What Is Hypnosis?
What is Hypnosis? Describe the psychological and physical aspects of hypnosis and discuss the role of relaxation in Hypnotherapy.
I shall be looking and exploring what hypnosis is, the role of relaxation in it and the connections between the mind and body in hypnotherapy. Hypnosis has been used in every culture in some form. People who used hypnosis were often referred to as ‘witch doctors’, ‘medicine men’ or ‘healers’. The earliest evidence has been found among shamans. They avoided chemicals or alcoholic substances for at least 24 hours before a healing session and they use quiet or remote locations like isolated places in forest or caves to maintain the quiet needed with no distractions. The way that the shaman described the journey was a descent into the ‘lower world’ and visualised an opening in the earth and travelling downwards. There were sometimes one of the shamans’s companions providing drum beats, singing, chanting or dancing. Any of these always had two qualities, they were rhythmic and monotonous which was designed to allow the shaman’s mind to become strongly focused, to seek out the sick spirit, make it whole and bring it back to the patient. The process of visualisation and suggestion he used, will the sick person to be healed.
Hypnotherapy can be used as a non-medical approach to helping people with issues relating to weight management, smoking, the stresses of daily life, phobias, pain, natural childbirth, self-esteem, learning, sleep, depression, creativity blocks, anxiety, traumas, surgery and personal motivation. The brain waves that we use slow down as the client becomes more and more relaxed in the hypnosis process. When the client first starts the process, the brain is using beta waves which are for a focused and active mind. As the client relaxes, the brain waves slow down through the stages of alpha, theta and then to delta waves which is between 1 and 4 cycles per second. This is the lowest that the brain waves go down too. 0
I shall be looking and exploring what hypnosis is, the role of relaxation in it and the connections between the mind and body in hypnotherapy. Hypnosis has been used in every culture in some form. People who used hypnosis were often referred to as ‘witch doctors’, ‘medicine men’ or ‘healers’. The earliest evidence has been found among shamans. They avoided chemicals or alcoholic substances for at least 24 hours before a healing session and they use quiet or remote locations like isolated places in forest or caves to maintain the quiet needed with no distractions. The way that the shaman described the journey was a descent into the ‘lower world’ and visualised an opening in the earth and travelling downwards. There were sometimes one of the shamans’s companions providing drum beats, singing, chanting or dancing. Any of these always had two qualities, they were rhythmic and monotonous which was designed to allow the shaman’s mind to become strongly focused, to seek out the sick spirit, make it whole and bring it back to the patient. The process of visualisation and suggestion he used, will the sick person to be healed.
Hypnotherapy can be used as a non-medical approach to helping people with issues relating to weight management, smoking, the stresses of daily life, phobias, pain, natural childbirth, self-esteem, learning, sleep, depression, creativity blocks, anxiety, traumas, surgery and personal motivation. The brain waves that we use slow down as the client becomes more and more relaxed in the hypnosis process. When the client first starts the process, the brain is using beta waves which are for a focused and active mind. As the client relaxes, the brain waves slow down through the stages of alpha, theta and then to delta waves which is between 1 and 4 cycles per second. This is the lowest that the brain waves go down too. 0