The History of Hypnosis
Posted by Ben TienJan 8
Hypnosis has been known about for many centuries. While in this state, visualize and return to their people with messages from their gods or prophecies for the future.
Common to all these early self-hypnotists was use of methods to focus their attention intensely to move the person out of his normal way of operating into different ways. The resulting change meant the holy man or witch doctor experienced himself so differently that it was considered to be a mystical or divine experience.
In modern times, the first person to use hypnosis significantly as a healing medium was the Frenchman, Franz Mesmer in the 17th century. Modern hypnotism was pioneered by Milton Erickson in the 1950s and developed by John Bandler and John Grinder in the USA in the 1970s and 1980s and established tools and methods for establishing trances, and for inducing a range of hypnotic phenomena and to be able to successfully introduce post-hypnotic suggestions.
Hypnosis is actually a variation of a person’s normal behavior that enables them to shift from their prior function to a state where they may have more behavioral flexibility that can be of benefit to them.
Hypnosis can be used to manage anxiety, shift focus from negative associations to positive associations and to boost self esteem and to minimize fear of the unknown, to give some examples of issues and behaviors that can greatly limit some people’s levels of achievement or even their engagement with society.
It can often be the case, when people have unresolved issues or past failures, that they are limited in their choices and actions and their ability for self-determination is therefore restricted. Hypnosis can help change unfavorable habits and behaviors to action oriented states of mind to free up a person from his or her previously limiting beliefs.
To enable change from that state to one of success orientation, it may be useful, even necessary, to engage the problem issue/s, to re-associate thoughts and feelings, at an unconscious level, toward success instead.
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