The uses of hypnosis are numerous and far-reaching. Some of the more common uses though, include the following.....
Healing in general
I believe in simple, scientifically-based and practical methods of healing that can be shown to produce positive results in a regular and predictable manner. I am not into ethereal claptrap.
I believe the power to heal ourselves resides within all of us and that power is always there, simply waiting for us to access.
As such, I do not believe in ascribing results (successful or otherwise) to either myself or any higher being.
I believe a healer is merely a facilitator who enables us to successfully tap (literally!) into the aforementioned universal power within us and then utilize it to our best advantage.
In my view, a healer is not someone who can disguise our aches, pains, diseases by dispensing pills and potions; and a healer is not someone who purports to know all the answers.
How can you heal yourself?
How can you tie a knot? How can you lose weight? How can you become rich?
These are all questions with a plethora of perfectly reasonable answers.
However, that’s not what I want to hear, you say!
So, here are 4 options/suggestions for self-healing. I have tried these on myself, and others, and I know they work.
- Learn to meditate. The easiest way is to simply close your eyes and repeat a simple mantra (any 2-syllable word will do) for 20 minutes. Don’t worry if your mind gets off track occasionally, just keep returning to repeating your mantra. Do this twice a day.
- Learn EFT. (Go to emofree.com for a free manual) EFT is easy to learn and, in my experience, very effective. Try EFT on anything and everything! It works!
- Learn self-hypnosis. There are MP3 downloads, E-books and free courses available from many websites. Combine hypnosis with EFT for dramatic changes.
- Laugh a lot. The more the better. Stand in front of a mirror and grin at yourself like a Cheshire cat for 30 seconds. Put your shoulders back and do some deep diaphragmatic breathing.
Back Pain (Dorsalgia)
Back pain occurs very frequently in humans, ranking alongside colds, flu and headaches in terms of commonality of complaint. Nearly all of us will suffer a degree of back pain at some point in our lives.
The classic sore back often originates from what could be called a ‘non-specific’ cause and is often simply due to a tightening of the lower back muscles as a result of nervous tension or concentration from sitting in a chair for long hours. I once read that the quickest way to a sore back is to either begin studying for a degree or become addicted to horse-riding!
Of course, your sore back can be due to more specific causes such as muscle strain or sprain. When either of these occur, your back can go into spasms, giving you the non-welcome bonus of extra pain. More serious, but less common back pain can also occur, as a result of herniated or prolapsed discs, accompanied by the debilitating pain of sciatica.
Traditional treatment advocated for sore backs usually involves such steps as taking anti-imflammatories, keeping up an active lifestyle as much as possible, stretching, using ice-packs and visiting your doctor or physio. All of these are worth trying and can lead to pain relief, to some extent or other.
However, for the common, ‘garden-variety’ sore back, there is another very effective and simple way of dealing with it which tends to be overlooked.
For back pain that has its origins in tension, quick and permanent relief can easily be gained through the use of hypnosis. Hypnosis, as we know, is really just a super-state of relaxation, and, as such, can be employed to release all tension from our body. Used in conjunction with suitable direct suggestion, hypnosis can frequently eliminate that nagging back pain in next to no time.
By using simple hypnosis your sore back can rapidly become a thing of the past!
If you are interested in trying the hypnotic method to eliminate your back pain, there are 2 ways of achieving this.
The first way is the DIY approach - ie write out a script, hypnotize yourself and play your script back to yourself.
While It’s not exactly rocket science to do it this way, it is time-consuming and unless you are pretty familiar with the hypnotic process, it can be a bit of a hit or miss affair as far as results are concerned.
The simplest way is to get someone to do the hard-yards for you! – get the CD or MP3 and just sit back and listen. For this approach, I recommend you visit the following site:
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Phobias
A phobia is an abnormal and uncontrollable fear response which is produced in the absence of any real danger. It differs from anxiety reaction in that it tends to fix itself on some symbolic idea or situation and may seem at first to have no connection with anything in the client’s past experience.
Phobias are usually an outgrowth of experiences of intense terror which have been repressed. For example, a child may have been expressly told by her parents not to approach a particular cat say, but she did so anyway and the behaviour of the cat terrified the child. Then she may repress the incident because she fears punishment from her parents for doing what she was told not to do. Later on, this fear may extend to all cats and then to all furry creatures, and then, carried to its extreme as a phobia, may even express itself as an irrational fear of harmless objects like a fur coat.
And so the person’s response is usually to avoid the phobic object or situation, which of course is likely to perpetuate the phobia into adulthood.
Hypnosis can be used to probe the memory to find out what the initial
cause of the phobia was and then to de-sensitise the fear and cure the
subject of the phobia.
List of phobias
Some common phobias and the actual names for them, are:
Zoophobia – fear of animals 
Doraphobia – fear of skins or fur
Ornithophobia – fear of birds
Hemophobia – fear of blood
Taphephobia – fear of being buried alive
Cyberphobia – fear of computers
Enissophobia – fear of criticism
Myctophobia – fear of dark
Dentophobia – fear of dentists
Misophobia – fear of germs
Cynophobia – fear of dogs
Xerophobia – fear of dryness
Thanatophobia – fear of death
Atychiphobia – fear of failure
Aviatophobia – fear of flying
Xenophobia – fear of strangers
Phasmophobia – fear of ghosts
Acrophobia – fear of heights
Homophobia – fear of homosexuality
Nosocomephobia – fear of hospitals
Hypnophobia – fear of being hypnotized
Trypanophobia – fear of injections
Claustrophobia – fear of enclosed spaces
Gamophobia – fear of marriage
Androphobia – fear of men
Demophobia – fear of crowds
Agoraphobia – fear of open spaces
Tomophobia – fear of surgical operations
Zemmiphobia – fear of rats
Hypengyophobia – fear of responsibility
Ophidiophobia – fear of snakes
Arachnophobia – fear of spiders
-All of these phobias can be successfully addressed by hypnosis, sometimes in only one short session!!
Fear of heights hypnosis
Introduction
The fear of heights, or Acrophobia, as it is technically called, is a surprisingly common phobia. Many of us, myself included, have it to a certain degree but not to a point where it interferes with our normal day-to-day life. In some way, a minor fear of heights, is not only acceptable, but downright sensible and healthy. For example, to step off a 5 metre high ladder onto a roof is scary, because it is fraught with danger! However, to go up the Eiffel Tower in an elevator and look out on the magnificent panorama of Paris, should be a pleasurable experience, not a frightening one.
It is only when someone cannot go about their everyday life without their fear of heights intruding on it that it can be said that a real problem exists.
Explanation.
Fortunately, there is a fairly simple and straightforward solution to Acrophobia. It is via hypnosis.
You have probably heard of or experienced the following: Virtually anyone can walk along a 10 foot long, 6 inch wide, steel girder without any difficulty if it is lying on the ground right? However, place that same girder even only 3 feet above the ground, and the task is much more of a challenge. Put the girder 20 feet above the ground and most people would say, “Forget it, I aint’ agoin’ to even try!”
Why is this? What has changed? (apart from the height above the ground)
The girder is the same size. Your ability to walk a straight line is undiminished. Your sense of balance is unchanged.
Obviously, it is your mind that has changed – the fear of the possibility of falling and injuring yourself becomes your predominant thought.
Now hypnosis deals with the mind and there a number of rules which determine how the mind operates. Two of those rules are:
‘Every thought you have, causes a physical reaction.’ and
‘Your imagination is infinitely more powerful than your knowledge.’
So, applying these rules to the girder experiment, we can understand what is happening. The thought of falling causes a physical reaction –eg increased heart rate, faster breathing, increased sweating, dilated pupils, increased adrenaline. Even though common sense tells you that it should not be more difficult a task at 20 feet off the ground than at ground level, your imagination tells you something else. You can visualize yourself slipping, losing your balance, falling and hurting yourself.
If we could somehow change the thoughts going through your mind from negative ones to positive ones, we would have the problem licked!
How do we do this? Well, as mentioned, the out-and-out best solution is to tackle the problem via hypnosis. There are other methods, but for a quick and permanent end to this phobia, (and for any other phobias), hypnosis provides the best solution.
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Fear of flying phobia
This is a very common phobia which often stems from an early flight experience in which things did not go totally to plan. It could be that air turbulence was experienced, the flight was redirected or maybe delayed due to a minor electrical fault, or maybe even just a feeling that you had been treated indifferently by the flight crew.
Sometimes, a fear of flying can develop over a period of time, from just reading in the newspaper of plane crashes or maybe from watching a succession of aircrash movies. Although it is of course inevitable that there will be occasional crashes, given the number of world-wide flights taking place daily, it is easy to overlook the fact that it is still far safer to travel by air than it is by car.
My father has a chronic fear of flying phobia. Although very interested in aircraft in general, he absolutely refuses to fly in one. This puzzled me initially, but looking back into the past I remembered a flight my father and I had taken in a Tiger-moth biplane (a fairly basic but sound craft constructed out of canvas and wire and attached to an engine.)
I was about 10 years old at the time and had pestered and pestered until Dad finally gave in and we went on the flight. The pilot was young, and keen to show us what he could do, especially with regard to loop-the-loops and tail-spins. I was rapt with the whole experience but although I can’t really recall the look on my father’s face, (probably very ashen), I do recall that he didn’t speak very much for quite some time after the event.
For most people, their fear of flying phobia has not originated from such ‘traumatic’ circumstances! However, in order to overcome their phobia, it is still essential that the precipitating situation(s) be uncovered. Once that has been established, measures can easily be taken to permanently desensitize the person to the idea of flying.
All of this can usually be accomplished quickly and easily in 2 or 3 sessions of hypnotherapy.
Systematic Desensitization
At the time of writing, I read an article in the newspaper today which says that in the near future all phobias will be treatable by simply taking an inhalant! Sounds interesting but I am very dubious if such medication will ever effect a permanent cure…
The current conventional, natural and drug-free method of eliminating phobias is by a process called Systematic Desensitization.
This is a proven method. It can be done either with or without hypnosis, but without hypnosis the process can be lengthy, taking up to 50 or so sessions. With hypnosis, the process is considerably speeded up, taking only 2 or 3 sessions to effect a cure.
How is it done?
The following outline is how a hypnosis session would proceed:
All phobias are basically severe anxiety responses to something which is feared. Now as relaxation and anxiety are total opposites, the concept behind systematic desensitization is to use relaxation to desensitize the person’s anxiety to his or her fear.
The first step is to establish a hierarchy of anxieties. This is a list of items, ranked in order from what you find to be the least anxiety-producing through to the most anxiety-producing.
The next step is hypnosis.
When you are totally relaxed and in a hypnotic trance, the hypnotist will then ask you to signal (by raising a finger) as soon as you feel any anxiety.
You will then be told to imagine a situation he is about to describe. Starting with the lowest ranking anxiety-producing item on the list, the hypnotist will then time how long it takes before you raise your finger. You will then be told to totally relax again. The process will be repeated a number of times until the length of time you take to respond to that particular item reaches one minute. At that stage you have become desensitized to the item.
This process is repeated with each item on the hierarchy of anxieties until the maximum anxiety-producing item can also be tolerated for one minute.
When this goal has been reached, you should be free of your phobia.
Hypnosis and sport
Sports participants have found hypnosis to be of great help when properly used. However, when hypnosis is expected to work instant miracles, it is just about always a disappointment.
When it is wisely integrated into an overall training program though, hypnosis always gives encouraging results.
All athletes know the importance of getting psyched-up before a game, but there are many that still don’t recognise the real importance of cultivating a winner’s attitude everyday, both in practice and in competition. Hypnosis is a powerful way of getting this attitude.
Individual athletes can use hypnosis to overcome the mental block of a record to be broken, as well as for personal motivation and training discipline.
The psychological training of the athlete is just as important as the physical training; the desire and the discipline for physical training is a result of the psychological training.
The many mind-over-matter aspects of athletics, such as resistance to pain and fatigue have obvious relationship to hypnosis.
The team player has the stimulus of the cheering, the encouragement of the crowd, the coach and the team-mates to help him achieve. The individual athlete though, generally has to rely on his personal inner resources for this extra help. The long distance runner, swimmer, golfer, tennis player, or field athlete, must get psyched-up by themselves and self-hypnosis is ideal for them.
Sports records can often stand for quite a while, and then, when one finally gets broken, it’s frequently bettered by other athletes as well, usually shortly after. A prime example of this is the 4 minute mile barrier, which stood for many years until finally broken by Roger Bannister, and subsequently by many others. Then, the suggestion of a new unbeatable record takes effect and the record remains until someone else breaks the cycle of the barrier of the imagined impossibility.
By time-projection, via hypnosis, the athlete can see himself in the future and is able to re-orient himself to the new records that have been set. This subconscious certainty that records can and will be broken can be of great value in motivating him for more disciplined practice and performance.
To some people, the use of hypnosis in athletics seems like a form of cheating, something similar to doping horses in a race. However, the use of painkillers, stimulants, inhalants, as well as special diets, hormone injections etc, all common practice in sport these days, make such objections somewhat ridiculous.
There are many shady practices that take place in athletics today and the use of hypnosis is a breath of fresh air by comparison.
To use the mind in a perfectly natural way to extend one’s normal capabilities for increased physical or mental achievement is legitimate by any standards. Integrated into the total training program, under the careful supervision of coaches, trainers and doctors, hypnosis would be the most helpful of many methods currently in use.
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Hypno-medicine
Hypnotism can be used to real advantage in every branch of medicine. It
has been used extensively in obstetrics, gynaecology, paediatrics,
psychiatry, dermatology, dentistry, cardiology and surgery, as well as
in general practice. When used in combination to usual forms of
treatment, hypnosis has been shown to have a facilitating or
accelerating effect. Because of its anaesthetic qualities it can be
used to great effect in many treatments that would usually be painful
or uncomfortable. Hypnosis can also be used to advantage in the
alleviation of pain common to many diseases or illnesses, including
psycho-somatic illnesses.
Depression
Depression can result from a number of different circumstances. It
often comes from a traumatic loss such as death of a partner, child or
even pet. It can also result from such things as job loss, financial
problems, repressed anger or feelings of helplessness. In many cases,
hypnosis can alleviate or cure depression associated with any of these.
As a rough guide, if you experience any or some of the following, you
could be experiencing some degree of depression:
*Crying
*Difficulty in sleeping
*Loss of appetite
*Total lack of energy
*Inability to concentrate
*Negativity
*Social withdrawal
*Inability to handle stress in any form
*Loss of sexual desire
*Loss of sense of humour
Pain management
Although you cannot cause a symptom to disappear by hypnosis, you can
alleviate it by hypnosis. Used as a painkiller, anaesthetic or muscle
relaxant, hypnosis is a very valuable adjunct to many surgical or
dental procedures that otherwise would require the potentially
dangerous administration of general anaesthesia and chemicals.
Some areas that have been found to respond well to hypnosis include:
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Dental procedures
Burns
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Child birth hypnosis
Although once not universally approved of as a method of delivery, it is now accepted that hypnosis can help any woman, to a greater or lesser degree, in giving birth.
Child birth hypnosis, in many cases, can give total freedom from pain or, indeed, from any discomfort with the birth whatsoever.
Some obstetricians nowadays rely totally on hypnosis for delivery and many others use it as an adjunct frequently.
Correct preparation earlier in the pregnancy is important – about the fifth month of pregnancy is recommended starting time. The expectant mother needs to be made to feel relaxed and confident about her delivery, in the months leading up to it.
The skill of the hypnotherapist or obstetrician is very important here so it is advisable that some time be spent seeking out an experienced professional to engage the services of.
The selected hypnotherapist will spend a number of preliminary sessions with his client, conditioning her to full acceptance that her delivery will be a joyous and wonderful occasion and that the birth will be as pain-free as she wants it to be. He will achieve this by firstly placing his client in a deep state of hypnosis (somnambulism) and then giving her positive suggestions regarding the birth. He will also give her post-hypnotic suggestions to enable her to practice self hypnosis for relaxation, on a daily basis leading up to her big day.
If the client wants a totally pain-free delivery, the hypnotherapist will use hypnosis to the deepest level, the Esdaille state. This state, characterized by total immobility and automatic anaesthesia, guarantees a pain-free experience, as long as the trance is maintained. If, say, a careless remark is made by one of the theatre team, then the Esdaille state could be lost and fear of pain re-introduced to the client. This can easily occur if care is not taken, because although the client is totally immobile and unable to speak, she can still hear and understand everything going on around her.
However, with due attention to detail, as mentioned above, child birth hypnosis is worthy of serious consideration, as it can provide a natural, pain-free experience, shortened delivery period and quicker recovery than normal.
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Alcoholism
Normally, alcoholism is a difficult thing to treat. However, using the
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Stress
Stress affects everyone at some time and can be mild. We meet with everyday stress when we have to pay mortgages, rent, telephone bills, drive to work, have problems with the car etc, ie all events associated with lifestyle and commitments. Mild stress can be refreshing and stimulating to both the body and the mind. As examples of this, stress generated in low intensity physical exercise or maybe in the calm debate of a topic with someone else, is more likely to be beneficial than harmful. However, in the case of severe stress such as that caused by a death in the family, marriage breakup, or not being able to pay your rent, for example, the effects are more likely to cause problems.
It is generally accepted that there are three stages in the stress response.
In the first stage, alarm, the body recognizes the stress and prepares for action, either to fight or escape. Endocrine glands release hormones that increase heartbeat and respiration, elevate blood sugar, increase perspiration, dilate the pupils and slow the digestion.
In the second stage, resistance, the body repairs any damage caused by the alarm reaction. If stress continues however, the body remains alert and cannot repair the damage.
As resistance continues, the third stage, exhaustion, sets in, and a stress-related disorder may result.
Prolonged exposure to stress uses up the body’s energy supplies and can even lead to death.
As an example, a person suffers a stress reaction when a fierce dog jumps out at them. Adrenaline is released into the bloodstream, and the stomach and intestines stop digesting food. This is completely automatic and a normal thing for the body to do.
However, if you choose to stay in a situation where there is constant stress, eventually the time will come when your body wants to return to digesting food. Trouble then begins to brew. The stress reaction will be saying ‘no’ to your stomach while another part of your brain is saying ‘yes.’ As a consequence, your stomach starts to tie up in knots and your intestines begin to churn. These organs will start secreting gastric juices at the wrong times and your colon will go into spasms. This is the reason why people under high stress often suffer from burning ulcers and a chronic irritated colon.
Normal stress, as it increases, may become abnormal stress which is thought to achieve a critical level eventually. This abnormal stress can then lead to burnout and burnout can lead to impairment.
Recall Rule 6 of Rules of the Mind: An emotionally induced symptom tends to cause organic change if it persists.
By recognizing the symptoms of stress you can take action to reduce your stress. Some typical symptoms of stress include:
- Feelings: anxiety, boredom, depression, frustration, hopelessness, inability to concentrate, irritability, nervousness, pessimism, worrying.
- Behaviours: avoiding friends, biting nails, blaming others, crying, over indulging in alcohol, foot or finger tapping, grinding teeth, back or shoulder pain, constipation, diarrhea, over-reacting, drug taking.
- Physical changes: breathing difficulty, tiredness, headaches, heart palpitations, insomnia, marked weight loss or gain, menstrual irregularities, nausea, rashes.
Stress problems are usually easily dealt with by hypnosis/hypnotherapy. Direct suggestion used with hypnosis is often successful, especially when combined with general relaxation scripts in the form of CD’s or tapes. As a good example, we recommend you visit this site:
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Self confidence
One of the most common problems people have, and which can be the underlying reason for many of mankind's fears, phobias, habits, compulsive and antisocial behaviours, is a basic lack of self-confidence.
First and foremost, how do you define what self-confidence is?
Indications of self confidence
- Being assertive in appropriate situations, instead of staying passive.
- Saying what you think, when appropriate, instead of staying silent.
- Staying true to what you say, instead of capitulating to others.
- Remaining calm and relaxed, instead of becoming emotional.
- Being able to say NO, instead of putting other people first all the time.
- Able to come to decisions, instead of dithering or always feeling that you have to consult others first.
- Not being concerned with other people’s opinions of you, instead of fretting about them.
- Thinking positively most of the time, instead of being negative or pessimistic.
Most of us experience a lack of self-confidence at various times, but usually only in a mild form. Examples include difficulty in public speaking or getting angry or frustrated with things we feel are outside our control.
What leads to having self confidence?
- As a child, getting plenty of attention and encouragement from your parents.
- Early positive experiences as outcomes of being assertive.
- Having parents, who themselves are self confident.
- Being in any environment where a diversity of opinions are both tolerated and encouraged.
- Being raised in a happy, calm and supportive family.
Therefore, in a perfect world, none of us would lack self confidence. However, the world is not perfect and thus not everyone is self confident.
What can we do to obtain or regain that confidence?
One of the simplest and best ways is via HYPNOSIS. Hypnosis, by its very nature, brings about deep relaxation, a sense of calmness and a feeling of being at peace with the world. All of these are essential building blocks towards the development of strong self confidence.
By using any simple induction technique, you can easily put yourself into a hypnotic state and then give yourself positive, present tense suggestions aimed at improving your confidence levels.
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