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Conscious Mind Functions

Can handle 7 plus or minus 2 pieces of information

Deliberate

Verbal

Analytical

Limited focus

Aware only of the present

Is linear

Thinks sequentially

Chooses  outcome

Tries to understand the problem


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Unconscious Mind Functions

Can handle 2.3 million pieces of information

Automatic

Non verbal

Synthetic

Unlimited and expansive

Storehouse of memories

Is cybernetic

Thinks simultaneously

Makes outcome happen

Knows the solution

 

 









Hypnotherapy

The Telegraph - Irritable bowel syndrome eased by hypnotherapy
BBC  - Hypnosis has 'real' brain effect
The Observer June 2009  - Hypnotise your patients, surgeons told
BBC  - Hynosis may help anxious teens 
Click to read how hypnosis helped an Olympic athelete to win a gold medal!
And another Olympic gold medalist uses hypnosis
BBC Hypnosis 'eases cancer op pain'
BBC Hypnosis could banish hay-fever
BBC Hypnotherapy works for bowel pain
 

 See hypno-surgery live on UK TV - click here  to see how powerful hypnosis is

The word Hypnosis is derived from the Greek God of sleep, Hypnos. Mesmerism is another word for hypnosis. In the 18th century, Franz Anton Mesmer (1751-1825) practised hypnosis until his work was disregarded by the medical profession. A physician, John Elliotson (1791-1868) was dismissed from his professional post at the University College Hospital in London because he was using hypnosis to perform painless surgeries. The Scottish surgeon James Esdaile (1808-1859), inspired by Elliotson, used mesmerism to perform over 300 major painless operations without using conventional anaesthesia - mesmeric analgesia  They included excisions of tumours and amputations. He was able to decrease the typical surgical mortality rate from 50% to 5% with the use of his technique.

The use of mesmerism for surgical purposes declined after the development of chemical anaesthetics like nitrous oxide in 1844 and ether in 1846. Mesmerism was then revived by a surgeon from Edinburgh James Braid (1795-1860). He changed the name from mesmerism to hypnotism. Even though he later recognised that hypnosis was not sleep, the name hypnosis remains to this date. In 1953 The British Medical Association recognised hypnosis describing it as "A useful tool to treat psychosomatic and psychoneurotic illnesses " and in 1955, officially recommended that medical schools add hypnosis to their curriculum. The University of Oxford Medical School was the first medical school in the United Kingdom to offer a clinical hypnosis module to its students in 2002. The American Medical Association approved hypnosis as a valid therapeutic method in 1958. The previous year, 1957, saw approval by the Roman Catholic Church of hypnosis as an option for therapy.

Hypnosis Myths

 

Over the years hypnosis has picked up all sorts of associations  from the media and superstition. In reality, however, hypnosis is your single most effective tool for change. You really should know how to use it so it does not use you!

If you were to book an appointment  you might notice amazing changes to the point where you don't remember the problem in the first place.


Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate
- Carl Jung

What is the difference between conscious and subconscious? To give you a better understanding of the two parts of the mind please join me in a little experiment! I'd like you to recite the alphabet as quickly as you possibly can and time yourself --- Begin now.

Good. Now let's do it again but this time I'll make it easier on you! I want you to say only half of the alphabet and time yourself again --- this time when you start say every other letter. Done! Yes it would now probably take twice as long to accomplish half of the job. Why is that? Because this time you need to think about each letter consciously. The first time you responded subconsciously. Can you appreciate just how powerful your subconscious is? And it is yours, it is free and it is accessible 24 hours a day!!

It may surprise you to learn that we all experience countless trance states during the day. Listening to music, running or gardening can all be so deeply absorbing that you can literally 'forget' yourself. Even drifting down into 'ordinary' sleep involves a kind of trance state. It is a natural phenomenon of the mind and body - a state similar to that experienced just before going to sleep at night or just before awakening in the morning - where one hears and knows what is going on, but just doesn't want to move. The experience of hypnosis is similar: neither asleep or awake -- a little like daydreaming too --- with all those exquisite feelings of deep relaxation.So hypnosis is simply a natural heightened state of awareness - one where your mind is more alert and aware whilst your body is generally more relaxed.

Many activities are subconscious - like walking and believe it reading. Before you learnt how to read, words on paper were a meaningless jumble to you. Then you were taught your alphabet, how letters made words and how words made sentences. Then you were able to apply this knowledge. It is the same with understanding and using the 95% of your mind - the part that you aren't even aware of at your conscious everyday level  YOUR UNCONSCIOUS or subconscious mind.

We are slipping in and out of trances all the the time. In your life there must have been times when you couldn't sleep or a friend or loved one has come to you for advice on the same problem and what did you say? Count sheep! There is probably hardly a person alive who has not tried this or advised others to do so. This is a bypassing of and a controlling of the conscious mind and a giving up to the subconscious. The image of a sheep is a soft image to most people. We most likely think of them as soft, cuddly and unthreatening. Counting wolves simply would not do. The job of counting is boring and dull. It is so dull it is actually a subconscious activity - you just bring up the file marked 'counting' and the system is fully automatic. To prove automatic counting, remember that time when you were counting something and your attention was distracted and your mind wandered. You lost count, didn't you? We have all had this experience, countless times - this is why we count something that we have to imagine such as a sheep and not just numbers. The visualisation of the sheep leaping over a fence is just interesting enough to distract your thoughts away from the exam, speech, interview or whatever it is that is keeping you awake. The act of counting has no natural end, like reciting a poem has and so your consciousness is then centred on a soft, pleasant, unthreatening image. The worry/stress is put to one side and you consequently fall asleep at long last.

DID YOU KNOW?

FAMOUS USERS OF HYPNOSIS
  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-92) repeated names to himself like a hypnotic mantra in order to access different states of consciousness in which whole poems came to him.
  • Mozart (1756-91) apparently composed the famous opera Cosi Fan Tutte while hypnotized.
  • Rachmaninov (1873-1943) reputedly composed one of his concertos following a posthypnotic suggestion.
  • Goethe (1749-1832) writer and scientist.
  • Chopin (1810-1849) pianist and composer took classes in hypnosis at the Universityof Strasbourg.
  • Thomas Edison (1847-1931) inventor
  • Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) inventor
  • Henry Ford (1863-1947) car manufacturer
  • Albert Einstein (1879-1955) physicist
  • Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) novelist used trance-like states to develop  ideas.
  • Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) politician counted backwards in 3s in order to stay awake all night and avoid tiredness during W.W.II
  • Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud developed modern psychiatry as a result of learning about (and practicing) hypnosis.
  •  Jackie Kennedy-Onassis used hypnotherapy to ‘relive and let go of’ some tragic events in her life.
  • Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits reportedly beat his smoking habit through hypnosis.
  • Kevin Costner flew his personal hypnotist to Hawaii to cure his seasickness during the filming of Water world.
  • Mark Owen - stop smoking
  • Peter Kay
  • Robbie Williams
  • Geri Halliwell
  • Lily Allen - weight loss
  • Matt Damon
  • Drew Barrymore
  • Ewan McGregor
  • Britney Spears
  • Samuel Jackson
  • Nick Faldo

and now YOU!

Listen to this audio of Matt Damon and other celebrities who quit smoking with hypnosis:
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