What is Therapeutic Hypnosis?
Therapeutic Hypnosis is a unique tool that goes beyond traditional therapy by accessing the unconscious. This technique engaging your unconscious will allow you to quickly identify the root of your concern; dismantle its existence; and overcome your emotional and behavioral challenges. Therapeutic Hypnosis combines the power of Hypnosis with the analysis of Counseling to enable you to more effectively and immediately make changes; move forward, manage your life, and achieve your goals.
How Does Hypnosis Work?
In Therapeutic Hypnosis, your mind shifts to accessing your unconscious directly. Physicians and mental health counselors know that hypnosis techniques (such as deeper relaxation and narrowed down focusing) create calm and allow the solution creating unconscious to surface. James T. White works directly with your unconscious accessing stuck thoughts, negative feelings, and nonproductive behaviors located in the conscious. The “stuck” is made gone, allowing you to then be free.
There is a meditative and trance like state experienced which is most easily compared to daydreaming or meditating. Different from being asleep, you are aware and able to focus on changing or ending the negative. The trance allows you to be without the intrusion of random thoughts or external stimuli such as noise, atmosphere, or distraction.
Common Myths About Hypnosis
Although people have been engaging in hypnotic trances for thousands of years, the scientific concept of hypnotism was not awakened until the 1700’s. Over the centuries, hypnosis has taken on many voodoo-like qualities, many of which have been disproved through modern psychiatry and scientific research. Here are a few of the common myths surrounding hypnosis.
Myth #1: If I’m hypnotized, I will act like a chicken. No, you won’t act like a chicken. Quite the contrary. People in an hypnotic trance are not under a spell, they are relaxed and very able to exercise free will.
Myth #2: Hypnotism is evil and supernatural. There’s nothing supernatural or evil about hypnosis. Hypnosis uses scientific method to create a state of calm in order to accomplish a goal. Hypnotism can more closely be compared to meditation – a state of relaxation, cleansing and openness.
Myth #3: Hypnosis will make me unaware of what’s happening. When hypnotized, people are actually more attentive and more focused than they usually are. They are able to “tune-out” distractions such as noise, random thoughts and atmosphere in order to focus on a subject more acutely.
Myth #4: Hypnosis is unnatural and weird. In an average day, most people move in and out of a state of hypnotism approximately 2 hours a day. This can take place while performing a routine action (such as driving) or while daydreaming, watching television or reading a book.
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Our patients typically report experiencing success through therapeutic hypnosis after three to five one-hour sessions, however the length and effectiveness of the techniques will vary from one person to another. The CMBH offers the combined techniques of therapeutic hypnosis, traditional counseling or pure hypnosis, according to your request.