Alternative Complementary Health

Maybe you have considered hypnosis to improve your confidence, success, and happiness.  Or perhaps you have found calm and peace in meditation.  You may have gone a step further and tried NLP or attended an NLP course.  You may even have discovered EFT or Reiki on your healing journey.

I have used the mini-exercise in this article for publicity for my easy NLP book with hypnotic suggestions.  And it felt right to reproduce it here for your benefit.  I hope it helps, and please feel free to tell me how it went.

A happy and fulfilled life is what most of us want in one form or another.

Sometimes the path to a sunshine mind is a circuitous one.  And you may find that getting there was worth the journey.  Or you may even find that you enjoy this journey, which is good.

The secret to true joy may well be elusive.  And the flip side of the coin is that there is a way to happiness.  There are so many things in life that can make us happy.  It does not have to be a big thing, little things can produce so much joy too if we just let it happen.

The questions to ask yourself are these.  How do people who are happy do this happy thing?  What do successful people do to become successful?  What does someone who feels in control of their life do that I can also do?  Find out what they do and you too can enjoy what you want in your life.

Happiness is transient and subjective.  Happiness is a sunshine feeling deep inside.  A warm-fuzzy glow.  A smile.

Let us look at the possibility of bringing some sunshine to your mind today.  Maybe there was a time when you were on holiday with friends and enjoyed the togetherness and warmth.  Perhaps there was a time when you won a prize and felt good about yourself.  Maybe you can remember being on a beach, by the pool or in the mountains and feeling blissful.  Or perhaps you remember sitting in the garden or running in the park, a time when you can remember feeling happy and carefree, even if just for a while.

Just for now, remember a time when you were happy.  Even if this was only for a split second, that is OK.

Remember how you felt at that time; just the feeling.  Now that you can remember this feeling, you know that it was possible once before and so will be possible again.

Wherever you go and whatever you do, you will be amazed at how much there is to smile about.  The trick is to think of many little things rather than search for that elusive big thing.  Life has so many happy little moments.  Put together, all these little moments add up.  They have a cumulative effect.  When you can truly enjoy each moment as it comes, you will have discovered the secret of happiness.

Hypnosis and hypnotherapy shows on TV, should we love them or loathe them?  The hypnosis practitioner community voices vastly differing views.   Many professional hypnotherapists express disdain and disgust at TV hypnotists and their shows.  Such is the strength of feeling, it is a wonder that some hypnotherapists actually praise and enjoy the shows.  So what is going on, you may ask; after all, this is entertainment.  It is only TV.  Or is it?

It really depends on the truth and how important it is to you.  Some of us like to live a life of fantasy.  We like to kid ourselves that we can instantly be transformed out of an undesirable state of being.  And then some of us like to be realists.  We like to know that we will live a good life and be happy, and that the right effort will get us there.

And please do not be surprised that some of us prefer fantasy.  This preference for fantasy is there for a good reason.   Sometime in the life of the fantasist, there was a very grim reality from which there was no real escape.  And now, this may be a long time ago.  However, stored somewhere in the mind of the fantasist is this grim reality.  And one would do anything to escape this ugliness, this sadness, this fear.  In other words, the fantasist dreams of an escape to fantasy land, because if we did not have dreams, life can be too much.

Really, the fantasist dreams of an impossible instant cure as a coping strategy.  The fantasist may have been through years of painful counselling with no escape from their demons.  They may have been through various forms of psychotherapy or psycho-analysis, with little, if any, resolution.  As a matter of fact, this counselling or psychotherapy may have caused additional trauma to the trauma already experienced for which they sought help.  They may have been given all sorts of medication by a doctor or psychiatrist.  And unless a solution has been found, when the pills stop, the demons slowly return.  Maybe this is someone you know.  And sadly, too many of us have known the pain of traditional therapy.

You can then easily see why the fantasist would wish for an instant cure.  On TV, the hypnotist may click their fingers, upon which the show volunteer would close their eyes and appear unconscious.  Then the hypnotists commands the volunteer to carry out any number of tasks, and the volunteer happily obeys.  There is no pain, no struggle; it is all very easy.

However, there is a huge difference between the hypnosis show volunteer and someone seeking help for their problem.  Being a willing volunteer doing what you are told is totally different from making important personal changes.  It is like the difference between going to the theatre for fun and going to the dentist for an extraction.

There are even TV shows of actual hypnotherapy for positive change.  Most viewers do not hear the part where the volunteer reports feeling better rather than free from their problem.  And most viewers do not realise that volunteers are carefully pre-selected, nor that the failures are usually not aired.  On TV, change seems very easy.

Unlike our fantasist friend, the realist may approach hypnotherapy with a more down-to-earth expectation.  The realist knows that hypnotherapy is a quick fix and does not expect it to work where a major overhaul is needed.  The realist is very lucky.  They get what they want, because they want what they can get.

A good hypnotherapist would refer on to a good Emotional Freedom Technician or similar practitioner for a long-lasting solution.  You may even find that your hypnotherapist carries out this excellent work themselves.  If so, you may be initially surprised by the techniques used.  These do not involve anything like a closed-eye passive state expected by seekers of hypnosis.  And if a modern hypnotherapist uses these techniques and tells you it will be a number of sessions, maybe you have found a real gem of a practitioner.  It may take longer than on TV, and it may not be as dramatic, but it is for real.
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Hypnosis shows on TV are one of the biggest reasons why people put their trust in hypnotherapy. The viewer can clearly see an effect of the hypnosis. And as the saying goes, a picture paints a thousand words.

There is something pretty dramatic about someone closing their eyes on stage. Closing your eyes is something that is done in sleep. It has many implications. It naturally implies that it is safe to do so, that you can trust the hypnotist, and that this is a normal thing to do. That somebody closes their eyes as soon as the TV hypnotist clicks their fingers is very impressive. After all, if a friend of yours or a business associate clicked their fingers, you would not close your eyes, let alone look asleep! So one gets the feeling that the TV hypnotist is very powerful or at least doing something very powerful indeed.

As well as closing their eyes, volunteers for TV hypnosis usually do things that they would not normally do. They eat an onion, asserting that it is an apple. They count the 5 fingers on one hand and get to six, as if by magic. They may behave like a little girl or an old man. They may even act like a chicken, complete with clucking sounds. And they seem to really believe it. Now that is really impressive.

Maybe the first time you see TV shows about hypnosis, you are half-believing and half-doubting it. After witnessing a few shows though, one can only believe that something is indeed going on.

Then at the end of the show, the hypnotist clicks their fingers and the volunteers kind of wake up, startled. They really look as if they have just been woken from sleep and wonder how they got there. One by one, they look around and seem to understand that they are back in the show. As if they had been somewhere far away in a dream. The volunteers then laugh at their own silly antics and look happy to be there.

Stage hypnosis is pretty much the same. Many people go to see a hypnosis show out of curiosity. Or perhaps they go because they are convinced no-one can influence them and want to put it to the test. And mostly, they go for fun. After all it is entertainment.

Increasingly of late, TV and stage hypnotists have been also doing hypnosis for therapeutic reasons. In other words, they move on to hypnotherapy. Even some TV shows now have hypnotherapy with a goal in mind, such as control over food cravings or a phobia.

As well as actual shows on TV, you get some very motivational infomercials. Some hypnotherapists become household names and sell many hypnotherapy CDs and DVDs. And with many satisfied customers. Maybe you know someone who has benefited from such a self-help tool.

I have always been fascinated how clients come to me for hypnotherapy convinced that it will cure their ills, simply because they saw it on TV. Whether it will have lasting results or not is another matter. However, chances are that it will offer much-needed help. It may even lead to further help and a great new beginning. In the grand scheme of things, it is good that people put their trust in hypnotherapy. They move on and discover a better life.

And all because of something they saw on TV.

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Hypnotherapy or hypnosis… Can you be hypnotized? Can you be more hypnotized than you thought possible?Think about it. What is your favourite place to shop? What brand of coffee/tea/beer/clothes/food do you buy? Any message repeated over and over again has an effect. Just look at advertising. You hear the same message over and over again. And the advertisers spend a great deal of money repeating their message to us. Naturally, they would only do it because it works.

Most of us have our favourite place to shop.  We may have our favourite magazines, favourite clothes, or favourite food and drink.  And we may think that this is purely our own choice.  But what if this is because of advertising?  Or more succinctly, our response to advertising?

Any message repeated over and over again has an effect.  You hear the same message over and over again.  And the advertisers spend a great deal of money repeating their message to us.  Naturally, they would only do it because it works.

Anyone who has studied Hypnotherapy and NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) knows how to develop positive hypnotic  suggestions.  The trick is in turning the language into positive talk.  And when you hear the same positive affirmations over and over again, they begin to have an effect.  They may even have a profound effect on your thinking and general attitude to life.  You may find yourself using these affirmations in your self-talk without even seeing it.

Since advertising works so well, then positive affirmations do work.  It is just a matter of hearing that good message over time.  You may start viewing life from a different perspective.  You may feel calmer and more at ease with yourself.  The world may seem like a better place.

Hypnotherapy is very popular because it helps make fast positive changes.  To most seekers of hypnosis, its value seems to lie in the depth of the hypnosis.  After all, we have all witnessed hypnotic TV shows where the participants walk around clucking like chickens and flapping their wings.  And you may be surprised to find that it is the part that happens during hypnosis that activates the changes, rather than the act of deep relaxation.

We all know someone who is nice to be with.  Perhaps this is a friend, colleague, or someone we do business with.  This is someone that we can always depend on.  He or she is always helpful, ready with a smile, and says nice things to us.  Maybe you know a sales assistant who is like this, and you go out of your way to buy from them.  Or perhaps you have a friend who is so positive, you always try to make time for them.  This is because they have this way about them that makes you feel good.

We all know people who always complain.  In fact, they seem unhappy unless they are telling their latest tale of woe.  And a lot of woe befalls them.  And they talk about it even more.  It can be depressing just listening to someone being so negative, even if they do not mean to.

The trick is in turning negative self-talk into positive self-talk.  This is a skill that anyone can learn.

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