|
Achieving Goals | Anxiety | Allergies | Memory | Overcoming
Barriers | Self-conficence | Understanding
Hypnosis | Weight Loss | Fears
Understanding Hypnosis
 Considering
that hypnosis probably dates back to when, for the first time, someone
gave another the “evil eye”, it’s surprising how
much misinformation there is and how little it’s utilized.
An article I recently read on the internet, published
by a famous medical school, noted that it took ten to twenty minutes
to “hypnotize” someone and mentioned the use of a swinging
watch. Let me tell you that the watch went out with Abbot and Costello
and if takes the hypnotist more than five minutes to lead someone
into a very fine state of hypnosis, the client should find someone
else. In fact, a famous hypnotist, Dave Elman, who spent his career
teaching hypnosis to medical personnel, always insisted that if
his doctors couldn’t hypnotize someone in one minute it was
valueless to them. Be assured, you can lead someone into hypnosis
in a single minute and you don’t need a pocket watch. Let me
clear away some cobwebs.
Absolutely everyone can be guided into hypnosis and
utilize its value, suggestibility is nonsense because there is no
such thing as being “hypnotized”- all hypnosis is self-hypnosis.
As long as the subject wants to experience a deep sense of relaxation,
absolutely everyone can experience it. You are always aware, in
control and simply must be motivated, willing and focused during
the process.
Being in hypnosis feels much like having a daydream;
a state one goes into in an instant, very peaceful, extremely relaxing,
essentially having a private conversation with oneself. Ever drive
by your exit on the highway because your mind was wandering? The
conscious mind, analyzing and sorting information, is busily absorbed
in thought; the subconscious mind, on autopilot, is driving the
car, you never are asleep, distracted perhaps but definitely not
asleep; a good example of road hypnosis.
The subconscious mind receives and retains all the
messages and conflicts gathered from our daily experiences, hypnosis
is a means of easing communication between our conscious and subconscious
mind so we may make the desired improvements or the changes we seek.
Hypnosis is best described as an altered state of consciousness
where selective thinking enables you to better understand the connections
between some of your long term memories and conclusions derived
from them, rightfully or wrongfully, and thereby potentially change
the way you view yourself and your world. Guided into a specific
area of concentration or, in the case of self-hypnosis, guided by
trained individuals themselves, one essentially has a managed daydream.
Whether engaging in hypnosis for childbirth, to heal faster, reduce
pain, lose weight, stop smoking, deal with non-organic sexual or
other difficulties, self-hypnosis can be a fabulous life skill.
Rob Collier is resident hypnotist at OCEANSIDE
Healing Center, 231-B East Commercial Boulevard, Lauderdale By-The-Sea,
Florida, 954-772-1919. The center provides acupuncture, therapeutic
massage and a variety of complementary and alternative medicine
under the direction of Ms Susan Mitchell, owner and acupuncture
physician; a spectacular environment for hypnosis since substantially
accelerated progress is possible when combined with other healing
arts care.
In future articles, specific areas of hypnosis will
be explored and some remarkable stories told about the uses and
results of hypnosis. 
|
