How exactly does hypnosis work?
The human mind is extremely suggestible and is being bombarded daily with suggestive stimuli from external sources, and suggestive thoughts and ideas from the inside. A good deal of suffering is the consequence of negative thoughts and impulses invading ones mind from subconscious recesses. Unfortunately, past experience, guilt feelings, and repudiated impulses and desires are constantly pushing themselves into awareness, directly or in disguised forms. These thoughts become feelings which sabotage ones happiness, health, and efficiency. By the time one has reached adulthood, there has been a build up of “negative” modes of thinking, feeling and acting which persist as bad habits. Like any habit they are hard to break or change. However, using hypnosis, we are able to transform negative attitudes into more positive ones. For some, change does happen quickly if they believe change can happen quickly. Other times, it often takes time to extinguish old behavior patterns, so do not be disc
Top of page The human mind is bombarded daily with suggestive stimuli from external sources, such as commercials, driving traffic situations, noise and lights as well as suggestive thoughts and ideas from your self-talk. Your thoughts may become feelings which sabotage your happiness, health, and efficiency. Any habit is hard to break or change. However, using hypnosis, we are able to transform negative attitudes into more positive ones. For some, change does happen quickly if they believe change can happen quickly. Other times, it often takes time to extinguish old behavior patterns. Even when no apparent changes happen on the surface, much is happening on the inside.
Quit smoking hypnosis works like this: the reason it’s so hard to change anything with willpower, is because willpower is a product of our conscious minds. But our conscious minds aren’t what is in control of our behavior; it’s our subconscious mind that is in control. So hypnosis to stop smoking takes those things you consciously know, that cigarettes are poison, that they’re bad for you, etc. and it reinforces it to where your behavior comes from, the subconscious. That’s why a person can know how terrible cigarettes are for their health, be suffering from terrible health problems and still not quit! Because anything that doesn’t address the source of behavior, the subconscious – will ultimately fail long-term.
Everything you have ever learned is stored in your subconscious mind along with unwanted habits such as smoking or overeating. Some learned activities such as playing tennis, biking or playing chess, you want to keep and perhaps even improve upon, while others such as smoking or overeating you may want to reduce ore eliminate. Hypnosis gives the subconscious mind suggestions for change or improvement. Entering a state of deep relaxation and connecting with the subconscious allows hypnotic suggestions, about your goals, to be taken in much more deeply. Success depends on the motivation of the client and the commitment to hypnosis a person is willing to make. Some goals are reached immediately, others take more reinforcement. Each individual is different. • 6.
Scientists still aren’t sure, but when a person’s hypnotised, the right side of the brain responsible for emotions and creativity becomes far more active than the left side of the brain, which is responsible for logical thinking. According to David, what people don’t understand is that we experience trance experiences everyday. Daydreaming, driving a motorcar, focusing attention on music or a movie. Any of those things produce some degree of altered states of consciousness. When a person consults a hypnotherapist, all they do is access that capacity right there in the clinic room. If you think it might work for you, you’ll find hypnotherapists in all of Australia’s big cities. Just remember, it pays to go in with a positive attitude and a willingness to be there. • Need another reason to quit? Within 15 years of giving up smoking, your risk of coronary heart disease is that of a person who’s never smoked and your risk of lung cancer would’ve been reduced by a whopping 80-90 percent. •
