The
hypnotic trance is what differentiates hypnotherapy from all other types of
therapy.
In a hypnotic trance, when the critical, judgmental part of our mind
relaxes, the inner deeper part of our mind becomes open to changing the beliefs
and behaviors that cause our distress.
When the mind is detached and free of fear, as it is in a hypnotic trance,
it’s like shining a spotlight on the misconceptions that distort our self-belief and fuel our anxiety. Under these
conditions, the inner mind can gain perspective, can imagine and visualize
changes, can rehearse solutions, and can be empowered again. And in that
rehearsal, the sufferer can regain their natural confidence.
This post
focuses on the level of anxiety that we cannot easily dispel with our usual
coping mechanisms. When anxiety begins to interfere with our ability to manage our
life and relationships, to build our career or to achieve our goals, it can be the cutoff line between normal and problematic anxiety. When it becomes a
problem, a form of behavior paralysis takes over. We cannot think, perform or
achieve to the level we know we are capable of.
This
anxiety comes with a level of fear that something negative might happen to us. It’s
like a coping mechanism that takes itself too seriously. In everyday life, we
worry that we’ll perform badly or we may look stupid when we
meet up with friends. It comes with a feeling of thinking and behavior paralysis. It’s usually accompanied by uncomfortable body
sensations. It can remain with us when
we try to relax and can follow us into our sleep.
It can happen at work when sufferers feel unable
to speak up in meetings or to a group, are unable to ask for a raise or a
promotion, to express a dissenting view or to be overly sensitive about
criticism or comments about one’s work.
It can
appear in our closest most intimate relationships or in the way we use our body to take the edge off the stress,
as when we smoke, drink or eat to comfort and soothe ourselves.
It can be reinforced
by stubborn recurring negative thinking, irrational misconceptions about
ourselves, all of which predict the worst and consequently lead us to avoid
taking steps to make good things happen to us.
Hypnotherapy
draws its many techniques from a wide range of approaches used in all areas of
psychology, energy healing, visualizations and uses both traditional approaches
and new cutting edge results from neuroscience to help the inner mind find
clarity, regain control over its perspective and change old stuck ways of
thinking and behaving.
Please
contact me if you would think hypnotherapy can help you.
Ellen McNally
Email:
Ellen at hypnosisinhongkong dot com
Telephone:
2523 7286
Website: www.hypnosisinhongkong.com
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