by couples, two companies, or even two countries. Some examples of disputes which may be dealt with or helped by mediation include:
Family:
- Marital disagreements
- Prenuptial agreements
- Separation / divorce
- Financial distribution
- Parental / custody issues
- Elderly care issues
- Sibling conflictsWorkplace:
Workplace:
- Wrongful termination
- Harrassment
- Discrimination
- Grievances
Disputes involving the following issues:
- Landlord/tenant issues
- Builders/contractors/homeowners
- Contracts
- Medical malpractice
- Personal injury
- Partnerships
Other:
- Youth/peer mediation
- Violence prevention
Mediation is often cheaper than going to court, quicker and more effective. It is also more private and discreet.
This is another common fear from clients, although not always a question they wish to ask.
When you are in hypnosis, you will not give away any information that you do not wish to. This fear is based upon the misconceptions and highly dramatised versions of hypnosis shown in films or on television. Stage hypnosis and the media have helped to publicise misconceptions such as these.
In hypnosis, you are in full control although many people find they are more receptive to suggestions whilst in hypnosis. Often, people report feeling more ‘awake’ and aware of what is going on than they are normally! If someone under hypnosis wants to stop the session at any time, it is very easy for them to do and they can simply open their eyes.
It is very easy for someone to lie in hypnosis – this is one of the reasons why evidence obtained under hypnosis is inadmissible in a court of law.
Hypnosis has been developed over centuries and has proven to be very effective in many ways.
Have you ever woken up just before the alarm has gone off? It happens to a lot of people and many put it down to co-incidence or habit without realising exactly why.
Expectation is a huge power. When we expect something constantly, that expectation is embedded deep in our unconscious and that is what wakes us up.
Hypnosis is a great way of making unconscious expectation louder. When we consciously expect something, it takes a while sometimes to filter through to our unconscious mind, however, hypnosis amplifies the effect and speeds it up.
As an example, think of a placebo. When patients are in a trial and they have the placebo, they consciously expect the pain to go away or the symptoms to stop and their expectation is so powerful that the unconscious mind makes the physical pain relieving mechanism work and the pain goes away and the symptoms lift.
When you have had to wake up early and have woken up before the alarm, it is a little like the placebo effect. Knowing you have to get up early causes the expectation to set your unconscious alarm. Those who suffer from lack of sleep or insomnia when they have to get up earlier than normal often say that knowing they have to get up early increases their stress levels and actually causes the insomnia itself.
Expectation is very powerful and using hypnosis, we can harness this effect and use it.
When we frown, whilst working or concentrating, we accelerate the wrinkling process. The more you frown, the more you will wrinkle and the quicker that process will be.
Many people go to extreme lengths to try to combat the aging process, such as using wrinkle creams, face masks and botox has been in the media quite a lot.
Hypnosis is often used to battle habits and if you think of frowning as a habit, there is no reason why it should not be used to combat frowning. Botox works by paralysing the muscles, stopping them from frowning using chemicals. Using hypnosis for this purpose is completely natural without any chemicals or other interference and will simply relax the frowning away. Hypnotherapists in Ontario have started offering hypnosis as a method of natural, non-invasive wrinkle prevention and cure.
Hypnotherapy is known for helping with many fears and phobias, the most common of which are things such as fear of flying, fear of spiders or other creepies or fear of heights. However, it can also help with things like a fear of public speaking.
Many people may think that this is just the same as helping someone to build up their confidence, however, there are many confident people out there who would tell you that they have or had a fear of public speaking. (more…)
Depression is more common than you might think, however, it is also often misdiagnosed when people feel down or are going through a tough period in their lives. Here is a list of common depression symptoms. Many people do not experience them all but if you have a few of these it might be worth seeking some help.
Depression does not always mean treatment through medication. Often, other therapies can also help, such as psychotherapy, CBT or hypnotherapy.
- Low mood almost all day, every day
- Loss of interest or enjoyment in activities you normally like
- Feeling weepy, bursting into tears uncontrollably (more…)
Some people will occasionally say that ‘they can’t be hypnotised’. Usually, what they are saying is that they don’t want to be hypnotised.
To be hypnotised, you must be willing to be hypnotised and able to concentrate on what the hypnotherapist is saying. Most people can manage that and so (more…)
Some hypnotherapy centres or hypnotherapists hold group sessions for those who wish to quit smoking. Advantages of the group sessions are mainly for the pocket as they are much cheaper for the attendees. For the hypnotherapist, it usually guarantees a weekly slot and there will be those who keep coming back.
However, the success rate in group stop smoking classes is generally lower and there are a few reasons for this.
Firstly, some attendees may not relax as they would in a private setting, hence hypnosis is slightly more difficult to achieve. It may take a couple of sessions to achieve it and in the meantime, many may give up believing that they should only need one or two sessions or that hypnotherapy ‘doesn’t work for them’. (more…)