Hypnosis 4 Newbies

This is a guide to familiarize you with hypnosis, hypnosis 4 newbies.   To dismiss the stage show antics. We all have seen that the entertaining hypnotist will convince crowds of people to act like chickens or dance to an unheard song with the click of the fingers.

While hypnosis is often paraded in that form with large crowds visiting celebrity hypnosis experts to see what wonders they can perform, the majority of hypnosis used is to aid people seeking a solution to a problem they cannot resolve easily with any other method.

What Hypnosis is NOT

 Like many things that have become popularized by celebrity, there are a few misconceptions about hypnosis that are good to clear up at the start. Before we look at what hypnosis IS, let’s look at what it is NOT

Hypnosis doesn’t mean you are allowing someone to control your mind with a soundtrack. No one is able to control our minds. What it does do is help us solve our own problems and answer our own questions. Trust your own strength and power and know your mind isn’t going to let just anyone take over!

Hypnosis isn’t sleeping. While you move in and out of a hypnotic state as you fall asleep or wake up, hypnosis is that time between wakefulness and sleeping. That lovely relaxed state that drifts you between conscious and unconscious thought. You may sometimes fall asleep during or after a meditation, but that is because you relax.

Falling asleep during hypnosis often indicates the level of stress you are under. That you are having trouble relaxing on a long term basis.  Hypnosis-induced sleep is simply your body telling you that you are sleep-deprived and need to catch-up on sleep.

Hypnosis doesn’t make the bad things go away. If you’ve been heavily hurt or abused it won’t make the memories go away. What it can do is rearrange your filing system a little. It can put those bad thought patterns and memories in a place where they don’t pop out every time you open your mind’s storage cupboard.

Instead it parks it somewhere at the back of the highest shelf and puts the good thinking in the shelves within easy reach. It’s a little like the way your mother may have put the cookie jar at the top of the fridge when you were a kid,  you just couldn’t get to it unless you put a pile of effort into it. The best thing about hypnosis is the cookie jar might have some mouldy old bread in it, but the hypnosis puts some sweet and tasty good feelings within easy reach. You are far more likely to access the good bits before any of that bad stuff comes flooding back.

Hypnosis 4 newbies need to know that this can’t make you do something you don’t want to. Your mind is far stronger than we give it credit for. We can’t be made to act or believe something we do not want to believe.

This is also why some people may find hypnosis doesn’t have the expected result they were planning on. Before you begin hypnosis, think about whether the new thinking patterns you are working towards are actually what you want to believe and change.

For instance, some people say they want to give up smoking. Because they love the social side of standing with other smokers, or the way it makes them more relaxed in social situations, they don’t really want to let it go.

It’s important to find what it is you actually want to adapt, change and replace before you start for maximum effectiveness.

It’s Something You Already Do!

 If you are currently struggling to keep focused on goals, give up an addictive craving or want to achieve some heady goals then learning the basics of hypnotic suggestion will be an excellent solution. The techniques used in hypnosis are used by high performance athletes, successful moves and shakers in business and people wanting to give up smoking or stop raiding the cookie jar the world over.

Hypnosis or autosuggestion is something we actually do all the time. We just may not realise it. Our mind is a powerful thing. Try the following exercise to see how powerful your mind is. (You will want to read it to the end and then close your eyes and do the exercise).

 The Juicy Orange Exercise

 Imagine you have an orange in your hand. Think about how round and firm it is, and how juicy it is inside. It’s been freshly picked, and has a lovely deep orange color all over it.

Now hold out that hand and spend time imagining how it feels in your hand. Take that orange and place it down on a cutting board.

Take an imagined knife and slice that orange in half, and then half again

Pick up one of the segments. Feel the cool juices from the orange drip down your fingers as you lift the piece to you mouth. Open your mouth and put the orange inside, biting down on the flesh and letting the juice run down your tongue.

Think about how it tastes, the sweetness of the citrus juice in your mouth.

 What This Exercise Does

 Nearly everyone who does this exercise experiences something quite extraordinary. The taste buds in their mouths are stimulated, and their mouth produces saliva to help the body digest the orange,  even though it is visualizing.

Why does this happen? Because the thoughts we hold in our mind have the power to make physiological changes to our body. Our thoughts can change the way we work, think and behave. If a simple exercise imagining eating an orange can make your mouth get ready for actually eating it, imagine how effective changing other behaviors can be by repeating a simple idea or creating a powerful visualization.

Even if you have never consciously explored hypnosis before you will have at times tried to talk yourself into something. Repeating an idea or belief over and over again can help us internalize the idea until it becomes a natural part of us. Many of us do this without calling it hypnosis. Feeling a little down all the time? Perhaps your self talk has some of the following phrases “I’m no good” or “I can’t do this”  Be Positive or Be Quiet.

Hypnosis helps those things that you struggle against become more straightforward and attainable. It’s not about bending the laws of physics, allowing you to fly or have superpowers, but it is all about tapping into the tremendous power of your mind and utilizing it to its fullest capacity.

Hypnosis is a Mainstream Concept

If you are considering hypnosis as a newbie, but worry that it may be taking you on the long slow road to hippy skirts and backpacking through India in search of your Guru you can relax.

• Many high performance athletes, sports figures, actors and politicians use hypnosis to break through fears, keep themselves focused and improve their performance and abilities. It has been found to help those athletes who have been injured to heal faster and stronger. Anesthesiologists not use hypnosis in place of  drugs for  all types of surgeries.   I conduct a 2day seminar for Dentists and Doctors  on  Hypnosis in the modern dental office.

   

• Athletes use mantras or short simple phrases to trigger post hypnotic suggestions to push them through their pain barriers, or keep them focused when all they really want to do is stop and rest.

• Business owners and entrepreneurs use hypnosis to stay focused in work and as a start off point to increase creativity and brainstorming. With many of us allowing our fears to curtail the “what could be” in our lives, finding a way to break through that, replacing those fears with positive statements instead can help greatly in business.

• Addictive behavior can also be helped with hypnosis techniques. Smokers, dieters, and those wanting to reduce time with anything disrupting everyday life and success can find these tools can reprogram their patterns. If you have a major addiction however, it is a good idea to seek medical referral before using hypnosis as part of the whole method.

• Chronic illness can also be helped with hypnosis. To give an idea of the power of thought, a study of patients with Cystic Fibrosis, a genetic condition that is incurable, found that hypnotherapy was able to improve their health, helping them to breathe easier (this condition fills the lungs with liquid), reducing anxiety and improves the ability to clear the lungs without needing to cough chronically.

• Cancer patients have long used hypnosis as part of their battle against their illness. Being able to visualize their body healing itself and being victorious not only have been shown to be effective in helping the healing process, but has reduced the anxiety attached to the illness considerably. The hypnosis helps people with chronic illness take charge of their body- when often the illness and the related treatments can make you feel as though you have to let go of your own decision making and no longer have any control over it. That alone makes it a worth while tool.

• Mental health struggles with things such as panic attacks, depression and self harm can also be helped with hypnotherapy. Again, if you are very depressed or struggling with self harm in such a way that you are endangering your life or the people around you, it is important to use hypnosis in conjunction with professional advice and treatment. However learning to use the simple but effective breathing and mantra repetition techniques can help you pre-empt episodes before you lose control, or help you reconfigure your thought patterns so any negative behavior is reduced.

• Many doctors, health professionals, trainers and advisors recommend hypnosis as an excellent tool. Using it in your own life is an excellent way to achieve your own personal goals. With so many people before you have found it an excellent tool to solve their own issues, you can be assured you are using something that really does work and is considered useful.

How Does Hypnosis Work?

We have two parts of our mind: the conscious and the subconscious. Our conscious mind is the part of our mind we need to analyse and rationalize.

The conscious or rational mind is able to only do one thing at a time, and it has a working or short term memory perfect for remembering that telephone number someone gives you just before you dial it, or the fact you got up from the sofa to make a cup of tea when get to the kitchen.

It’s the part of our mind that is talking to us, sometimes with an ongoing chatter that never stops. It helps us solve problems and is able to make sense of any behaviour we see or experience.

Our subconscious mind is busy all the time too. It is in charge of all the autonomic parts of our body. These are the parts that we need to stay alive, such as a regular heart rate, stable blood pressure and our breathing. It also holds our creative parts, our emotions, our imagination and all our feelings and emotions.

Our permanent memories are all stored in our subconscious too. All the things you believe and live by come form what is stored in your subconscious. When you respond to something with any emotion or a smell or action evokes a memory, that’s coming from something stored in your subconscious.

Your subconscious self can sometimes get a little drowned out with all the chattering your conscious mind does during the day. Hypnosis helps that conscious mind quieten down enough so you can get some important information to your subconscious. It’s a time when positive suggestions can be placed into your subconscious.

In many ways your subconscious is like a computer. Hypnosis reprograms your subconscious and then reboots, saving all the new information there for it to use when you awaken from your relaxed state. Because many of our actions stem from our emotions and feelings, changing these affects the way we act and react in different situations.

If you think you’ve never been hypnotized before think again. You enter a hypnotic state at least twice as day as you go to sleep and then awaken. Studies have shown one of the best ways to learn a skill is to sleep on it. It allows the subconscious save all the material into your memory banks where it stays ready to use again.

A hypnotic state can happen naturally when you are relaxed. If you’ve ever been driving and suddenly realized you are almost at your destination but are a little unsure of how you got there, then you’ve been accessing your subconscious state. Book lovers may know the feeling of becoming so immersed in a good book they don’t hear someone talking to them. That’s you moving into a state of hypnosis.

Sometimes stress or environment can prevent us to stilling ourselves enough to teach our subconscious to think positive thoughts. Negative self talk playing in our subconscious can prevent us from losing that weight, giving up smoking or feeling confident when walking into a business meeting. My book “Be Positive Or Be Quiet” delves into this  important topic.

Using hypnosis tools can provide our subconscious with new and fresh positive thoughts and phrases that replace or override negative ones. As these become our chief thoughts, they affect our reactions and behavior and positive changes begin to occur in our lives. The best part is we don’t have to utilise that willpower or reason to get there- we just let our subconscious lead us instead.

What is Hypnosis Suitable For?

These are all common areas that have been found to benefit from hypnosis techniques and sessions and cover a broad range of areas from business, to health and fitness to relationships

Quitting Smoking

 Hypnosis can be extremely effective in kicking the smoking habit. It teaches you to find the taste of smoking unpleasurable and reminds your subconscious state to look after and nourish your body with things that are only beneficial. It can also drastically cut down the amount of cravings and help you become smoke free forever.

Sleeping Better

 If you can’t sleep it maybe you need to learn how to move from conscious to unconscious using your sub conscious. Confused? Basically, you might need to learn some effective relaxation tools to get those sleep patterns kick started and working again.

With the stress many of us carry, it is easy to get caught up into patterns of regular wakefulness, finding it harder to settle once night time comes. Hypnosis is ideal for sleep pattern disruptions as the ideal time to try hypnosis is just before bed. You’ll be all relaxed and ready for sleep when the lights go out.

Improving Sales Performance

 Sales people have been using hypnosis to help sell for a long time- both for their own goal setting and applying what they know to their prospects. Getting subliminal selling working for you and you’ll reap huge rewards

Developing Your Career

 Is there something stopping you from being where you want to be in your career? While many people blame circumstances, we all can think of at least one person who has risen beyond circumstance and surpassed it all. You could be that person with a little help form hypnosis. Changing the way you think, changes the way you act.

Weight

While it used to be felt that willpower was all people needed to lose weight, science and nutrition research has discovered will power is not ever going to be enough. Our bodies will fight any attempt of the conscious mind trying to control our digestion, and energy levels as those are domain of the subconscious.

Add on the need to sort out emotional eating issues, or eating when stress levels are high due to high levels of cortisone and it begins to become clear that losing weight is far more complex than just ensuring you don’t buy a pie or three for dinner.

Hypnosis can give help you change your relationship with food and eating. It can help break the cycle of negative eating, and reduce food cravings and addictions

Self Confidence

 If you’ve worried about how people see you, or feel your sense of self has been damaged over the years, and then your self confidence could maybe do with a bit of care. Hypnosis helps you accentuate the positive parts of yourself and build on them. It helps to still the fear that can rise up in places that you don’t feel so confident such as parties where you don’t know many people, on dates or during a job interview

A lack of self confidence can cripple your ability to function as a successful and happy person. Focusing on establishing a sound level of confidence through hypnosis can also impact huge areas of your life.

Many people have found this is an ongoing battle until they begin to be treated differently. Once people start to react positively to their change on confidence, smiling at them, and reacting in a good way, the change becomes easier and the positive feedback received builds on the foundation you’ve already begun, it becomes easier and easier until it isn’t an issue anymore.

Improving Your Memory

Your long term memory is controlled by your subconscious self. Helping your mind make connections between materials or file it in the correct place can greatly enhance your memory skills. There is several popular hypnosis tools that can help you improve your ability to file old and new information so it’s easier to locate on tap.

Studies with people who suffer from Alzheimer’s have found people who continue to stimulate their brains can sometimes reduce the effects of the disease. Hypnosis can still your mind enough to learn new skills.  The mp3 program  “Unleash the Power Of Your Mind” audio program  is available for download.

Overcoming Shyness

 If you have difficulty in new social situations or find that you are tongue tied when you see that gorgeous person in accounting then hypnosis can help you overcome your shyness. Fear of rejection or being accepted as you are can often affect shyness.

Some people are labelled shy from an early age, and need to let go of long time patterns of behaviour. Hypnosis helps you let go of old learned perceptions of yourself and embrace a new, more outgoing you.

Getting Pregnant

For anyone who has suffered infertility, that monthly wait to see if you have a positive result, when once again it is not can he heartbreaking. Learning methods that can help you visualize success have been found to help couples in their journey towards conception. Many fertility practitioners recommend relaxation as an aid towards conception. Becoming agitated about getting pregnant can cause stress to your body. It can help to visualize the whole pregnancy as a success, seeing the foetus develop into a healthy and happy, relaxed wee baby.

Painfree Childbirth

 Pain like nothing else seems to be an expected outcome of childbirth but does it have to be? Many women have found hypnosis methods learnt before going into labour can help them find that same relaxed state during labour. The more relaxed the woman is, the easier the birth tends to be, and the baby can more easily move down the birth passage. Many experienced midwives suggest using hypnosis as an alternative to any pain medication.

It is a well known fact that one of the chief benefits of using gas in labor is to help the woman focus on their breath. As they take deep breaths in and out, the woman finds it easier to relax. As each contraction gets stronger, being able to visualize it as a wave to ride helps the woman to take charge and feel lore empowered. Visit  www.painfreechildbirth.com  for  our Natural Painless Childbirth audio program.  Begin this program in the  7^th week and enjoy a drug free comfortable  and rewarding birth experience.  Available for downloading.

Improving Relationships

If you are struggling with intimacy issues, with connecting with a partner or with finding it hard not to get angry with loved ones, hypnosis can help you to change your behaviour. It is often astonishing to discover many of the issues we have with others aren’t actually about the way they act- but about how we start something ourselves, or react to their actions.

If you have struggled with forming good boundaries, or establishing healthy relationships with your close ones, then hypnosis will help you establish good boundaries and alter the way you relate to others.

These can also include business relationships. In any zone of your life, if you find you are falling into similar patterns of relating time and time again (being bullied, arguing, passive aggressive behavior, and anxiety) then it’s good to take a look at your own patterns of behavior and alter them.

Finding love can be easier after hypnosis. It may be there is fear attached of a new relationship due to a concern of being rejected or not seeing yourself as valuable. Hypnosis can help you internalize positive self belief to change that.

Improving Mood

If you have low grade depression, then hypnosis techniques alone may be enough to even out your mood and help you cope with the stresses affecting it.

If you have a diagnosed condition and are taking treatment, using hypnosis can help you change some of your learnt behaviors that may be contributing to your condition. While it is not advisable to stop medication once prescribed, hypnosis techniques can help you reduce some of the long term effects of your illness. Many people have found they are able to reduce their levels of medication, gradually weaning themselves off.

Others, who may have chronic mental illness have found that alongside long term prescription drug treatment, hypnosis gives them the opportunity to prevent further downturns in mood and avoid hospitalization

Sports Performance

 This area has been mentions else where in this report. Teaching your mind to experience success is a huge part of this, as is injury prevention methods and working past the pain barrier.

People have been known to adopt mantras form their hypnosis sessions to use while running marathons or playing high level games to repeat and refocus after the exhaustion sets in or during times of high pressure (such as shooting the final basket at the crucial moment or needing to score that all important penalty shot.)

It can also help regular sportsmen and athletes who have had sports injuries move in a way so as not to make the injury worse, and speed up the healing process.

If a jockey has been injured in a bad fall, or a motocross rider in an accident, then hypnosis techniques can help overcome any residue fear about getting back on the horse or bike so to speak. Another great resource for advanced sport enhancement is  “ Your Secret Power”.

Increasing Creativity

If you want to develop a more creative outlook, then hypnosis can help you. With many jobs now including a creative component, or people needing creativity in their every day life, increasing your creativity can have far reaching results. Many artists and creators use meditation, hypnosis and quiet reflective times to brainstorm. Hypnosis can help you reach deeper levels faster. Again the incredible book “Your Secret Power” guides you through exploding your creative side and finding the hidden genius within.

Regression Therapy

Also known as  Chair therapy or  Gestalt therapy. This is possibly the most controversial reason someone would want to use hypnosis but many of the stories coming out of people who have tried it, indicate some people find a lot of comfort from using hypnosis to seek this part of their psyche out.

It is essential when looking for the first sensitizing incident in your past. Particularly your early childhood.   There have been links to asthma, fears, phobias,  weight, personalities and so much more.  Remember  anything you say to a child aged  5 and below is not understood or rejected but taken into the subconscious and surfaces  later in life.   Hypnotherapy sessions can be  setup online at  The Bohol Hypnosis Expert,  Growth Enrichment Center.

Will it Work Right-Away?

While a very few people find one or two weeks of listening to a particular range of new thoughts can show major changes, for many there is a slow change that is intensified over a period of weeks and months rather than an overnight complete turnaround.

Hypnosis is also known as autosuggestion or autogenic training. As with any training program, it can take a little time to get your new healthy thinking fitness patterns ready to work by themselves.

If you’ve ever picked up a hobby such as running, you’ll be only too aware of that feeling you get early in the morning while you are still getting new habits established. The mental arguments you can have with your mind while you try to decide if you should get up for that run in the rain on a cold and dark morning can take a while to override, even if you can feel your fitness levels increases at a good speed due to the daily runs.

Hypnosis patterns are no different. You may see changes, small changes right away, but long term change comes from the subconscious truly letting the new ideas soak right in and become your “second nature”

When going into a relaxed state for hypnosis, your mind is becoming trained to believe the words being heard. These repetitive positive affirmations help your mind to disregard some of it’s more negative believes for positive ones.

Along with these repetitive ideas, a hypnosis guidance track will often include some visualization and mental activities that leads you through the process of what it feels like to be successful in your endeavors. It’s about helping you see the success before you experience it, allowing your body to become used to the feelings you’ll have on the journey to success and then once you get there. Preparing your mind for the whole journey helps you get there.

Hypnosis in many ways is another form of mediation, like praying, power naps, and those deep and meaningful talks you give yourself in the mirror about how “I can do this thing!” One type of autosuggestion or hypnosis many people use every year is the New Years Resolutions we try to adhere to. If we repeat t to ourselves, plot a course of action and work towards it, we are enacting our autosuggestion.

Once we present our mind with the positive thoughts we need to take on board, and allow these thoughts to become internalized, these thoughts can become part of our belief system. Once they are part of our beliefs, and then affect our conscious behaviors, and we start to make progress towards our most desired goals. While sometimes it is an unintentional process (such as shying away from a spider as your subconscious believes them to be scary) we can consciously change our beliefs deliberately.  Visit  FAQ .

Hypnosis can and will help you conquer the mountains standing between you and your goals. All you need to do is start.