Hypnosis: a valuable aid to Healing.

Hypnosis has been known to the world for thousands of years, and when applied as hypnotherapy for healing, relaxation, de stressing, self esteem, pain relief, cure of addictions, and many curative processes, combines the use of words and suggestion upon the subconscious mind of someone who wants help.

How does this fit in with our learning of energy and souls?

When someone is hypnotized, the brain, the filing system of the body, which tries to be so judgmental in our lives, often causing problems within us by so doing, and can stop us from remembering that which is deep in our subconscious mind, stopping us from thinking and interfering, sometimes very negatively, in our lives, is stopped from all this activity, we gain access to our subconscious mind to which we can add words of encouragement, healing, and strength, triggering abilities in the body to heal.

When the brain’s thoughts are repressed, hypnotherapists are able to talk directly to our subconscious, or in other words, to our own souls, the same souls that remember everything, so whatever is said to the soul can be remembered and can start a change of thought within the body.

This can also start the body to change its own energy flows, start to heal itself, or repair by seeing reason to change bad habits.

Even if a person can realise under hypnosis that if they simply change the words they use to positive words and the thoughts they have to positive thoughts they can have a very positive influence upon their health and lives.

Hypnosis can be a valuable tool on its own, or used together with the application of medical or alternative therapies to aid healing or generally improving people’s lives. Hypnosis is simply putting a person into a trance or very relaxed state by an interaction between an practitioner and a person who wishes to be hypnotized.

Hypnosis is basically relaxing the brain to a state which is between being awake and being asleep. This state is one which may never be feared, this is simply the same state you go through twice a day every day, when you go to sleep, that point between being asleep and being awake, then pass through again when you wake up, just before being fully awake.

The person being hypnotized is always in control of themselves and everything that happens, they can hear everything that is said and are fully in control of their faculties to an extent they can never be told to do something they do not want to do. It is a state of mind when suggestions are acted upon and stored in the subconscious and long after recalled, it is a state of very high focus and awareness, soft sounds become louder, recollection is vivid, even to the stage when every event in one’s life can be recalled. Events from previous lives can be recalled vividly as well.

How can this be used in hypnotherapy?

Use of words may not sound much but is a very effective method to improve health and can affect the mind, body, health and lives.
Words said to a person with the suggestion that it is a helpful aid, can in fact work by allowing healing energies or positive energies and thoughts within a person, which reflect in their minds, which can affect their lives in extremely positive ways.

A good example is the use of a placebo in medicine which can in many cases have a beneficial effect, of whatever the effect of the real tablet that should have been administered, even though it may be no more than a sugar tablet. The mere suggestion that it was beneficial and would benefit, cure, repair etc. Was taken by the person into the subconscious mind and that suggestion became reality, the subconscious mind started to bring into affect the healing energies within the body as the subconscious took up on the suggestion that the placebo would work, a chain of events then starts which in fact makes the subconscious send healing thoughts to the body, and positive energies start within the body healing, giving confidence, self esteem etc. Making the thoughts given to a person work. Healing energies can start within the body to cause it to heal itself, either instead of, or in addition to medicine or herbal preparations, or surgery, or any other healing process you may use.
Therefore suggestions given during a state of hypnosis can have an even greater effect upon a person, as hypnosis makes the subconscious mind far more receptive to the thought of healing, for instance in the case of the placebo, as destructive thoughts from the conscious mind, which more than likely caused the problem in the first place, are suppressed. Simply put, by use of words suggestions or gestures to obtain specific results.

How can words work?

Every word you utter can have a physical effect upon your own body and way of life. As you speak, so will you attract, and if you speak negative words, you will attract negativity. Whatever you think about will happen, if you think doom and gloom, you will, you desire, you create, a gloomy world. If you feel happiness and positivity you attract happiness and positivity, you feel happier and so will those around you, so will your life reflect that happiness, events that are good start to happen, and those events in themselves add to your happiness like a snowball effect.

The power of the mind is enormous: it can be used to move objects, create objects, communicate with others, drop blood pressure, regulate heartbeat, create immunity to pain, thus is used in conjunction with Hypnotherapy in dental work, operations, childbirth, even amputations can be performed using the power of the mind instead of chemical anaesthetic with its associated needles, masks and side effects.

Therefore if you are depressed, and tell yourself that you are depressed, you will remain depressed, people around you will feel depressed in your presence, and your world will therefore become depressing.

Conversely, if you are depressed and tell yourself that you are happy, you will in fact start to feel less depressed, then indeed happier, others will feel happy to be with you and your world can become happy. It is a known fact that people who are angry, miserable, and constantly unhappy are have far greater incidence of kidney, skin and liver problems, migraines, arthritis, osteoporosis, even cancer. So if telling yourself something can change your attitude or your life, it goes that if you tell yourself or have someone tell you such things when in a receptive state of hypnosis, those words will sink in far deeper into your subconscious and will stick there to be recalled at any time, thus can a very strong aid be formed.

Certainly this can be obtained by Mantra or affirmations but may have to be repeated a thousand times before a thought or word sinks in to the subconscious mind and becomes a fact.

But with hypnosis helping such words to go straight to the subconscious mind where they become useful seeds of thought, together with the right words, right thoughts, right imagery, and wonderful things can occur. People can improve self esteem, remember and recall during study and exams, or recall more vividly in older age, and can be assisted greatly in healing processes, as a word can trigger healing processes within the body and accelerate healing, or even the will, the desire to heal oneself. This can be used in conjunction with any medical procedures and advices as words alone cannot affect the doctor’s work. It will enhance it in fact.

For someone, for instance a person who is in dire fear of the dentist and anaesthetic, to have a completely painless filling or tooth extraction without anaesthetic would normally be impossible, but can happen very easily without anaesthetic using Hypnotherapy. How would that person feel if they do not have to face the fear of an injection needle when undergoing essential dental work, or childbirth for that matter?

How reassuring to the dentist also to know their patient is at ease and their work can proceed without drama and upset.
Every thought produces a physical reaction and this can be seen when one salivates by seeing an apple, you don’t touch it, feel it or smell it, but the very thought of a nice, juicy, crispy apple has an effect upon the brain which continues throughout the body until it finds a reaction in the salivary glands, the thought of salivating goes back to the brain and the reaction to the apple is indeed saliva. The thought of fear can send a chill though the body and can make the body “freeze”.
The thought of worry can send such powerful denigrating feelings through the body that disease is promoted. Thoughts can become realized, or in other words you can create your own reality, perhaps from a need, a desire, or an image, this can and does become real. Complaints of an ailment can in fact cause that ailment, how often does a child end up really sick when at first telling mom that they feel sick merely to skip school for any reason, hence also can be that cancers and arthritic conditions be induced by anger or an unforgiving nature.

The thoughts and symbolism of a cigarette become reality, one can smoke from defiance, rebelliousness, peer pressure, “belonging with others”, individualism, and once the thought is implanted as such in the subconscious becomes in every way the reason and mental justification that one smokes. How different can one’s perception of smoking become when the “need” may be nerves or shyness or covering problems can be removed, or replaced by the image of a cigarette being a pacifier, a dummy in fact, would they be seen in public sucking a dummy? The meaning of smoking a cigarette can change and hence one’s perception of smoking can be changed by replacing the original “purpose” or “need” with positive thoughts.

Hypnotherapy can be used in thousands of applications, benefiting people in studying, solving problems, improving health, wellness and self esteem without fear of chemicals or side effects of any kind, and has been used world wide for thousands of years, as a benefit to untold numbers of people.

What do you experience?

What is experienced during hypnosis is no more then a wonderful relaxation.

You see and hear everything and are fully aware of noises and everything around you, birds, planes, cars or storms.
The only thing different being you know you can open your eyes at any time, but couldn’t be bothered.
Just the same feeling as waking up under the duvet on a winter’s morning and couldn’t be bothered to get up.
However stressed people can again learn what true relaxation is at this time, reducing their own stress levels as they realize they can relax to this extent, and is a time beneficial to everyone.

Meanwhile the therapy part, the words, can reverse depression, lower stress, stop smoking, or allow a person painless childbirth, operations or a needle free trip to the dentist, and helps with hundreds of problems.

When you wake up you feel as if you have just had a full night’s sleep.
Everyone in the world can benefit in some way from hypnotherapy. 

-Art Long - Contact Art

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