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Self hypnosis for control by Steve McKeown MIAPH
Self Hypnosis – So what can you achieve?
The natural phenomenon of self hypnosis and meditation
Meditation and self-hypnosis have a certain similarity. Meditation
has been described as a process of freeing the mind of its normal
clutter to allow creative or supportive thoughts and visualization
to flow in. A person trained and skilled in self-hypnosis can use
such abilities to add power to meditation. Further, using techniques
of self-hypnosis, meditation can be directed rather than merely allowed
to "flow in" at random. Meditation and its powerful impacts
have captured the attention of the world, filling books, videos, lecture
programs, seminars, schools and homes. The world is beginning to discover
the tremendous power of the mind, and to use it. Meditation permits
us to establish communication with our own instincts and intuitions.
Hypnosis adds direction and power. Achieving Your
Potential
Self-esteem and self-confidence are essential to human progress. Self-esteem
is fundamental to friendships, work, love relationships, ambitions
and goals--even health, itself. A person must like, respect and admire
the person he/she sees in the mirror. Self-confidence is necessary
to achievement; however, it requires self-esteem to be effective.
Controlling Your Life
Being able to think and act positively is achieved through an awareness
of being in control. The positive attitudes, which are elements, are
vital factors in the achievement of success. The individual who feels
in control of life, events, emotions and personal progress is relatively
free from problems involving stress, anxiety, fear, inadequacy and
other characteristics of "out-of-control" people.
Self Hypnosis can create or enhance the confidence, assuredness and
sense of personal competence that go with being in control. Self-doubt,
negative imprints from events in childhood, effects of past failures
can be converted to positive, aggressive outlooks and awareness of
control. Self Hypnosis can help implant cues to reinforce suggestions
of power and strength, resulting in the complete turnaround of lives
and fortunes. Make Learning Easier
Poor study habits, poor memory, absence of reward, effects of medicines
and drugs, and fear--these are the elements that adversely affect
learning, resulting in poor comprehension slow progress and low grades.
Hypnosis can help reduce or eliminate problems in any or all of these
areas. Study habits, including time management, can be improved through
hypnotic suggestion. Retention of words, ideas and concepts can be
enhanced along with overall functions of memory. Hypnosis can stimulate
the desire to learn, to progress, and to achieve one's full potential.
In the utilization of hypnotherapy for learning improvement, self-hypnosis
skills can be acquired, which will provide lifetime benefits useful
in achieving goals in the future. Success in Sales
The highest career incomes are found in professional sales. Yet job
hunters avoid sales positions, particularly commission sales. Why?
Such positions involve contacts and communications; these are areas
which, for success, persistence and the ability to view rejection
as progress is essential. All of these characteristics can be developed
or enhanced through hypnosis. Attitude modification is the doorway
to success.
The shy or sensitive person can acquire an essential attitude: the
viewpoint which regards potential customers as friends needing to
be helped by whatever product or service is offered. The experience
of rejection can be viewed, as is the practice of most successful
sales people, as a progressive step toward the inevitable achievement
of a closed sale. Hypnosis can provide a means to maintain the enthusiasm
required for success in sales. Career Advancement
Stalled out? Stuck in your job? Being passed over for advancement?
Insecure employment situations create stress. So does failure to advance
or move forward in your work. What can self hypnosis do to help? First,
motivation is vital. You won't advance unless you really want to.
Self Hypnosis can stimulate motivation, fire you up to meet and welcome
challenges.
But self hypnosis can also help you develop assertiveness, confidence
and leadership. Self Hypnosis can help you become comfortable at meetings,
speaking up and expressing your ideas, it can help you learn new skills,
techniques, procedures necessary to perform in advanced positions;
it can help you develop the communication abilities so vital to supervision.
Doors will open; opportunities will develop. And you will be ready,
willing and able to fill the needs. Improve Athletic
Performance
In 1980, tests of world class Russian athletes showed that mental
training was far more productive of improvement than physical training!
Electro-physiological testing had indicated the dramatic value of
mental imaging as early as 1932.
Hypnosis cannot make unskilled people into champions, but it can generate
performance at or near "personal best" levels.
Self Hypnosis to improve athletic performance deals with four categories:
goal setting, relaxation, concentration and rehearsal. Goals need
to be written down; relaxation relieves tension; concentration removes
distractions; mental rehearsing has proved more productive than physical
practice. Olympic athletes use it often with superb results. Mental
processes do not remove the need for physical training and practice,
but can maximize productive results. Your Memory
Is Great!
Where did you put your keys, your watch, your notes, the item you
had in your hand just moments ago… or maybe last week? What
was the funny story your friend told you - it was great and you want
to share it. What were you supposed to bring home from the store?
Who were the people you met at the party?
Your mind has gone blank. The harder you try to remember, the more
forgetful you feel. You get mad at yourself but you don't need to.
Every event or experience of your life is engraved in your subconscious
mind. Through hypnosis you can become able to recall short-term memory,
and if desired re-experience long-term memories and you can do it
all by yourself. The memories are there. You can learn to Access them.
It really boosts self-confidence. Emotions and Reactions
When anger consumes you, anger controls you. Words spoken in anger
usually are regretted. Actions prompted by anger likely will prove
to be ill advised. The same applies to bitterness, jealousy, guilt,
and desires for revenge. Emotions and reactions cloud issues, obscure
causing-factors, destroy wisdom and judgment. Out of control emotions
compound problems. Self hypnosis is a highly effective means of recapturing
lost emotional control and in the process avoiding further complications,
achieving mental balance and assuming control of the problem situation.
Learning self-hypnosis can enable you to recognize and deal with emotional
distress at the onset, which is of course a major factor in maintaining
control in relationships. Managing Pain
Most Hypnotherapist work with pain problems primarily in conjunction
with appropriate healing arts professionals. This is because pain
often is a symptom of a problem rather than the problem itself. A
headache might be migraine; it also might be a brain tumor. A medical
diagnosis is important.
However, properly used, self-hypnosis can reduce pain, alleviate anxiety,
remove fears of dentistry or surgery, eliminate or reduce the need
for injections or other applications of chemical anesthesia promote
comfort and healing and expedite recovery. It is becoming more common
in dentistry, obstetrics, burn treatment and emergency room trauma.
In accomplishing the above, it is evident that hypnotherapy can prove
dramatically effective in dealing with medically-related stress situations.
Dealing with Relationships
All human beings are involved in relationships, often several simultaneously.
Whether such involves child-parent, husband-wife, employer-employee,
teacher-student, lover-lover, friend-friend or individual-group, relationships
can and do develop problems, misunderstandings, differences, changes
of feelings or other disturbing elements.
Relationship problems can affect home life, work, education, health,
attitude, motivation, even the desire to live. Symptoms may include
anger, sadness, hurt, loss of self-esteem, depression and even violence.
Self-hypnosis can ferret out the causes of such problems bring the
healing power of understanding. Self hypnosis can eliminate feelings
of rejection, hurts, frustration and resentments. Communication can
be re-established, confidence restored and creative solutions developed.
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