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7 Ways You’ve Been Hypnotized Without Realizing It
“I’m scared to be hypnotized!” “What if I don’t come out of it?” “Will you make me cluck like a chicken?”
I’ve heard it all. When I talk to the clients at my hypnotherapy practice about the therapeutic benefits of hypnotherapy, these are just some of the concerns they share.
It’s natural to be afraid or skeptical of something you don’t understand. But I believe no one should ever be afraid or uncomfortable about the process. That’s why, when clients come to me for hypnotherapy, we begin with a frank talk about what being hypnotized is, and what it isn’t.
Their preconceived notions come from the way our culture sees hypnosis, as well as the powerful potential that hypnotherapy holds as a therapeutic tool.
I joke with my clients about how they might be worried about working with a hypnotherapist who could mysteriously declare, “You are now under my power…”
Or, we might discuss what will happen to their brain while they’re in a hypnotic state, and how they’re going to be “back to normal” when it’s all over.
We’ll even talk about hypnophobia, the fear of going to sleep or being hypnotized. People with hypnophobia don’t want to lose control of their normal state of awareness.
Connecting With Different Parts of Your BrainAfter my clients and I talk about their fears and misunderstandings, I fill them in on the science of hypnosis and hypnotherapy.
Hypnosis is the state of mind resulting from a trained therapist relaxing you into a trance state. Hypnotherapy lets you access your unconscious and allows it to communicate with your conscious mind.
Whether you want to break a bad habit, understand the past more clearly, or even visit a past life, you’ll need to open communication between your “normal mind” and the unconscious part of your brain. Hypnosis makes this possible.
Once you’re in the trance state, a hypnotherapist can’t (and wouldn’t want to) control your mind. Your therapist merely controls the trance state, so you can have productive insights during your session.
As you’re about to see, your time with a hypnotherapist is a whole lot safer than many of the situations you meet up with in daily life.
What’s a Trance?
The trance state is actually a natural state of mind. In fact, there are many times during the course of a normal day when you enter the same kind of trance you experience in hypnotherapy. It happens when you’re very relaxed or very focused.
In both cases, the unconscious mind is still “listening,” even though the conscious mind is either intently focused or totally distracted.
When you’re in a trance, your brainwave activity is dominated by theta waves. Theta waves bring on a state of relaxation that removes any blocks you may have to your repressed memories and deep emotions
Anyone watching you while you were being hypnotized might think you’re not 100 percent aware of what’s going on around you. Yet, inside your mind, there is a whole world of activity! You’re “turned on” to the world of thought and feeling that is always listening to and recording the things that happen every moment of your life.
There is so much you can learn while you’re there.
In case you’re still scared to be hypnotized, remember:
You get hypnotized several times a day without even realizing it! Here are some examples.
7 Everyday Chances for Trances
1. In Yoga Class
Have you ever noticed that, although you may be contorted into a twist or straining to balance on one foot, you feel perfectly at ease in yoga class?
The flow of words from your instructor, your breathing patterns, and your body motions change the way your brain behaves, relax you, and put you into a trance. If you don’t get there before, you’re sure to be completely blissed out in rest pose at the end of the session.
2. On Your Commute
Your brain needs a lot of entertainment, so when it does something over and over again, it no longer pays attention to the details.This can be the case with your commute.
Whether you drive the same route daily or take a bus, train, or ferry, you’ll probably notice that you rarely think about the details of the ride.
That “lost time” you experience while you’re commuting is often because you fell into a trance state.
3. Watching TV
TV is a guilty pleasure for some, and for many, a constant companion. The flashing light that emanates from the screen looks unassuming enough, but in fact, that alone is enough to put you into a trance by changing your brain’s wave dominance.
In many cases, people feel so good when they’re in the middle of a video binge trance, they don’t want to stop watching TV. That must be how the world got “couch potatoes,” and why you probably have more “As seen on TV” products than you’ll ever need.
4. Listening to Music
Watch what happens when you put your earbuds on and crank up the volume on your favorite tunes. Whether you dig the symphony or groove to actual “trance music,” it isn’t hard to see that this is another way to get to Theta wave domination, and yes, a state of trance.
Your mind finds pleasure in being stimulated by sound, and lets you get lost in it.
Watch out if you happen to get totally detached from what’s going on around you. When you’re about to jump into the crosswalk, it’s time to come out of your trance.
5. Getting Into the Flow State
Whether you’re thinking, drawing, writing, or out on your morning run, any time you’re “in the flow,” you are in a trance. Your conscious awareness takes a break and allows you to experience the ease of being on“autopilot.
You feel like you’re at one with the task you’re performing, and you easily filter out any and all distractions. Your friends and co-workers might find it really hard to distract you when you’re in this state — because you’re “in a trance!”
6. Using Your Smartphone
It isn’t just kids playing video games who become entranced by digital interaction and entertainment. Like a TV, your smartphone flashes light and tricks your brain into a trance. Combined with your impulsive need to interact, this can grab your attention completely.
You’ve probably seen a couple sitting in a restaurant, both on their phones, texting and playing games rather than gazing into one another’s eyes.
Or, you might have done this yourself. In either case, someone’s in a trance!
7. Praying and Chanting
In many traditions, the act of worship involves the use of a repetitive prayer or mantra, chanting, or both. If you’ve experienced this, you know how you can shut out the rest of the world while you engage in these practices.
Your oneness with the words, the sounds, the intonations, take you into a trance state and connect you with a source of divine love. This is probably one of the most enchanting trance experiences of all. In almost all cases, this trance also feels very safe and precious!
Find Your Guide to a Helpful, Healing Journey Into the Trance State
These examples are just a sampling of the ways you become entranced in daily life. Now that you see how frequently you get hypnotized without realizing it, you can see that being in a trance during hypnotherapy isn’t anything to be afraid of. A trained and certified hypnotherapist can truly help you understand your unconscious motivations — and change your life.
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What It Is & How to Do It
Have you ever found yourself deeply engrossed in a book? Or so caught up in a film that time seemed to pass effortlessly? If so, you may have experienced a routine form of hypnosis, what many practitioners refer to as the “everyday trance.”
Hypnosis is a normal state that we enter many times during the day, each time we get really focused on something that we’re concentrating on. The ability to focus yourself at will is an invaluable skill to have and is the foundation for a practice of self-hypnosis. This article explains how to perform ‘self-hypnosis’ and describes some of the benefits of this technique.
What is self-hypnosis?
Self-hypnosis involves becoming highly focused and absorbed in the experience while giving yourself positive suggestions about ways to reach your goals. Self-hypnosis is an individual practice, unlike when you are working with a therapist.
It can be a most empowering practice as you learn to have better control of your thoughts and reactions while enjoying the physical and emotional benefits of the relaxation that is typical of self-hypnosis techniques.
What can a person accomplish with self-hypnosis?
What can humans accomplish if they’re in the “right” frame of mind? When people are focused and motivated to accomplish a goal, and most effectively use their abilities, they are at the peak of their personal power. To use that power to learn new skills more easily, perform athletic feats, be more creative, tolerate pain, and face the unknown with greater confidence, are just a few of the infinite examples of the value of self-hypnosis. Self-hypnosis is a means of learning to focus yourself, motivate yourself, be more self-aware, and make the best use of your innate skills. If you think about it, when you see other people do amazing things, they’re usually intensely focused on what they’re doing and what they’re trying to accomplish.
Self-hypnosis is all about developing and using your focus in a goal-directed fashion.
Is self-hypnosis the same as meditation?
Self-hypnosis is very similar to meditation in that both involve entering a calm and relaxed state main difference is that when people practice self-hypnosis, they tend to have a specific goal in mind, something that will improve them and their quality of life in some way. In a typical meditation practice there is no particular goal, just an easy acceptance of wherever the mind goes without judgment or intention. Both meditation and self-hypnosis have the potential to promote physical and mental health in parallel ways, thus highlighting the merits of learning to develop and use focus meaningfully.
How to hypnotize yourself
Below are commonly employed steps to perform self-hypnosis. Hypnosis is perfectly safe, and you will be in control the whole time. After all, it is your experience. To end the hypnosis session at any time simply count to five and instruct yourself to re-alert.
We'll discuss each of these steps in more detail.
- Find a comfortable place to relax and get comfortable
- Relax using a hypnotic induction like progressive muscle relaxation
- Introduce a suggestion
- Return to your usual level of alertness
1. Find a comfortable place
First, make sure you feel physically comfortable as this will help you relax. Sit in a soft chair with your legs and feet uncrossed. You may also lie down although this method may lead you to simply fall sleep. Loosen any tight clothing and avoid eating large meals so you don’t feel bloated and uncomfortable. Ensure you will not be interrupted for 20-30 minutes during the hypnosis.
2. Relax using a hypnotic induction
Enter the hypnotic state with a common technique known as progressive muscle relaxation. With this, focus awareness upon any tension stored in parts of the body, and release tension sequentially. Begin with your hands and arms, then move down to your back, shoulders and neck, then stomach and chest and legs and feet.
Visualise the tension dissolving or evaporating away, or slowly tense then relax the muscles. The feeling of deep, pleasant, comfortable relaxation is an excellent starting point to begin self-hypnosis.
3. Introduce a suggestion
When hypnosis is paired with therapy, it's called hypnotherapy. Usually therapy in hypnosis is called 'therapeutic suggestions' or 'post-hypnotic suggestions'.
In the focused and relaxed state of hypnosis, you can pay deeper and fuller attention to the suggestions you want to give yourself for self-improvement. These can be simple but clear statements you offer yourself about what you might do differently, or how you might react differently in some challenging situation, or how you might come to think differently about yourself or some circumstance. These ‘post-hypnotic suggestions’ (meaning suggestions that can take effect after your self-hypnosis session is finished) can help you achieve your goals. Some common examples of goals addressed in self-hypnosis include:
- Improving confidence and self-esteem
- Overcoming anxiety
- Quitting smoking
- Overcoming addiction
- Fears and phobias
- Visualising a goal or action
- Sleep better.
This is a short list, but suggestions can focus on any area of your life in which you hope to initiate a mental shift. Examples of post-hypnotic suggestions in the form of affirmations, a common self-hypnosis approach, include:
- I accept myself for who I am
- I eat three healthy meals per day
- I am confident and assertive when speaking to others
- I feel calm, confident and relaxed
- I find it easy to stop smoking.
4. Return to your usual level of alertness
After providing the suggestions, you can become more alert & aware by counting to five while telling yourself you are becoming aware of your surroundings. At the count of five, you can open your eyes and stretch out your arms and legs and go on with your day.
Tips for hypnotic suggestions
When making suggestions during self-hypnosis in step 3, follow these tips:
- Say it with conviction: Imagine the words being said gently but with conviction and ensure the tone is reassuring, confident and positive.
- Phrase suggestions in the present tense: The suggestion, ‘I am confident’ will be more effective than, ‘I will be confident’ as the word ‘am’ is in the present tense and is more certain.
- Make suggestions positive: For example, ‘I am at peace’ is better than ‘I am not stressed’ ; talk to yourself about what you do want, not what you don’t want.
- Make suggestions realistic: Avoid over-ambitious suggestions such as, ‘I will lose a lot of weight quickly’. Instead focus on smaller and more specific goals such as, ‘I will eat more vegetables, and exercise more’.
- Repeat the suggestions: State the suggestions many times during the hypnosis. Repetition of an idea can help drive home the point.
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Using imagery and action in self-hypnosis
Adding imagery to the post-hypnotic suggestions can improve the hypnosis. You may also engage your sense of taste, touch and smell. For example, to help overcome anxiety you could imagine:
- Sitting in a place that brings you feelings of calm, such as beach on a warm day
- Seeing a hot air balloon and placing your worries into the basket, watching them float away
- Clearing an overgrown path of brambles, and feeling stronger, more in control as you go.
Adding in action steps – what you’ll actually do differently to improve things – is also very helpful to successful self-hypnosis.
Self-hypnosis or in-person hypnotherapy?
There are many advantages to self-hypnosis. It is entirely portable and with practice you may be able to quickly bring yourself to a state of focused relaxation very quickly.
It can, however, be challenging to learn, especially the ability to relax and focus the mind while giving oneself instructions.
For this reason, many people choose to use in-person hypnotherapy.
Hypnotherapy is simply the act of applying hypnosis as a therapeutic, such as to relieve pain, anxiety or sleeplessness. A trained hypnotherapist will take you through a similar process to the above, giving you positive suggestions to help improve your specific concern.
A third option is to use hypnotherapy apps. These apps combine the best of both worlds - they are lower in cost than in-person hypnotherapy, can be done on demand (anywhere, anytime), but are created by real hypnotherapists and based on real clinical studies.
Self-hypnosis in medicine
There are remarkable examples that showcase how effective self-hypnosis can be. Take the documented case of Victor Rausch (1980), a dental surgeon who was experienced with hypnotic procedures. When required surgery to remove his gallbladder, Rausch used self-hypnosis as his only anaesthesia.
More recently, science has shown training in self-hypnosis may help patients overcome a range of clinical conditions.
These include:
- Anxiety: Patients who had undergone heart surgery showed lower levels of depress and fatigue after learning self-hypnosis techniques. A study in children with cancer showed less and surgery-related anxiety and behavioural distress after learning self-hypnosis.
- Pain: Patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) reported lower levels of chronic pain after learning self-hypnosis techniques than those who did not. Further, a study in children showed functional abdominal pain resolved in three weeks following a single session of self-hypnosis.
- Tension headaches: In children and adolescents, self-hypnosis training reduced the frequency of tension headaches. Another study in adults showed long-term headache pain reduction from self-hypnosis.
- Chronic dyspnea: In adults with breathing difficulty at rest, a single training in self-hypnosis resolved symptoms in 13 of 16 patients within one month.
- Irritable bowel syndrome: Patients with IBS have been shown to be able to improve IBS symptoms as much as the gold standard Low FODMAP elimination diet.
Tips for improving self-hypnosis
- Have a goal in mind: Before starting self-hypnosis ensure to have a goal in mind, such as lowering stress. This will ensure each session is focused and productive.
- Schedule time for self-hypnosis: The hardest part of self-hypnosis can be getting started. It may work best to set aside a time each day for self-hypnosis and write it in your schedule. Self-hypnosis can be performed during the day, or at night before you sleep.
- Keep up the practice: Like riding a bike, it takes time to learn self-hypnosis. With practice and instruction, you will learn to more quickly enter a state of trance. You will also learn a broader range of hypnotic suggestions to improve the outcome.
- Use a mobile app: Mobile apps such as Evia (for hot flashes), Nerva (for IBS) and Finito (for smoking cessation) can be a great way to get the best of both self-hypnosis and hypnosis with a hypnotherapist.
The Wrap Up
Self-hypnosis is a powerful tool to improve your mind. It is a highly safe technique that can bring increased self-esteem and confidence, assertiveness, and relaxation. Self-hypnosis can also be used during difficult times to help improve symptoms of medical conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome, anxiety, pain and headaches.
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How to get out of hypnosis on your own. Entering the corridor of past lives
Contents
- How to get out of hypnosis on your own. Entering the corridor of past lives
- How to put a person into hypnosis unnoticed by him. Rules for introduction to human hypnosis
- What is hypnosis
- Why hypnosis is needed
- Types of hypnosis
- How to learn hypnosis in 5 minutes. SUBCONSCIOUS SELF-HEALING
- SUBCONSCIOUS SELF-HEALING FOR ALL DISEASES
- How to get out of hypnosis. Hypnosis
- How to enter the astral plane in 15 minutes is the easiest and fastest method. Method three: Meditation
- Video awareness or how to get out of general hypnosis | Awarenness
How to get out of hypnosis on your own.
Entering the corridor of past lives You experienced an event from your childhood or climbed a ladder.
You see a brightly lit long corridor. This is your personal corridor of past lives - it is unique. It doesn't look like any corridor. It can be of any material, any color and any shape. It can be, for example, made of stone, marble or gold. Colors can be bright or, conversely, pastel.
On the sides of the corridor you will see doors, each of which leads to one of your past lives. If your real life is your first life, there will be no side doors. And if you have lived many lives, there will be many doors. They, like the corridor itself, can be made of different materials - jade, amber, glass, metal, leather upholstered, wooden, similar to real doors, and, among other things, there can be very strange doors. Their shape may also differ - rectangular, round, heart-shaped or oval, and so on.
Behind every door is a past life. The closer the door is to the entrance, the closer in time the past life is to the present life.Doors in the distance hide the earliest lives. By opening the doors, you will be able to experience the events of this or that life that are of immediate importance to you at the present moment.
At the far end of a bright hallway, you will find a glittering door that hides your pre-existence. If you had one past life, you will see a second bright door located to the right of the pre-existence door. It hides the life between lives in the spirit world. These two sparkling doors form a portal to the spirit world that you lived in in the past. If you wish, you can open any of these doors to find out all the information you need about these aspects of your past.
Step 5: Living Past Lives
While living your chosen life as a spectator or active participant on the threshold of an open door, you can move forward or backward. This will help to find out as much as possible about what happened in it. To move forward, count: 1,2,3; to move backwards, count backwards: 3, 2, 1.
After the session of regression into one of the past lives is completed, you can leave it simply by returning to the corridor and closing the door behind you. After that,
Stage 6. Completion
To exit the corridor of past lives, give yourself permission to return first to your childhood experience and then to your present. Or just go down the Ladder if you used it.
How to introduce a person into hypnosis unnoticed by him. Rules for introduction to human hypnosis
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The offer to attend several hypnosis sessions has long ceased to surprise patients who come to the hospital, but for many, the procedure for inducing a trance still causes a feeling of distrust and fear. Hypnosis is one of the most popular methods of treatment used by psychotherapists to rid the patient of internal fears, destructive attitudes, harmful addictions, and solve long-standing psycho-emotional problems. Those who wish to undergo this procedure will find it useful to know how to introduce a person into hypnosis, and whether it is possible to master such techniques on their own.
What is hypnosis
Today hypnosis is officially recognized by the medical community, but there was a time when this treatment method was considered quackery. Most people are afraid of hypnotherapy because they don't fully understand what hypnosis is and how it affects the mind.
We cognize the world and orient ourselves in it with the help of our senses. When a patient is put into a trance, they stop working and the subconscious mind is affected. He cannot analyze the information coming at the moment, therefore, being in a hypnotic dream, a person easily perceives and carries out all the orders of the hypnotist. The received settings are stored in the subconscious and are valid even after waking up.
Modern medicine has redefined hypnosis. This is a state of trance, very close to sleep, but differs from it in that at this time the subconscious mind continues to carry out a huge inner work.
Why is hypnosis necessary?
The deeper the trance in which the patient is, the stronger the influence of the hypnotist on the consciousness of the individual.
Types of hypnosis
Specialists identify several types of hypnosis.
- Academic (classic). Helps the patient to cope with psychological problems, recover from alcohol, tobacco and drug addictions. Classical hypnosis helps a person look into his subconscious and find the answer to an exciting question there, remember some event, find the reason and secret motive for certain actions. Obeying the will of the hypnotist, the patient fulfills all his verbal orders. This type of hypnosis is not amenable to all people, but only 20-25% of patients.
- Ericksonian (hidden hypnosis). During the session, repressed emotions, experiences and memories are addressed. This type focuses on the individual characteristics of the individual and her problems. Very often, elements of Ericksonian hypnosis are used for mass influence on the subconscious of people (in the media, political science, marketing).
- Regressive. Refers to the person's past. During a session of such hypnosis, the psychotherapist works with memories of family conflicts, violence, forgotten or hidden in deep childhood, paying special attention to complexes and destructive attitudes.
- Criminal. This type of hypnosis is used by scammers for the purpose of profit. Falling into a state of trance, attackers deceive citizens, subordinating them to their will. There is even a separate concept of "gypsy hypnosis". This method of influence is used by gypsies in crowded places to cash in on their trust.
How to learn hypnosis in 5 minutes. SELF-HEALING WITH THE HEALING OF THE SUBCONSCIOUSNESS
The human subconscious mind has great potential, which is perfectly demonstrated during hypnotic sessions.
In a number of experiments with the use of hypnosis, it was possible to achieve amazing changes in a person introduced into a hypnotic sleep: self-healing, losing weight, changing character and habits, changing skin tone, forming burns (of course, without using high temperatures, only with the help of suggestion) and also easy getting rid of them, fast healing of wounds, getting rid of scars and much more.
The human subconscious is fraught with many amazing mechanisms for solving the problems facing a person, including in the field of self-healing from all diseases.
SELF-HEALING FROM ALL ILLNESSES WITH THE HEALING OF THE SUBCONSCIOUSNESS
The question of whether a person can heal himself without external help and exposure to any diseases is an open one.
How to get out of hypnosis. Hypnosis
Hypnosis. An evil gypsy lures you into her web. Hypnosis. You cannot resist. Hypnosis. Are you scared. Hypnosis. They will catch you, they will force you. Hypnosis. You give them your money. Hypnosis. My God. That's hypnosis.
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There are many myths surrounding hypnosis. The correspondent of "Dialogue" tried how it is - to enter a state of trance and, what is valuable, to get out of it. I also talked with a hypnotherapist about whether gypsies will hypnotize you, and why hypnotists are on the stage.
Part I . Theoretical. The specialist speaks
What is hypnosis?
According to Wikipedia, hypnosis is a state caused by self-hypnosis, the influence of a hypnotist or spontaneously, which is characterized by a sharp focus of attention and a high susceptibility to suggestion. Experts say that hypnosis is not so scary.
“Hypnosis has a lot of definitions. There are esoteric, scientific definitions. The American definition of hypnosis is that it is bypassing the critical factor of thought, that is, the defense mechanisms of the psyche, and establishing a selective acceptance mindset. This is when suggestion works. There is another definition: it is the state of editing life experience. You have lived part of your life, your experience has left imprints on your psyche. These hypnotic prints can be edited. There is a definition that hypnosis is a certain mode of operation of the brain, when many parts of the cerebral cortex are inhibited, but not as much as it happens in a dream.
This is an intermediate state between sleep and wakefulness,” says hypnotherapist Oleg Berdnikov.
Hypnosis, he says, is a natural state of mind. In animals, for example, it can be observed in times of danger. Snakes and small rodents fall into a torpor instinctively. At the same time, a person in a state of hypnosis can change, working through injuries and simply difficulties.
“Unfortunately, it is impossible to become invulnerable, because the psyche is not a physical substance. It cannot be touched or measured. Now we see many mechanisms of the psyche, but even such concepts as “subconscious”, “unconscious”, we cannot fully explain and feel. We don't know exactly how the brain works. This is the biggest mystery. And we can’t even say for sure whether consciousness is the product of the brain — or maybe it exists separately from the brain. Unfortunately, hypnotherapy is not a panacea,” says the expert.
In addition, for therapy of this kind, the hypnotizability of a person, that is, the ability to fall into a hypnotic state, is important.
“There are people who are not hypnotizable at all. The ability to edit them is very limited. It exists, but it is small. That is, working with psychosomatics with non-hypnotizable people is quite difficult, it is difficult to treat stuttering, asthma, and allergies. If a person is highly hypnotizable, then we can get to the bodily level. Hypnosis is not a panacea, but it is a very cool, effective and fast-acting tool,” adds Oleg Berdnikov.
Why hypnosis?
Hypnotherapist insists that hypnosis is more effective than other types of psychotherapy. According to him, you can go to a psychologist for years and not get strong results. With the help of hypnosis, the situation can be corrected in 10-20 sessions.
“A whole tangle of human problems is unraveled, provided that we have hypnosis and no secondary benefit. Sometimes it is difficult to work with a secondary benefit (in psychology, this is the benefit that a person receives from a problematic situation - IA "Dialogue").
Hypnosis is an extremely effective, fast, deep tool for working with the psyche. There are people with whom it works great. There are people with whom I manage to solve only part of their problems. For some reason, a part remains, and it is not possible to find out exactly why. Maybe they have to understand something else, and then return to therapy. Maybe we're hitting a wall. But the efficiency is extremely high. I don't take everyone to therapy. Usually I conduct a diagnostic appointment, where I evaluate the adequacy of the request. In no case do I work with mentally ill people. Hypnosis is contraindicated for them. Hypnotherapy works well with people who have isolated problems. If a person is woven from problems, it is very difficult to unravel the tangle. Often, complex assistance is needed: both medication and any other. I take half of the clients. Of this half, I can effectively help 80% of people,” the expert explained.
How to enter the astral plane in 15 minutes is the easiest and fastest method.
The third method: Meditation Meditation way to enter the astral plane is one of the most popular and does not require large energy expenditures. Entering the astral plane with the help of meditation is quite simple, and its effectiveness has been repeatedly confirmed by many people who went into astral space during a meditation session.
Sit comfortably in the reclining chair, relaxing and closing your eyes. Try to think of something pleasant. Relax your muscles and body until every part of it becomes "cotton".
When you have reached complete physical relaxation, let go of all your thoughts and try to free your mind from everything. Let it merge into absolute emptiness. It is not uncommon for people to relax their minds and hear a soft buzzing in their ears, feel a light breeze, or feel a chill run through their skin. Before your closed eyes, the most bizarre images and pictures may appear, consider them, but do not try to analyze.
When your body and mind are completely relaxed, just lie down and wait.
During this process, spontaneous movements may occur, your head may appear to grow in size, or your limbs may begin to change. There may be vibrations throughout the body, which will become more and more palpable. Lie still and do not think about anything, because it is the incessant vibration that is the sure sign that you are leaving your physical body.
- Please describe your travel itinerary. Fantasize and create as vivid images as possible. Try to merge with the emerging picture, gradually penetrate into it.
- Now all doors are open to you: go to your past, go to visit your friend or fly to where you would like to visit all your life. Contemplate not only your past and present "I", but also the future, during this conversation you will definitely discover something new for yourself.
- When you realize that it's time to return to real life, simply command yourself to return to your physical shell, to your body. Lie still for a while without moving, and then open your eyes.
- Analyze your astral flight, think about what you have experienced. Ask yourself the following questions: was the exit really astral or was it just a fantasy? How easy was this exit for you? What sensations did you experience while traveling through the astral plane? If all your sensations were exactly the same as in ordinary life, you really made an exit to the astral plane.
- Remember that the more you practice such exits, the better and faster you will be able to make astral travel. Perseverance and perseverance is what you need to enter the astral plane using the meditation method.
Video awareness or how to get out of general hypnosis | Awarenness
how to get out of the hypnotic state on your own, how the exit happens, what will happen if you don't get the hypnotized person out of the trance
Hypnosis is a transitional state between wakefulness and sleep.
It is known that the hypnotized will not act against his will or perform actions contrary to his beliefs. This type of influence is widely used in psychotherapy to get out of depression, get rid of fears, treat addiction and much more. There are 2 varieties of hypnosis: classical (performed with the direct consent of the hypnotized) and hidden (performed secretly, often against will). Before starting a hypnotic influence, it is important to learn how to put a person into a trance, not harm him by exerting an influence, and how to get out of hypnosis.
Content:
- 1 How not to succumb to hidden hypnosis
- 2 Classic hypnosis: withdrawal from the state of the trance
- 3 how to get out of hypnosis yourself
- 4 Fears as the main reason for addressing hypnotizer
how not to succumb to hidden hidden hypnosis
To understand how to resist covert hypnosis, you need to understand what it is. This type of hypnosis is found everywhere: advertising, watching television, newspapers, communicating with sales assistants in the store.
In order to resist an influence, one must recognize it. What actions indicate that you are being manipulated:
- Big flow of information. It has been proven that if you simultaneously influence different feelings of a person, he falls into a stressful mode, ceasing to orient himself in what is happening. There is a milder form of this technique. It is typical for mass events, rallies, advertising campaigns: you are given a large amount of all kinds of information, and at the end you understand that you have not received answers to your questions.
- Violation of personal boundaries. Please note: almost everyone trying to convince you of something will come too close, perhaps even touch you.
- Effects on hearing. Experienced speakers know that if the manner of speaking will attract attention, then they will listen. To do this, they use all methods from a quiet monotonous muttering, which you need to listen to, to a pleasant voice.
- Target change. A typical situation when you come to the store for an inexpensive shampoo, and leave it with a whole arsenal of premium hair care products? Experienced sellers of goods and services often trade in this way.
- Creation of a stressful, non-standard situation.
Knowing the basic techniques of covert action, you can develop your own confrontation strategy.
- The easiest and most effective way is to leave.
- Don't be afraid to say no.
- Don't let anyone cross your boundaries.
- Show unusual behavior.
- Hide your fears and phobias.
- Ask counter questions, interrupt.
- Avoid eye contact.
- Do not listen to the interlocutor's speech - read poetry to yourself, sing songs, tell the multiplication table.
- Move, you can pinch yourself, step on your foot - any way to cause discomfort will do.
Classical hypnosis: getting out of a trance state
When it comes to classical influence, many are interested in how to get out of a state of hypnosis, and whether a person can not come out of hypnosis. No such cases were recorded. Throughout the session, the hypnotherapist maintains contact with the hypnotized and at the right moment simply begins to bring the patient back to reality.
There are a number of rules on how to get a person out of hypnosis.
- Exit from hypnosis should be gradual, and you can't hurry.
- An experienced psychotherapist will try to influence your physical state by suggestion in order to save you from the negative effects of trance (dizziness, weakness, nausea, fatigue).
- If this fails, it is best to re-hypnotize the client for additional state work.
The hypnologist indicates his intention to bring the person out of a trance "Now I will count to 10 and you will wake up." Awakening will occur smoothly as the countdown changes. Be sure to make a suggestion for good health after leaving the trance, after which the countdown begins, at the end of which the hypnotized wakes up.
When agreeing to hypnotherapy, do not worry about what will happen if you are not taken out of hypnosis. There are situations when awakening does not occur. This is normal: the client will wake up later. This situation occurs when the person being hypnotized falls into a normal sleep during the session.
Therefore, you should not worry about what will happen if a person is not taken out of hypnosis: after the loss of contact between the hypnotist and the hypnotized, the latter will wake up. This practice is suitable for official therapy, and if the question arises, how to get a person out of hypnosis at home.
How to get out of hypnosis on your own
If you practice autosuggestion, then you definitely need to know how to get out of hypnosis on your own. The actions will be identical to the situation when you are working with another person.
- Do not come out of the trance state abruptly, take enough time to return to reality.
- Set yourself up to wake up.
- Remember about the impact on the physical state: be sure to give a suggestion that after returning to reality, your mind will be clear and your body toned.
- Count up and down.
When studying materials on how to get out of hypnosis on your own, you may come across a large number of examples when a trance state turned into a simple dream. To prevent this from happening, remember 2 rules:
- Try not to self-hypnosis when you are physically exhausted.
- Set a subconscious awakening time.
Fears as the main reason for visiting a hypnotist
Psychology and psychiatry often use hypnosis to treat phobias and fears. If you start to understand this, then you will be surprised how many there are. Fear is a natural reaction of the human psyche. It often helps to avoid danger. But there are situations when fear interferes with life - then you need to fight it.
There are phobias, the nature of which is logical and known, and there are such fears, the cause of which is unclear. This is where hypnotherapy comes to the rescue. Such an impact helps to find cause-and-effect relationships that are deep in the subconscious.
There are 2 possible scenarios for the development of events.
- The hypnologist will inspire, working with the subconscious, how groundless and even absurd your fears are.
- The hypnotherapist will influence the mind by analyzing and debriefing the situation with you.
When choosing this way of dealing with fears, take the search for a specialist seriously. In this area of influence, it is easy to fall for a charlatan, who, at best, simply will not help you. Give preference to a well-reviewed specialist who can provide documentary evidence of successful work in the field of hypnosis. It is good if he has his own website, where scientific articles and details about the work will be published. A professional will always be open and ready to answer your questions. An example of such a specialist is psychologist-hypnologist Baturin Nikita Valerievich, who not only promises to help you get rid of fears, but also has the appropriate education and work experience.
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