Hypnosis - Does It Work?
Hypnosis works in uncountable ways.
So if you ask the question; Hypnosis.
Does it work? You may just as well ask; Gravity.
Does it work? For instance, let's take something really simple.
You've forgotten a person's name.
You could say something like; 'I need to remember this name.
I won't think about it any more now, but I want my unconscious mind to search for me and present me with the name.
' Make sure you do stop thinking about it.
If you don't, you'll interfere with the processes of the unconscious mind.
When you're hypnotizing someone, or yourself, you could say; 'You don't need to listen to me because your unconscious mind will hear me.
Just allow your conscious mind to wander where it will.
' This is sometimes known as 'confusion,' because you're giving the conscious mind permission to go and think about something else, keeping it distracted so that suggestions meant for the unconscious may be delivered.
There are times when the hypnotized subject experiences an arm or hand becoming lighter.
If for any reason this feeling needs to be encouraged, you may say; 'Be curious which finger it is that feels lighter than the rest.
Neither you nor I knows which hand can just begin to feel a little lighter.
' This is known as the language of duality, distinguishing between the unconscious part that actually starts to produce hypnotic phenomena, and the conscious part that you want to stand back and simply observe.
Don't forget, now, you should be using your tape recorder to record the suggestions from the hypnotherapist, which we know is you, but because you don't have to think of what you're saying, may be treated as a third party.
The great hypnotist, Dr.
Milton Erickson, would often suggest to his patients to 'trust your unconscious.
' In saying this, he was suggesting that the part of them that was an expert in many things be allowed to work for them without the conscious mind interfering and being in the way.
The unconscious mind responds best to metaphor and patterns.
So if you have a particular problem that you want solved, or an increase in self confidence, stopping smoking, whatever it may be, speak into your tape recorder; 'When you travel by aeroplane you always leave the flying to the people who are the experts.
In the same way, there's a part of you that is a lot more expert than your conscious mind at overcoming this problem, and that's the part I'm going to be talking to today.
Your conscious mind may simply relax.
' Now, you can be putting yourself into trance in many ways.
Some methods that suit some people, won't suit others.
As I've mentioned, I prefer watching a pendulum because you're directly mimicking R.
E.
M.
sleep, but you may find it much better to concentrate upon a fixed point on the ceiling.
The all important thing is to enter trance
So if you ask the question; Hypnosis.
Does it work? You may just as well ask; Gravity.
Does it work? For instance, let's take something really simple.
You've forgotten a person's name.
You could say something like; 'I need to remember this name.
I won't think about it any more now, but I want my unconscious mind to search for me and present me with the name.
' Make sure you do stop thinking about it.
If you don't, you'll interfere with the processes of the unconscious mind.
When you're hypnotizing someone, or yourself, you could say; 'You don't need to listen to me because your unconscious mind will hear me.
Just allow your conscious mind to wander where it will.
' This is sometimes known as 'confusion,' because you're giving the conscious mind permission to go and think about something else, keeping it distracted so that suggestions meant for the unconscious may be delivered.
There are times when the hypnotized subject experiences an arm or hand becoming lighter.
If for any reason this feeling needs to be encouraged, you may say; 'Be curious which finger it is that feels lighter than the rest.
Neither you nor I knows which hand can just begin to feel a little lighter.
' This is known as the language of duality, distinguishing between the unconscious part that actually starts to produce hypnotic phenomena, and the conscious part that you want to stand back and simply observe.
Don't forget, now, you should be using your tape recorder to record the suggestions from the hypnotherapist, which we know is you, but because you don't have to think of what you're saying, may be treated as a third party.
The great hypnotist, Dr.
Milton Erickson, would often suggest to his patients to 'trust your unconscious.
' In saying this, he was suggesting that the part of them that was an expert in many things be allowed to work for them without the conscious mind interfering and being in the way.
The unconscious mind responds best to metaphor and patterns.
So if you have a particular problem that you want solved, or an increase in self confidence, stopping smoking, whatever it may be, speak into your tape recorder; 'When you travel by aeroplane you always leave the flying to the people who are the experts.
In the same way, there's a part of you that is a lot more expert than your conscious mind at overcoming this problem, and that's the part I'm going to be talking to today.
Your conscious mind may simply relax.
' Now, you can be putting yourself into trance in many ways.
Some methods that suit some people, won't suit others.
As I've mentioned, I prefer watching a pendulum because you're directly mimicking R.
E.
M.
sleep, but you may find it much better to concentrate upon a fixed point on the ceiling.
The all important thing is to enter trance
