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What Is Hypnosis?

In the most simplistic terms hypnosis can be described as an altered state of consciousness. Most people think of hypnosis as being in a trance like state, but that’s not really an accurate description. When you’re in a hypnotic state you are really in a super-relaxed state of mind where your conscious mind is so relaxed that you’re not thinking at all about normal everyday things. Being hypnotized allows you to connect with your subconscious mind and pull up memories, experiences, and other events that played a significant role in your life or in your development.

Usually a hypnotic state is induced by a trained therapist or medical professional but there are courses that you can take that will teach you how to hypnotize yourself. If you are going to try hypnosis for medical treatment you might want to get a professional to start the treatment and then if they work for you learn how to hypnotize yourself so that you can continue the treatment on your own whenever your condition flares up. While you are in a hypnotic state the therapist or medical professional will create what is called a hypnotic suggestion. The hypnotic suggestion is what tells your subconscious what to change.

So for example if you are being hypnotized to help you deal with your alcohol addiction a hypnotic suggestion telling your brain that you no longer need alcohol to function combined with physical treatment for the withdrawal symptoms that you’ll experience when you stop drinking should make you entirely free of alcohol dependency. Your body will no longer crave it once you have detoxed and after a hypnotic suggestion telling you that you don’t need the alcohol your mind won’t be convinced that you can’t function with it.

Doctors aren’t entirely sure how the brain creates a hypnotic state only that a hypnotic state exists and can be induced in most people. Hypnotic suggestions aren’t an easy fix to medical problems, and many times using hypnosis for medical treatments requires several sessions in order to be fully effective. But there is a growing amount of evidence that using hypnosis to treat hard to treat conditions, especially the kind of medical conditions that have psychological components, can be a very effective way to help an individual create lasting changes in his or her life that will improve health and wellness.

Conditions that don’t seem to respond to other treatments usually respond well to hypnotic treatment. If you don’t really approve of Western medicine or if you just prefer a more holistic approach to your health care you can try using hypnosis to treat everything from Asthma to pain caused by medical procedures like bone marrow biopsies, Breast Cancer treatment and wound cleaning and stitching. For people that are highly susceptible to hypnosis sometimes hypnosis can even replace anesthesia that would typically knock a patient out during surgery. It’s not common practice to hypnotize someone before surgery but for people that have had bad reactions to anesthesia medications hypnosis is one option.

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