![]() ![]() Whilst in hypnosis, you are more receptive to the hypnotherapist’s suggestions to access these self-limiting and negative automated “patterns”. Some of these patterns are negative and self limiting. ![]() When defining hypnosis, hypnotherapists refer to being able to access the subconscious mind that holds many of the automated “patterns” of thoughts, emotions, beliefs and behaviours that can remain hidden from the conscious mind. Similar to these other practices, it can enable you to perceive your situations with different thoughts, emotions and beliefs. Assisted externally by the hypnotherapist, it can be argued that hypnosis is a state of guided “meditation”. In these different practices you are refocusing your own awareness into (or away from) different situations for calmness or re-clarification. The state of mind in hypnosis is often compared to states in meditation and mindfulness. When watching hypnosis in films (and in hypnotherapy treatments), eye closure is often promoted to focus the attention inwardly, but the hypnotherapist is not encouraging sleep in that treatment session. Ask someone to “role-play” being asleep and they would instinctively close their eyes. The word hypnosis is derived from the Greek word “to sleep”, but the state of hypnosis is not a state of unconsciousness. Various hypnotic techniques are used to enable you to achieve a “heightened state of consciousness” in which you can concentrate your attention into the achievement of your hypnotherapy goals.ĭepending on hypnotherapist’s approach, relaxation techniques may also be incorporated into the hypnotic induction without diminishing your focus of attention. Hypnotherapy is a form of psychotherapy that uses hypnosis to create therapeutic change. In order to distinguish what happens in the fictional portrayal of hypnosis against what typically happens in a hypnotherapy treatment, it can be useful to redefine what hypnotherapy is and how hypnotherapy works in practice. But is it really possible to erase bad memories or forget someone with hypnotherapy? Or is it just something that exists in fantasy movies and stage hypnosis shows?Įrase bad memories or forget someone with hypnotherapy: fact or fiction? You’re desperate to find a memory erasing process that can rescue your torment in a “flick of a switch”. It’s in those moments of helplessness that what you have “learned” from the movies or stage hypnosis shows can seem plausible. But there’s another problem: the more you try and forget them, the more the memories of them just rebound back into your consciousness. You are desperate to get your (ex) partner “out of your head”. You find out that your partner has been cheating on you…more than once! You’ve managed to break out of the relationship but the trauma doesn’t end there. Then you are faced with a personal trauma. Witnessing the subject being placed in a “trance” and then forgetting their own name can sow seeds of belief into the audience that memory erasure is possible. Or maybe the enquiry originated from being a member of the audience in a stage hypnosis show in which the memory of a subject was temporarily “erased”. Is memory erasure with hypnotherapy a fantasy? Films like “Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind” further reinforce the fantasy of these possibilities that you can undergo some brainwashing process to erase the bad memories of someone. The question often stems from misconceptions of the power of hypnosis from the media. I am frequently asked if you can erase bad memories or forget someone with hypnotherapy. Can you erase bad memories or forget someone with hypnotherapy? ![]()
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