This illustrated guide will help you understand why hypnosis is an efficient, safe, and modern treatment that addresses many problems. Through hypnosis, our clients have quit smoking, managed healthy weight loss, addressed and tackled fears, phobias and worries, and become more confident in their social and professional spheres. Hypnosis has also helped them learn how to change the way they deal with stress-inducing situations, and re-think old habits and behaviours, turning procrastination into motivation, sleeping better, reducing stress, and gaining better focus to work and study.
The Two Keys to Effective Hypnosis
Hypnosis can be defined in two parts:
- Bypass the critical faculty of the conscious mind, and
- Establish acceptable selective thinking.
(Elman, 1964)
What is the critical faculty?
The critical faculty is the part of your conscious mind that judges, analyzes and evaluates what other people say. While these are all vital thought processes, they can also often make you rationalize unhealthy or negative thoughts, habits and behaviours instead of examining them honestly. By bypassing that part of the mind under hypnosis, a client is free to think in a non-judgemental, honest, and uncritical manner about their lives, choices, and actions.
What is acceptable selective thinking?
Selective thinking occurs when a person adopts wholeheartedly a new way of thinking or reacting to a problem. By definition, selective thinking is uncritical, as it is generated and established only after the critical faculty is bypassed. The client must be amenable to this new way of thinking in order for it to be effective.
Under these two key conditions, we have hypnosis. A client under hypnosis experiences a variety of hypnotic phenomena, such as heightened imagination, heightened memory and altered perceptions. Hypnotherapy is the use of hypnotic phenomena and targeted suggestions to achieve beneficial change.
How easy is it be hypnotized?
Whether they realize it or not, people willingly enter into hypnosis all the time. For example, in order to enjoy a film, you must allow your critical faculty to be bypassed (in this case, we call it "suspension of disbelief"). In such a situation, you welcome the suspension of your critical faculty in order to enjoy the film. It's only then that you can be affected emotionally and intellectually by the film—an effect that often lasts for days.
Although most people can enter into hypnosis quickly, being in hypnosis is only the first step to achieving lasting change. What matters more is the work your hypnotherapist does with you once you're in hypnosis. While there are too many methods to describe on this page, we have begin to describe a few of our methods here.
General Session Structure
Although every session is different, a typical session follows the flowchart below. The video explains regression and parts work.
The Elman Induction (With Contingencies)
At the Morpheus Clinic for Hypnosis, our associates typically use the Elman induction technique to bring clients into hypnosis. The Elman induction allows most clients to enter hypnosis within four minutes, and includes built-in tests to ensure that the client has passed Level 3 on the Arons scale for hypnosis, which allows for deep hypnotic phenomena to be elicited. By adding contingencies for each test, hypnotists at the Morpheus Clinic ensure that every client enters into a usable level of hypnosis.
What Can Hypnosis Help With?
We can help with many problems:
- Stopping smoking and other habits or addictions such as alcohol
- Managing weight
- Fears, phobias and anxiety
- Stress reduction
- Improved sleep
- Overcoming fear of public speaking
- Becoming more confident with women
- Improved memory and study skills
- Erectile problems, premature ejaculation or inability to orgasm
- Pain control (with doctor’s referral)
- Painless child birth
- Stopping nail biting
- Sales and sports motivation
For more information, contact us for a free consultation.