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HOW DOES HYPNOSIS WORK?
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To simplify: The mind has two parts, the conscious mind and
the subconscious mind. The conscious mind analyzes, rationalizes, it is
where will power lies, there is a working memory and it can only do one
thing at a time. It is the part of our mind that chatters to us all day
long. It can rationalize any behaviors good or bad and it can solve problems.
The subconscious mind holds the imagination, habits, emotions,
permanent memory and controls all the autonomic systems of the body i.e.
(regulates heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, etc.) It can do many
things at once. Your subconscious is who you are, your belief systems, how
your respond to things, every thing that you have ever experienced is stored
in your permanent memory in your subconscious.
Hypnosis quiets the chatter of your conscious mind and allows
the hypnotist to deliver positive suggestions into the subconscious. Your
subconscious is like a computer. It can be reprogrammed for positive change
easily and effortlessly.
Everyone enters hypnosis at least twice a day as the mind cycles
down into sleep and as it awakens. Maybe you’ve been so into a book that when
someone calls your name you don’t even hear him or her. Quite often people
drift off into light hypnosis while driving. Let’s say you are driving along
and your mind begins to daydream, and then before you know it you’ve reached
your destination and you don’t even remember the drive there or maybe time has
passed so quickly you can’t believe you are there already. That is hypnosis.
When you were driving your conscious mind drifted off into a daydream,
but your subconscious mind kept you safe on the road. If someone would have ran
out in front of your car your conscious mind would have automatically come back
into focus and you would have responded to the situation. That is how hypnosis works.
The hypnotist first guides your body into a progressive relaxation,
and then distracts your conscious mind, and this leaves your subconscious mind in
a heightened state of suggestibility and increased awareness. Next, the hypnotist
makes positive effective suggestions for change. Your subconscious accepts the
suggestions and this reprograms your thinking. If the hypnotist were to make
suggestions you didn’t agree with or like, your mind would reject them.
Hypnosis feels wonderful and people really enjoy it. After emerging
from hypnosis people feel rested even though they were not asleep. Fifteen minutes of
hypnosis can feel like eight hours of sleep.
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