Hypnosis by Permission and Consent‘Agreement and acceptance’ are vital elements for the use of successful hypnosis in therapy. ‘Clients have to ‘want it to happen, expect it to happen, allow it to happen.’ ‘Hypnosis is permissive.’ ‘It is a two-way activity, requiring the full cooperation of the subject.’ ‘Nobody can be made to do anything against their will’, and most people (with a very few exceptions) can enter this comfortable, tranquil state. To do this, you simply put your trust in the therapist, and listen to his/her words. ‘Like a Captain handing over to the Pilot of a ship when it goes into port. You are always there in the background but you are so relaxed that you have less anxiety and fewer concerns, so it becomes easier for you to allow the therapist’s voice to guide you, freely and willingly.’ In therapy, the depth of hypnosis is calming, relaxing and appropriate for your imagination to come fully in to play. ‘Stories, metaphors, analogies and imagery’ are used, to make it easy for the unconscious mind to absorb suggestions for beneficial, future change. The mind has other levels of operation, beyond our everyday awareness and consciousness. In psychology, these other dimensions have conventionally been termed: ‘the pre-conscious’ (or ‘sub-conscious’ ) and ‘the unconscious mind’. We have, therefore, a vast storehouse of experience at our disposal. As Milton Erickson – an outstanding practitioner - famously said: ‘We know far more, than we know we know.’ Through a combination of compliance and trust, hypnosis makes many additional resources and creative capabilities, much more accessible. When the mind responds from this deeper level, the experience seems to be effortless; ‘as if one doesn’t have to try.’ Change can be fashioned with ease, once rapport between the therapist and the client has been established. It is, perhaps, this ‘ease of transformation’ that makes hypnotherapy so appealing - especially to clients who have found that their individual ‘will-power’ and ‘conscious efforts’ have not achieved the results they had hoped for. To maintain this ease of access to the resources of the unconscious mind, ‘Self-hypnosis’ can be learned as part of a hypn otherapy session, and this can be used afterwards for further relaxation and to achieve a range of therapeutic goals. The primary value of ‘Self-hypnosis’ lies in helping to ‘maintain the revitalized sense of drive and determination’, achieved through ‘guided hypnosis’ with the therapist. |
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