Hypnosis for Healing has been known to the world for thousands of years, and when applied as hypnotherapy aids healing, relaxation, de-stressing, self-esteem, pain relief, cure of addictions, and many curative processes, combines the use of words and suggestion upon the unconscious mind of someone who wants help.

How does hypnosis help healing?

When someone is hypnotized; the brain, the filing system of the body, which tries to be so judgemental in our lives, often causing problems within us by so doing, and can stop us from remembering that which is deep in our unconscious mind, stopping us from thinking and interfering, sometimes very negatively, in our lives; is stopped from all this activity, we gain access to our unconscious mind to which we can add words of encouragement, healing, and strength, triggering abilities in the body to heal.

When the brain’s thoughts are repressed, hypnotherapists are able to talk directly to our unconscious which starts the body to change its own energy flows, start to heal itself, or repair by seeing reason to change.

Even if a person can realise under hypnosis that if they simply change the words they use to positive words and the thoughts they have to positive thoughts they can have a very positive influence upon their health and lives.

Hypnosis can be a valuable tool on its own, or used together with the application of medical or alternative therapies to aid healing or generally improving people’s lives. Hypnosis is simply putting a person into a trance or very relaxed state by an interaction between a practitioner and a person who wishes to be hypnotized.

Hypnosis is basically relaxing the brain to a state which is between being awake and being asleep. This state is one which may never be feared, this is simply the same state you go through twice a day every day, when you go to sleep, that point between being asleep and being awake, then pass through again when you wake up, just before being fully awake.

The person being hypnotized is always in control of themselves and everything that happens, they can hear everything that is said and are fully in control of their faculties to an extent they can never be told to do something they do not want to do. It is a state of mind when suggestions are acted upon and stored in the unconscious and long after recalled, it is a state of very high focus and awareness, soft sounds become louder, recollection is vivid, even to the stage when every event in one’s life can be recalled. Events from previous lives can be recalled vividly as well.

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Amazing as it may seem, the powers of hypnosis have been well-known and used for thousands of years, yet at this day in the twenty-first century hypnosis is still an art so clouded with mystery that the majority of the population have little, to no understanding of it at all, so little in fact that many people even doubt that there is such a thing as hypnosis, which is why I have put together this article on the history of hypnosis.

We do have at this time, much evidence supporting the use of hypnosis from as far back a time as 2000 years B.C. Humanity could never have advanced in any form to what it is today without the ability to….. simply go inside, and focus your attention upon one thought….that’s right…and allow that thought to grow…as you notice…. the intricacies of what may pass inside….

Man is the only form of life on earth with such ability, which is the very reason why we have climbed to the top of the food chain. Our ability to think, dream, and construct those dreams into the reality of what others at one time would have considered the power of God.

Below you will find a brief history of humanities use of trance, prayer, meditation, or as we call it here the history of hypnosis, because to us it’s all about going inside…and dreaming that dream…eventually…learning how…to do…and become…all that we desire.

2000 B.C.      Ancient Sanskrit’s contain writings of the use of healing trances, performed    within the walls of healing temples in India.

Egyptian papyrus scrolls depict the story of sleep temples, in which priests dressed in mystical robes would speak to those that came, in such a way that illnesses healed.

1500 A.D.      Paracelsus, the discoverer of the cure for syphilis, began healing illness, and   disease with magnets.

1600 A.D.      Valentine Greatrakes healed via the laying of hands combined with the passing of magnets over the body.

1725 A.D.      Father Maximilian Hell, a Jesuit priest used magnets to heal people.

1734 – 1817  Franz Anton Mesmer, a student of Maximilian Hell brought the use of healing magnets to Vienna. At the time blood-letting was the primary method of healing. Mesmer would bleed a patient and then pass a magnet over the cut, causing the bleeding to stop. One day by coincidence Mesmer couldn’t find his magnet and used a stick instead, still causing the bleeding to stop. It was this that led Mesmer to believe that the magnetic energy came from within the patient, of which in turn he eventually labelled the term Animal Magnetism, because it also appeared that he had this magnetic attraction.
In due time, the king of France put together a board of inquiry consisting of Lavoisier (a chemist), Benjamin Franklin, and Dr. Guillotin. What finally gave Mesmer‘s claims away was that he had apparently magnetized a tree on his property, in order to accommodate a number of people. Eventually as Benjamin watched a young boy needing healing went out to the tree, and went into the fad of convulsions (as people did in those times once mesmerized), unfortunately the tree wasn’t the one magnetized by Mesmer. Soon after this incident Mesmer was dubbed a fraud.

1800   The Marquis de Pusseguyr from France took up mesmerism, and eventually coined the term “somnambulism” meaning “sleepwalker”, which is used today to describe the deepest state of hypnosis.

1838   Dr. Elliottson began using mesmerism in his practice and was expelled from the medical community.

1840   James Braid witnessed a mesmerism demonstration put on by La Fontaine. Braid came to the realization that it was the power of hypnotic suggestion which entranced the subject, and came up with the name neuro-hypnosis.

1843   James Braid wrote the book “Neurypnology”, and published his observation that it was a subject’s fixation on a single point that caused the state of trance. He tried to coin the term monoideaism, but it didn’t stick and the term hypnosis, survived to this day.

1850   James Esdaile discovered how to use mesmerism to control pain and performed over five hundred operations successfully along with speedy recovery times. This was all done before the invention of chloroform, but when he brought his report back to Britain, the medical community didn’t believe him, and shut him out of the British Medical Corps.

1864   Liebault of France began using a system he developed for therapy using hypnosis. Soon after Bernheim joined with Liebault in his research after a patient had been cured of a sciatica almost overnight after being worked on by Liebault. The two eventually formed the Nancy School of Hypnosis. Freud appeared as one of Bernheim and Liebault’s students, but due to his inability to gain rapport with clients because of his rotten teeth and over use of cocaine, he proved to be a miserable hypnotist and abandoned the use of hypnosis.

1904   Ivan Pavlov, a Russian physiologist publishes his paper on “conditioned reflex”. Today we know this as “Anchoring”

The first healing through hypnosis in south Africa happened in 1908 in the Waterberg area of Limpopo when Eugene Marais healed Hessie van Deventer, who could not walk, by hypnosis. See Die Groot Verlange of Leon Rrousseau, Donker Stroom of Carel van der Merwe and Natuurkundige en Wetenskaplike Studies of E N Marais. Courtesy H L van Niekerk. Cell 082 300 5974.

1943   Clark Hull, one of Milton Erickson‘s professors wrote “Hypnosis and Suggestibility” – One of the first books covering the psychological studies on hypnosis. One of his primary observations was that “anything that assumes trance, causes trance”. Although his primary professor, Milton Erickson and Hull strongly disagreed on their thoughts of hypnosis. Erickson‘s beliefs stemmed from observation, and naturalistic processes, while Hull researched for a method that could be phonographed and used on everyone in the population. His reports concluded that a portion of the population could never be hypnotized, due to his stringent trance inducing methods.
From the stated beginnings of psychoanalysis in the late 1800′s by Breuer and Freud, the use of hypnotic techniques to break through traumatic amnesias and the repressions of their patients proved unsuccessful.

Jung also relinquished the practice of hypnosis. What these early analysts had in common was their traditional, authoritarian approach to hypnosis which was characteristic of the time. Although patients had remembered traumatic experiences, the pressures applied with the authoritarian approach proved fruitless in accessing any usable information. Jung himself stated, “I gave up hypnotic treatment for this very reason, because I did not want to impose my will on others.”

With time, as always everything changes, and so have methods of therapy. The revolutionary shift to the permissive, naturalistic, and ideodynamic approach to therapeutic hypnosis was pioneered by Milton Erickson.

1920 – 1980 Milton Erickson helped about 14 people per day for the sixty years he maintained his hypnotherapy practice. He first began with direct suggestion but quickly realized that a different approach, a more permissive approach worked better, and that he could hypnotize a far greater percentage of the population with what might be referred to as a permissive approach, eventually being called the utilization approach to hypnotherapy. Eventually Milton Erickson developed many extraordinary means of bringing on trance developments, making him the most pronounced and influential figure of modern-day hypnosis.

The rise of popularity of hypnosis in the Western world seems to follow the same lines of many other alternative therapies. They are often put to test when everything else fails, and/or when other means of help are not available. The effectiveness of hypnosis at such times eventually elicits curiosity in scientific circles.

Controversially hypnosis has been described as some “special, altered state of mind” in which the subject is more suggestible and open to influence from the hypnotist.  Throughout the past few decades, people have extraordinarily created the myth of the “trance state” and in doing so have labelled hypnosis as some form of mind control in which the subject has no choice in his / her actions and is somehow forced to do what they choose not to…

I wish to tell you that this cannot be farther from the truth.

I mention the controversial description of hypnosis above…  Controversial because, similar to the great Derren Brown and other fascinating masters of influence and persuasion, I too share the belief that hypnosis is no special state of mind.  That all individuals are in a constant state of influence; there is nothing “special” about it.

We as humans go in and out of different states of mind almost as often as we change our decisions based on external influence.  Making up one’s mind doesn’t really seem as concrete as one would be left to believe, now does it?

If I may be so bold as to quote Sir John Eckles:

“…there are no colours, fragrances, beauty or ugliness in the world… merely quantum soup… taken by magicians and converted into experiences of amazement…”

This basically comes down to the old saying of “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”.
We as humans create our reality based on the perceptions we have about our surroundings.

So when we look at reality this way, we can come to the conclusion that for us as hypnotists, influencers & masters of persuasion we simply engage our subjects in everyday cognitive processes and by leading their imagination to experience a shift in reality, they are able to perform amazing feats by following their imagination and therefore a new reality.  There is no force or domination or witchcraft (as I have heard on numerous occasion) involved.  On the contrary, if a hypnotist attempts to force a subject in a specific direction, the chances are that the subject will resist.

Hypnotists are leaders, we lead our subjects to believe their new reality. Forcefulness is better left to politicians and certain religious institutions.

There is an old saying that goes:

“In the war between will and imagination, the imagination always wins.”

Hence why we as hypnotists are so charming and intriguing…  We do, after all, capture your imagination at will, don’t we?…

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A major portion of people in the world today suffer headaches.

The reason is generally stress. Stress of life, family, financial and World problems does indeed take its toll. Stress however is a state of the mind which in turn causes a physical reaction.

The mental cause of a physical reaction is however most times overlooked and a pill taken to ease the pain as a bandaid fix ignoring the cause..Our own thoughts.

The body is like millions of telephone lines sending and receiving signals to the main switchboard, the brain.If the brain has a painful thought therefore, the body will have a painful reaction. However the reaction is more often a signal to us that we are stressed and must overcome this stress for our own wellbeing.

Hypnotherapy, or the therapeutic effect of hypnosis then can play a major role simply helping a person for example to handle a past problem as realistically not affecting them today, or to handle a present problem more clearly with less confusion can help overcome the often debilitating effects of headache.

The ability to overcome a multitude of unnecessary factors magnifying the problem can therefore lessen the degree of the problem and resultant physical and mental stress AND LESSEN THE NEED FOR THE WARNING SIGN OR PAINFUL SIGNAL FROM THE BODY. The signals to the body to reduce stress are lessened and the headache diminished as the stress levels lower. Hypnosis for headaches has been used effectively for thousands of years.

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Hypnosis for sports performance has been used for decades but overlooked by most trainers.

The mind controls many aspects of not only mental, but also physical performance.

One field where hypnosis and hypnotherapy have revolutionized the industry is in sports performance.

Having been originally involved with assisting the Australian Olympic team, then helping elite sports people in every sport imaginable to attain world class performance, Arthur can help people improve performance in any sport.

The mind plays a huge part even in the most physically demanding sport and can sap energy, distract focus and attention, or ,if used properly to attain up to 120% of best performance by eliminating competition nerves or personal problems stopping you from being the best you can be.

The brain can be our worst enemy and any nerves or distraction can weaken you body and ability to perform.

However most training overlooks the mind as being a major part of preparation which however can unleash more energy, ability,focus and sports performance than most realise.

For example if stress causes a person to clench their jaw they can diminish strength by up to 20%

Eliminate the stress and strength improves immediately.

Anger, lack of confidence, and competition nerves are also a major performance destroyer and hypnosis for sports performance can help you overcome all of these and improve personal bests.

Any form of fear can cause muscles to unnecessarily tense and not move correctly.

Every athlete in every sport can benefit from hypnosis.

Hypnosis for sports performance can help increase strength, overcome your fears and be the competitor you really want to be

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Depression can be the most debilitating condition on the planet. The side effects can damage every part of a person’s life.

Hypnosis can help depression.

Millions of people suffer depression for about as many reasons. So many pains and illnesses also are a side effect of depression, adding to the problems.

The feelings of depression come from depressing thoughts.

Hypnosis can help overcome the never ending circle of feelings, pain, illness, created from Depression.

Depression and Hypnosis

As the major cause is thoughts and the mind, hypnosis can re-establish thoughts and resulting feelings of comfort and well-being. This can be for the  first time in many years that a person has felt calm. This realization becomes a reference point, another place to be, rather than darkness and pain.

The habit of feeling bad then has another alternative. One that is pleasant and can in fact override the darkness and give a person control over themselves once more.

I work with members of the medical profession who are seeking alternatives to medication. Medication can often exacerbate side effects. Many now recommend the use of hypnosis as an alternative, or to be used in conjunction with medication. In most cases we see people reacting very positively with hypnosis.

Hypnosis has been used for thousands of years with great results, and only recently starting to gain acceptance by the medical profession.

It creates feelings of calmness form calmer thought patterns. Hypnosis can create logical thinking overcoming snowballing effects of adding problems to previous problems for example.

The results of hypnosis can be extremely effective.

Simply based upon feeling nice, feeling calm. Knowing they have done this by themselves, giving them control over themselves once more is the best feeling a person can have.

Fogginess can go, pains can go. Calmness can return.

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Hypnosis for stress relief is often overlooked in this age of pills and potions.

Stress is our worst enemy, the cause of most mental and physical problems that seem to have no cause.

Stopping a person thinking. Causing people to overeat.

One of the most important factors of personal well-being and longevity is stress relief.
When a person learns they can in fact control and overcome their stress the entire body is affected in a very positive way.
Calmness therefore can help a person heal, think, achieve, and be the person they want to be.

How does hypnosis work

Every word you think affects every atom of your body. Negative words therefore create bad feelings throughout your body. The solution is therefore easier than most people think..

Hypnosis can help eliminate negativity and help you feel physically calm so you can think positively.

It does this simply with words. Making you aware of positive words, words of encouragement and calmness. Making you aware of how you can change your feelings with words changes feelings. This awareness reduces stress and pain. Even some illnesses can be alleviated by reducing stress levels.

You then realize you have control over your thoughts, your body and your stress levels.

Rid yourself of pain,headaches, body pain,inability to think properly. Perform better at sport and work, and feel better about yourself.
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Hypnosis for studying is often overlooked.

However it can be the most effective way of helping, and literally every person on the planet can benefit from hypnosis.

Both children and adults worldwide experience some degree of difficulty with study and associated examinations.

People are so often diagnosed as supposedly suffering from this or that and prescribed drugs known in many parts of the world as the suicide drug but distributed in South Africa like lollies.

Just branding someone as having a problem can make them feel like a freak.

Pills never address the problem, which is rarely a mental problem, but simply, stress.

Hypnosis helps study by clearing the mind of other influences such as parental and peer pressure.

The brain literally cannot  think when stress is a factor.

Therefore study and recollection of information becomes impossible.

Such an important tool as hypnosis helps people by creating a feeling of physical and mental well-being.

Instantly the brain comes out of what is very similar to a state of shock.

Fog and clutter that stop necessary thought clears.

This enables a person to absorb what is read and recall what has been learnt at otherwise stressful exam times.

Hypnosis for studying does this by suggestion.

As every word we think affects every atom in our bodies, this therefore can be of great help. Stress induced by an event which has shocked a person, or bullying, or parental and peer pressure can be quickly overcome with hypnosis.

The thoughts of examinations can be just as traumatic to the majority of people, causing unnecessary stress and worry, but also easily helped with hypnosis.

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