Hypnosis
Help through hypnosis in self-help
Hypnosis is a topic that many have labeled as a show or even problematic. However, since this can also have a considerable influence on the harmony of body, mind and soul and “amazing” things happen afterwards, I discovered the topic for my self-help pages.
Although I also work with this topic myself in a broader sense, I asked the guest author Niels, who has a much deeper knowledge of the subject and can also impart this knowledge in an educational way, due to the extensive subject matter. I think he can help with many problems with a technique that is very old and helpful. I am glad that I was able to win Niels over for this topic and am pleased that he is now making even more self-help possible for all of us with his contributions.
All love
Sebastian
Hypnosis: Part 1
Hello everyone, I recently received a request from Sebastian to write something about hypnosis. I didn’t have to hesitate for long and set to work straight away.
Hypnosis, what is it?
To put it briefly: Hypnosis is a state in which you gain access to the unconscious part of your mind. This makes it possible to change undesirable behavior patterns directly. It is important that the hypnotist knows exactly what is happening at all times. Even if it looks like it, hypnosis is NOT SLEEP! The hypnotist is in
a state that lies between sleep and being awake. This state is comparable to the one we often experience before getting up, in which dream images mix with external impressions from “outside”. You know that one part is dreaming, but the other is already waking up. The unconscious is extremely receptive in this state. Hypnosis is a technique for artificially inducing this state.
Let’s talk about me first. They call me Niels. I was born in 68 and have been working intensively with hypnosis for almost 8 years. But it all started in my childhood when I learned autogenic training at the age of 10. Since then, I have been studying the effect of words on people.
I offer “mobile” hypnosis courses for interested people, which means that I travel around Germany and also teach the basics of hypnosis to small groups (from four people). I provide insights and techniques on the topics of flash hypnosis, classic induction, trance deepening, coaching techniques etc. Here at Sebastians-Selbsthilfe I would like to show you the amazing possibilities that hypnosis offers in the field of coaching.
It is important to know that a coach does not need a non-medical practitioner examination. However, there are some things he is not allowed to do. I will go into more detail later on about the things you are not allowed to do in coaching and why this makes sense. But hypnosis also offers a wealth of opportunities to significantly improve quality of life in the area of coaching.
In this article I will answer general questions about hypnosis that are frequently asked. At the beginning I will address the question of why hypnosis has a bad reputation.
Why does hypnosis have a bad reputation?
There are many reasons for this. The most important, in my opinion, is the effectiveness of hypnosis. I think everyone who is a reader here at Sebastian Selbsthilfe knows that there are groups that make a lot of money from illnesses. Everything that is cheap and effective must therefore be combated! It doesn’t matter whether you are looking at physical or mental health care. The interest in retaining a “patient” for as long as possible and earning as much money as possible from them in this way is obvious. Patient also means “one who waits”, “one who should remain calm” “patient” and comes from the English.
If doctors could “cure” their patients permanently, they would very soon have to close their practices. That’s why drugs with side effects are prescribed, which in turn have to be treated. A large industry lives from people’s illnesses. If people were healthy, these groups would no longer be able to earn money. No matter which medical profession you look at, setting up and running a practice usually costs a lot of money. After all, this money has to be earned. That’s why people have no choice but to act in this way. If there are “alternative” healing methods that actually lead to recovery, these must be denigrated. It doesn’t matter whether you look at alternative practitioners or spiritual healers, who can tell you all about the difficulties. The fight against CDH, DMSO and co. are also good examples of this. If the lobby of “conventional medicine” and the pharmaceutical industry did not fight the “alternatives”, they could pack up on the spot. But that wasn’t always the case! I have nothing against doctors either, because there are always exceptions. I would like to remind you here of those doctors who refused to administer the so-called “vaccinations”, issued “mask tests”, etc. Incidentally, these practices are currently overcrowded and some have stopped admitting patients! But back to “normal” conventional medicine. Before the petroleum-based drugs developed by Rockefeller were introduced as mandatory, the medical landscape was very different. The doctors of that time were indeed very similar to today’s alternative practitioners, but this is only mentioned in passing and should not be the subject here, as I am sure that most readers here are familiar with these topics.
This brings me to hypnosis. At this point I would like to emphasize that hypnosis is only one of many tools that can contribute to recovery. It is not a panacea and in some cases a reputable hypnotist would even advise against it. However, I will come back to these cases in this blog.
But what makes hypnosis so unpopular with doctors and the pharmaceutical industry? I have already indicated this above, it is the effectiveness! For example, people who have been treated for years for chronic pain and are considered “out of therapy” can be brought back into harmony permanently within a few sessions, without any medication or surgery. If these people knew from the outset what is possible with hypnosis, conventional medicine would no longer earn any money. The problem is that many people only discover so-called “alternative methods” when conventional medicine gives up on them. Even the advocates of psychotherapy generally don’t like hypnosis! On average, a hypnotist only needs 7 – 10 sessions to solve a problem. Psychotherapy, on the other hand, often takes years for the same problem and even then has a success rate of a paltry 30%. In many cases, hypnosis is even faster.
On the subject of pain therapy with hypnosis, I would like to take chronic pain as an example. A friend of mine suffered from fibromyalgia for years, she was given medication and had to go to the doctor all the time, but it didn’t help. Her whole family suffered from her illness, and her pain made it almost impossible for her to have a fulfilling love life. Then I gave her the tip to go to a hypnotist, which she did. It took him two sessions and since then she has been pain-free, her family life is good again and her love life is also back on track! The cost of these two sessions was ridiculous and the hypnotist even came to her home because he doesn’t have a practice. It’s the same for people with phantom pain, nobody has to suffer from it for long! Incidentally, with a success rate of 90 – 95%, hypnosis is at the top of the list of methods used in psychotherapy. Psychoanalysis manages just 30%!
It is therefore obvious that hypnosis is demonized by the groups mentioned above.
By the way, it is quite easy to demonize hypnosis because its
results almost border on the miraculous. The willingness to
The superstition of many people then does the rest. But none of this has anything to do with magic or anything similar. But I’ll come to that later. Another reason why people avoid hypnosis are hypnosis shows. If you don’t understand hypnosis, you can actually see people following another person on a stage without a will.
are at our mercy. But what people see there does not always correspond to what is really happening! The fact is that no one can be hypnotized against their will and everything that happens on stage during hypnosis only takes place if the hypnotist agrees to it. Nobody reveals secrets under hypnosis if they would not do so without hypnosis. Nobody falls asleep on command if they do not agree to it and there is no basis of trust in the hypnotist. People who cluck like chickens on stage would generally do this even without hypnosis, simply because they enjoy it. Stage hypnotists take a very close look at their test subjects and sound out who is willing to do what. That is a high
Art! If a stage hypnotist were to get it wrong too often, his show would end very quickly and he would no longer be booked. For this reason, many hypnotists are very critical of stage hypnosis. However, I see it as something very positive, because it also shows that incredible things are possible under hypnosis. Without stage hypnosis, hypnosis would probably have long since disappeared from the public’s memory. A major disadvantage is, of course, that what you see during a hypnosis show can give the impression that you are under the control of someone else under hypnosis, that you are virtually at their mercy, which is not the case.
corresponds to the truth. But hardly anyone is interested in the truth. If you can see in movies that murders are carried out under hypnosis or rapes take place, then that must be true, right? In movies you also see that cars explode when you shoot a hole in the tank and if this is shown in movies, then it must be true! When I say in certain circles that I’m a hypnotist, I often get a funny look. However, after I say a few words on the subject and show simple experiments, this usually changes.
Of course it is possible to turn a completely normal person into a
The only way to turn him into a bloodthirsty murderer – but it doesn’t work with hypnosis, it’s called brainwashing.
There is a huge difference between brainwashing and hypnosis: brainwashing is months of permanent torture in which a person’s psyche is completely dismantled into its individual parts using means such as electric shocks, sleep deprivation, removal of temporal categorization, etc., and then reassembled. MK Ultra is one such brainwashing “program”. Secret services also use brainwashing to turn normal people into killers. Even if it sounds cynical, the means of hypnosis are not enough. As mentioned, in brainwashing people are constantly “treated” 24 hours a day with the worst torture methods. Why brainwashing is often included in the field of hypnosis is due to the general effects of hypnosis.
Psychology which are also used in every session by both the psychologist and the hypnotist. This includes things like
Conditioning, framing, association and dissociation, etc. – these are indeed techniques used in brainwashing as well as in hypnosis and psychotherapy. The big difference is that hardly any psychotherapist or hypnotist would condition, frame, dissociate or associate a new behavioural pattern using forced sleep deprivation, waterboarding or even electric shocks. A hypnosis practice generally requires nothing more than an armchair or a couch, as well as a stool for the hypnotist to sit on.
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As a rule, a surgery is always pleasantly decorated, often with a fountain splashing somewhere and soft music playing softly from a loudspeaker. Such a practice is simply not a torture cellar equipped with high tech!
I hope that my words have clearly outlined that hypnosis is not the same as brainwashing. Of course, there is also a “light” version of brainwashing that trickles down to us in the form of advertising messages, movies, news, etc., but it is quite easy to escape. I think anyone who has been able to think for themselves since 2020 knows that. I think I have been able to show you that hypnosis has nothing to do with what is constantly being said about it.
I will discuss what hypnosis is in more detail in my next article here with Sebastian. If you have any questions or would like information about my courses, you can find me on Telegram with the username “Mentalmann”.
I hope you enjoyed my first post on hypnosis and I look forward to seeing you next time.
Hypnosis part 2
Now that I have roughly outlined what hypnosis is not, I will now turn to the question of what hypnosis actually is.
First of all, it must be said that hypnosis, or rather hypnotic states, are something completely natural. These states are comparable to those we often experience before getting up, in which dream images mix with external impressions from “outside”. You know that one part is still dreaming, but the other is already waking up. Long car journeys, after which you can no longer remember how you arrived at your destination, are also one of these conditions. You are in a trance, yet you arrive safely at your destination. Hypnosis is a technique that makes it possible to artificially induce these states. In these states, the unconscious is very wide open and you have direct access to it, which makes it possible to change unwanted behavior patterns directly.
Why is this more difficult in “normal” waking states than during hypnosis?
Certain behavior patterns (actually all of them) are very often linked to emotions. For example, every smoker knows that smoking is harmful. So why can’t he just stop like that? The answer is very simple, even if it sounds paradoxical: smoking makes the smoker feel good! People, or rather their unconscious, generally don’t want to change what feels good. Whether this “good feeling” can also be described as good on a rational level is another matter, but more on that later. At the moment it is important to know that good feelings are not always necessarily good for your health, but the unconscious does not want to let them go. The rational level of a person is very often in contrast to the emotional level. After all, people are emotional beings who are capable of reason and not the other way around! As emotions usually set the tone, it is therefore very difficult to change a feeling on a rational level. This also applies to the example of smoking. When people stop smoking, the lack of cigarette consumption is often replaced by things such as snacking. These phenomena are also known as addiction displacement. This means that the person no longer smokes, but shifts their addictive behavior to another medium. Most smokers who have become permanently smoke-free on their own initiative have usually changed their inner attitude (feeling) towards smoking. It just clicked for them. These people also have no withdrawal symptoms, they simply stop. With many undesirable behavioral patterns, this “click” is simply missing and that’s where hypnosis comes into play. Hypnosis allows you to get to the emotional level very quickly and you can let the hypnotist experience this “click” under hypnosis. This means that the new behavioral pattern, the “click”, is stored directly in the unconscious and takes the place of the unwanted pattern after hypnosis. Although these situations do not take place in reality, the conscious mind still takes them at face value. It is not able to distinguish reality from dreams. Does that sound incredible? But you’ve probably already experienced this: you’re watching an exciting movie and your body reacts just as it would in a real situation. You are frightened, break out in a sweat, flinch, etc. The movie can be compared to a dream, as it also takes place in your head in a similar way to a dream. Watching movies has many similarities with hypnosis. Even when watching movies, a trance sets in after a short time and even in this trance the consciousness is very receptive. Incidentally, a large part of many people’s values come from movies; they identify with the heroes they like. Consciousness experiences the actions of these heroes exactly as if it were performing or experiencing them itself. The adoption of these values through this “passive” experience is all the stronger the more frequently films are consumed. Sounds pretty crazy, but it’s a fact. In hypnosis, however, the experience of these states is somewhat different! One reason for this is that the world into which you are immersed under hypnosis corresponds to your own imagination. There are no ready-made images like in a movie, your consciousness has to create them itself during hypnosis! The hypnotist may make suggestions, but it is your consciousness that determines how they are implemented. In “hypnotalk”, a type of hypnosis, the hypnotist describes the environment in which he is currently located to the hypnotist. This is important because the hypnotist has to adapt the suggestions to the hypnotist’s inner world of experience so that there is no break in the sequence of experiences. The hypnotist often falls into a light hypnosis, which can make hypnosis very stressful.
As you can see, hypnosis has nothing to do with sleep. Basically, the hypnotist is wide awake during hypnosis! Most people just find it easier to experience suggestions with their eyes closed, which is why it can very quickly give the impression that you are asleep during hypnosis. It only happens in exceptional cases that you actually fall asleep during hypnosis if the hypnosis is very deep, for example during anesthesia. As a rule, however, you are wide awake. What is perhaps also important to know is that everyone has a “psychological immune system”. All values and beliefs are stored in this immune system, i.e. everything that makes a person unique. If suggestions violate this system, the conscious mind ignores them or ends the hypnosis. This value system also includes the sympathy you have for the hypnotist. In technical jargon, this is called rapport. In addition to sympathy, trust in the hypnotist is of course also important. The better this rapport is, the more successful the hypnosis will be. I have hidden a little experiment in this text: in some parts of the text I spoke of people or used the word “man” and in others I used the word “you”. Which parts of the text did you experience more actively? These are hypnotic speech patterns that have an influence on the strength of perception of a statement. Imagine what possibilities you have if you are able to tell your counterpart something and get him to see your views from your perspective. When you read the last sentence, you probably imagined situations in which you would use this language pattern in practice. Language patterns are a very large area that are beyond the scope of this blog. You can learn speech patterns in hypnosis courses. I hope you enjoyed what I wrote and I look forward to you reading my next post. For information about my hypnosis workshops, you can reach me on Telegram under “Mentalmann”.
See you soon
Niels