Hypnosis Explained - The Miraculous Cure
Short answer - Hypnosis is a state of DEEP RELAXATION where information comes with strong awareness.
Imagine going through life without
worrying about stress, disease, or headaches...
Can't do it? But it's possible with the use of
hypnosis. When most people encounter the word
hypnosis, a picture comes to their mind of a hypnotist swinging an object in
front of the clients face; however, that is not how hypnosis works.
John M.
Polarkoff said, "It taps into your subconscious mind. Nobody knows how it
works. Of all the books I have read, none of them can explain it. It helps you
to help yourself. It alerts your subconscious mind and your subconscious mind
helps you." Hypnosis is a state of deep relaxation in
which the subconscious mind is extraordinarily receptive to positive thoughts
and suggestions. It is not something a hypnotist does to you, but it is
something you give to yourself. Nobody can make you do something you don't want
to do or have the desire to do. Through hypnosis, your behavior can be modified
to benefit you.
Dating back from 2600 BC to the present,
different methods of hypnosis have been used. Wang Tai, the father of Chinese
medicine, used medical procedures that were of hypnotic nature. There were many
other people and scientists that used various forms of hypnosis, but the most
influential of them all was Frank Anton Mesmer. He is remembered for the term
"mesmerism" which is a process of inducing a trance through a series
of passes he made with his hands and magnets. Working with a person's psychic
and electromagnetic energies, he performed mesmerism on many people across the
world, and taught his students of his works. He was admired, and scientists followed his example and came up with their own
ideas.
Another influential person in the field of
hypnosis is James Braid. He opposed mesmerism originally, but soon he became
interested in the subject and began studying it. He said cures were not due to
psychic and electromagnetic energies, but to suggestion. He developed the eye
fixation technique of inducing relaxation which became known as hypnosis, after
the Greek God of Sleep Hypnos. He characterized hypnosis as deep concentration
by a person in a single dominant idea. He realized that ideas could be implanted
while in the hypnotic state. He could not explain it, but he knew that it was
the most amazing thing he had ever seen. He thought this phenomenon was a form
of sleep, but when he realized his error, he wanted to change the name. But the
name hypnosis stuck.
As other scientists researched the aspect
of hypnosis, they discovered that not only could it be used to induce
relaxation, but was also beneficial in treating other ailments, both physical
and mental. When you are hypnotized, you are in a
tranquil state of relaxation. While in this state, your mind is permitting
profitable and productive suggestions to be accepted. You are fully aware of
what's going on around you and you respond only to suggestions that are right
and benefit your beliefs.Relaxation is the first and most important
step of hypnosis. Your eyes are closed, you breathe deeply with the diaphragm. When you are relaxed, tension is released in your
muscles, nerves, and blood vessels. This also reduces the blood circulation
which puts your body at well-being. Relaxation is the key to overcome a fear,
habit, and many other symptoms.
When you are relaxed and have
your mind on other things, the pain and fear seems to go away. She was in awe
of her experience. Before you can concentrate on goals and
enrichment, you must clear the mind's passageways. When relaxed, suspend all
conscious thinking, postpone decisions and judgments, make no demands of your
mind, but concentrate on peace of mind. If a negative thought enters your mind,
just let it go.
When you are concentrating on an every day situation, the mind focuses on a problem from the outside. During hypnotic
concentration, your mind is focused on an issue from the inside. Using your
mental and emotional powers, concentrate on goals that will give you the feeling
you need to reach your destination. While in the deep state of concentration,
your mind is clear of other thoughts that might have been troublesome or
irritating. A new kind of reality is created with
suggestion. It puts a positive image in your head to replace any bad thoughts.
Any suggestion given to you, while in the hypnotic state, will have an effect
on you because it is impossible to separate the body from the mind. Therefore,
they are dependent on each other. The mental element is always dominant and our
physical being is governed by it, so that we actually make or break our own
health according to the ideas at work in our subconscious. We can freely
implant whatever ideas we desire in the subconscious. (We create our own reality.)
Suggestion has always
been and always will be the keystone to hypnosis, and it plays a significant
role in nearly every aspect of medical treatment. Pain begins and ends with the brain.
As long as we keep our mind distracted from the pain, it will be lessened. The
major elements of pain are stress, fear and anxiety, so people who suffer
from chronic pain illnesses, which can be caused and or aggravated by stress
and anxiety, can decrease their pain with the power of the mind. For example, a group of people with
chronic headaches were split into two groups - one group took hypnotherapy and
the other group did not. The hypnotherapy group was taught
to reach a state of mind-and-body relaxation; then they created a clear picture
of the headache in their minds, and soon they were able to control and reverse
the painful image. Dr. Egulius Spierlings said, "The hypnotherapy group
did reduce the number and length of headaches, cutting the intensity to thirty
percent. The improvement isn't huge, but the results are impressing in such a
difficult and hard to treat group of patients. Obviously, this isn't a cure for
the common headache. But for someone who just won't respond to other
treatments, this might be one possible alternative."
Our mind is powerful, and we can control
the pain using only brain power. The brain is the center of pain. We can tap
into that area of the mind and create an image of what is causing the pain.
Simply picture you're throwing the source of pain away. This puts the pain in
your own hands, and you are in control. Creating images is not the only way to
control pain. Focusing your mind on something other than the pain has the same effect. Distraction plays an important role in
soothing aches and pains. Hypnosis for the relief of pain focuses one's
attention away from the source of the pain. The subject just puts it out of his
or her mind. An easy way of distracting the pain from our mind is to imagine a
pleasant scene, imagining that one's body is numb in the area of pain,
concentrating on breathing, or even singing a song. Pain is
the single most 5 common reason for going to a physician, and it is the number
one reason why people take medication. It has been proven that eighty-five
percent or more of the illnesses that physicians are called upon to treat are
self-limiting, or without any help at all, the human body can prescribe for,
treat, and heal itself.
Although hypnosis was approved by the American
Medical Association in 1958, doctors have been using it for medical
treatment instead of anesthetics for many years. Hypnosis has become a well
established part of current medical, dental, and psychological practice. It is
considered to be a valuable therapeutic aid. The mind and body interact with each
other, and our emotions affect our biology. The nervous system, the endocrine
system, and the immune system are all related to each other. Psychological factors play
an important part in causing diseases of all sorts. Everything from cold sores
to cancer. Physicians that study in this new specialty have discovered that our
health and emotions are closely related. Through the process of hypnosis, the
mind focuses positively on issues, mental or physical, and eliminates them.
Whether the problem is a disease, stress, fear, or any other kind of issue,
hypnosis can help or cure it.
The immune system becomes weak from
stress, panic, negative attitudes, and a pessimistic outlook on things. It is
made up of many cells that travel through the body to all organs and glands.
These cells work in close contact to the brain which contains neurotransmitters
which are like messengers that carry chemical messages to all the organs and
glands. These "messengers" serve to activate, instruct, and regulate
the immune system. If a person is in a depressed, stressed,
or panicked mood, the brain sends a negative message to the immune system which
affects the organs throughout the body in a negative fashion; On the other
hand, if a person is in a humorous or optimistic mood, this stimulates the
immune system increasing it's ability to attack cancer cells, infectious
diseases, allergies, and other autoimmune illnesses.
Lupus is one of many autoimmune
illnesses that can be helped by hypnosis. The following experience tells about work with a case of Lupus , an autoimmune illness, that flares up and can be fatal if
it is system-wide. The client was asked her if she knew what
her Lupus looked like. She gave a puzzled look. The therapist said 'Doctors diagnose us
and we accept that, because in our society we give doctors a lot of power!' So,
she was told to close her eyes, and some re-programming, (NLP) was done. By visualizing what her Lupus looked like and what it felt like in her
body, she described it as small shiny black concave disks all through her blood
stream. She then imagined gathering all of those disks in her right hand and
when she had gathered them all, threw them all away. After
that exercise, she was hypnotized and did the NLP again through the
subconscious mind, and to this day she is in remission." When the client
has a mental picture of what the illness looks like, it can give them control of
it. Lupus is a disease aggravated by stress, so when the mind and body are
relaxed, you are stress-free. This results in the termination/remission of the
disease.
Individuals who can learn to hypnotize
themselves have an advantage over those who can't. With the help of self-hypnosis, issues
such as these can be solved on your own. Negative feelings seems to
spread to those around that person feeling stressed. Using self-hypnosis, you can have a
stress-free life. All it takes is the three main components of hypnosis which
are relaxation, concentration, and auto-suggestion, the process of a person
suggesting thoughts to him/herself. This reduction of stress will make you a
better person, and those around you will enjoy your company. Where ever you are,
headaches seem to be a common ailment. Self-hypnosis can relieve the pain just
by imagining something else being a symbol of the headache. When in the hypnotic state, it is
possible for you to take control over headaches, relieve stress, most any other
situations at work which would inhibit you from being the best you are capable
of. Many people have irrational fears which
limit their daily existence. In order to overcome a fear, just face it.
Confront in your mind whatever frightens you. Instead of letting your thoughts
run away from the phobia, focus your concentration energy right into the
anxiety. Hypnosis
can teach you to face the fear and overcome it!
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