Kaa, The Jungle Book snake and Hypnotherapy

When you think of hypnosis do you think of Kaa?

Unfortunately I do not know the name of the author.

When you think of hypnosis do you think of Kaa, the snake from the Jungle Book

using those spiralling eyes to lure the unsuspecting Mowgli, or do you think of Paul McKenna

apparently manipulating volunteers from his audience to provide entertainment for the rest of us?

Well, hypnotherapy is nothing like that, but those are often questions that I’m asked.

Over the years the media has sensationalise hypnosis.  Stage hypnosis has the purpose

of entertaining. Hypnotherapy has the purpose of helping you help yourself; the ‘hypnosis’ needs

the addition of ‘therapy’ to provide very real therapeutic value, especially when applied

to our health and state of mind.

Most of us are aware of the harm caused by stress and anxiety, but how do we normally

go about treating it? For headaches and migraines we get painkillers, for nerve rashes

and skin disorders we get cream, and for depression and nervous tension we get tranquillisers. 

These are all outside things that are being used to affect an inside (emotional energy) concern. Conventional medicine is primarily concerned with treating the symptoms,

the effects of stress and anxiety, without really attempting to alleviate the causes.

Therefore, the problem continues to exist. In trance we work with the cause.

It is rarely possible to simply remove the outside source of stress –

such as work, relationship, family troubles etc. – so what can we do is on the inside.

To begin with we must acknowledge that at least part of the problem may come from within

our own minds. It is not the particular event that is important, but it is how we react to it

that really matters, what is stressful to one person may be the norm or even exciting to another; 

think of a fairground ride.

But why should this be so? Obviously this has much to do with individual personality

but it goes much further than that when we begin to experience depressions or guilt feelings,

or develop obsessive behaviour, a phobic reaction or even physical illness.

In such cases, and in many others, these problems come from within us but we feel that

we have no control of the problem  – it is like a different part of us takes over.

Is it possible to change the habit of a lifetime? Is it possible to improve your health,

vitality and well being?

The answer is most definitely “yes”, and one very effective way is Hypnotherapy

 – a personal therapy using Hypnosis.

For some the word ‘hypnosis’ often conjures up images of mind control

and of people put into some sort of comatose state, actually this is total nonsense.

Hypnosis is a very natural state of relaxation and there is absolutely no question of any mind control whatsoever. In fact, after their first experience of hypnotherapy, the majority of people say things like “well, that was all very nice but I didn’t actually feel hypnotised,

I could have opened my eyes at any time”.  And so you can.

Hypnotherapists use only “Conscious awareness Hypnosis” and there is no need for any form 

of deep trance state, so that clients are usually aware of what is going on, yet are able to experience

an unparalleled feeling of relaxation and calmness. My room has just the normal surrounding noises and there is a lovely relaxing atmosphere with not a swinging watch in sight!

Most of us go through life either doing something that we don’t want to do (e.g.:  smoking,

having panic attacks, obsessively checking things) or not doing something that we want

to do (e.g.: form a loving relationship, feel self confident or be able to say “no” when we want to). Many of these behaviour patterns originate from negative attitudes picked up during childhood; 

these continue to influence us into adult life at a level that we are not consciously aware of.

Most of us just accept these effects (violent outbursts, guilt feelings, personal problems, illness etc.) 

as being normal, “that’s the way I am”, and so forth, but there is absolutely no reason

why one person should have to suffer such emotional strains when others do not.

The same applies to many illnesses. We just seem to accept that we are ill and totally rely

on our doctors for a cure – or sometimes accept the ultimate with amazing complacency,

without ever considering that we may have some control over the situation.

But it is possible to learn to be in control of your mind, your body and your emotions.

It is our perception of ourselves that is at fault. If, through hypnosis, we can change our view

of ourselves then we can bring about change and even sometimes a cure.

When a client first comes to see me I try to remember to tell them that by the end of the therapy 

they may become virtually unaware they ever had a problem in the first place

and many look at me in disbelief, yet it can be a very moving experience at a later stage

to see those same clients releasing their anxiety and for the first time in many years,

being truly free from negative emotions, and symptoms that those repressed emotions caused.

But aside from smoking and all the emotional/personal problems,

hypnosis has many other applications, one in particular being in the medical world.

For hundreds of years hypnosis has been used as an anaesthetic to “switch off pain” during operations, yet recent publicity surrounding the gentleman who used hypnosis during his vasectomy presented it as a somewhat new discovery! There is an increasing amount of evidence to suggest that 

if you mentally prepare yourself for an operation there is less shock to your body so that

you are able to speed your own recovery. The same applies in drug treatment, where self-hypnosis 

and visualisation have shown to reduce the side effects from chemotherapy, for example.

There are even countless cases where diseases such as cancer and arthritis have responded

to self-hypnosis visualisations, when used as part of the healing process.

It is not only people with problems that can benefit from hypnosis, for it can be applied to enhance existing personal qualities such as sales or sport performance, or just generally reduce stress

and aid relaxation. Whatever the situation from relieving driving test nerves or child bed-wetting, 
to getting rid of phobias – the same principals apply, whereby we are using the potential

of our imagination to communicate with our subconscious, emotional mind.

Hypnotherapy is probably the kindest, quickest and most gentle form of personal therapy available. 

It is a totally natural, totally safe method of treatment and, unlike many drugs based therapies

it has no unpleasant side effects and is suitable for just about anybody.

It has often been said that, if hypnosis could be bottled and sold off the shelf at your local chemist,

it would be hailed as the most wonderful potion this world has ever known

Perhaps you’d like to check out my sister blogs:

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www.happyartaccidents.blogspot.com         just for fun.

Magic and CHOCOLATE & Hypnotherapy

             Magic and CHOCOLATE & Hypnotherapy M'reen

You might want to think cigarettes, bed wetting, fear of dogs, etc.

For children who are very young, drawing a scary dream and then putting it in prison

(or suitable concept) can be effective.

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces

with your bare hands--and then just eat one of the pieces. -  Judith Viorst

Someone told me that a fellow hypnotherapist suggested to his client that she put certain foods 

into a prison and that now she no longer buys those foods. Magic!

Yes, this is possible, if it is right for that client at that time.

Neither you nor I can forcibly incarcerate those foods/habits/attitude/pain etc.

The work we do together can bring about the circumstances when this can be effective 

suggestion therapy for you.

Let’s take chocolate. There is no reason as to why you should never eat chocolate again in fact 

The Montignac Method of Eating regards 70% coca fat chocolate to be a beneficial food to eat. 

You will not put on weight as there is hardly any sugar.

At one time I would eat chocolate until it was finished even if I had to have a number of cups of tea 

to help it go down. A Snickers bar was my silent banner to the world that I was upset, “Hey look world, I’m upset, see I can prove it, just look at this Snickers bar,” unfortunately the world didn’t care.

Equally unfortunately, should I be upset now I have to deal with it and let it go as I can wander up and down the supermarket aisles, chocolate, biscuits, cakes, goodies and there is nothing there 

for me, nothing appeals.

Now, if someone offers me a chocolate I can casually choose to accept one or more and move on. How did all this come about? I don’t know because I haven’t specifically worked on chocolate, 

but I have worked on ‘letting go’ and I will show you how to do this in your own home.

Two people have given themselves one session on ‘chocolate’, this is not really fair to themselves 

or to me; one session might work but if ‘chocolate’ is tied in with a larger problem then we are only going to be able to work with the ‘chocolate’ part of the problem. I would rather work with the whole jigsaw, rather than just one piece and expect the rest of the pieces to fall into place and complete the picture. When we do work on the whole jigsaw, we don’t work on each individual piece as that would take far too long, we connect big massive chunks together, actually it’s your subconscious mind that works, we just undo the blocks to success.

One person chose to work with past life therapy, she went into a past life which confused me until 

we had finished the session. She moved from that past life to an incident when she was a teenager and we worked on that memory. Later I realised that the past life or past life ‘story’ gave her the life experience that she desired and could not have in this life. After this session she found that she had more choice in whether or nor she ate sweets in general. This did not solve her weight issue as it was only one piece in her jigsaw she titled ‘Weight’. This is possibly not the correct title, as weight may be a piece for the jigsaw titled ‘self-esteem, confidence, perceived destiny, protection, role model etc.’

The other person chose to work on the emotional component in her life regarding chocolate. 

In this particular case she was using colours to represent the emotions surrounding chocolate 

and we worked together to balanced these colours/emotions. She did not eat chocolate for two weeks and then decided to test herself and found herself eating chocolate. I suggested that she had shown that she could live happily without chocolate and that she do one of two things, a) deal with the rest of her chocolate issue with myself in hypnotherapy or b) use the skills she had learned

and work on it herself. She chose the latter as she knew she had some time coming 

up to concentrate on this and other areas in her life without the current stresses.

I don’t know how she has progressed, but we both know that she has the ability to succeed.

Why didn’t ‘it’ work? It did, it worked for two weeks but something got in the way, the ‘something’ in a habit situation occasionally takes a second session as you can only get rid of as much as is good for you today. For example it may be too much for you to get rid of everything in one fell swoop, 

this may be emotionally more than you are able to cope with (this is expanded upon in other areas) or those around you may become subconsciously negative if you change too rapidly, even though they really want this for you. All this sounds rather negative, but once you’ve become the person that never did X again, there is really nothing more to say. One person did not smoke for 29 years, and then she started again, why? I think there were rather good reasons and once those reasons have gone I expect that she will stop quite naturally.

If not she has proved to herself that hypnotherapy is effective.

To recap, one lady put items in prison and she no longer buys those foods.

I was a chocoholic. I used food to deal with emotions. 

One lady always bought 3-4 chocolate bars from the vendor at the station, it was suggested that she could not see the vendor; she no longer bought chocolate on her way to work.

Chocolate can be a choice, an enjoyable choice.

Perhaps you’d like to check out my sister blogs:

www.ourmindminds.blogspot.com               this takes advantage of the experience and expertise of others. 

www.turbochargedreading.blogspot.com      describes the steps to reading in the way your mind prefers.

www.happyartaccidents.blogspot.com         just for fun.

www.turbochargedreading.com                   for advanced reading techniques

To quote the Dr Seuss himself, “The more that you read, the more things you will know.

The more that you learn; the more places you'll go.”