Hypnotherapy - How and Why

It's ten days into the Hypnotherapy course, and I wouldn't be exaggerating if I said, I can actually feel my mind whirring and whining in the effort to absorb, process and reset itself. While it's in essence about therapy through hypnosis, just by virtue of entering the subconscious space, it forays into a lot of surreal concepts....and concepts that extend beyond the known 'space-time' paradigm. Mind Boggling. Pun intended :)

What it's doing is enabling a cognitive understanding of a lot of complex and mysterious concepts which were earlier in the realm of 'beliefs'. I'm beginning to get why they call the course a game changer.

And it's amazing, also because the shift is happening not just through understanding, but also through small subtle surreal experiences almost on daily basis. Yes, for sure the antennae are getting sharper.

Let me start with the hypnosis itself:

Hypnosis.....What this brings to mind is a scene of zonked out eyes, a swinging pendulum, and a zoned out state. A state where the hypnotist has control of your mind. (aka Kaa in Jungle book :)

And this quite naturally sounds scary.......who'd want to give away control of their mind, right? Let someone into our deepest darkest secrets?

Well, Hypnotherapy, in it's therapeutic form, is not really like that.

It distinguishes itself in two distinct ways:

1) It is used only for the purpose of healing, and necessarily a healing desired by the client 

2) The client is 'aware' and retains control at all times

How?

The state of hypnosis induced for therapy, is the altered state where the body is asleep, the conscious mind is in a relatively dormant space and the subconscious mind is accessible, and at all times the client is aware.

It's a state that's very similar to meditation, in that it is also a deeply relaxed state of mind. Difference being that this is for a purpose, and enables laser like reach to the issue at hand, especially in the hands of a good therapist.

Why?

When we say it's used for therapeutic purposes, this has behind it the wholistic approach of the mind and the body, and how each effects the other in inexorably deep ways. What follows is how almost any ailment that we have, however physical, behavioral or psychological it may be, has it's origin through the mind.... through feelings...... through the energy body. And thus, can also be accessed and removed through the mind.

The subconscious mind is the warehouse, the system that is responsible for all that happens 'behind the scenes' -  our emotions, our behavioral patterns, our fears, our decisions, etc. and it's all stored there...... from forever. And Hypnosis pops open a control panel that gives access to this warehouse.