A hypnotherapist is a practitioner of hypnosis who guides their patients into a meditative state called hypnosis. This state of hypnosis and the practice of hypnotism have been studied and researched for man years.
A state of mind that can more easily be manipulated by outside forces for the affect of curing a disorder is often the goal in hypnosis. The hypnotherapist will help the patient they are treating achieve this meditative state of mind so that the new measures suggest by the hypnotherapist can be accepted more readily than they would under the patients normal state of mind.
Although only abut 25% of the population can be hypnotized easily, even less people, roughly 20%, cannot be hypnotized at all, according to a recent survey. Much more of the population lies in the middle with some ability to be hypnotized, and some ability to have disorders at least partially cured through hypnosis, although most people would agree it is certainly not an exact science.
Perhaps now is a good time to see an example to explain this a little more clearly.
Lets take the example of a chain smoker. One way that a hypnotist may treat this smoker is to first hypnotize the smoker into a deep meditative state. Once in this meditative state the hypnotherapist will ask the subject about all the reasons why they smoke and all of the negative thoughts that they have about smoking and the negative affects that smoking has on their life. The hypnotist will then ask the smoker to think of good thoughts that they would experience if they gave up smoking. These thoughts are repeated as part of the therapy and these thoughts are also spoken out loud. In this way the hypnotist helps to change the perceptions of the patient about smoking.
During visits to the hypnotist the patients perceptions are altered towards the goal of there therapy, but its up to the patient to continue with these perceptions after hypnosis has finished to be successfully treated.
Many people have found this sort of treatment to be very affective, and even encourage others to use it after successfully quitting smoking.
Don’t let fear of the unknown or the fear of trying something new hold you back from trying a treatment that really could change your life. Many people have tried this form of therapy and found it works for them, it could work for you as well.
Ingrid Preube
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Tags: health, hypnosis, neuro linguistic, nlp, stop smoking
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