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Glimpse At A Bigger Picture
Hypnosis
is simply focused attention. It is a natural state that we all experience
many times throughout our lives, an internal place that we visit
regularly for many different reasons. Daily routines become nearly
unconscious activities, triggered memories move our minds both back
and forward in time and new challenges evoke internal searches through
our libraries of life experiences. Ultimately, hypnosis is a natural
key to resolving issues and enhancing talents and abilities.
Simple
routines such as making a cup of tea while carrying on a conversation
and before you know it your drinking your tea or driving home and
suddenly finding yourself at your front door are mild insights into
hypnosis. The lack of conscious thought and active effort is a natural
autopilot that takes control and allows our minds to wander. Our
attention only moves back to the repetitive actions of daily life
if we notice that there is some change in its normality. When the
kettle is broken or there is a fox crossing the road on the corner
of our street, we quickly and effortlessly snap back to attention.
It is then that we realise that we were miles away in a comfortable
thought somewhere else.
Outside
stimulation like an image, scent or song can remind us of a time,
a feeling or person, sending our minds racing to an imagined place
in the future or a real time from the past. Our thoughts float into
an interesting scenario or a memory, experiencing it to the exclusion
of the outside world. Sounds and actions around us recede into the
background as we totally immerse ourselves in our internal thoughts,
so giving our always alert conscious a bit of a break. Instead of
it gathering information, making us aware of the outside world and
keeping us up to date with our present environment, the conscious
mind relaxes. This allows internal qualities such as imagination,
intuition and our determination to flourish freely, encouraging
fresh insights and an up to date view of lifes many questions and
situations. Yet, the conscious is always ready to spring back into
action in the event of any unexplained distractions or a perceived
threat from the environment surrounding us.
We see
hear and feel hypnotic processes when we are faced with a puzzling
or unexplored situation such as driving a new car or adjusting to
the controls for a new television or phone. We look inside ourselves
and search our history of life experiences, gauging the present
situation against everything that we know within. We imaginatively
try out different approaches and views, creating the most beneficial
future possible. We delve into the mixture of our memories, emotions
and intuitions, trawling the natural reservoirs of our instincts,
inherited resources and insights that help us understand, adapt
and grow to overcome all of life's situations.
Hypnotherapy
reasserts the natural abilities that exist inside each one of us
and in doing so presents to us a very unique and adaptive problem
solving tool that resolves the challenges that life sends our way.
Hypnotherapy also assists in facing up to our long term difficulties
by giving us distance and objectivity, cleaning out negative associations
and replacing them with our present understandings. Hypnosis gives
a new context to past experiences by helping to uncover a variety
of new choices surrounding both past and even future perceptions
that influence how we feel and act today.
Through hypnosis we reinterpret life, bringing our thoughts up to
date by putting older situations into a new strengthened and healing
perspective. We observe and transform our life experiences and dreams
into a positive springboard for a healthier and more adaptive future.
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