Hypnosis - The Power of Imagination
Hypnosis is not magic. It is a way to access the power of your own imagination. It puts you into a state of mind where you are far more open to simple suggestions. Suggestions that will help you to change your old ways of thinking and behaving.
The skill is in finding the right idea and translating that into something that your mind can easily understand.
Motivation To Change
It is not just knowing what you have to change and it is not just knowing what you have to do. You have to know how to do it and then motivate yourself to take some action. You might know that you need to take some exercise and that you should do it every day but will you want to do it when it's raining hard outside and you can stay warm and comfortable at home?
You have to work on your own mind and really 'feel' how you will benefit. You need to use your imagination because your imagination is powerful. There are many ways to activate your imagination, but hypnosis is particularly good.
"Make Your Mind Work For You"
"Often in life it is a simple conversation
or something we experience that can transform us in just a few
moments. Like a chance meeting when we fall in love, or when we meet a vital
business contact for the first time and suddenly life is changed forever."
"One small change can gather momentum and like a snowball rolling downhill can eventually make an enormous difference. To make big changes in your life, all you need is to deliver exactly the right idea at the right time."
"You don't have to spend months or years in therapy and spend a
fortune to improve the quality of your life. It is not just about fixing problems, it is also about enhancing performance or developing new skills. Hypnotic techniques are used by olympic athletes, corporations, psychiatrists and coaches the world over."
How Far Down This List Can You Go? |
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1. Stop smoking.
2. Maintain a healthy body weight.
3. Adopt a healthy nutritional diet.
4. Maintain a regular exercise and fitness routine.
5. Be free of anxiety and depression.
6. Discover deep relaxation and become stress free.
7. Experience good quality sleep.
8. Be confident with high self esteem.
9. Regularly set goals and plan for the future.
10. Increase your motivation and achieve what you want
Nine out of ten people in Europe and
North America have neglected their physical health and wouldn't even get past
the first four steps in our list.
1 in 4 of us still smoke.
The average age when we permanently
give up regular exercise is just 34 years old.
Change Is Easier Than You May Have Imagined ...
Your imagination is a powerful tool that
you can learn to use to make changes in your life. Even changes in your behavior and
deep ingrained habits. Imagination is just one part of the mind
that can be activated in the right way with hypnosis.
It Is Time That You Considered Using Hypnosis To Improve Your Life |
The Power Of Hypnosis
Hypnosis puts
you into a state where you are very open to suggestion and far more able to make changes to your behavior and
patterns of thinking.
Going into a hypnotic trance is
something that you do to yourself. It is a skill that can be learned like any
other. A hypnotherapist is really a guide to help you discover that
hypnotic state.
The Suggestions Of Hypnotherapy
Once in a hypnotic trance, you are more
open to suggestion. Hypnotherapy is the careful selection and delivery
of the right suggestions for the changes you want to make.
Some changes happen immediately, others develop over days, weeks, even months.
It is not just about solving problems and changing
unwanted habits. You can also develop new, more useful behavior, such
as improved concentration, greater confidence or stronger motivation.
Hypnosis CDs, DVDs & Health Guides
We are not
all about hypnosis and hypnotherapy. Sometimes, simple lifestyle change s are all that
you need. The health programs on this site are designed to help you find
your own solutions. They are fully researched and we are happy to
discuss any of the ideas presented here if you wish to contact us. The
health guides are here to complement the range of hypnosis CDs and the ideas
they contain.
Take Action, Naturally
We don't throw our lives away
recklessly but we don't stop to think that
we might be wasting our lives bit by bit, every day, by not stopping and taking
some action for ourselves. It is too easy to let life pass by when just a little
time set aside every day can make major changes in our lives.
I am certain you will find something in this site that will help you to improve your life. We promote natural remedies and are anti-drug (prescription or otherwise). We validate everything that we publish on this site. If you would like access to our background research then please feel free to contact us.
Therapy In A Good
Story
Stories have been told for thousands of
years as a way to pass on important lessons in life. Fairy tales,
parables, nursery rhymes, songs, books and films. All have the power to change the way we think and change our lives. We
just need to be open to the ideas they contain.
The following example will
help to show you how a simple story can give you new insight into any
problem you may have. In hypnotherapy, a
particular metaphorical story of this kind would be designed to match a
particular need.
I hope, that this will demonstrate how the unconscious mind, left to its own
natural processes, can change even deeply held beliefs.
The Two Monks Tale
Two monks
are travelling together on a long journey. They have both taken vows never
to touch a woman. One day by chance, they come to a deep fast flowing
river that they have to cross and find a young woman waiting there. She is
unable to cross and asks for their help. Without hesitating the older monk
lifts the young woman onto his back and carries her across the river.
She leaves and the two monks continue on their journey. The younger monk
walks silently with growing anger that his companion so easily broke his
vows.
Eventually he cannot contain himself any longer and turns on his companion
and demands that he explain his actions.
The older monk calmly turns to him and says "If I was the one that picked
her up, why is it that you are the one that cannot put her down?" |
So What Could A Story Like This This Mean
To The Unconscious Mind?
If your thoughts were focused
upon a certain problem then your unconscious could interpret this story and
learn something of value from it. Applied in the right way this story can
produce changes in the way that you think.
The following exercise may help
you to understand how this works more clearly.
Go back and in your imagination live the story. Be the monk that gets angry.
Now understand that the monk that carried the girl is your unconscious and
the monk that worries is your conscious self.
Now, make carrying the girl something that you did that you shouldn't have
done and imagine the story again.
In a state of hypnosis you will be able to make important links to your current problems. Your unconscious mind understands and uses ideas in a very different way to your conscious waking self.
This is just one of the ways that hypnotherapy can work. It presents new ideas and insights to your unconscious so that it can deal with the world more comfortably.
I hope you will find something of value to take away with you from these pages.

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