What can hypnotherapy be used for other than smoking, weight loss and anxiety?
November 26, 2010 by admin
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Question by Ashley: What can hypnotherapy be used for other than smoking, weight loss and anxiety?
I know it is often used to help people quit smoking, lose weight and ease anxiety but is that it? Can it help someone be on time, remember to do a chore everyday (for example), or help them from spending too much money? These are hypothetical examples, but I would really like to know what hypnotherapy can do for people. A list or website or anything would be helpful.
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Answer by Nimi
I met a hypnotherapist who helped women to have pain free births. (I unfortunatly met her 10 weeks too late!)
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While hypnosis is commonly associated with habit cessation (for example, losing weight or quitting smoking), many hypnotherapists have a much broader range of treatment. A well-trained clinician using hypnotherapy can help clients who suffer from physical symptoms and conditions (including migraine, sexual dysfunctions, high blood pressure, and sleep disorders), psychological symptoms (including anxiety, stress, insomnia, phobias, depression, and the effects of past trauma) and life issues (limiting behaviors, career change, divorce, aging, relationship crises). Other medical applications include pain control, use during dental work, comfort during birth, and enhancing comfort and healing before, during, and after surgical procedures.
It’s good at separating a sucker from his money.
These days many people resort to Hypnosis as a therapy for many different issues. Hypnosis as a therapy is a process in which the patient and the therapist cooperate for the benefit of the client.
For many years hypnosis had an unsavory reputation in the public mind and in the medical profession. This was largely due to hypnosis being associated with the theater or music halls. Hypnotists would select members of the audience, put them in a trance and then persuade them to act out or confess to unconscious longings or fears. Although hypnosis is still used as an entertainment tool it is being reevaluated and is seen by many as a useful technique that has a place in a wide range of medical, psychological and investigative pursuits.
Hypnotherapy combines both art and science. Franz Anton Mesmer back in the late 1700s believed that man could redistribute the quasimagnetic fluid to bring about healing. Not long after that James Braid a Scottish surgeon working Manchester England created the term hypnosis.
The term hypnosis actually is derived from the Greek word sleep but the individual under hypnosis is not asleep or unconscious and is in fact more alert than ever.
Today hypnosis has developed into a well-respected practice and is used by certified hypnotherapists, doctors, psychologists and law enforcement. It is used for a variety of reasons for example pain control, stress related disorders, anesthesia, psychotherapy and memory recall. The management of a wide range of phobic anxiety and other psychological disorders can also be aided by the use of hypnotism.
The practice of hypnotism is safe and can be extremely helpful in area where there are not many other effective treatments other than drugs. Things such as stress reduction, sexual problems, phobias, insomnia, stopping smoking, weight loss and lack of motivation. Hypnotherapy has also been found useful in areas of law and it has sometimes been the only way that vital pieces of evidence have been discovered.
If you have ever felt that you have a problem that is all in the head or in fact your own doctor has felt that way then hypnotherapy could be the ideal solution. If your head created the problem then it can be used to treat it.
There are a few people who cannot be hypnotized to a depth that will be helpful and these are the feeble-minded, the insane and the senile. And, as it does take mind power to hypnotize, very young children who have not developed sufficient mind power are not good subjects.
People who are helped by hypnotherapy will see changes rapidly. A person does not have to work hard for hypnotherapy to be effective as it is a natural state of mind. In fact with hypnotherapy the harder you try the more you fail. So the rule is do not try to be hypnotized just remain passive and let it happen.
Hypnotherapy is a great way to unlock the potential of the subconscious mind and can be taught to use alone, at will and without complicated procedure.
After hypnosis most people feel wonderfully warm and relaxe
Hi Ashley,
Hypnotherapy and brain entraining is used to get positive messages to our subconscious mind, which is the driver of our emotions. So it will effectively change a habit or behaviour trait, remove fear, and negative emotions improve confidence memory and concentration. Help with addiction and just about any mind driven issue.
Hypnotherapy works better with those who are able to relax easily and respond to guided visual imagery. For brain entraining just resting and listening are sufficient.
Hope this helps,
Kind regards,
Jon
I am near the end of my treatment with hypnosis.
Initially I went to my Hypnotherapist because I had trouble with the foods I was putting into my body and then getting angry at myself when I continued to eat the wrong foods.
I have since then discovered that the main priority was not my weight and food but it was my business/work related issues. Secondly I had issues with depression and then followed the with food issue.
Amazingly enough, I was taught that all hypnosis is self hypnosis.
With the power of Neuro Linguistic Programming which uses the language of the mind, assists in bringing our unconscious resources into awareness.
The Purpose if discovering our deeper resources enables greater choice in ways to achieve our desired outcome.
There is so much more to Hypnosis than any one can tell you here.
I will however tell you one thing that really freaked me out and that people I tell are also freaked out about and that is this –
While sitting in my chair, I was asked to go above where I was seated, into the air (mentally not physically of course), I went back in time, before I was born and beyond. I would never have believed this had it not happened to me. I saw myself as two other people in two separate lifetimes. Truly amazing.
When I told my cousin this she too had a similar thing happen to her and she loved having hypnosis as much as I do.
So all in all if you want the true feeling of what hypnosis can do for you, make sure you personally go to one that is highly recommended in your area and I hope you have as much success as I have done.
Best to you!
Absolutely. V5latino has it just right, no need to add to what he said but I wanted to confirm it because someone gave him a thumbs down for reasons I can’t begin to fathom.