HYPNOTHERAPY SERVICES: HYPNOSIS WITH JEFF

Authorized Psych-K Facilitator

This page explains the basics of the hypno-theraputic process, relating to how hypnosis can work for you and why.

How It Works

The fact that you are reading this at all suggests that you at least have some accurate perceptions about hypnosis. However, I am aware that you could still have lingering thoughts of things like Bela Lugosi and those “bats in his eyes.” Since the biggest thing that will prevent a person from going into hypnosis is fear, and fear is often the result of a lack of knowledge, I would like to spend just a few minutes explaining to you a little about the hypnotheraputic process.

 

First I’d like to ask you whether you have ever been hypnotized before—at least, to your knowledge? Regardless of your answer, I’m willing to bet that you have. In fact, you have probably been in hypnosis thousands of times and didn’t even know it.

 

You see, anyone of average or above average intelligence goes into hypnosis spontaneously a dozen or more times each week. I’ll bet you didn’t know that? For someone of diminished intelligence it may be a bit more difficult, but since you are on the web reading, this should be a piece of cake, for you!

 

If that is so, then what is hypnosis? Briefly defined hypnosis is “any time you bypass your analytical mind and implement selective thinking.” What on earth does that mean? Well, let’s look at it.

 

Your analytical mind is the part of your individual mind that is rational, analytical, logical, task oriented; the part of your mind that does math problems, for example; it is the seat of your willpower. Many theorists suggest that this portion represents about 10% of the total of the individual mind. The analytical mind is also often referred to as the conscious mind.

 

The analytical mind is complemented by the subconscious, which theorists suggest represent about 90% of the individual mind. This part of us is the creative, perceptive, imaginative child-within-us, where the feelings, emotions and habits live. This is also where a very long-term memory is stored.

 

So, by definition, anytime you bypass the logical, rational, task oriented conscious mind and enter selective thinking (part of the subconscious domain) you are in hypnosis.

 

Have you ever been driving somewhere and got thinking about something else or started daydreaming and just driven past your turn? If you have ever done that or anything like that—you were in hypnosis. A light level, maybe, but at the moment you did something like that you had bypassed that analytical part of your mind and implemented selective thinking. After all, that task-oriented part of you would never have allowed you to miss a turn, would it? It would have been reminding you “it’s about time to turn now,” wouldn’t it have?

 

If you have children you can relate to this one, or maybe you can recall this happening to you when you were a child. As a parent, have you ever had a child sitting in front of the TV and you called them only to get no response—the child just stares straight ahead. You call again, and still nothing. Well, that child was in hypnosis.

 

How about this? Have you ever sat down with, say, a cup of coffee or whatever, and just zoned out? If you have ever done that, you were in hypnosis.

 

And, I’ll bet while you were in hypnosis you didn’t quack like a duck, did you? I’ll bet you didn’t dance with an imaginary partner, either, did you? I’ll bet you didn’t rob a bank, or see bats in your eyes, either.

 

So, then how does that work with the stage hypnotist? How do they get those people up on the stage to do those strange things? If you have ever seen a stage hypnotists’ show the first thing you’ll notice is that the hypnotist always asks for volunteers. So, those people on the stage with the hypnotist are all volunteers. They want to be there. They are doing those crazy things because they are choosing to. They have chosen to be a part of the entertainment—even though it may make them look silly. In fact, those people may well be enjoying the show more than you are because they are a part of it.

 

And that same person who is up on the stage quacking like a duck could come to see me the next day and if I tell them to quack like a duck they won’t do it. Do you know why? Because the subconscious mind has the ability to reject any suggestion that it sees as unacceptable.

 

So, in hypnosis you cannot be made to do anything you don’t want to do.

 

In hypnosis you cannot be made to say anything you do not want to say. In fact, you can lie under hypnosis just as easily as you can lie while not in hypnosis.

 

So, with all of that having been said, rest assured that everything we do together in your session is being done with your best interest in heart. And, as long as you really want to accomplish your goal, then I am able to help you.

 

Just one other brief point: Therapy is a process, not an event for most people. Scientific studies have suggested that for hypnotic suggestions to be more durable it is best when they are compounded, both within the session as well as over a series of sessions. Studies further indicate that there is a dramatic increase in durability of suggestions with two sessions over one session, and that increases just as dramatically with three sessions over two. But, for most subjects the increase in durability is much more subtle when you compound over more than three sessions.

 

For those reasons, it is recommended, for most therapies, that three sessions is the most advantageous way for you to achieve your goal—on the long term. Whereas some people will completely achieve success with one session, scientific studies do not support that as being the norm.

 

I will be happy to consult with you regarding your goal, and advise you on the best route to reaching it.

HYPNOTHERAPY SERVICES: HYPNOSIS WITH JEFF