A good description of clinical hypnosis for anybody who’s ever wondered what it’s about. Hypnosis can be helpful to some people for a number of mental health and medical conditions.
I don’t know what was wrong with me: a case of ill fit with the world, I guess. I suddenly kept being confronted by the fact of my own mortality, like a glacier in my path, and seizing up with panic.
I told my doctor and, as luck would have it, he was branching into hypnotherapy and wanted to try it out on me. He was quite the evangelist for the treatment. Hypnosis was no mere stage trick, he insisted: A patient of his had recently had major dental surgery — I imagined pile drivers and a building site — solely anesthetized by the doctor’s suggestion. As for quitting smoking, why, the cigarettes virtually extinguished themselves. My panic attacks should likewise succumb to the powers of his mind.
On my next appointment, he led me to a room where he gestured for me to lie down on a very purple, soft leather couch while he took the armchair opposite. He put a CD of New Age mood music on the stereo — some sort of ode to aquatic life-forms, I noticed by the cover — and told me to focus on a psychedelic spiral pattern inscribed on a small piece of paper attached to the ceiling, while simultaneously concentrating on the sound of his voice.
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“Hypnosis Can Help With Treatment of Numerous Medical Conditions”
I cannot figure any way in which hypnosis would actually work. Whenver I hear about it, it just sounds like magic.
Helping someone quit smoking? Why would telling someone they don’t want to smoke actually make their cravings cease? They need the nicotine because of the down-regulation of receptors in the body. What would telling someone they don’t want to smoke help with at all?
Hi The best way to help them quit smoking is by good counselling sessions, and helping patients to join a health community club
I suggest you talk to an experienced, well trained Clinical Hypnotherapist. In providing a therapy for a smoker who wants to change not only do you push the fact that they are becoming a “non smoker” you shape the suggestions to take the cravings / habit into consideration. I’ve assisted people to become non smokers using whatever I can find out about them (a new baby in the house hold, sports aims etc etc). It doesn’t work for everyone as not everyone who turns up at my door wants to stop - in conversation they may say the want to stop but obviously if the enjoyment factor is too high then your flogging a loosing horse (in much the same way I have seen people using nicotine patches continue to smoke). As for counselling - yes that works but Clinical Hypnotherapy, in dealing with the subconscious mind where habit is stored and reinforced cuts to the chase pretty quickly.
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Last reviewed: By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on 11 Nov 2005
