| Is Hypnosis It Temporary? | | | | permanent changes in beliefs, behaviors, and |
| Not only is Hypnosis not temporary, nothing could | | | | perceptions. These permanent changes last as |
| be further from the truth. But this again is a | | | | long as their subjects want them to last when |
| common myth and misconception. Hypnosis is as | | | | instructed so. So while a permanent suggestion is |
| temporary as any knowledge that we know and | | | | placed into the subconscious, if the subject, |
| learn. When you learn to ride a bicycle is that | | | | through free will, chooses to behave in the old |
| learning temporary? Even if you stopped riding for | | | | way, this is not an indication that the hypnosis |
| many years, does that mean that it's temporary? | | | | was temporary. It is only the exercising of free |
| No, of course not! Of course we could choose to | | | | will that is evident. Now if the client wanted to |
| ride or not ride, because that is our free will. | | | | behave in the correct way but seemed to be |
| Again, we need to review that hypnosis is not | | | | unable to follow through on their wishes by some |
| dangerous. If hypnosis was about taking away | | | | kind of uncontrollable urge - that is an entirely |
| people's choices, that would be dangerous. But by | | | | different response. That is evidence of some kind |
| connecting you through many positive responses | | | | of feeling based response. Those feelings are our |
| to the correct behaviors, an effective hypnotist is | | | | most powerful motivators, so any unresolved |
| able to use those good feelings to guide their | | | | feelings or incorrect feelings left in place will |
| clients to a healthy and fit new life. For example, | | | | assuredly overwhelm the permanent suggestions. |
| when using hypnosis to lose weight the hypnotist | | | | It is now proven that it is time for the client to |
| will connect good positive feelings to healthier food | | | | resolve the feelings that are presently dictating his |
| choices and bad negative feelings to the unhealthy | | | | behavior. |
| food choices. This is to guide you from your | | | | Becoming Familiar With Change |
| unconscious/subconscious to correct behaviors | | | | There is also a certain level of familiarity that |
| that will lead to weight loss. | | | | comes with experience over time. Any time we |
| Studies Show Permanency of Hypnosis | | | | get something new, it's newness is it's most |
| The National Institutes of Health shows over 5000 | | | | impressive quality. As we get used to it, it's |
| clinical research studies as of December, 2004 | | | | "newness" seems to wear off. It is probably just |
| having to do with hypnosis and its benefits | | | | as effective as it's always been, but it just |
| currently being conducted worldwide. A study of | | | | doesn't have the shine or polish. If a feeling of |
| note published by the Journal of Clinical Sleep | | | | gratitude were to be connected to a certain |
| Medicine : JCSM : Official Publication of the | | | | behavior that we wanted to perform, then every |
| American Academy of Sleep Medicine, that had a | | | | time we did that behavior we would feel that |
| 5 year follow up was "The Treatment of | | | | gratitude. After awhile, that behavior would |
| Parasomnias with Hypnosis: a 5-Year Follow-Up | | | | become habit, second nature, and that level of |
| Study by Peter J. Hauri, Ph.D., Michael H. Silber, | | | | gratitude wouldn't seem so special. Now we are |
| M.B.Ch.B., and Bradley F. Boeve, M.D. This study | | | | ready for the next level of behavior and |
| showed that of the large number of subjects that | | | | increased gratitude to continue along our path of |
| were symptom-free or at least much improved | | | | growth and experience. |
| almost 90% of them maintained the change at | | | | So hypnosis is certainly not temporary, nor a |
| the 5 year mark. | | | | temporary fix. It's meant to move us into the |
| Free Will vs. Permanent Programming | | | | future, onto the path of correct behaviors and |
| There is free will in every human being. | | | | more important goals. |
| Experienced and well trained hypnotists create | | | | |