Do you know what to expect when you go under hypnosis? Or what the difference is to meditation?

Monday 4^th January 2021 was World Hypnosis Day and I love hypnosis so in today’s episode we are talking all things hypnosis. I’ve giving you a bit of history, how it works, what you can expect, how it’s different to meditation and how it could be useful for you:

• [1.50] Some people think it’s all pendulums and chicken dances – it’s not. What you’re actually looking at in an incredible re-programming tool for your unconscious mind
• [2.36] I was nervous the first time I had hypnosis, but I love it.
• [3.25] Over the years hypnosis has been used for entertainment, including by Franz Anton Mesmer who used it in the 1750s to entertain the French Aristocracy
• [4.08] In 1950 Dr Milton Erickson revised hypnotherapy, taking it off the stage and made it a respectable therapeutic intervention. He practiced hypnosis daily from 1920-1980 seeing up to 14 people per day
• [4.52] Only 4% of our minds are in our conscious awareness at any time. 96% is our unconscious mind.
• [5.28] Once we have learnt something our brain wants to automate it, so we don’t have to use the precious 4% in our conscious awareness
• [6.41] We have a programme for everything we run in our bodies and everything we do – some are more advantageous than others
• [8.10] In hypnotherapy we are suggesting new programmes that are more advantageous and aligned to what you want to achieve
• [8.40] The more you use a neural pathway the stronger it becomes
• [10.16] You can expect to:
  • Feel deeply relaxed – we are slowing your brain waves
  • Hear your practitioners voice at all times – it’s conscious hypnosis
  • Have complete control – your unconscious mind is more powerful than any hypnotherapist
• [12.55] How is it different to meditation? They look the same and they are both relaxing. There are some key differences:
  • Brain wave states – in meditation you are in alpha and in hypnosis you are in theta
  • Meditation is awareness and hypnosis is about reprogramming
  • Meditation is passive, you are observing, and hypnosis is active, you are reprogramming
• [18.30] Think of hypnosis as an accelerator towards your goals
• [19.36] This time of year, we are setting new year’s resolutions, making visions boards, goal setting or simply daydreaming.
• [19.55] You may think about what you need to do to achieve those goals. I encourage you to consider who you need to be
• [20.10] This is more important as who you need to be, will affect what you need to do to get where you want to go.
• [21.10] Every time you learn something new you reshape your brain.

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