The Power of Hypnosis
Hypnosis was my salvation, it can also be yours. Hypnosis can change your fear of things that you have avoided, given you heart palpitations, or made you anxious about.
Hypnosis helped me overcome my Arachnophobia (fear of spiders), it only took 20 minutes, and today I do not get sweat on my forehead or palpitations when I see a spider. Just having to type spider used to make me feel bad, even the emojis on the phone I couldn’t touch without feeling anxious.
My life with arachnophobia started when, as a 6-year-old, I was at the zoo with my father who wanted to show me the tarantula, that I had heard about at school. It has to be said that I was very excited to see it.
Once we entered the zoo, we went to the terrarium and I was very excited to see it. I stood on tiptoes by the terrarium to reach up, and here I pressed my little nose flat against the window to better see, but it was just completely dark, almost black, I told my dad I couldn’t see anything, and then he told me to go back a little – And right there, I realized that I had been looking straight into my stomach, I got so bad that I ran out and threw up.
My fear of spiders was so deep in me that I couldn’t look at a spider on television or walk into a store on Halloween that was decorated with spiders. My husband once had to cup me through a pet shop because I stiffened with horror to see there were tarantulas in boxes right next to me. Yes, I was so afraid of them that I called my neighbor at 24 to get him to remove a spider that was sitting on the wall next to the door to the hallway so I could get to bed.
This fear has been in my mind and body all my life. I never thought it would happen to me that I could touch a spider in a picture or search for pictures of one. Today I can touch a spider in a picture, I have even searched for spider on google for my advertising and all that is thanks to hypnosis.
Hypnosis can do many things besides removing phobias such as arachnophobia (fear of spiders), fear of heights or flying, hypnosis can also eliminate pain, nail biting, smoking cessation, insomnia as well as stress and much more.
As a hypnotherapist, I know how hypnosis works and can guide you to feel better, you are welcome to contact me on here for a completely free and non-binding conversation.
How Does It Work?
Logic works with the conscious mind, but often not with the subconscious.
Hypnosis helps the subconscious. While a person is under hypnosis, the hypnotherapist is able to communicate directly with the subconscious part of their mind. Since the subconscious does not analyze or criticize anything that is said to it, it will accept almost anything that is said as literal and will do this automatically without the person even knowing.
When you believe in something that has been proven to be more effective for you – then it works for you. This is the case when you receive hypnotherapy. Being open to it is a sure way to make it work.
A good example of the conscious and subconscious mind is:
When you learn to do something, for example driving a car, you use your conscious mind. You might think “I’m never going to remember all this”, but once you’ve passed your driving test, suddenly things seem to get easier. You seem to be going on “autopilot”. This is because all the information has been passed on to your subconscious, so you no longer have to think about what you are doing.
Remember how difficult it was when you learned to drive and compare this to how easy it is now.
Why Does Hypnosis Work?
Hypnotherapy works by empowering people to change and update subconscious beliefs. Through hypnosis, we can reframe and update old beliefs – that quitting smoking will be difficult and painful, for example – and replace them with new, more helpful assumptions.
Hypnosis is a very relaxed mental state where we bypass the critical mind. In other words, the mind is relaxed and ready to learn; The mind becomes much more receptive to suggestion.
In deep relaxed hypnosis, we can override these automatic thoughts and update this thinking with new suggestions. Hypnosis works by allowing us to change our unconscious thought processes to help us achieve specific goals.
Hypnosis works with the power of suggestion.
As a baby, we are born a completely blank canvas with no fear or hang ups. But as we grow up and are influenced by our parents, teachers and peers, we are bombarded with suggestions of how life should be. We take these suggestions to heart and turn them into reality.
How many times in life have you not done something because someone suggested to you that it would be a bad idea? That person has changed and influenced your life path.
So what you are today is a result of all your accumulated experiences from the day you were born right up to this moment.
Reframing our preconceived beliefs through hypnosis
Here is a good example of the power of our preconceived beliefs. A group of participants were asked to take a wine taste test.
They were given two choices: One glass of “expensive” wine and another of moderately priced wine.
The truth was: Both glasses were the same wine. But the participants expected the expensive wine to taste better, and therefore gave it much higher marks for taste.
The suggestion was subtle – one was more expensive – but it clearly shows how easily a suggestion is used to construct our perception.
Unfortunately, the critical mind is not so receptive to suggestions. You hear a proposal, and then you analyze and criticize it.
But with hypnosis do we allow the mind to better accept suggestions? In the deeply relaxed state of hypnosis, our minds are more receptive to suggestion.