How Anxiety Hypnotherapy works and how YOU can use it to improve your life
By:Georgina Hoehmannzn
Why do people get stressed? By asking questions! Yes, as simple as this may sound, this is one of the key reasons that we get stressed. We ask ourselves what we are doing with our life, whether our current partner is the best for us and ultimately, what is the meaning of life. So is it as easy as stopping asking questions? This will not work either, if you stop asking questions then you risk becoming one of those people that simply cruises through life without considering why they are here, what they are doing and why they exist. While these sorts of people will not often get stressed, they will also miss out on enjoying the conversations that come about as a result of posing these questions to others. One of the great motivational speakers of our time, Anthony Robbins said this several years ago: "Think of your mind, your emotions, and your spirit as the ultimate garden. The way to ensure a bountiful, nourishing harvest is to plant seeds like love, courage, and appreciation instead of seeds like disappointment, anger, and fear." This quote illustrates how important it is to try and control the mind to achieve personal happiness. Stress is the most dangerous drug in a human's life. Your feelings determine your behavior. However, behavior does not equal the person. Behaviour is only a symptom of your environment and the way you live your life. However if you do not seek help, other symptoms like panic attacks, physical illness and even depression can be created. Anxiety hypnotherapy in combination with NLP and the Alpha technique is a very effective "medicine" to control the stress in such a way that you never have to go through the additional symptoms mentioned above. Stop the negativity in your life! Many people are skeptical of anxiety hypnotherapy but this is usually the case because they are scared about trying something different. But it makes sense to try something different because you have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Using anxiety hypnotherapy on a regular basis has the potential to improve your life more than you ever dreamed. You will find it easier to make friends, you will look forward to waking up in the morning and you may never get stressed again. If you would like to address an anxiety disorder you should consult a hypnotherapist who is qualified in anxiety hypnosis. Once you begin treatment you will never look back!
Choosing a hypnotherapist to deal with your anxiety disorder
As soon as you decide that anxiety hypnotherapy is an option for you, you can be sure that you have made a good choice. It does take a bit of courage to begin treatment but after a few sessions with a hypnotherapist, the benefits will be plain to see. The most important decision you will make once you decide to undergo anxiety hypnosis is choosing a hypnotherapist. There are many ways you can choose a hypnotherapist but perhaps the easiest and most reliable is by talking to a friend who has previously seen a hypnotherapist. This way you can be sure that you are dealing with a quality organization that has the skills to transform your life from one of stress and negativity to a life where positive thinking is second nature and you relish every day. The other method of choosing a hypnotherapist is by using an online search such as Google or Yahoo. These search engines will produce a large number of results making it easy to see which practitioners you prefer. Some lists will also include prices and availability. However the most useful feature of an online search is to find reviews of individual hypnotherapists. By reading the opinion of someone else you can gain a valuable insight into what is being offered to you and how other people have rated the services provided.
Why you should not view general anxiety as an anxiety disorder
Everyone gets anxious about things. Some people worry about money, some people worry about the future and some people worry about where they are going to get their next meal! But are any of these concerns disorders or simply part of daily life. There is a big difference from an anxiety disorder and simply general anxiety. In most cases, an anxiety disorder will arise as a result of prolonged worries which don't go away. Every day you will wake up without knowing how to cope and you might turn to external substances such as alcohol and drugs in order to cope. So you should not worry about worrying. Worrying is normal and should in some cases be encouraged. It promotes a questioning mind which is crucial to survive in this world. Stop worrying about the little things and start asking yourself the following questions. Why am I here? What should I be doing? How does it all end? Anxiety hypnosis is a valuable tool designed to help you view life in perspective and ensure you remain in control of your emotions on a daily basis. Anxiety hypnotherapy is recommended for anyone who worries without reason and it has the potential to improve your life more than you ever dreamed.
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
Spiritual Hypnotherapy
Hypnosis is a term used to describe a non-ordinary state of consciousness that allows clients to respond to suggestion with higher than normal receptivity. All hypnosis is self-hypnosis. Hypnosis is a state that can spontaneously come about for a person or it is a state that can be self-induced or induced with the help of a facilitator or hypnotherapist.
Hypnotherapy is the practice of therapy that takes place in the non-ordinary state of hypnotic consciousness. Hypnotherapy directly engages the client's conscious and subconscious mind in the process of doing therapy. The hypnotherapy process is usually interactive and involves verbal and non-verbal communications between the client and hypnotherapist while the client is in the hypnotic state. Most therapeutic work is greatly enhanced while clients are in a hypnotic state because they are able to access information, healing, creativity, memories and insight that is not normally available when in the waking conscious state. Change is facilitated from within the clients in hypnotherapy; it is inwardly generated and intrinsic to the clients themselves. The hypnotherapist is responsible for having the tools and skills to assist the clients in helping themselves, which minimizes the often incorrectly perceived "power" the therapist has over the client.
By engaging a transpersonal or spiritual focus in hypnotherapy the client's personal transformation can be supported even further. By invoking and accessing the client's higher Self or the wisest transcendent aspect of consciousness, clients are also able to access expanded states of consciousness similar to those experienced in meditation or in profound states of presence: states when the egoic or self- involved consciousness is transcended or simply out of the way. Through these transpersonal states of consciousness, healing and profound change can take place, often fairly effortlessly. Clients report that these expanded states of consciousness change them in lasting positive ways. Clients realize that, for instance, they have pain, but are not the pain. They can potentially experience themselves as spiritual in essence: as a spiritual being having a human experience of pain. From these hypnotically accessed transcendent states, clients begin to have a new sense of self and a new way of relating to the challenges of their lives. They become dis-identified from their stories and the previously perceived roles they have played in their lives. Their consciousness is expanded along with an expanded sense of Self.
Hypnotherapy as a Spiritual Practice
I became a transpersonal psychotherapist because of my interest and passion for being able to work with people's consciousness to promote change, healing, and transformation. As a client of hypnotherapy, a long-time practitioner of self-hypnosis, and as a hypnotherapist who has facilitated over 20,000 hypnotic sessions, I have years and years of experience of directly knowing the profound and lasting effects of hypnotherapeutic work. I have discovered over and over that facilitating a transpersonal form of hypnotherapy is a spiritual practice for both the client and the hypnotherapist. In hypnotherapy we can learn to access and utilize expanded states of consciousness directly, at will, and for support of a variety of personal goals and purposes. The process of being in an expanded state is just as healing and significant in supporting change as is directing the state of consciousness towards a therapeutic personal goal or outcome.
As the client being in the hypnotic state, accessing the higher Self awareness becomes a profound teacher of how our consciousness works to create our realities. These hypnotic states also become vehicles through which we can re-create our realities. As the hypnotherapist you are often in a expanded state of profound presence entrained and aligned with the client's state of consciousness. The art of guiding a client's process is to be so present that you are out of your own way and accessing your own higher Self as the hypnotic guide, The practice of hypnotherapy, both as a client and as a hypnotherapist, then, becomes another form of a spiritual practice that puts us directly in touch with our spiritual nature and how our consciousness creates the forms and structures of our lives.
In this dissertation I will show how this spiritual awareness and presence can be cultivated as a spiritual practice by working with many of the intrinsic energetic principles that are naturally there as a part of hypnotherapy. These principles and precepts are also naturally mirrored in Taoist philosophy. I will show how Taoist precepts are naturally intrinsic working with hypnotherapy as a spiritual practice.
The Higher Self and How it is Accessed and Utilized in Hypnotherapy
Throughout the history of hypnosis, and since the first psychological theories of Sigmund Freud, we have understood that there are two aspects of consciousness that come into play in the hypnotic process: the conscious and the subconscious (or unconscious, as Jung referred to it ). With the work of Roberto Assiogoli and the birth of transpersonal psychology, however, there emerged an acknowledgement of a third aspect of consciousness: the higher Self, or the transcendent aspect of consciousness.
The higher Self, a spiritual, wise, and infinite aspect of our consciousness, can be directly accessed and engaged as the inner therapist/healer in the hypnotherapy process. It is an aspect of human consciousness that goes beyond our waking, ordinary ego consciousness that embodies, presents or can access certain wisdom not experienced in normal consciousness. 1 (Alexander, 11)
Arthur Hastings, a professor of transpersonal psychology states:
...the higher Self is said to be a distinct part or function of the individual. It is an entity in itself, with consciousness or awareness like the ego, and it is assumed to be a part of everyone. It witnesses the person's experiences. It is non punitive, objective, and non-judgmental. Its orientation is towards higher values, life purpose, healthy emotional and mental development, and spiritual qualities. 2 (Hastings, 180)
Willis Harman believes that in all major religious and mystical traditions there is a parallel wisdom that a necessary component of being human is an impetus for the inner search of higher Self:
In studies of comparative religion it appears that, besides the many exoteric forms, there is within any of the major traditions an esoteric or "inner circle" form, which is essentially the same for all traditions. This "perennial wisdom" seems to recommend an inner search involving some sort of meditative or yogic discipline, and discovery and identification with, a "higher" or "true" Self3 (Harman, 34)
The Tao never does anything,
yet through it all things are done.
If powerful men and women
could center themselves in it,
The whole world would be transformed
by itself, in its natural rhythms.
People would be content
with their simple lives,
in harmony, free of desire.
When there is no desire,
all things are at peace.
(Mitchell, 37)
Taoism and Hypnotherapy
As a student of many spiritual traditions and as a practitioner who combines spiritual practices while working with clients, I have observed that many of the tenets of Taoism are at play in the process of working with the higher Self in hypnotherapy. The proverbial Taoist concept of "going with the flow" underlies all the of the hypnotherapy process I use with clients and teach to hypnotherapists. As I discuss specific Taoist concepts and show how they support, and at times determine, the structure and evolution of hypnotherapy sessions, I will weave in quotes from the Tao de Ching that teach the concepts.
It must also be stated that writing about Taoism is difficult and paradoxical because, as
stated in the first line of book One in the Tao de Ching, "The Tao that can be told, is not the eternal Tao" 4. (Feng, English, line 1) Words are too limiting in trying to capture the essence of the Tao; rather the Tao is to be lived and experienced. I have had years of learning about and living the Tao through the practice of presence in the non-ordinary and mystical states accessed in hypnotherapy. I will show how the practice of hypnotherapy brings to life the philosophy and spiritual practice of Taoism of "going with the flow" and how accessing the higher Self brings wisdom, healing and an expansion of consciousness to both the client and the practitioner. Simply being in the state of consciousness of presence while accessing the inner wisdom of the higher self is expanding and healing and many times results in an expansion of consciousness for all involved.
To read more go to Holly's web site to read her Free ebook on spiritual hypnotherapy.
1 Karen Alexander, Defining the Higher Self: A Theoretical Model and Techniques.
PhD dissertation., Rosebridge Graduate School of Integrative Psychology, 1994
2 Arthur Hastings, With the Tongues of Men and Angels, San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1991
3 Willis Harman, A Re-examination of the Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science, Sausalito, CA: Institute of Noetic Sciences, 1991
4 Tao de Ching. Translated by Stephen Mitchell, New York: First Harper Perennial Edition,1991.
5 Tao de Ching. Translated by Gai-Fu Feng and Jane English, New York: Random House Publisher, 1972.
Holly Holmes-Meredith is a Doctor of Ministry and a licensed Marriage family Therapist who trains hypnotherapists at HCH Institute in Lafayette CA. Learn more about hypnosis and its many therapeutic uses by reading her other blogs on Past life Therapy, Spirit Releasement Therapy, Manifesting your dreams and more. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Holly_Holmes-Meredith |
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Advantages Of Hypnosis As A Clinical Method To Treat Conditions
Hypnosis is often defined as a state where the conscious mind is relaxed but still aware of its environment. In this state, it is the subconscious mind that is more active thus making us more pliable and open to suggestions from the hypnotist. In hypnosis, individuals or the subjects are usually focused on one thing, the guidance of the hypnotist.
Hypnotherapy is used to promote self confidence in individuals and to encourage a degree of mastery for the individual to believe that he can improve himself. This self confidence can motivate the individual to participate in solving a problem such as a condition in their bodies. Hypnosis can actually change the way a person treats his body and the body will respond to this.
Hypnosis or hypnotherapy is sometimes used to treat problems that lie in individuals. This has been found to be a very useful method of treatment. The advantages of using hypnosis or hypnotherapy are that there are few risks involved in the treatment. Side effects are rare in hypnotherapy. Another advantage of hypnosis as a clinical treatment is the usually quick response of the subject to the treatment. Some subjects manifest positive reactions after the first session while others need at least three or four session more.
Using hypnotherapy for some conditions can also increase the self esteem and confidence of the individual undergoing the treatment. Positive attitudes such as competence and independence are also side effects of hypnotherapy.
Hypnotherapy usually does not stress an individual because the treatment usually lies in the subconscious mind. Therefore, there is no effort to remember or remind one's self of the things that need to be done to achieve success in the treatment.
Who is Ideal for Hypnotherapy?
Not everybody can be hypnotized initially. It may take some time for some people to get used to the idea of hypnosis. People who trust the hypnotist is more likely easily to be hypnotized than perfect strangers. This is the reason why hypnotists sometimes get to know the person before a hypnotic session can be done.
Individuals who are responsive to hypnotherapy or those who are open to this method can be hypnotized easily by the hypnotist. Doubts and fears of hypnosis can be detrimental to this avenue of treatment because it can stop the subject from accepting the guidance of the hypnotist.
Subjects who are determined to be treated with hypnotherapy are also easier to hypnotize compared to those who do not believe in the capacity of the method. Of course, the condition that the subject wants to treat must also be treatable by hypnotherapy for it to work. Not all diseases and conditions react positively to hypnosis.
Some individuals may not be ideal for hypnosis treatment because they have underlying psychological problems that may be aggravated or even masked by the treatment. Here lies the importance of a psychologist in determining the feasibility of an individual for hypnotherapy. The subject needs to be evaluated and maybe tested for their indication of an ideal candidate for hypnotherapy.
Using hypnosis to treat certain disorders or conditions may seem daunting to some but the idea does have merit. Ancient cultures have used this method to heal many ailments and maladies. The participation of the subject is essential for a successful treatment.
Check out http://www.VoiceHypnosis.com for more hypnosis information. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=John_Woellner |
Hypnotherapy & NLP
Hypnosis is a trance or sleep like state of the mind, and in this state the individual is open to suggestions and directions, and the mind being in a relaxed state is focused and clear. Hypnotherapy is successfully used to address various problems like addiction to tobacco and alcohol, obesity, insomnia, relief from pain and various kinds of phobias and complexes. People grapple with problems and fears in their day to day life and certain phobias like fear of flying, fear of crowded places, fear of insects etc. can complicate life and can cause much embarrassment. Hypnotherapy is a method to relax the mind and shift focus from the particular issue, and over the sessions the therapy can invoke mental and physical changes, and train the mind to deal better with tensions.
The state of hypnosis differs from sleep as the person can hear the therapist during the session. The mind is focused, though peripheral awareness is low, and the Alpha brain wave level which is low during sleep is found to be high during hypnosis. Hypnotizability varies from person from person, and it is found that the level does not change over a period of time. Those with high level of hypnotizability are good subjects as they are more open to suggestions, and they change easily for the better. However high level of hypnotizability is not the same thing as submissiveness, and good subjects are found to be strong, imaginative and independent individuals. The state of hypnosis can be self induced, or can be brought about by a therapist, and generally during the process the focus is shifted from the present place and time to another place and time to facilitate the therapy. Mind, body and spirit together work in this process.
Neuro Linguistic Programming or NLP is a method of inducing self talk and thereby creating a positive attitude in the person. This method exploits the way neurology and language comes together to create experience. Brain is always giving you messages, and self talk always goes on, but only if this talk is positive can one realize his goals. Though in most of them positive self talk is an instinctive phenomenon, it has to be inculcated in those with a pessimistic bent of mind. NLP help you to handle failures better, and assists you handle the impediments in your way to success, as it influences the process of thought and understanding in an individual and thereby the behavior. NLP is a way to self exploration, communicating the spiritual side, and the discovery of a new, much better person altogether.
Sometimes the cause of a particular phobia or complex is not apparent, and could be the result of a thought embedded in the sub-consciousness. An insecurity of the childhood could become manifest as the fear of flying, and addressing this insecurity and shifting focus from it through hypnotherapy can root out the cause of the fear, and help the individual gain confidence to board a plane. In many cases solving an obvious problem can solve many other smaller problems, and improve the quality of life in general.
Hypnotherapy and NLP provide you with practical tools and skills which help you achieve your ambitions and goals, both in life and business. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Kay_Gill |
Monday, June 8, 2009
Hypnotherapy In London, Self Hypnosis At Home_ Addictions Can Fly Out The Window!
Many people's biggest fear of hypnosis is of being in someone else's 'control'. In fact most people associate hypnosis with some form of magic trick rather than with the achievement of a heightened state of physical and mental comfort and relaxation. In the recent BBC investigation series into alternative health it was shown that under hypnosis, the imagining of a physical activity or event can access the same area of brain activity as the real experience, whereas just imagination alone, without the aid of hypnosis activates an entirely different area of brain functioning, associated with the imagination, not the activity. This is then, clearly, a powerful tool for change, if we can access the part of the brain that controls the actual behavioural aspect.
The extraordinary factor is that this fundamental shift in brain activity is achieved merely by inducing a profound state of relaxation, which we call hypnosis. In fact, when you achieve this state of deep relaxation the body can also generate hormones that help with your energy levels and your general mood. Further, this is an additive process - the more times that you can attain this level of heightened relaxation, the greater the effect on your body and mind. So if we are given the tools to access this deep state after we have finished a session of hypnotherapy in London for example, when we are back at home and without the aid of a professional hypnotherapist, these positive effects can be enhanced many times over, for as long as we choose.
Fundamentally, hypnotherapy is about enabling increased levels of self-awareness and self-control, so self-hypnosis is, by definition, a huge asset to that process. All we require are effective techniques to access that deep state of relaxation. Once your hypnotherapist has taught you a clear technique, self-hypnosis can become a tool for life, in almost every area of your life. And of course, self-hypnosis is free!
Hypnotherapy and self-hypnosis are powerful tools, but the really important factor is still you and your determination to get the desired result to change. You need to be ready for the change in your life. It is this fact that will bring the goal closer when you apply self-hypnosis techniques provided by your hypnotherapist.
Any self-hypnosis programme requires a repeat investment of about twenty minutes per day over a period of a few weeks or months (although many achieve their ambition with ease sooner than this) until you no longer feel the need for the support to change. Crucially, by following a self-hypnosis programme, vital support is always with you. Being committed to succeed and repeating the self-hypnosis sessions are daily reminders to reinforce your goals and your achievement. Success will be achieved by those that really want it.
Simon Egerton is a London based hypnotherapist who can help you to cope with the stresses of modern day living. You can find out more about his Hypnotherapy in London practice where you can quit smoking in one hypnotherapy session at http://www.healthandhighlife.co.uk Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Simon_Egerton |
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