Your Hypnosis Experience
- By Rachel Ford
- In Articles / Hypnotherapy
If you were given an option to improve or change anything in your life right now, what would it be? When you think you can, you will. On the other hand, when you think you can’t, you won’t. That is the essence of what I am saying to you.
Telling yourself that you are bound to fail even before you have started is willing yourself to fail. Conditioning your mind to think that all your efforts will be for naught will make it very hard for you to succeed at anything. Fortunately, this is where hypnosis may be able to help you.
Hypnostherapy and self-hypnosis, is a powerful tool to counteract the “negativity” that your brain has been so accustomed to. Once you are able to control your thoughts, you can begin the process of “willing” yourself to improve and be the better you.
For example, if you want to lose weight you must first try to find out what causes you to overeat in the first place. Ask yourself if you have unresolved emotional issues that is causing you to turn to food to fill that “void” you have inside of you. When you have identified the real issues, it is easier for hypnosis to be of use to you.
Another typical problem that hypnosis can help with is “passive dysfunction”. It is when you know that there is something wrong with your habits or with your life in general, but you are not too eager to do anything about it. This occurs because you are letting your subconscious get in the way of change.
Using hypnosis, whether through a professional or by yourself, start by probing when the problem started, what causes or triggers the behavior and how the behavior supposedly makes you feel.
Finding out the cause of the unwanted behavior can help you or the hypnotist create suggestions or prescriptions to your subconscious mind to deal with the problem head on and open yourself up to change. Hypnosis will only work if you are treating the real reason for the problem and not just the symptoms.