Top Eight and a Half Myths about Hypnosis

1. The hypnotist will have control over me. / That vampires have magic powers because they hypnotize there victimsThis is a common stereotype that all hypnotherapists have been working very hard to eliminate. We educate the public about the exact uses and benefits of using hypnosis for personal change.

2. The hypnotist will make me bark like a dog when I answer my front door on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Well that all depends on your motivation... If you want to be able to do this because it pleases you and brings you some type of reward there is a good chance a hypnotist could accomplish the task of assisting you in reacting in this way.

However if this type of behavior is going to cause you harm...such as embarrassment, you are not going to be at all motivated to follow through with the suggestions given so that negates this type of myth.

3. I can't be hypnotized.Hypnosis is a natural normal state of consciousness. You pass through this state each time you experience a normal sleep cycle. During this time you are open to receiving suggestions.

A Clinical Hypnotherapist is fully trained in how to work with any resistance you may have about letting yourself get into a trace state. Barring those with sleep disorders. This is why hypnosis works so well with those who have bouts of insomnia. By regulating the sleep cycle with hypnosis your mind can increase the amount of time your body spends in theta and delta states and is known to increase regular sleeping patterns.

4. What if I get stuck in hypnosis? If you are sleep deprived at any given time when you do a session the only thing that will happen is that you will drift off to a normal sleep state. You will wake when your are either prompted by an alarm or your are done sleeping, just like your body always does.

5. I will not have any memory of my hypnotic experience.Depending upon how much sleep you have had, and weather or not you have been given suggestions to remember the experience will determine weather or you may remember every detail of a session. If you drift into a deeper state of sleep you will not have a conscious awareness of what suggestions you were given during a session.

I always recommend that you listen to a session while fully rested and you do not follow the suggestions to close your eyes and relax in order to hear exactly every detail of the session. This also helps you cary out prompts during the full waking state .....such as

...when you sit down to begin to take the test you take a deep breath and bring your forefinger and thumb together and close your eyes and say your key words BE HERE NOW ...this allows your mind to feel the same sense and peace and relaxation you feel in this moment. You send this wave of relaxation throughout your entire body while sitting in the chair at the testing site. Your focus is complete. Say to yourself I am totally relaxed, confident, and in control of answering all questions correctly according to the given knowledge that I acquired during my study session.......

6. I need to stare at a stop watch to get into a hypnotic trance. This is just one example an induction technique that helps the subject to focus on something in order to let the conscious mind wind down and relax. Just reading a good book will put you into a hypnotic state where you are open to suggestions.

7. I have been in the military and am very strong minded and so I can't be hypnotized / That our government doesn't know anything about using hypnosis to further their own agenda..Most military personnel are the easiest people to hypnotize because they have been hypnotized so much during training to perform as a unit. They drill sergeants' uses what is known as the Shock Induction. It gets attention and focus very quickly and efficiently.

8. That the television is not a hypnosis box. .

The people in charge of programming at television and news stations would never use hypnosis to motivate viewers to think in certain ways. I wish. Ahh if we lived in a perfect world!!! This is why advertising a commercial cost millions and billions of dollars each year, because ummm...hypnosis works!

8 1/2. It's a snap to make changes as soon as you have been hypnotized once. It's like a magic pill that makes you act in certain ways.

This is a half truth not a flat out myth. Most people need continual reinforcement that is why listening to your session consistently is so stressed by every hypnotist in town.

Hypnosis for change is very effective when you continually water the seeds planted into your subconscious mind during sessions. As your new thoughts become acted upon in full waking consciousness they become beliefs and beliefs eventually become a part of your personality.

It is important to understand that you are changing ingrained ways of being with in your mind when you use hypnosis. Your mind gets into a grove with something it may take a while for the new grove to become automatic. An illustration of this is a wheel barrel in the path way towards the garden, once that front wheel is in the ingrained pathway it is easier for that wheel to stay on that pathway.

A good Hypnosis session is like a jolt it would take to get the wheel out of that ingrained pathway. Once that wheel is off that pathway, it must go over the same pathway a number of times, before the wheel sits comfortably in, is in place. So by listening over and over you are creating that pathway. Over time it becomes normal part of your mind.
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