From time to time as a hypnotherapist, I get flippant
remarks thrown at me such as 'can you hypnotise me and make
me look like Nicole Kidman!' Although said in jest, it is
surprising how sceptical and uninformed people are about
the potential as well as the limitations of hypnotherapy.
Certainly, hypnotherapy can help one look good, it can help
us make the most of ourselves. It can work seeming
miracles, but it cannot go against the laws of nature. So
obviously hypnotherapy won't enable us to escape the laws
of gravity, jump out of a window without doing ourselves
damage, but it will help us to be less fearful of flying in
an aeroplane. If that happens to be an issue for us.
True, I have seen some extraordinary results with clients.
Panic attacks under control, weight loss, confidence
boosted etc but I also know that as a hypnotherapist I am
powerless if my client does not truly want to change.
Contrary to Hollywood propaganda, there is no way someone
can be made to do something, through hypnosis, UNLESS they
want to.
Providing the client really wants to change, then
hypnotherapy is the best way I know, to create change and
make it easy to achieve. The truth is that our greatest
power lies in the unconscious. This would explain why
someone will say one thing but do something else.
So our smoker friend for example, may say that he knows he
must stop smoking, he knows that he is damaging his health,
he even feels his breathing is being restricted, BUT he
simply won't do anything about it. This is a classic
example of the unconscious, not participating with him.
Somehow the unconscious has been previously programmed by
him, to feel that smoking is hip and trendy, or offers
camaraderie or countless other reasons to rationalise the
habit. This programming was not done consciously, but it
was done at some point, for sure. If he is going to become
a non-smoker, then he will have to engage his unconscious.
Interestingly, the verb KNOW is used a lot these days. When
you hear people say they 'know' something, often they are
implying an intellectual knowing. It could be argued that
real knowing can only take place when we have the
unconscious mind on our side.
Remember when you were learning to drive a car or ride a
bicycle? How much effort it took in the beginning. Knowing
when to change gear, coordinating clutch control and gear
change... It took real concentration. Later, once you have
learnt how to drive, the skill is taken up by your
unconscious and you drive effortlessly, you no longer have
to ponderously concentrate on the mechanics. This is where
the hypnotherapist can help. He acts as a kind of go
between. An envoy between our conscious self and the
unconscious. The hypnotherapist will talk to you about your
goals, wishes and desires as well as take a brief history
of the presenting conditions. Then he will use his skill to
establish contact with your unconscious and reprogramme it.
Sometimes it may be necessary to go to the source of the
problem, this may be some time in the past in childhood.
The client may not be aware of the source of the problem,
but his unconscious will.
The unconscious stores all of our experiences. The
hypnotherapist is able to engage in conversation with the
unconscious (obviously with the permission of the client),
and once this has taken place, past experiences can be
reframed from a different, more resourceful state. So you
could well use hypnosis to find your inner beauty, to tone
your body and be more attractive, hypnosis, can make you a
more attractive person, but unique and not a copy of a film
star.
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Duncan Sequeira BA,MNCH(ACCR),is a hypnotherapist who works
in the London area.Check his site at
http://www.metrohypnotherapy.com
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