a common everyday approach after Erickson

demystifying hypnosis  

As you watch or listen to this, you might be interested to notice any preconceived ideas you may have. If you tell your friends that you are learning hypnosis, there are two predictable responses - "Are you doing it to me now?", "Don't look at me like that, it scares me." The other response is "Great - can you help me to stop smoking / lose weight?"

Even intelligent, well informed people still have unreal assumptions about hypnosis, and it is so important for us to recognise these weird perceptions, and also to be able to clarify to some degree what hypnosis is and isn't - and what it can and cannot do.

Let's explore this ...

 
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11 comments so far

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Most absorbing. Yes, the trance state that most everyone experiences.

Posted by Andrew Dickinson on June 7, 2015 at 08:16pm   #     Reply
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I would say more than most everyone - I would say everyone, each in their own way of course, and there's the clue and the fun!

Thanks Andrew.

Posted by Rob McNeilly admin on June 8, 2015 at 07:47am   #     Reply
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I had to explain to a friend yesterday that she won't tell me any secrets while in a state of hypnosis, I also find it interesting that people think that they will go "UNDER", and in my perception we don't go "under" hypnosis but rather into it. It's a state of mind. We go INTO a focused state of mind right? Also I feel that "going under" makes people think that they have no control, it to me creates fear...I cringe each time a Hypnotist says "putting them under".

Posted by maryke maryke on March 8, 2017 at 06:19pm   #     Reply
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The "going under" came from an anaesthetic metaphor - also being unconscious, out to it, etc. Very unhelpful, scarey, and completely false. I've found it helpful when someone starts with this fear to say that there are 2 kinds of hypnosis - one where a powerful person does things to you, and then there's the way that we work, where you become more of yourself, have more control, aer more in charge.

Posted by Rob McNeilly admin on March 9, 2017 at 01:06pm   #     Reply
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I like to say to my coaching clients - are you ready to make subconscious changes, consciously. They quite like that.

Posted by Claire Golding on June 22, 2017 at 04:19pm   #     Reply

Conscious, subconscious or unconscious at which level are you working at? I don't see magic in a negative light as it is empowering someone else, sorcery are just words that are most effective to enable the client to achieve what they need in their best interests and anaesthesia is an unfortunate misuse of dominant terminology/jargon that doctors use that probably moved over to the area of hypnosis to make it sound more scholarly or clinical. I now know one reason why I spend hours in front of the television, so I can "switch off"and now that I am not in the best of health I have waking dreams one after the other "at the drop of a hat" and quite often am not aware when thy begin only when they end.

Posted by Angus Mackinnon on July 18, 2017 at 06:33pm   #     Reply
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Angus, are you exploring this course as a way of navigating your own level - conscious, subconscious or unconscious, whatever those jargon words mean? I am offering this learning as an opportunity to explore the simple practicalities of using hypnosis to help client. Often people report personal benefits, but that is not the main theme. Could you clarify your reasons for being in this programme?

Thanks

Rob

Posted by Rob McNeilly admin on July 19, 2017 at 07:51am   #     Reply

Sorry the first sentence was meant to be rhetorical as it does not matter and I don't understand the distinctions anyway. Given that I now have an excuse to follow the career I have always wanted to do I am content to do the course. I am just expressing that as I no longer need to make a living I can expand my horizons in letting people help themselves. As I learn more about Erickson my air of expectation for my ability to listen to people is improving every day and I am not sure why this is so. they have the ability to help themselves but I don't always see the methods of observing / listening and empowering the person in such narrow terms that you have spoken of so far. Maybe because I am so new to the course and haven't come across this information and I have only just started practicing. I can discuss it at the end of the course if it is distracting which I think maybe best

Posted by Angus Mackinnon on July 19, 2017 at 11:16am   #     Reply
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What's in this course is offered as ideas for consideration and play, so you can make your own discoveries - ones that fit you and your style, and that of the client of course. There's nothing here that claims to be the truth. Please enjoy the exploration.

Posted by Rob McNeilly admin on July 20, 2017 at 07:48am   #     Reply

Or we could talk over Skype or the phone

Posted by Angus Mackinnon on July 19, 2017 at 11:32am   #     Reply

How many times I have listen to this explanation, but some reason today it just make click!! I had and aha moment, thansk Rob. As I was listening to you I was absord into your explanation and kind voice

Posted by martha es on March 20, 2018 at 08:37pm   #     Reply
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