The Advantages And The Disadvantages Of Hypnosis

By Anna Phillips


This is the state in a human consciousness where in a person will be focusing his or her attention into something, reducing or losing a peripheral awareness. Also, the persons response to any suggestions is enhanced. This term is also being referred to the skill, act, or art of hypnosis induction. There are two theories that explain the things that occur in here and these are the altered state and the non state theories.

Through this, it is believed that a person will have a heightened his or her concentration and focus. And this means that the person can be able to concentrate intensely into a certain memory or thought, thus, blocking out the distraction sources. The profession related to this and who is responsible for performing this therapy is referred to as hypnotherapist. Hypnotherapists in Washington DC hypnosis surely can help people in addressing their problems that concern this.

There are many different applications of this into multiple fields including the purposes of psychotherapeutic, entertainment, self improvement, medical, and military. Ever since, hypnosis is already being utilized for the supplemental approaches in the therapy for cognitive behavior. It is usually defined in relation with a classical conditioning, in which both the hypnosis and the stimuli are called condition responses.

Aside from these being mentioned, there are also other purposes of this including physical therapy, forensics, education, sports, and rehabilitation. Some artists have been using this also for creative ideas. There are some people who draw analogies between the aspects and the areas of hypnotism which include ritual trances, crowd psychology, and religious hysteria. The following are the pros and cons of hypnotherapy.

Activating deeper responses for the relaxation of body. It helps in reducing the activities that occur in the sympathetic nervous system, blood pressure will be decreased, slowing the heart rate, and healing is accelerated. Another advantage is controlling the relationship, life, body, and surroundings of the person. Thus, the person can realize how life have been unfolded.

This can be considered also as a self hypnosis, and this means that people can be able to control their own hypnotic state. They have the freedom on choosing to explore the subconscious specifically the memories, images, and sensations. And maybe, they can also choose to open their eyes anytime, and return into a room.

Through this, one can also learn on the methods of self care, and thus, learning the resources, ideas, and techniques which may possibly become the lifetime tools. This also changes the reactivity of events and stress responses. And through these changes, the health will be increased, the muscles become relaxed, and the immune system restores the heal mode.

While the disadvantages would include not working especially if the person does not want it, does not have the will, and does not focus on healing. A hypnotherapist is the only person who can guide them. The patient is responsible to have a full participation, space and time dedication, and practice self hypnosis.

Also, the therapy cannot be quickly fixed. This usually needs a number of sessions for better effect and for a permanent healing. Even if most of the cases require only one session for the elimination of chronic neck pains and also life long allergies. For the chronic diseases, a number of sessions are needed for lasting changes. Multiple sclerosis is an example session.




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