Zack and away! ? What happens with hypnosis?
"Ha, I'll do a shit!" That was the thought that went through my head when the show hypnotist ordered my head to tip forward. "Shit, I'll ..." At the same moment, my head tilted forward. I kept my consciousness and I still remember that it amused me a little bit with how much conviction I had misplaced. To be honest, a minute before I would have bet my ass on it that hypnosis is a hocus-pocus that only works for people who want to believe in it. Now, I've been taught a lesson.
A state of infinite relaxation
The hypnotist had just before folded my hands and let my crossed thumbs fix. Within a few seconds, he had put me in a state of total relaxation, eventually leading me to follow his instructions. This is scary only for outsiders. For me it felt normal at that moment. I was able to answer, talking to him about my feelings and resting completely in me. He told me that my hands were firmly anchored to each other, and in fact I did not manage to separate them. It just seemed impossible. But that did not scare me either. "At three, you'll awaken and be as relaxed as never before," he said, then counted, "One, two, three." I shuddered and felt a calmness that I had forgotten that she exists at all.
And what if I'm totally embarrassed?
Even now, years later, this state of trance has impressively stuck in my mind and I am looking for answers to the questions that I have since asked myself. Denise Humbert is a non-medical practitioner for psychotherapy with a focus on hypnotherapy. She explains to me what hypnosis really is. "Basically everyone knows this state of hypnosis, for example, if you sit on the sofa on Sundays, you're lost in your thoughts or a good book, and then wake up like a dream, that was a trance that you do not judge the world and yourself, nothing else is done through hypnosis. " Hmm. This is actually known. I ask them why people then spend money on being hypnotized, when a Sunday free-for-all sofa session is so easy. "You do not pay a therapist for a trance, but what we do together," she explains. "Therapeutic hypnosis uses the uneventful state of trance to change one's behavior or personal habits, which usually works very well when you really want it yourself, which is what a hypnotherapist always needs to achieve something an inner yes. " So, under hypnosis, can not I be induced to dance naked in the marketplace? "No," the expert calms me down. "Unless you've always wanted to do that and you're completely free of shit." Well, I would have to think about it.
Whereby hypnosis can help
Hypnosis is particularly well known as a weight loss and smoking cessation aid. "Rightly so," says the expert. "Usually a session is enough to change eating habits sustainably." In a self-experiment, she let herself be put into a trance a year ago by a colleague herself. "I used to be a chocolate junkie, but since then I just can not stand it anymore, not even on chocolate, and that means something." Even with fears, hypnosis can help very well. "Anxiety is basically something of a trance, and when you're scared, you're totally focused on yourself and one thing, which you can treat well in hypnosis, for example, a single session is usually enough for fear of flying." With serious traumas and other emotional needs, the treatment may take a little longer. "Hypnosis is a very individual thing, and in some patients, it takes time and practice to dare and really let go, and some do not even hypnotize themselves, because that's what I need an internal yes."
Back to factory settings
You do not have to worry about hypnosis. "Against hypocritical ideas no hypnotist arrives," assures Denise Humbert. Can I be reset to maximum factory setting? "That's the way to express that," laughs Denise Humbert. "You always stay in a trance, too." Well, if that's not good news. I decide to give it a try with hypnotherapy. After all, there are more sensible approaches than imaginary hands that have grown together. I will report. You will hear from me again as soon as I am a non-smoking, in size 36 suitable and buddha moderately deep relaxed version of myself. May take. That's certainly not just a session.
Denise Humbert works as a hypnotherapist in Hamburg and specializes in weight loss, smoking cessation and anxiety disorders.
//www.denisehumbert.de
