Understanding that your subconscious mind can be an incredible tool that is very powerful and when utilized correctly and completely can go a long way in helping you accomplish your goals.
Your subconscious mind generates most of your behaviour based on the messages that you send to it. The problem is that most of time these messages are negative and work against you. This is why often times, things do not end in success regardless of your outward efforts.
Two powerful forces that can help you achieve your goals desire and belief. Before you can achieve any goal, you must have a strong desire for it. You need to really want to achieve it for yourself and not to just please someone else. So if you want to quit smoking, for example, you need to want to do so for yourself, not just because someone is on your back telling you that you need to quit.
Once you’re genuine desire for a goal is established, then you must truly believe that you can achieve it. It doesn’t matter how much you want to achieve something, if deep down you believe that you’ll fail, then you probably will.
Keep in mind, that all of your beliefs and thoughts are sent continuously to your subconscious mind.
This means that you need to keep your thoughts and beliefs in mind since they directly influence your success. If you do not think you can meet your goals, then you won't. It’s hard to achieve any goal if you don’t believe that what you want is actually attainable. For example, if you’re trying to lose weight and change your eating habits, you need to actually believe that you can do it. If you are always worried about not being able to resist the temptation of unhealthy foods, then you never will.
Why is this? Simple. Your subconscious mind constantly seizes the information that you send to it to create your behaviour, and if you send negative information or messages then you will get negative results.
It’s critical to assess your motives and thoughts on an ongoing basis and compare them to the actions that you are taking towards reaching your target. If something is not working for you, then modify it. Most importantly, be flexible and make changes where needed. You need to continuously, fine tune your attitude towards your goal, be mindful of your actions and keep it a priority.
Anytime you accomplish any goal you set, take a moment and enjoy the pleasure and satisfaction of meeting that goal. Success is success whether it is great or small. It is the start of the life that you always wanted.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Sunday, March 28, 2010
How To Choose A Good Hypnotherapist
With the proliferation of exaggerated ideas about hypnotism because of what they see in movies or stage shows, people often fret going to a hypnotist even if it offers excellent treatment for various psychological problems. From stress reduction to weight loss problems, undergoing hypnotism has been proven to help people do more than change their bad behaviors for a day. As a matter of fact, hypnosis changes the way you think and even helps you make permanent changes to last your lifetime.
Although many prefer self-hypnosis for their treatment, there is a growing number of people who prefer to work with a professional hypnotherapist even if it’s only at the beginning of their treatment.
So what should you look for before choosing a hypnosis specialist or hypnotherapist? I would say aside from looking at his credentials, you should go with your gut feel.
Moreover, aside from a good reputation which should come from testimonials or referrals from people you know, you might want to ask some questions about where the hypnotist learned hypnosis. It is important for you to ascertain if your hypnotist went to a reputable hypnosis school and not some shady university on the Internet which more often than not only gives out a fake degree. Did he have a mentor train them in hypnosis or did he just read off from books? Find out as much as you can to improve your level of comfort with the hypnotist’s competency.
You should also give the hypnotist’s office a visit prior to booking a session. Get a feel of the office and the people who work there. You should at least be greeted in a friendly manner upon coming in and be treated with the utmost respect during your visit.
A professional hypnotist or hypnotherapist will go to great lengths to make you feel comfortable by spending some time asking you questions and answering yours. They are expected to try to get to know you on a personal level and to explain their processes to your satisfaction. Don’t go through a session if you feel even the littlest bit uneasy about the hypnotist. It’s okay to say no and try self hypnosis instead, where the person doing it is somebody you know you can – you!
Although many prefer self-hypnosis for their treatment, there is a growing number of people who prefer to work with a professional hypnotherapist even if it’s only at the beginning of their treatment.
So what should you look for before choosing a hypnosis specialist or hypnotherapist? I would say aside from looking at his credentials, you should go with your gut feel.
Moreover, aside from a good reputation which should come from testimonials or referrals from people you know, you might want to ask some questions about where the hypnotist learned hypnosis. It is important for you to ascertain if your hypnotist went to a reputable hypnosis school and not some shady university on the Internet which more often than not only gives out a fake degree. Did he have a mentor train them in hypnosis or did he just read off from books? Find out as much as you can to improve your level of comfort with the hypnotist’s competency.
You should also give the hypnotist’s office a visit prior to booking a session. Get a feel of the office and the people who work there. You should at least be greeted in a friendly manner upon coming in and be treated with the utmost respect during your visit.
A professional hypnotist or hypnotherapist will go to great lengths to make you feel comfortable by spending some time asking you questions and answering yours. They are expected to try to get to know you on a personal level and to explain their processes to your satisfaction. Don’t go through a session if you feel even the littlest bit uneasy about the hypnotist. It’s okay to say no and try self hypnosis instead, where the person doing it is somebody you know you can – you!
Friday, March 19, 2010
Your Brain In Hypnosis
“The brains of the whole operation”, “The brain behind the brawn”, or simply, “The brain”, are just a few of the allusions used to refer to somebody who controls everyone else, somebody who makes everyone do what they are expected to do or perform their functions the way they should. In essence, the human brain is really like that. In hypnosis it even has a “life of its own”.
Anatomically, the brain is nothing more but a glob of gray matter divided into the medulla oblongata, the cerebellum, and the cerebrum. The medulla oblongata controls the body’s automatic functions, like making our heart beat, while the cerebellum controls our movement and coordination as well as our nervous system. On the other hand, the cerebrum does all higher level thinking.
To the non-scientifically inclined layman, there are just two sections of the brain, the right half and the left half. To a hypnotherapist, the brain, in particular the thinking part of it or the cerebrum is further divided into our conscious mind and our subconscious mind.
The conscious mind is that part that is mentally aware and consciously thinking about whatever is going on in front of us. The subconscious mind is the repository of neural pathways, memories and thoughts that are recorded and catalogued randomly.
Our subconscious mind records every activity as it happens to us, whether we are conscious of the activity as having happened or not. This is why we have a vague recollection or impressions about activities or attitudes about tasks that we don’t remember doing or cannot explain the reason for.
Our conscious mind is what we use each and every waking moment to make decisions. But behind it is our subconscious mind, advising it on all decisions, and pulling on past habits and patterns to influence those decisions. As a matter of fact, we can often see some of what our subconscious mind is “thinking” through our dreams, which is when our brain is organizing the randomly stored memories and thoughts.
While all memories and thoughts are being recorded, some get lost in the shuffle of neural pathways. This is where professional hypnosis, or even self-hypnosis, can be used to exert some control over what our subconscious mind is thinking, as well as cause the reorganization of the shuffled neural pathways.
Hypnosis can also be used to remove some negative thought patterns and habits embedded deep in our subconscious mind.
While meditation is often associated with hypnosis, they are actually very different from each other although both tap the subconscious mind. This has been proven by studies done where brain activity during hypnosis and meditation were measured through brain scans such as EKGs.
The difference lies in the desired effect, where meditation aims to bring about relaxation and introspection while hypnosis seeks to achieve a specific goal by entering the hypnotic state and using the power of suggestion.
Anatomically, the brain is nothing more but a glob of gray matter divided into the medulla oblongata, the cerebellum, and the cerebrum. The medulla oblongata controls the body’s automatic functions, like making our heart beat, while the cerebellum controls our movement and coordination as well as our nervous system. On the other hand, the cerebrum does all higher level thinking.
To the non-scientifically inclined layman, there are just two sections of the brain, the right half and the left half. To a hypnotherapist, the brain, in particular the thinking part of it or the cerebrum is further divided into our conscious mind and our subconscious mind.
The conscious mind is that part that is mentally aware and consciously thinking about whatever is going on in front of us. The subconscious mind is the repository of neural pathways, memories and thoughts that are recorded and catalogued randomly.
Our subconscious mind records every activity as it happens to us, whether we are conscious of the activity as having happened or not. This is why we have a vague recollection or impressions about activities or attitudes about tasks that we don’t remember doing or cannot explain the reason for.
Our conscious mind is what we use each and every waking moment to make decisions. But behind it is our subconscious mind, advising it on all decisions, and pulling on past habits and patterns to influence those decisions. As a matter of fact, we can often see some of what our subconscious mind is “thinking” through our dreams, which is when our brain is organizing the randomly stored memories and thoughts.
While all memories and thoughts are being recorded, some get lost in the shuffle of neural pathways. This is where professional hypnosis, or even self-hypnosis, can be used to exert some control over what our subconscious mind is thinking, as well as cause the reorganization of the shuffled neural pathways.
Hypnosis can also be used to remove some negative thought patterns and habits embedded deep in our subconscious mind.
While meditation is often associated with hypnosis, they are actually very different from each other although both tap the subconscious mind. This has been proven by studies done where brain activity during hypnosis and meditation were measured through brain scans such as EKGs.
The difference lies in the desired effect, where meditation aims to bring about relaxation and introspection while hypnosis seeks to achieve a specific goal by entering the hypnotic state and using the power of suggestion.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Self Confidence Hypnosis - What Can It Do For You?
A person who has experienced some measure of success in life may balk at the idea of self confidence hypnosis. If one is quite comfortable with his own abilities, then why rock the boat, so to speak. This belief may exactly be the reason for that person to take a second look at himself.
As actively promoted by its proponents, self confidence hypnosis may be helpful to those who have fears in these common scenarios: public speaking, socializing with people or going to job interviews. Immediately, a person who may be intrigued by hypnosis but don't believe that he has self confidence issues may be convinced that he has no use for it. The fact is, self confidence hypnosis is not just limited to overcoming anxiety in speaking to large crowds.
Self confidence, as distinguished from self-esteem, is the belief in one's ability or capacity to do something. To put it in another way, even if one has confidence in one thing, it does not necessarily follow that he has confidence in all things. A person who has no qualms in selling his new idea in the boardroom or in persuading his case to a hostile jury may doubt himself when it comes to haggling for the best price in buying a car or in any other situation that he is not usually accustomed to be in. After all, Nobody is perfect in every single area in his life; although it might not be crippling the person outright, he may do better if he opens to the possibilities of what self confidence hypnosis can do to him.
Most people also have past experiences that could have shaken their confidence at some point. This could be an embarrassing situation in school, a major gaffe in their first job or a car accident caused by his negligence. Others may have had painful childhood traumas such as being told they were not beautiful or capable enough or that they should not even try something because they would only fail at it. Self-professed confident people may proudly say that they have gotten over these things by shrugging them off or pushing them out of their minds. However, while they may have had pushed them out of their conscious minds these are still very much taking residence in their subconscious minds. These beliefs would then, unbeknownst to them, rear its ugly head in the way they make decisions or behave. The only way they can take control of these negative beliefs is to extract them out of their subconscious mind and have it replaced by positive ideas. Self confidence hypnosis can certainly address this type of issue.
Another example of one's confidence being shaken are those times when life throws him a curve ball and he is put into a situation that he needs to adjust to, but may not know exactly how. It may be during the period when one is laid off, for instance, or when one needs to relocate to a new and unfamiliar place or country or in any situation when one is taken out of his comfort zone. Some may cope easily; others, although confident in other areas, may find these changes daunting.
Lastly, there are those milestones in life that most people go through. This can be a marriage, divorce, birth of a child or loss of loved ones. Major adjustments may be needed to go through these milestones and many often find themselves at a loss on how to proceed and would start to second-guess themselves. They may be pleased to find that there is such a thing as self confidence hypnosis that can help them sail through all these changes.
As actively promoted by its proponents, self confidence hypnosis may be helpful to those who have fears in these common scenarios: public speaking, socializing with people or going to job interviews. Immediately, a person who may be intrigued by hypnosis but don't believe that he has self confidence issues may be convinced that he has no use for it. The fact is, self confidence hypnosis is not just limited to overcoming anxiety in speaking to large crowds.
Self confidence, as distinguished from self-esteem, is the belief in one's ability or capacity to do something. To put it in another way, even if one has confidence in one thing, it does not necessarily follow that he has confidence in all things. A person who has no qualms in selling his new idea in the boardroom or in persuading his case to a hostile jury may doubt himself when it comes to haggling for the best price in buying a car or in any other situation that he is not usually accustomed to be in. After all, Nobody is perfect in every single area in his life; although it might not be crippling the person outright, he may do better if he opens to the possibilities of what self confidence hypnosis can do to him.
Most people also have past experiences that could have shaken their confidence at some point. This could be an embarrassing situation in school, a major gaffe in their first job or a car accident caused by his negligence. Others may have had painful childhood traumas such as being told they were not beautiful or capable enough or that they should not even try something because they would only fail at it. Self-professed confident people may proudly say that they have gotten over these things by shrugging them off or pushing them out of their minds. However, while they may have had pushed them out of their conscious minds these are still very much taking residence in their subconscious minds. These beliefs would then, unbeknownst to them, rear its ugly head in the way they make decisions or behave. The only way they can take control of these negative beliefs is to extract them out of their subconscious mind and have it replaced by positive ideas. Self confidence hypnosis can certainly address this type of issue.
Another example of one's confidence being shaken are those times when life throws him a curve ball and he is put into a situation that he needs to adjust to, but may not know exactly how. It may be during the period when one is laid off, for instance, or when one needs to relocate to a new and unfamiliar place or country or in any situation when one is taken out of his comfort zone. Some may cope easily; others, although confident in other areas, may find these changes daunting.
Lastly, there are those milestones in life that most people go through. This can be a marriage, divorce, birth of a child or loss of loved ones. Major adjustments may be needed to go through these milestones and many often find themselves at a loss on how to proceed and would start to second-guess themselves. They may be pleased to find that there is such a thing as self confidence hypnosis that can help them sail through all these changes.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Using Anchors To Recreate A Positive Resource State
What if I knew a way you could do something really incredible, just by performing a very simple action? Put down those nasty chocolates and those sissy “comfort foods” that are only comfort in that they give you a big pillow around your waist, and listen up. How would you like to feel genuinely good, and lift your spirits up to a point where you feel like you’re worth a lot, no matter how depressed you may get, just by squeezing your thumb against your forefinger? It’s not that hard, and you don’t have to be Harry Potter to do it. Matter of fact, there’s no magic involved whatsoever.
All you have to do is think of a situation in which you had a really great, enjoyable experience. Get really vivid with it, imagine every detail, and really revive the whole situation – see what you saw, feel what you felt, and hear what you heard. If you can recall and bring back smelling what you did in that moment, and even the taste you had, that’s even better – when it comes to vivid sensory experiences, the more the merrier. As you feel those sensations rising through you, gently squeeze your thumb and your forefinger together on your left hand for a few moments, then release them.
What you’ve done is entered a ‘state.’ Now, ‘break your state’ by remembering what you ate for breakfast yesterday. Squeeze your thumb and forefinger together again, and gently pulse them, to bring back your ‘state’ of joy.
This process is known as ‘anchoring with NLP.’ When you engage in an experience and make it wonderfully vivid in your mind (using ALL five of your senses), you can recall an experience with every fiber of your being, and then anchor it to a physical action you can do right now. When you activate your NLP anchor the first few times, make the effort to recall that situation, as a method of reinforcing this programming.
The use of thumb and forefinger is called a tactile anchor, meaning that using some kind of touch lets you gain access to the states and/or resources you want whenever you want them.
All you have to do is think of a situation in which you had a really great, enjoyable experience. Get really vivid with it, imagine every detail, and really revive the whole situation – see what you saw, feel what you felt, and hear what you heard. If you can recall and bring back smelling what you did in that moment, and even the taste you had, that’s even better – when it comes to vivid sensory experiences, the more the merrier. As you feel those sensations rising through you, gently squeeze your thumb and your forefinger together on your left hand for a few moments, then release them.
What you’ve done is entered a ‘state.’ Now, ‘break your state’ by remembering what you ate for breakfast yesterday. Squeeze your thumb and forefinger together again, and gently pulse them, to bring back your ‘state’ of joy.
This process is known as ‘anchoring with NLP.’ When you engage in an experience and make it wonderfully vivid in your mind (using ALL five of your senses), you can recall an experience with every fiber of your being, and then anchor it to a physical action you can do right now. When you activate your NLP anchor the first few times, make the effort to recall that situation, as a method of reinforcing this programming.
The use of thumb and forefinger is called a tactile anchor, meaning that using some kind of touch lets you gain access to the states and/or resources you want whenever you want them.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Hypnosis For Anxiety
Anxiety, a more socially acceptable way of saying fear, can range in intensity from a reasonably mild case of stage fright, all the way up to a full blown panic attack. We all feel fear – but for some people, certain activities and places tend to cause such a high level of tension that the person can’t even function properly. The ultimate expression of a fear is an outright panic attack. With too much stress, these people may not be able to hold a job, go out in public, shop, drive or do many other activities that are considered common and crucial to a normal and healthy life.
Many physical problems can have their root cause in an anxiety disorder. “Stress” can cause heart disease, excessively high blood pressure, strokes, muscle ache, fibromyalgia, and many other conditions which can reach life threatening stages. Stress is just fear, after all, and fear is designed to put us into a fight or flight state of being. However, remaining within this fight or flight state is not healthy in the least – especially when the danger we feel is not genuine. When someone is having a panic attack or is terrified to the point where they can’t function, even if they aren’t in mortal danger, if their body believes the danger is life threatening it will respond accordingly.
There is nothing new about anxiety, as there is nothing new about fear. Even the recognition that fear-based issues exist has been known for centuries. Many people, often women, have been diagnosed with such issues. In the past, it was often labeled “hysteria” and the treatment was a number of different medications, including alcohol… not so much a cure as a panacea. In nearly every case, if one looks at the afflicted individual’s life, there was an incident or particular time period in that life where such trauma occurred that the episode caused them to experience severe fear whenever they became exposed to anything reminding them of that incident or time period.
While there are drugs which can force a person to appear to be better, the most effective means to alleviate the symptoms is to work on healing the internal strife which causes them. Hypnosis, performed by a trained professional, can help to ease the underlying fear and suffering.
Aside from that hypnosis will also help you to relax more. In fact, regular sessions, whether you use a recording or visit a hypnotherapist, will help to train your mind and body to activate your “relaxation response” more often. And it won’t be long before you’ll be feeling calmer and more at ease on a regular basis.
Many physical problems can have their root cause in an anxiety disorder. “Stress” can cause heart disease, excessively high blood pressure, strokes, muscle ache, fibromyalgia, and many other conditions which can reach life threatening stages. Stress is just fear, after all, and fear is designed to put us into a fight or flight state of being. However, remaining within this fight or flight state is not healthy in the least – especially when the danger we feel is not genuine. When someone is having a panic attack or is terrified to the point where they can’t function, even if they aren’t in mortal danger, if their body believes the danger is life threatening it will respond accordingly.
There is nothing new about anxiety, as there is nothing new about fear. Even the recognition that fear-based issues exist has been known for centuries. Many people, often women, have been diagnosed with such issues. In the past, it was often labeled “hysteria” and the treatment was a number of different medications, including alcohol… not so much a cure as a panacea. In nearly every case, if one looks at the afflicted individual’s life, there was an incident or particular time period in that life where such trauma occurred that the episode caused them to experience severe fear whenever they became exposed to anything reminding them of that incident or time period.
While there are drugs which can force a person to appear to be better, the most effective means to alleviate the symptoms is to work on healing the internal strife which causes them. Hypnosis, performed by a trained professional, can help to ease the underlying fear and suffering.
Aside from that hypnosis will also help you to relax more. In fact, regular sessions, whether you use a recording or visit a hypnotherapist, will help to train your mind and body to activate your “relaxation response” more often. And it won’t be long before you’ll be feeling calmer and more at ease on a regular basis.
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