The Power of Hypnosis
Hypnosis is a powerful medical tool. Mayo Clinic devotes an area to the use of hypnosis. The primary reason is that it works. Of course, placebos also work.
Relief From Pain Without Chemicals
Modern doctors are looking at the danger of addiction and overdose when they use drugs as a form of pain control and turning to other than mainstream methods.
Pain Relief Using Hypnosis
Modern doctors are looking at the danger of addiction and overdose when they use drugs as a form of pain control and turning to other than mainstream methods. For many years, hypnosis was part of the birthing process for women that didn’t want to experience pain, wanted to remain alert and didn’t want the risk that a spinal block posed. They practiced hypnosis for several months during their pregnancy and when the time came for delivery, the hypnotherapist, often a nurse with a specialist degree, accompanied the women into the labor room. The therapist guides the soon-to-be mother into a blissful hypnotic state so she remained aware of the process and participates in the birth, but there is no pain during the process.
The achievement of pain control comes through the use other methods of mind control. The image of yogis sleeping on a bed of spikes springs forth in the mind when one mentions yoga and pain control. Since pain is a function of the brain and central nervous system, it only makes sense that those trained enough to lower their heart rate to a point of stopping and remain in a trance like state for hours, could easily interrupt the message to and from the brain indicating pain.
Pain is an indicator of the mind that there’s a problem that needs attention. It serves an important function for the body and alerts you to areas needing attention. Some pain, however, continues even though the person can do nothing about the situation. In these cases, finding a way to relieve the pain and interrupt the signal is important. It allows the patient to continue to function even when pain might otherwise incapacitate them. More physicians today find that pain management is easier using alternatives like hypnosis, rather than the use of drugs. Frequently those taking pain medication must continually increase dosages to receive the same relief that the medication originally gave. Often the medications interfere with the normal functioning of the person in pain. Occasionally the drowsiness it creates is as incapacitating as the pain originally was.
Experiments with using hypnotism in the healing process also may prove beneficial. There are two different techniques for healing. In one case, the subject is hypnotized and then the hypnotist relays a visual picture of healing to the subject. The hypnotized patients body responds to the vision placed in the mind of the patient. In the second instance, no verbal command is given or suggestion imparted. The practitioner of hypnotism simply focuses on healing the person and making mental contact with the body and mind. The mental suggestion given stimulates the body to heal. Studies done on healers that use this technique show increased activity in parts of the brain that normally remain dormant.
Further studies into the area of pain management and healing may prove to change the way doctors work with their patients. Imagine the sufferer of chronic back pain suddenly relieved after a few sessions of hypnotherapy. Consider the amount of money saved by individuals and health insurance companies if these non-invasive, chemical free methods were mainstream techniques and available to all people in pain.
Conrad Raw
Metaphysical Hypnotherapy
Metaphysical Hypnotherapy is simply the use of hypnosis in a deep, spiritual and mystical way to enable a person to take control of feelings, behaviors, habits, and self-image.
It seems most people feel as if they and their problems are unique among human experience. While our experiences make each of us unique, what we feel, how we respond to the world around us, and how we interact with other people is not unique. We all have the same senses. The way we deal with this life is greatly variable, but only within certain parameters. There are boundaries to human experience and behavior. Your feelings, thoughts, behaviors, and problems aren’t as strange or unusual as you might think.
People don’t tell others about their fears, doubts, worries, anxieties, or things they think are strange about themselves. Believe me, whatever your difficulty in life might be, it isn’t as strange or unusual as you think. I have never been shocked by something a client told me. As a matter of fact, I haven’t even been surprised for some time now. There are only so many things humans can do.
Metaphysical hypnotherapy, of course, uses the mental tool of hypnosis combined with the therapists (and there are not many metaphysical hypnotherapists) skilled guidance in the application of the laws of metaphysics. Many people have seen too many movies or television shows where a writer needed a magical solution to a plot problem and used that mystical power of hypnosis to solve his problem. Hypnosis may indeed hold a mystical element when it is combined with a metaphysical approach to therapy. It IS a very effective mental tool that enables people to take control of things that may have seemed beyond their control in the past. Metaphysical hypnosis is a completely natural, yet different, state of consciousness from the normal waking state. When a person is in the state of hypnosis he/she is completely awake and alert. He/she knows exactly what is happening at all times. You can not be controlled by someone using hypnosis. While under hypnosis, your awareness is actually heightened and carefully focused. You become very receptive to positive suggestions that are acceptable to you, and are able to learn from the artificial experiences or perhaps reconnection with past states of being or even precognition of future or alternative states or dimensions perceived in the hypnotic state.
A well-trained and experienced therapist can use the artificial (guided models) or perhaps past-life, future life projection, time-line metaphysics or similar experiences perceived under hypnosis to desensitize a client’s fears, improve his self-image, or gain other behavioral or emotional goals. Goal achievement is an area of human behavior where this tool of hypnosis is very helpful. Other areas include overcoming fears, improving sports, performance, stress control and relaxation, elimination of habits, gaining self confidence, sexual dysfunction, smoking cessation, tinnitus reduction/management and success motivation. Basically, if a feeling or behavior in your life is undesirable to you, in most cases Metaphysical Hypnotherapy can be of value by helping an individual to connect with and draw upon the power of the universal mind.
The real goal in most cases is for the client to learn effective mental dynamics and take control of his life. This is often achieved with a mix of therapeutic techniques. There are no easy fixes. There is no effortless cure for your problems, but with a little knowledge, a little effort, and personal responsibility you can make your life what you want it to be. The real magic is in responsibility, focus, new understanding and application of universal principles. It helps a lot to have effective tools and the knowledge with which to apply these principles effectively for healing and positive change. Your life should be what you want it to be. It is your life. Take control and get what you desire out of it.
Alan Crisp
