What Are The Facts About Hypnosis?

Hypnosis is also known as hypnotic suggestion or hypnotherapy. It is a trance-like experience that lets you go through heightened focus to inner absorption through concentration. When you are hypnotize, you feel relax and calm and you can focus intensely on a particular memory, thought, sensation or feeling while blocking distractions. Under hypnosis, you welcome suggestions, and this can be use to change your perceptions, sensations, emotions and behavior. Therapeutic hypnosis is beneficial for one’s health, outlook and well-being. It is different from hypnosis done on stage by entertainers. Even if you are open to ideas and proposals while on therapeutic hypnosis, your own discretion and free will is still intact and you still have control over your reactions and behavior.

Hypnosis is aimed to gain control over unpleasant emotions and behaviors or to help cope better against lots of medical conditions. It is not a treatment or a psychotherapy but rather a procedure done along with specified treatments or therapies to aid many conditions.

Hypnosis can be use in treating the following conditions:

• Smoking cessation
• Pain control
• Mental health conditions
• Reduce stress
• Allergies
• Surgical preparation
• Asthma
• Childbirth
• Athletic performance
• Weight loss
• Dental procedures
• Skin conditions
• Coping with chemotherapy
• Gastrointestinal problems

Hypnosis is an alternative and complementary medicine treatment. It is safe when performed with a health care expert or trained therapist.

• Dizziness
• Headache
• Nausea
• Creation of False Memories
• Anxiety or Panic

Take extra precautions when using hypnosis as age regression to help you in relieving past events in your life. This method is still controversial and has unspecified scientific evidence in supporting its use. It may lead to strong emotions or change your memories or create false memories.

In planning to undergo hypnosis, you do not need any special preparations. Even so, you have to wear loose and comfortable clothes to help you relax. Ensure that you take enough rest before the procedure to avoid falling to sleep during the hypnosis session. Make sure to choose a good health care expert or therapist who will perform the hypnosis. Don’t easily believe the promises of healing and cure. When you have found a prospect hypnotherapist, ask questions like:

– His training for related fields like psychology, dentistry, medicine or social work
– His license in doing such activity
– School did he go to and internship and / or residency issues
– His training about hypnotherapy and where did he trained.
– Professional organizations he belong
– Years in practice
– Fees
– If insurance covers his service

There are many techniques in doing hypnosis. The method you prefer depends on your goal and personal preferences. The hypnotherapist can give recommendation for the method that will fit your situation.

Generally, your hypnotherapist will explain the procedure of hypnosis and assess what you need to accomplish. The hypnotherapist usually brings you into hypnosis by speaking in a gentle, subtle and calming tone while describing pictures to build a sense of security, relaxation and well-being.

When you’re in an extreme trance condition, the hypnotherapist will recommend ways in achieving specific goals like minimizing pain or eliminating yearning for cigarettes. The hypnotherapist may also help you in envisioning mental images wherein you see yourself achieving your goals like shooting balls perfectly. When the hypnosis is done, either you will bring yourself out of the state or the hypnotherapist will aid you to stop your trance-like state.

The usual hypnosis session takes around 30 minutes to an hour. You can benefit from a single session or multiple sessions of hypnosis. You can do your normal activity as soon as you end every session.

In contrast to how movies, television or on stage hypnosis, therapeutic hypnosis lets you in control of yourself and your behavior during the session. Even though hypnosis lets you welcome new ideas and situations, it does not compel you to do things involuntarily or behave differently. You are aware of your real self and where you are and recalls what happened during the hypnosis.