Please click here to visit our sponsor

Hypnosis - What Exactly is it?


Hypnosis is probably not what you think it is. Hypnosis is a technique that allows you to utilise your own inner strengths and hidden abilities. It can bring out those talents and skills you perhaps don't even believe you possess. Hypnosis could be the key that unlocks the door to an experience of life that is, at the very least, a little easier; and at the very best free from phobias or anxieties that have been with you so long you believe that that is how you were made.

Hypnosis is not about someone taking control of your mind; it's about someone giving you permission to take control back. For when you are trapped by an unwanted habit, such as smoking, or you have a fear of social encounters, or food is your enemy, then the problem controls you and dictates to you how you are and what you do. The habit may mean you can't be anywhere without a cigarette or visit places you would like to because of No Smoking rules. The fear may mean you avoid parties, or that a family wedding or celebration is an occasion of intense anxiety rather than something joyful. Your enemy makes you put on weight and become unacceptable to yourself and others. Hypnosis releases you to be yourself.

The word trance itself sounds like something mystical or magical, yet it is nothing of the sort. It is simply an everyday natural phenomena being used in a therapeutic way. If you've ever lain in bed on a Sunday morning, all snuggled up in the blankets nice and warm and cosy, drifting in and out of dreams, with an almost total lack of awareness of the time - then you've been in a trance. If you've ever been driving along a familiar route and suddenly realise you don't remember part of the journey, or you've driven the way you usually go instead of the way you wanted to go - then you've been in a trance. When you become totally engrossed in a book or a film and lose track of time - this too is a form of trance. So you can see the hypnotic trance is nothing to be feared, it is simply a pleasant relaxed state of mind and body where the mind is freed to wander and explore the world of the imagination.

Freed from the limitations and restrictions of logical thinking (this is the thinking that generates irrational fears and maintains unwanted habits) your mind is enabled to use symbolic thought processes to solve problems. This way you don't need to see how to solve the problem from a rational point of view and so the barriers to problem solving are removed.

For instance, the problem with the smoking habit is that people define themselves as either Smokers or Ex-Smokers. But the truth is that when each of us is born we are a Non-Smoker. That is what we are. The Hypnotic treatment that I use to assist people in giving up the habit re-defines them, at an unconscious level, as a Non-Smoker and because, after treatment, they see themselves as a Non-Smoker there are unlikely to be any cravings, or any of the other adverse side-effects that other methods of stopping smoking can have. But it only works if there is a determination to stop. Hypnosis can never make someone do what they do not, deep down, want to do. But if you are determined hypnosis can help remove the 'pain' from the process.

Hypnosis can be used to help a wide variety of problems: pain control (with the approval of GP or consultant); achieving and maintaining a target weight by shifting the focus to healthy, enjoyable eating rather than diets; creating a better self-image and boosting self-confidence; as well as a variety of other disorders.

Michael J. Hadfield MBSCH is a registered clinical hypnotherapist. You can experience his unique style on a range of hypnosis CD's and tapes at http://www.hypnosisiseasy.com Here you can also obtain treatment for a variety of problems and explore his approach to health, healing, and hypnosis.




Center for Alternative Medicine opens in Hurricane
Putnam Standard, WV - 5 hours ago
HURRICANE - A ribbon cutting ceremony and open house took place at the Center for Alternative Medicine in Hurricane, Oct. 9. For those who do not know what ...


Woman Incorporates Alternative Medicine In Fight Against Cancer
WISC, WI - 10 hours ago
But alternative medicine comes at a price. Frisch and Marchand said that very few insurance companies cover the cost of treatment. ...


Uplift Rx: Call Doc Woody
Globe and Mail, Canada - 12 hours ago
By the early eighties, some evidence [about alternative medicine] had come in." He became licensed in acupuncture and trained in nutrition, ...
Chinese hospital found responsible for newborn deaths China Daily
Region cashes in on health education Toledo Blade
all 4 news articles


Alternative drugs watchdog soon
Gulf Daily News, Bahrain - Oct 12, 2008
By MANDEEP SINGH CENTRES for alternative medicine could soon be brought under check by a new body set up to monitor their work. ...


Curious About Cancer Treatments? Talk To Your Doctor First
Chipley Florida Online Newspaper - Foster Folly News, fl - 17 hours ago
In your research, you may come across references to complementary and alternative medicine. Complementary therapies are meant to enhance standard medical ...


HealthNews

Alternative Medicine Under the Microscope
HealthNews, CA - Oct 12, 2008
Alternative medicine has long been valued as an option to healing the body through unorthodox methods, herbs, oils, and meditation. ...


Alternative Medicine Pioneer and Author, Nancy Lonsdorf, MD, Helps ...
MarketWatch - Oct 9, 2008
Dr. Lonsdorf is a leading expert in Ayurvedic Medicine and other alternative approaches to health care and herbal prevention therapies. ...


Pentagon researches alternative treatments
USA Today - Oct 7, 2008
Although the Pentagon's study of alternative medicine for combat diseases is unique, research into such therapies for broad public use is not new, ...


Popular autism treatment often goes uncovered
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Oct 12, 2008
They also pay for a special diet and alternative medicine treatments that they say have allowed their son to flourish. To afford Grant's therapy, ...


Alternative Medicine Under the Microscope
Washington Post, United States - Oct 1, 2008
By Susan Okie, By Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst Alternative medicine is global big business, with an estimated $74 billion spent each year worldwide on ...
Health Tip: Considering Alternative Medicine? Washington Post
all 6 news articles

alternative medicine - Google News

home | site map

© 2006 www.elearn-university.org