It is a commonly held belief that hypnosis involves 'mind control' or the sight of people behaving un self-consciously up on a stage. Right?
Wrong. This is an image that has grown because 'stage' hypnosis has become popular for its performance and entertainment value.
As Seinfeld would say: " not that there's anything wrong with that".
But for practical applications and benefits to you as a potential user of either hypnosis or self-hypnosis, it hardly inspires confidence in what are really simple techniques, if you think you will end up acting like a chook or being amorous to perfect strangers as a result of a stage hypnotist, who is really an illusionist after all and a performer providing entertainment value, not therapeutic benefits!
Myth number one: That hypnosis is coercive by nature. That is, that using or being influenced by hypnosis will overcome your will power or exert some sort of mind control over you.
Changed behavior via hypnosis is actually thought to involve a process in some way not significantly separable from what a person's normal functioning is. In other words, the behavior change is in some ways a variation on that person's normal behavior, not completely different from it at all.
For example, if a person was not inclined to steal, as part of his or her usual behavior, then hypnotic suggestion cannot be made to convince him or her by unconscious suggestions,to start stealing things.
Myth number two. That hypnotic suggestions containing such things as subliminal messages are commonly used as part of therapy.
Carefully applied positive hypnotic techniques that enable beneficial behavior changes to occur, should allow the individual to apply his or her moral compass, I believe, to filter out what is not acceptable to that person's values.
Subliminal messages are set below the conscious levels of awareness of people and these sorts of stimuli are pitched at a level of presentation that is too fast, too quiet or buried in other sounds and so they cannot be consciously detected and processed.
Hypnosis should be ethically applied and with the consent of the individual. If messages are not able to be filtered, then this decision process by the individual cannot occur.
Hence, subliminal message are banned from media such as television, so people can make their own minds up consciously, if they want a certain product or to take a particular action knowingly, and not without their conscious consent.
Myth number three. That hypnosis can cure even unwilling patients.
Some not so intelligent proponents of hypnosis make wild claims that hypnosis is the be all and end all to whatever ails you.
In reality, it is one of a number of effective therapies that offer substantial benefits, providing that the subject of the therapy is a willing participant in the process, as relaxation and mind focusing are important to the success of any hypnosis intervention.
Forced hypnosis or attempts at doing so are not only morally and ethically wrong, but ineffective as well due to the above factor; a willing participant able to focus and relax his or her mind will benefit from subtle changes in behavior, given time to assimilate the benefits of change.
Wrong. This is an image that has grown because 'stage' hypnosis has become popular for its performance and entertainment value.
As Seinfeld would say: " not that there's anything wrong with that".
But for practical applications and benefits to you as a potential user of either hypnosis or self-hypnosis, it hardly inspires confidence in what are really simple techniques, if you think you will end up acting like a chook or being amorous to perfect strangers as a result of a stage hypnotist, who is really an illusionist after all and a performer providing entertainment value, not therapeutic benefits!
Myth number one: That hypnosis is coercive by nature. That is, that using or being influenced by hypnosis will overcome your will power or exert some sort of mind control over you.
Changed behavior via hypnosis is actually thought to involve a process in some way not significantly separable from what a person's normal functioning is. In other words, the behavior change is in some ways a variation on that person's normal behavior, not completely different from it at all.
For example, if a person was not inclined to steal, as part of his or her usual behavior, then hypnotic suggestion cannot be made to convince him or her by unconscious suggestions,to start stealing things.
Myth number two. That hypnotic suggestions containing such things as subliminal messages are commonly used as part of therapy.
Carefully applied positive hypnotic techniques that enable beneficial behavior changes to occur, should allow the individual to apply his or her moral compass, I believe, to filter out what is not acceptable to that person's values.
Subliminal messages are set below the conscious levels of awareness of people and these sorts of stimuli are pitched at a level of presentation that is too fast, too quiet or buried in other sounds and so they cannot be consciously detected and processed.
Hypnosis should be ethically applied and with the consent of the individual. If messages are not able to be filtered, then this decision process by the individual cannot occur.
Hence, subliminal message are banned from media such as television, so people can make their own minds up consciously, if they want a certain product or to take a particular action knowingly, and not without their conscious consent.
Myth number three. That hypnosis can cure even unwilling patients.
Some not so intelligent proponents of hypnosis make wild claims that hypnosis is the be all and end all to whatever ails you.
In reality, it is one of a number of effective therapies that offer substantial benefits, providing that the subject of the therapy is a willing participant in the process, as relaxation and mind focusing are important to the success of any hypnosis intervention.
Forced hypnosis or attempts at doing so are not only morally and ethically wrong, but ineffective as well due to the above factor; a willing participant able to focus and relax his or her mind will benefit from subtle changes in behavior, given time to assimilate the benefits of change.
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