Positive talk and thoughts can help us by prompting our minds to consider how we can improve, rather than focusing on a situation that might be making us unhappy. Positive talk can help us become more confident, motivated, and productive.
Hypnosis can be used to improve athletic ability through use of relaxation, mental rehearsal, and interaction with an imaginary coach who can provide athletes with guidance regarding how their athletic performance can be improved
CPM Franchise Group was started in order to improve the mental health care of many children around the country, using the care model first developed at Center Point Medicine: helping children help themselves.
Center Point Medicine started as a dream to develop a full-time private practice focusing on hypnosis and counseling for children. The rapid growth of the practice reflects the great need for a therapy that empowers children to help themselves heal.
Evoking people’s spirituality can be healing, including through gaining perspective. Hypnotic methods to enhance spirituality include learning how to access the subconscious and dealing with existential questions during a state of hypnosis.
The subconscious is responsible for many of the phenomena that we observe and experience with hypnosis. Information gained through interactions with the subconscious during hypnosis often leads to much more effective therapy.
The rapidity of improvement in health through use of hypnosis is dependent on the patient’s willingness to use hypnosis, the specific hypnotic tools that are used, and the nature of the patient’s symptom.
Hypnosis can prepare us to better use our mind power. It works by diverting our attention from the here and now, allows us to consider the possibilities of thinking differently, and permits us to choose new paths of thoughts and behavior.
Hypnosis is not a tool for kidnapping or mind control. It is not practiced by snakes or evildoers. It is not facilitated by inanimate objects with uniquely mesmerizing powers. It is not sleep.
Both hypnosis and biofeedback involve teaching patients to become calmer. While hypnosis involves focusing on words, images, or thoughts, biofeedback involves training patients to regulate themselves by showing them the results of electronic monitoring o
The key to effective hypnosis is to speak the patient’s language, and thus with younger children therapists and parents need to rely more on rhythm, rhyme, and imagery than we might use with an older individual.
Both hypnosis and meditation involve changing of the mindset from usual conscious awareness. Meditation involves a singular focus such as the breath or a mantra in order to increase awareness of the moment. Hypnosis typically involves imagery and utilizes
Hypnosis is a state of consciousness during which people are more receptive to suggestions given by a therapist, doctor, and even by people to themselves. Counseling involves receiving guidance regarding how to resolve a personal or psychological issue.
The key to coping better with stress is to learn how to think in a way that allows stressful triggers to be interpreted calmly. As a result, such triggers are much less likely to have intense physical or mental effects.
Clues that suggest your child’s emotions are related to their physical symptom(s) include complaints of anxiety, dizziness, feeling something is stuck in the throat, palpitations, shakiness, tingling, or numbness.
A most wonderful fact about hypnosis is that your child can learn to control his or her mind better through entering hypnosis. Once your child achieves improved mind control, the applications are limitless.
People who are highly hypnotizable tend to have particularly good imaginations and can picture things easily and in detail in their mind’s eye. They tend to lose track of time when they are engaged in reading an enjoyable book or watching a movie.
To my patients I define hypnosis as “using your imagination to help yourself.” Hypnosis involves a state of focused attention, in which people are more receptive to suggestions.
Hypnosis should be an essential tool in the kit of every health care provider. Without use of this tool, or another way of addressing patients’ psychological issues, the majority of patients suffer needlessly!
In this first blog entry I share about my introduction to the world of hypnosis when I encountered a very allergic patient who was able to think his way into and out of an apparent allergic reaction.
