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Hypnosis & The Power Of The Mind
05 Oct 2007
As a youngster, I practised various martial arts and was often amazed by how physical power could be increased using what is now called ‘mind techniques’. It was this that led me to a fascination in the subject. At the same time, there was a story , in the press, about how a woman lifted the end of her car, to free her son, who was trapped beneath it. Afterwards, they calculated the weight that she had lifted and it was far in excess of her normal capabilities.
Try this simple exercise. Stand with your legs about shoulder width apart. Hold your right arm out and twisting, only from the hip, rotate clockwise as far as you comfortably can go. Identify the point on the wall, where you have reached. Now close your eyes and imagine (but do not move) doing the same exercise, this time going much further on than the previous point. Do this 10 times. Then open your eyes and rotate as far as you comfortably can. You should be surprised at the result. This form of visualisation is used by sportsmen, businessmen and individuals to improve their performance in whatever field they choose. Tiger Woods started using mind techniques at a young age and look what he has achieved.
Hypnosis is often considered to be slightly mystic and used to belittle volunteers, who are encouraged to go up on stage for the amusement of others. There is a school of thought that says that we are in some form of trance many times a day. For example, the person who is daydreaming, possibly in a car; the sportsman who is ‘in the zone’; the soldier in battle; an individual watching an intense film. There are many examples. The common theme is that they display one, or more, of the 9 established trance phenomena. For example: time distortion, sensory distortion (e.g. not feeling pain), amnesia, negative hallucination (not noticing something that is present), etc etc.
A Hypnotherapist, using hypnosis, makes use of these same trance phenomena to help clients to experience a perceived problem in a different way, so that it no longer is regarded as a problem. It has been said that our job is actually to take a client out of trance, when it comes to their perceived issue.
It continues to astound me what can be achieved using hypnosis and the power of the mind. Assuming that you accept the relationship between mind and body, then you may find it conceivable to accept that you can convince the mind to alter the state of the body. Headaches can be eliminated within a few minutes, for example. If you take this further and further, then you may start to wonder where the limits to our mental abilities exist and just how much more we can achieve when we put our mind to it.
Chris Jones Hypnotherapist & NLP Master-Practitioner Try this simple exercise. Stand with your legs about shoulder width apart. Hold your right arm out and twisting, only from the hip, rotate clockwise as far as you comfortably can go. Identify the point on the wall, where you have reached. Now close your eyes and imagine (but do not move) doing the same exercise, this time going much further on than the previous point. Do this 10 times. Then open your eyes and rotate as far as you comfortably can. You should be surprised at the result. This form of visualisation is used by sportsmen, businessmen and individuals to improve their performance in whatever field they choose. Tiger Woods started using mind techniques at a young age and look what he has achieved.
Hypnosis is often considered to be slightly mystic and used to belittle volunteers, who are encouraged to go up on stage for the amusement of others. There is a school of thought that says that we are in some form of trance many times a day. For example, the person who is daydreaming, possibly in a car; the sportsman who is ‘in the zone’; the soldier in battle; an individual watching an intense film. There are many examples. The common theme is that they display one, or more, of the 9 established trance phenomena. For example: time distortion, sensory distortion (e.g. not feeling pain), amnesia, negative hallucination (not noticing something that is present), etc etc.
A Hypnotherapist, using hypnosis, makes use of these same trance phenomena to help clients to experience a perceived problem in a different way, so that it no longer is regarded as a problem. It has been said that our job is actually to take a client out of trance, when it comes to their perceived issue.
It continues to astound me what can be achieved using hypnosis and the power of the mind. Assuming that you accept the relationship between mind and body, then you may find it conceivable to accept that you can convince the mind to alter the state of the body. Headaches can be eliminated within a few minutes, for example. If you take this further and further, then you may start to wonder where the limits to our mental abilities exist and just how much more we can achieve when we put our mind to it.
Chris Jones HYPNOTHERAPIST & NLP Master-Practitioner www.chrisjones.uk.com
