Hypnotherapy

By Robert Shields

 I recall some years ago when I sat facing a client who could only be described as a Hypochondriac (suffering with imagined illnesses).

She shocked me by telling me that she visited her doctor every day and that he was no good as every time he have her medication, it only ‘cured’ that illness and another illness would occur.

To say the least, I felt sorry for her doctor as I could see that her problem was not being ill but attention seeking. How did I diagnose that? Simply by asking her questions and giving her a sympathetic ear.

“How long have you been married?” - “Fifteen years and two months.”

“Is your husband working?” - “Yes, BUT, he works away from home.” (Client looking very sad.)

“How long does he stay away from home?” - “Oh, he is away from Monday to Friday and only comes home at weekends, and sometimes he also has to work at weekends.” (Client looking a little angry).

“Does he like his job?” - “He likes his job but says he doesn’t like working away from his home. He cannot change it as there are no other jobs he can get.”

“Is he worried that you are always ill?” - “He is like an angel when he is home and looks after me. He worries about me but cannot get another job or become unemployed as we cannot live without his earnings.”

I noticed at this point in our conversation that she pulled her legs up a little and began to ‘pout’ like a small girl.

“It must be very hard for you managing on your own most of the week and not having him there to look after you?” - “I know he has to work so I accept it as part of my life.”

I continued my questioning, which is a necessary part of every Hypnotherapist’s consultation, and then asked her if she knew and understood that I was not only a Hypnotherapist but also practiced homeopathy. She knew I did hypnotherapy but did not know what homeopathy was, so I explained as best I could to her.

I also explained that my treatment for her would also include Homeopathic remedies and asked if that was OK. She was more than happy with that and was excited at the new approach to her many illnesses.

I won’t go into the rest of the session as it involved routine questions such as her medical history and medication etc. which adds no real value to this article.

On conclusion, I gave her two sugar pills (placebos) and gave them a name (which I don’t recall at this time) and explained that they would help to reduce her present symptoms or clear them completely.

The Second Session:

The client returned with a big smile on her face and much earlier than her appointment time.

She reported a total success in removing the symptoms of the illness she had, but, she now had another illness, the first one was stomach pains, now it was tightness in her chest.

On this occasion I used hypnosis to relax her and give her suggestions to help her with the ‘attention seeking’ aspect of her problem. Suggestions such as she had no need to look for admiration from other people as she was a wonderful person who need not answer to anyone else for her looks or personality. (That, of course, is only a very short resume of the total suggestions I used as they changed with each session).

I again gave her placebos and off she went looking very happy.

Then the following day, which was a Saturday, actually confirmed my diagnosis and added some further knowledge to my arsenal in dealing with her problem.

At that time, I also saw clients on Saturdays. My office was in the town centre. I had a gap in my schedule so I went out to do some shopping. And as I was walking to the shops I noticed a couple in front of me that looked as if they were newly weds.

The man was tall and the lady small and she had her arm linked into his and her head on his shoulder. Gazing up at his head. It was as though she was his daughter and admiring him as a daddy. This was as they were walking and with many people around us.

I then realised it was my client. It then struck me that in her husband’s presence, she was reverting back to childhood and behaving as she did as a little girl.

The Third Session:

Again, my client returned looking very happy and reporting total success, but again, she had developed another illness.

I asked her about her father, and learned he was deceased and she missed him very much, after many years.

On this occasion, I decided that I would use hypnosis and role-play as a father and child. I explained to her, whilst she was in hypnosis, that she was to think of me as her daddy (even though many clients do that automatically as they unconsciously consider the Hypnotherapist to be a father figure).

I then assured her, as her daddy, that I loved her and cherished her beyond anyone else etc, etc. and that when she grew up, she would always know I loved her, etc. etc. (This is not a lesson on Hypnotherapy, so I will not go into full details here).

I then gave her another placebo and off she went looking as happy as any human being can.

Subsequent Sessions:

I continued with this line of treatment until she returned one day and said that she was totally cured (I have using the word… cured … when referring to therapy as human beings are helped to handle their lives much better, not cured like a piece of meat).

A Surprising and Disappointing Conclusion:

A few days after her final session, a reporter from the local newspaper phoned me, as she often did, to ask if I had any newsworthy items for her column. At that time I was appearing on television shows and many radio stations and was well known to much of the media. I explained that I had a client who was an ‘incurable’ hypochondriac and who was now off all medication and living a normal like. I would contact my client and ask if she would like to speak to the reporter but under no circumstances could I give a direct contact without permission.

I phoned the client and she was very excited to know she could be featured, both in writing and a photographs, in the local newspaper - her fifteen minutes of fame. All she asked was to give her until tomorrow to speak to her husband first and then she would phone back to make an appointment for the reporter to contact her.

The next day she phoned me and asked in a voice that showed total disappointment, if I would just forget the whole thing. She explained that she had excitedly informed her husband that she was going to have her photograph in the newspapers and he said, “What? You can’t do that. If you do the local Social Security Office will find out and stop your Disability Allowances, and you can get into trouble for not telling them you are now well.”

Need I say more?

Robert Shields teaches Hypnotherapy and his own unique Fear Elimination Therapy (remove phobias in minutes). Teaching Hypnotherapists since 1986 his 30-lesson diploma course costs $197.97 or UKP98.00. Includes a money-back guarantee. Full details at: http://www.hypnotherapy-training.com/am.html

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Hypnotic Writing, Does It Work?
By A. Thomas Perhacs

 There are books and courses out there professing to teach the amazing ability to hypnotize with the written word. I can tell you from personal experience that Hypnotic Writing does indeed work, and that even though I don’t call what I do Hypnotic Writing, it is in fact what I am teaching in all of my courses.

As a matter of fact, if you have read my book “Manipulation”, you have just about everything you need to start the process to do Hypnotic Writing. The keys to Hypnotic Writing are as Follows.

The central theme to being able to write in a Hypnotic way is to learn the concepts and methods of persuasion, subliminal phrasing and direct and indirect commands. These concepts are all easy to learn, but will take many years for you to master.

So, how then do you write something that would be considered Hypnotic? Very simply, you would need to write in a way where the words jump off the page and cause you to want to take action immediately.

Let’s take a look at that last sentence. If you look at the phrase “cause you”, it is a phrase that prepares the mind for what is coming next, which is “take action immediately”. When you use the word “cause”, it instills a yearning for the next sentence.

What happens is the subconscious mind recognizes the “cause you” and starts to reference that phrase from the past and begins the preparation for what is to come. The next phrase is a direct command stating “take action immediately”. The only thing we would need to understand is what we meant by take action immediately in the context of the Hypnotic Writing.

The key to all of this is very simply working to influence the subconscious portion of the mind. When you do that, you will begin to see the value of speaking directly to you’re unconscious.

Ok, so I did it again, I spoke directly to your subconscious mind in the context of the last sentence as well.

Again, when you are trying to get certain words to stand out you can use different methods to bring those words to the forefront to alert the subconscious mind to heed them.

You will notice I used the phrases “you will begin” and “see the value”. These are both considered hypnotic phrasing depending on how you manipulate the words around them. See the value is a direct command. The other big on is “You’re Unconscious”, in which this case I am commanding to your subconscious mind “YOU ARE UNCONSCIOUS”.

These are but a few of the many ways to do Hypnotic Writing. If you have been able to see the value in this limited article of how Hypnotic Writing works, you will be even more intrigued as you begin to study and learn this topic even more in detail.

And if you notice on the last sentence, I got you again. This is the essence of Hypnotic Writing.

A.Thomas Perhacs, is an Expert on Covert Persuasion & Hypnotic Influence. Author of several books

and courses covering hypnosis, meditation, and esoteric powers of the mind. He has just re-released his best selling book, Manipulation, The Master Secrets of Covert Persuasion & Hypnotic Influence.

For a FREE 1 hour audio seminar and report http://hypnosis.advancedmindpower.com

Hypnotherapeutic Pain Elimination CDs
By Alan Densky

 The axiom “no pain, no gain” simply is not true. Envision all of the times pain has hindered you from engaging in activities that you enjoy - perhaps running, playing tennis, fishing and even sitting can be impossible when you are in pain. Did you gain anything from missing out on memories?

However, the adage that “Pain is all in your head” can, in fact, be true. If that is the case, then the cure is all in your head, also. With hypnosis, pain can disappear completely. Despite what you may think, hypnosis is simply a mental state during which messages can reach the unconscious more easily. The state of hypnosis is characterized by deep relaxation. In fact, with regular practice of a self hypnosis pain elimination regimen, you will feel much more calm over all.

Pain is a signal that something in your body is amiss. So pain is actually a positive thing. But after you have your doctor check you out to ensure that the pain is not indicating a harmful condition like a tumor, it’s time to manage or even eliminate the pain.

There is no risk in a hypnotherapeutic pain relief program. You cannot “get stuck” in a hypnotic state. The worst that would ever happen when you use self hypnosis for pain reduction is that you could fall into a natural state of sleep for a half hour- think of all of the nights that pain has kept you from sleeping!

This is not to say that a hypnotherapeutic pain management system is similar to sleep, because that is the major misunderstanding about hypnosis. When you are asleep, you’re unconscious. If you are unconscious, then you cannot hear anything. If you cannot hear anything, then a hypnotherapist cannot assist you. Hypnosis is actually a state of keen awareness.

Despite being consciously aware of everything, hypnotherapeutic pain management programs can tackle both physical and mental causes and introduce many effective avenues to eliminate pain. Medicines only block the reception of the physical symptoms of pain briefly, but hypnotherapeutic pain regimens can actually decrease the amount and strength of pain signals that you sense. You can literally reprogram your body to send less pain-inducing chemicals to your receptors. This means that you can use fewer pain-killing medications, or in many cases no medications at all.

Endorphins are opiate-like elements that are manufactured in the brain. They are the elements that cause athletes to get a high when they workout very hard. Using self hypnosis, you can also discover how to program your brain to create pain-relieving endorphins on demand and then send them to the painful area where they are required.

Thanks to endorphins, the brain is capable of inducing analgesia, which is a mild anesthesia, as well as complete anesthesia (numbness). Medical journals are full of reports both in pre-anesthesia days, as well as in modern times, when major surgery has been completed under hypnoanesthesia.

Hypnosis can also be used to program the mind to direct your attention away from pain, which will help you perceive much less discomfort. Further, hypnotherapeutic pain management CDs can help our mind realize and understand that the pain is there, but not to let us feel it. A qualified hypnotherapist will know how to completely address additional hypnotic suggestions that will aid in your recovery.

A very effective hypnosis pain remedy lies in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP. No doubt that after dealing with chronic pain, you may be doubtful that a hypnotherapeutic pain program will get the job done. In many cases, NLP techniques actually are more successful for modern thinkers than traditional hypnosis does because it was created for people like you who are brought up to question and analyze everything. When we analyze, we tend to put up barriers to the acceptance of post-hypnotic suggestions.

Stressful feelings always make us perceive far more pain than we are actually experiencing. One of the most successful NLP patterns for eliminating stress is known as the “Flash.” This tool reprograms the unconscious mind to use mental images that create stress to actually trigger thoughts that create feelings of relaxation in their place. After you have used this technique, it will be difficult or impossible to think the thoughts that trouble you, because your unconscious will instantly and automatically exchange them in a Flash for thoughts that relax you instead.

Self hypnosis and pain relief go hand in hand. If you are exhausted from coping with prescriptions that render you in no condition to drive or to fully experience life, or worse, of living with the throbbing, stabbing or shooting pulsations of discomfort, a hypnosis pain elimination program can provide safe, natural and instantaneous relief.

Alan B. Densky, CH has been helping people with hypnosis pain relief since 1978. A familiar authority in the hypnotherapy field, he offers headache and migraine hypnosis & NLP CDs and free hypnosis resources on his Neuro-VISION website.

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