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If you suffer from panic attacks or any anxiety disorder, you are probably desperate for some relief. While many doctors will prescribe medication to help you overcome anxiety, you might be looking for a natural way to treat your anxiety. If that is the case, you might want to use hypnotherapy. more »
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Some powerful interest groups would like most people to associate hypnotists with stage acts and harmless gags. It is, however, a proven tool for creating positive change and is recognized as such in the laws of some states. more »
Although often associated with stage performers and entertainment, hypnosis is a legitimate healing modality. At least 16 states regulate the practice of hypnosis as a therapy, with some recognizing it as a helpful supplement to Western allopathic medicine. Some individuals experience positive results with hypnosis as a treatment for... more »
Panic disorders are complex and often require professional intervention. Panic disorders can include chest pains, difficulty breathing, elevated heart rate and blood pressure, fear without reason, feelings of impending doom and sometimes the feeling that you are going crazy. Cures for panic disorder are numerous. Because each case of... more »
Hypnotherapists help patients access their subconscious minds and use the power of suggestion...
When some people hear the term "neuro linguistic programming," they think it is...
NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) involves the subtle art of verbal suggestion. Skilled NLP...
Hypnotherapy is a form of therapy performed while the subject is in a state of hypnosis. In the state of hypnosis, a hypnotist is able to use the... more »
If you know nothing about hypnotherapy, you may have the notion that it's about someone swinging a shiny gold watch in front of your face and... more »
Anxiety and panic disorders can be effectively treated over time with the use of hypnotherapy. Anxiety and panic disorders can be totally... more »
Hypnotherapy involves using hypnosis to help cure or understand a mental illness. If it is performed by a licensed and experienced mental health... more »
Hypnotherapy puts you in a deep state of relaxation and encourages you to change your habits. You're choosing new ways of being and thinking, thus... more »
Hypnotherapy is therapy that is undertaken with a subject in hypnosis.
The word "hypnosis" (from the Greek hypnos, "sleep") is an abbreviation of James Braids (1843) term "neuro-hypnotism", meaning "sleep of the nervous system".
A person who is hypnotized displays certain unusual characteristics and propensities, compared with a non-hypnotized subject, most notably hyper-suggestibility, which some authorities have considered a sine qua non of hypnosis. For example, Clark L. Hull, probably the first major empirical researcher in the field, wrote,
If a subject after submitting to the hypnotic procedure shows no genuine increase in susceptibility to any suggestions whatever, there seems no point in calling him hypnotised... C.L. Hull, Hypnosis & Suggestion, 1933: 392
Hypnotherapy is often applied in order to modify a subjects behavior, emotional content, and attitudes, as well as a wide range of conditions including dysfunctional habits, anxiety, stress-related illness, pain management, and personal development.
Definition
Hypnotism versus Mesmerism
Hypnosis is often confused with Mesmerism, its historical precursor. As Hans Eysenck writes,
The terms "mesmerise" and "hypnotise" have become quite synonymous, and most people think of Mesmer as the father of hypnosis, or at least as its discoverer and first conscious exponent. Oddly enough, the truth appears to be that while hypnotic phenomena had been known for many thousands of years, Mesmer did not, in fact, hypnotise his subjects at all. It is something of a mystery why popular belief should have firmly credited him with a discovery which in fact was made by others.(Eysenck, Sense & Nonsense in Psychology, 1957: 30-31)
Franz Anton Mesmer held that trance and healing were the result of the channelling of a mysterious "occult" force called "animal magnetism." In the mid-18th Century, this became the basis of a very large and popular school of thought termed "Mesme read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnotherapy
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