Common Problems & Conditions That Hypnosis Can Help You & Treat
Almost all of us are familiar wtith the image of hypnosis portrayed by acts of hypnosis on stage. The person that is hypnotized into thinking he or she can’t lift their leg off the stage floor, or is encouraged to meow like a cat or make sounds like a dog. So how is it possible that something can that appears to be entirely embarrassing to the volunteer be employed to help anybody during therapy? The answer lies not so much in what the volunteer is urged to do during hypnosis but in the trance like mental state that a person enters during the course of hypnosis. That hypnotic trance exposes the unconscious mind, which is specifically what psychotherapists are after during many of the stages involved in therapy.
One of the major principles of modern psychology is the difference between the unconscious and the conscious mind. The conscious mind is the regular things we think of when we say “mind”. It is the regular feeling, thinking, determining right from wrong, evaluating, looking, listening and decision-making. The unconscious mind is what we can not see. It is the automatic programming behind the scenes that makes the conscious mind possible. Only a low amount of information can be in the conscious mind at any one time, the balance is unconscious mind.
A fitting analogy is to compare your mind to a computer. What you get on a computer monitor screen is akin to the conscious mind. You fundamentally only see it one screen of details at a time. You can view quite a lot of screens of information really quickly however it is still only a little amount at a time. The programming inside a computer is akin to the unconscious mind. It is the programming inside that makes everything you see on the computer monitor screen possible. A majority of of us will not see the programming unless by accident. Generally, when regular everyday computer users can see the computer programming by accident, it is not a good sign and the computer is required to be fixed. Here is where the analogy starts to break down. In the modern world if computer programming goes wrong we normally just reload the program and subsequently reboot the computer. You can’t do that with people’s minds. Yet sometimes when a computer breaks down a programmer has to adjust the programming to get the computer operating adequately again.
Hypnotherapy can be used to help people with all sorts on conditions and ailments from natural weight loss solutions to such things as diverse as curing premature ejaculation. Below is a list of all the problems that can be treated by hypnosis:
- Blushing
- Fear of flying
- Surgery (Fear of)
- Interview preparation
- Attention Deficit Disorder (ADHD)
- Agoraphobia (fear of open spaces)
- Memory recall / improvement
- Gambling
- Stress
- Fears & Phobias (eg: Fear of Dentist) Public speaking
- Depression
- Panic Attacks
- Fear of heights
- Assertiveness
- Alcohol problems
In a similar fashion, often times people get off track in their lives and can’t seem to get backon track. Often times a therapist has to get at the unconscious mind of those people to see what went wrong in the programming that manifested the conscious day to day problems. Hypnosis not only affords access to the unconscious mind however additionally provides a tool for helping to mend the problem. The same power that makes it possible for a stage hypnotist to get people to do absurd things can be used to assist reprogram someone’s unconscious mind to correct the problem perceptions or behavior. In conclusion, the human mind is not nearly as easy to fix as a broken computer but hypnotherapy provides the therapist with an effective tool to help.
Bevan Godden & Bob’ezy Featuring Livingstone – Rise (Dj Hypnosis Mix)