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1. This is rather new approach – highly liked the insights to how hypnotherapy can help someone lose weight. Thanks, Hypnotherapy Consulting Hypnotist

2. Before anyone experiences hypnosis and starts
   using it to make wonderful, beneficial changes in their life, this article is
   designed to perhaps to answer a few questions you may have and also to dispel a
   few myths and misconceptions about Hypnosis.

   You know, I still meet people that believe
   that experiencing hypnosis is like being unconscious. I always reply, “What
   would be the point of that? Spending money and time to be unconscious in
   someone else’s company?? If I wanted you to be unconscious we would simply bash
   you over the head!” So it is important that you also know that hypnosis is not
   about being unconscious and that you have the correct expectations about the
   hypnotic experience that you are going to have, should you choose to invest in
   one of our products or experience hypnosis for yourself with a hypnotist.

   In order to understand hypnosis, it is
   important to understand and differentiate between our minds. By that I am
   referring to our conscious mind, where we are now and just below that level of
   awareness is our unconscious mind (also known as the subconscious mind, for the
   purpose of easy understanding they are the same thing).

   The conscious mind is where we usually spend
   most of our waking time, you know that internal dialogue we have that thinks
   “hmmm, what shoes shall I wear today” that is your conscious mind. Your
   conscious mind basically does four things;

   Firstly, your conscious mind analyses. What is
   that? Well that is the part of us that looks at problems, analyses them and
   tries to create solutions to those problems. It is that part of us that makes
   decisions all day every day “shall I open the door?”, “Shall I have something
   to eat”, even though they are automatic behaviours, we make a conscious
   decision about whether or not to do these things.

   The second part of our conscious mind is our
   rationale, the part of us that, especially in western cultures, always has to
   know “Why” things happen and “Why” we behave in particular ways. This can cause
   us so many problems as we give any problems more and more credence and power.
   More conventional and traditional methods of counselling or psychotherapy are
   often very much concerned with looking at causes of our problems and it is my
   opinion that all this does is teaches us “why” they happen as opposed to giving
   us the skills required to changing unwanted habits and behaviours. The more we
   think about “why” we do things the more we seem to embed the unwanted behaviour
   into our psyches!

   The third part of our conscious mind is will
   power, that teeth-gritted determination that so many of us are proud to
   demonstrate. How many times have we used our will power alone to make changes
   and found that our will power weakens and that change is temporary or
   non-existent.

   The final part of our conscious mind is your
   short-term memory. By that I am referring to the things that you need to
   remember to function on a day-to-day basis, so that when your phone rings you
   know to answer it rather than stare at it wondering it is, or ensuring that you
   cross the road without being run over.

   That is the conscious part of your mind, it is
   logical, rational and analytical, a bit like Mr Spock from the Start Trek
   series and as much as it pains me to say it, our conscious mind is frequently
   wrong about things.

   Your conscious mind is wherever you happen to
   be pointing it at any given time. I am sure you have been in a busy, noisy
   environment, such as a restaurant or a bar and have been engaged in a
   conversation with another individual, and all the sounds going on around you
   just seem to blend into the background. Then someone else ten metres away can
   punctuate their sentence with your name and you pick it out as if it was being
   spoken to you. This illustrates that unconsciously, you are aware of many, many
   pieces of information every second of your life, sounds, colours, thoughts etc,
   yet your conscious mind allows you to focus upon what is pertinent or relevant
   to you at that moment.

   If you take that conscious awareness and point
   it inside of yourself instead of outside into the world, you begin to become
   aware of your inner self, your unconscious self, which is the part of you that
   we work with in hypnosis.

   Your unconscious mind is tremendously powerful
   and automates as much behaviour as it possibly can so that we do not have to
   think about it. For example, there was a time in your life when you had to be
   shown how to tie your shoelaces, and you concentrated on doing this. I suspect
   that by this stage in your life you know how tie your shoelaces very well and
   you don’t even think about doing it, you just do it. I have a lonely Auntie who
   as a boy, my mother would ask me to phone on a weekly basis as she thought this
   would make her happy and I vividly remember hearing her lighting up a cigarette
   and heavily exhaling the smoke while on the phone, she didn’t even think about
   what she was doing, she just associated smoking with being on the phone.

   We are amazing learning machines and we learn
   behaviours and habits and then our unconscious mind automates them and does
   them on auto pilot so that we do not have to think about doing them.

   Your unconscious mind has within it all your
   long-term memory. Just about every blade of grass that you have seen in your
   entire lifetime is stored away in your long-term memory that serves as an
   amazing storage centre. These memories affect us in varying ways, some more
   than others. Sometimes our ability to remember them is not as fluid as we need,
   as it is often not necessary to have all our memory in the forefront of our
   minds. For example, right now you are unlikely to be thinking about everything
   that happened to you on your last birthday, however, me just mentioning it, you
   can dig into your unconscious, long-term memory and remember.

   Another example is if you have ever seen a
   live stand up comedy show. You watch the comedian and laugh (or not as the case
   may be!) heartily as you listen to lots and lots of jokes. Then when you leave
   the venue, you can remember none of them, or one or two at best! Then, a week
   later, a friend that you were with can say to you “do you remember such and such
   a joke from last weeks comedian” and you think “oh yeeeaaah!” as you bring that
   information out from your long-term memory. You know that you know the joke, it
   was just not at the forefront of your conscious mind, it was tucked away in the
   deeper unconscious.

   Your unconscious mind knows more about you
   than you consciously that you know. Sound confusing? Well, just think, you are
   currently breathing, your heart is beating (I do hope!) you are digesting, your
   body is regulating its body temperature, it is doing a range of wonderful
   things without you having to consciously think about it. You are not sat around
   thinking “I really must remember to breathe”. We are not machines, there is an
   intelligence within us that knows how to do these things, and it is that
   intelligence that we tap into with hypnosis.

   Your unconscious mind is where you get your
   gut feelings, your instincts and intuition that communicates with you
   sporadically from time to time. Like when sometimes, someone can be saying all
   the right words to you, but you get a different feeling about them.

   Your unconscious mind is a bit like a
   computer. Throughout your entire lifetime it has been programmed with all your
   experiences, relationships, interpretations of the world, influences and all
   this has culminated in your computer functioning with that programming.
   Hypnosis is simply a way of accessing that computer and updating that
   programming so that it becomes instinctive and intuitive for you to make the
   changes that please you.

   Your unconscious mind is the seat of your
   emotions and where your behaviours exist and it is the part of you that we work
   with in hypnosis. Hypnosis is a way of us stepping over your conscious mind and
   accessing the unconscious mind to make powerful and profound changes.

   Now, I am sure that you have experienced
   natural trance states many times before, in fact I know it. For example, when
   you have been driving in a car and thought to yourself “ooh, how did I get
   here?” or when you have been reading a book and you’ve turned the page and
   thought “I have no idea what I have just read, I am going to have to read it
   all again”. I can remember being at school watching my history teacher teach
   me, yet my mind was a million miles away wishing I was doing something else.
   All common experiences, daydream like states that we all experience, many times
   a day. The only difference between these naturally occurring states and those
   that we use in therapeutic hypnosis, is that with the hypnosis, you intend to
   enter the state, you are in control of it and it is just like a slightly
   amplified, deeper version of the state. That is it. Sometimes it is simply like
   sitting in a chair with your eyes closed, not the magical mystical or unusual
   experience that some people are led to believe it is.

   It is important here to know that you cannot
   be made to do anything that you don’t want to do. Very important. I had a guy
   that a doctor referred to me, came to see me and said to me “my doctor told me
   come and see you as I have emphysema and am going to die of it unless I stop
   smoking”. I said to him, well I presume you want to stop, he said “oh, no, I
   love smoking, it is one of few remaining pleasures.” I had to send him away as
   I cannot make him do something that he does not want to. Can you imagine if I
   could do that!! Wow. I could go and see my bank manager and make him give me
   million pounds without returning it! You never read about “Baddy hypnotists”
   making people rob banks or anything else absurd, because it cannot be done.

   People usually then say to me “ok Adam, I hear
   and understand what you are saying and it all makes sense”. However, I have
   seen stage hypnosis and seen people dancing like chickens, are you telling me
   that they want to do that?” I am saying that these people are not being made to
   do things that they don’t want to do.

   When someone buys tickets to a stage hypnosis
   show, they are being permissive to the notion that they are going to see
   hypnosis for entertainment; they expect certain things to happen. Secondly,
   when the stage hypnotist asks the audience “who wants to come on stage” the
   people that agree to do so or put their hands up are saying “yes, I want to be
   hypnotised”, they are not being made to do anything they don’t want to do. The
   stage hypnotist ensures that the individuals on the show are receptive and
   follow a large number of compliance exercises and it begins to create the
   illusion that these people are doing things that they don’t want to do, when
   they are not. The hypnosis can step over the inhibitions of the conscious mind,
   so that the individuals behave with more openness, they just cannot be made to
   do things they don’t want to do.

   Anyone can be hypnotised. I work with
   insomniacs, heroin addicts, schizophrenics, people experiencing chemotherapy,
   these are all people that are often convinced that they cannot relax or cannot
   be hypnotised, and as long as they want to, they all can and they all do.

   All that is required is that you have an open
   mind, that you expect it to work and have progressive, motivated thoughts about
   the processes, follow the sessions and allow them to help you help yourself to
   make the changes you want and deserve.

   Finally, at the beginning of the recorded Hypnosis sessions and/or
   individual NLP or hypnosis sessions with me (I cannot speak for other
   therapists, we all do things differently) individually, you may be asked to do
   a number of different things with your mind and you can be forgiven for
   thinking, “well, he asked me to do this, and now something else, and now
   another thing, what exactly am I supposed to be listening to?” The simple
   answer is that you listen and follow as much or as little as you want to,
   remember that is your conscious mind thinking those thoughts and that is not
   the part of you that we are working with and making the change with. I am sure
   that there will also be times when you’ll be thinking “hmmm… am I in hypnosis,
   what am I supposed to be thinking or feeling.” Again that is your conscious
   mind thinking that thought and does not matter what it is thinking. It can be
   attempting to follow everything that I am saying or just wandering off and
   thinking about whatever you like, just trust that your unconscious mind is
   absorbing all that you want it to.

   There will be times in the sessions when you
   may be asked to imagine things. Imagining things does not have to mean
   visualising. If I ask you to think of a favourite place, you can imagine what
   it would be like, you don’t have to be seeing a picture perfect cinema version
   of it in your mind. You can imagine, sense, think, or just know it without
   seeing it or picturing it in every detail. If I asked you to imagine the sound
   your feet make when you walk across gravel, you know the sound I am talking
   about and you can imagine it, but you are not necessarily hearing it in your
   ears, you can imagine it. That is all you’ll need.

   So, hypnosis is not like being unconscious, it
   is almost like having heightened awareness, it requires you to want the change,
   have an open, positive mind, as best as you can, and allow whatever happens to
   happen, without trying to grasp at what you think should happen, just letting
   it happen.

   I wish you all the very best with whichever
   hypnosis product, or with any consultative sessions you are considering having
   with any qualified therapist or any training you plan to attend and I just know
   that having come this far, you really can do it, and make the changes that you
   want to make with hypnosis. MindRelease.ca Hypnosis London – We Use Hypnosis, NLP and various other Positive Reinforced Coaching Techniques – Hypnosis London Ontario, Hypnosis Ontario More Information  :- http://www.mindrelease.ca

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