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About Metaphysical Hypnotherapy
Hypnosis has long been known for it's ability to access the subconscious mind. With knowledge gained over the past few decades, it is now possible to tap into this bottomless well of inner strength and knowledge to bring amazing changes. It can help you to mend old wounds from your childhood or even a past life, which have been holding you back. Since 1958, when the American Medical Association, in its infinite wisdom, listed hypnosis as a valid medical treatment, hypnosis has shown to be effective in a great many areas of human health and well-being.
Through hypnosis, positive, desired responses can be created in the subconscious mind, replacing inappropriate responses which had been used in the past. These responses can be at any level of being -- physical, emotional, mental or spiritual -- as the subconscious governs all these. Even Sigmund Freud, considered to be the father of modern psychoanalysis, recognized that hypnosis was a much quicker and less expensive option for treatment of many kinds of disorders. He even expressed doubts that his form of psychanalysis would gain much public acceptance because of these limitations.
Hypnosis is fast and almost effortless. It is completely natural -- you enter into a hypnotic state many times a day -- such as when you daydream or become so engrossed in watching a TV program that you lose track of time. A hypnotherapist is simply your guide to your healing -- you, via your subconscious, are the one doing the actual healing. Your subconscious knows everything about you, so when it produces a healing, it does it in such a way that is in harmony with the rest of your systems. Therefore there are no negative side effects. The subconscious is not constrained by the limited knowledge or egos of the medical profession, so the results it produces can sometimes be considered "miraculous".
There are two basic methods of theraputic hypnosis -- Ericksonian or direct suggestion, in which the therapist plants strong new ideas into your subconscious to help guide you into new behaviors, and metaphysical, which calls upon your spiritual aspects to assist in changing the attitudes of your inner sub-personalities. Each method has it's own strengths in its uses for different situations. I am trained in both processes, so I can select the method best suited for a clients issue. I will often combine the two for even more powerful results. Most people have difficulty making changes in their lives because they have deep-seated underlying blocks which counter their ability to move in new directions. Most people are not even aware of these blocks -- some of the blocks may even have been established in a previous life or in very early childhood. Through hypnotherapy, these blocks can be identified, embraced and released, thus allowing forward movement in life.
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Remove phobias: Evidence
has shone that all phobias are the result of a traumatic event
that the subconscious mind remembers in an irrational way. Through
hypnotic techniques, the trauma can be found and be viewed in
a new way, releasing the need for the phobias to exist. Occasionally,
the traumatic incident may even exist in the past life and is
handled in a similar way.
Increased confidence: Often
a lack of confidence or self-esteem comes from of comes from
verbal abuse as a child, being told you are stupid, that you
can't do anything right, etc. Under hypnosis, that memory can
be replaced with a memory of positive events and supplemented
with post-hypnotic suggestions.
Stop smoking: Cigarette smoking
is one of the most difficult addictions to break. Hypnosis has
shown to be one of the most effective methods for anyone who
is sincere about wanting to quit. Much of the habit is subconscious
programming, which can be re-scripted under hypnosis.
Better concentration: Your
subconscious mind has many voices. When some get attention more
than others, a kind of inner battle for attention can result.
Using hypnosis, these various aspects of you can be brought into
a cooperative alignment.
Improve memory: Your conscious
mind only remembers what it deems to be important. Your subconscious
mind, however, is aware of everything and remembers everything.
This is the reason that under hypnosis, details of vague demands
or even scenes of childhood can be recalled in detail. The subconscious
can be given suggestions to assist the memory processes of your
conscious mind.
Better health: Your subconscious
mind is responsible for all of your body's automatic functions.
Unfortunately, it can be subjected to information, which can
be detrimental to your health. As an extreme example, if you
are told you have a disease by a respected authority, your subconscious
may bring that disease into reality. This would be the opposite
of what's known as the placebo effect. Powerful hypnotic suggestions
can actually supercharge your immune system. Also, if you are
subconsciously harboring a negative image about yourself, hypnosis
can find the source of that negativity and help you to clear
it.
Manage stress: Hypnosis has
shown to be one of the most effective means of lowering your
blood pressure and other symptoms of stress. With a little training,
you can learn to lessen your reaction to stress. I can't make
your stress disappear, but I can help you change your body's
response to it.
Manage pain: All bodily pain
actually exists only in the brain. Anaesthetics prevent the pain
signals from registering in the brain. Yet all body signals must
first go through the subconscious before there are passed on
to the conscious mind for attention. Through hypnosis, the subconscious
can be convinced to filter out certain pain signals. This has
many benefits-from allowing surgical procedures without chemical
anesthesia to eliminating pain for which no medical cause can
be identified. In some cases, the pain can originate from severe
trauma in a past life and only hypnosis can release it.
Be more creative: You have
lived thousands of lives. Chances are that in some of those lives,
you had a special talent that could assist you in this life.
There are special techniques in hypnosis therapy that can allow
that hidden talent to come into your present life.
Visit past lives: I discourage
past life regressions done casually for curiosity sake. It is
an indispensable therapy however, for improving many aspects
of your current life. Seeing yourself in a probable future is
also just as possible, and can be used to see what you might
become if you don't change some pattern in your life or to get
advice from that future self on what to do now to achieve a desired
future.
Pre-birth contracts: Before
you came into this present incarnation, you made agreements with
your Higher Self to learn specific lessons. You may have also
made a promise at the moment of death in your past life ("
I'll never leave you!"), which your Higher Self is holding
you to. All of this is normally hidden from your conscious mind.
Through hypnosis, you can review what you agreed to do or promised
and renegotiate a new contract with your Higher Self.
Release traumas: Many people
have lived through abusive or otherwise traumatic situations,
particularly in their youth or childhood. The results of these
incidents will often determine how a person deals with the world
- and often create a limitation of their full expression. Through
hypnosis therapy, these traumas can be found and viewed differently,
and the emotions connected to them released.
Speed healing: Among its
many functions, the subconscious mind controls the factors which
influence healing of the body such as blood flow, cell division
rate, and hormone production. By using specific suggestions in
a hypnotic state, your body can actually improve its ability
to heal. This is been shown many times to speed recovery after
surgery.
Find prosperity: Are you
really open to being your best and accepting the gifts the universe
has for you? By planting solid, positive suggestions in your
subconscious, it becomes your ally to success. Hypnosis can also
be used to change the attitude of those portions of yourself
which do not feel that you are worthy to succeed.
Insomnia: Insomnia is most
often caused by an aspect of anxiety, a nervous condition buried
in your subconscious mind. Utilizing techniques of hypnosis therapy,
the underlying causes of the anxiety can be discovered and released,
thereby freeing you of this difficulty.
Bed wetting: Bladder control
is jointly handled by the conscious and subconscious minds. Occasionally,
the subconscious needs some guidance on its response to hold
the valve shut during sleep. This is simply a training process,
that is an aspect of toilet training for the nighttime. Hypnosis
is amazingly effective in resolving this problem.
Gaining new skills: Your
subconscious has access to all knowledge. Using hypnosis, positive
suggestions can be given to the subconscious to give your conscious
mind rapid learning abilities to access the desired new skills.
Hypnosis can also be used to find an aspect of yourself which
lived in a previous life and had developed certain skills in
that lifetime. You can bring those skills forward into this lifetime
and continue to apply them.
Sports performance: Many
studies have shown that the highest level of performance comes
when both the body and the mind are trained. Visualization is
often used to help athletes sharpen their abilities. Using hypnosis
to implant positive suggestions in the subconscious, insures
that the most powerful part of your being is working towards
your goal. It may also be that you have specific sports talent
from a previous life that can be brought forward is into this
life to assist you.
Break unwanted patterns:
Many unproductive patterns get established in early childhood
as a means to deal with difficult or threatening situations (or
at least, perceived that way at the time). These patterns stay
locked in the subconscious and influence your adult behavior
even though the situation that brought it on has long gone and
been forgotten. Through hypnosis, the original incidents can
be discovered and viewed through adult eyes and allow the memory
to be re-scripted to allow the patterns to change.
Inner guides: One of the
most powerful methods of spiritual growth is to establish an
active and personal relationship with advanced entities, who
will communicate with you through your inner worlds. These guides
can assist you 24 hours a day in all aspects of your life. Finding
and testing the guides for their value and validity is done under
hypnosis.
Inner child: Though you have
grown up, the child you once were still lives within you. As
an adult who experiences life, your behavior is strongly influenced
by the way you learned to cope as a child. If you suffered trauma,
abandonment, or abuse as a child, is you as an adult are not
capable of full function. Hypnosis can allow you to return to
your childhood and create nurturing, happy memories, thus changing
your adult life. Yeah, really!
Lose weight: Hypnosis can
be incredibly effective in helping those who are dangerously
overweight. Combined with a good diet and exercise regimen, hypnosis
is the tool to allow you to explore the deep subconscious motivation
that causes you to either eat compulsively or your need to be
fat. I use a very extensive interview process that examines dozens
of different subconscious reasons and characteristics why people
gain excess weight. If you are overweight and have not been successful
in losing weight by any other means, hypnosis has shown to be
enormously effective in assisting the resolution of this serious
problem. To see the results of studies done on using hypnosis
to help with weight loss, click
here. For more information on the complexities of weight
loss, click here
To view a report on dieting in general, click
here.
Enhanced immune response:
Your immune system, like other automatic functions of your body,
is regulated by your subconscious. Your immune response is undermined
by the toxicity of our society - its impact on your physical,
emotional, and mental aspects. The strength of your immune system
can be restored through conditioning by the use of hypnosis to
communicate with the subconscious.
Heal relationships: The way
you relate to other people and handle intimacy is highly influenced
by the patterns you learned in your infancy and childhood. You
may even be carrying nonproductive patterns from a previous life.
Hypnosis can be a powerful tool to root out the irrational and
unhealthy emotions that can erode your ability to have balance
in your relations with others.
Self sabotage: It is not
uncommon that a person has a part of himself that attempts to
sabotage his efforts in a career, in love, in art, or in friendships,
because that part is convinced that he is not worthy of it. Special
techniques in hypnosis can disclose that hidden saboteur, and
change its perspective toward you.
Enhanced intuition: Your
intuition originates in your subconscious mind. By expanding
the communications channel between your conscious and subconscious
minds, a greater flow of information can come to you. Your subconscious
is aware of all things and knows all things, but limits what
it allows you to access for your protection and guidance. Through
hypnosis, your subconscious can be asked to increase your access
of certain kinds of information.
Life progressions: Your subconscious
dwells in dimensions where the past and future are seen as part
of the now. Through this, you can view probable scenes of any
part of your future - tomorrow or 10 years from now. You can
gain from this experience by knowing what choices to make in
your present are going to effect your future.
Defeat addictions: All addictions,
behavioral or chemical, have their root in attempting to fill
some inner need or lack - usually some aspect of love the person
didn't get. Through hypnosis, the originating cause of the addiction
can be found and reconciled, thus removing the underlying emotion
that empowers the addiction.