Benefits of Hypnotherapy

12 years, 4 months ago - November 11, 2011
For Micheline Cameron, a Spiritual Counselor, Counselor in Kinesiology, Hypnotherapist and Reiki Master who has her own Holistic Wellness Centre in Grand Baie, “hypnotherapy is a way through which we can choose to be a better person and to bypass the stress and pain of everyday life

All our learned behaviour and habits, either good or bad, reside in the subconscious mind. Hypnosis speeds up the process of positive change since the hypnotherapist is working directly with the subconscious mind. Old unwanted negative associations and patterns of behaviour can easily be removed and replaced with positive beneficial ones.

Hypnotherapy is a sort of “reframing”, where the belief systems are changed and consequently, the whole life of the person metamorphoses into a more positive one. Micheline exemplifies, “you suffer from anorexia. Your problem is basically in your attitude. Through hypnotherapy, we reframe your negative attitudes towards yourself so that you can feel more at peace with yourself”.

We always wonder how it feels to be hynotised. Micheline feeds our curiosity: “Being hypnotised feels being as close to God and love as you can. You become a child again. There are suddenly no limitations, only a whole set of possibilities.” Hypnotherapy can help us make changes in practically any area of our life.  Any bad habits or unwanted demeanours can easily be changed into more positive ones.  There are diverse areas where hypnotherapy has proven to be tremendously helpful like memory enhancement, improving concentration, relieving insomnia, rid stuttering, losing weight, quitting smoking, pain and stress management, elimination of fears and phobias, improvement of study habits, and strengthening self-esteem confidence amongst others.      

Different purposes

The patients of Micheline come to her for different purposes and are from diverse walks of life, age and creed and she strongly argues that “hypnotherapy cuts across the barriers of religions”. Her success stories are highly commendable, ranging from healing a cancer afflicted 16 year old Hindu girl and a former bedridden Catholic girl of 9. Most of her patients are people who want to be better and see her for stress management.

Most people feel wary of the hypnosis act fearing that the hypnotist may make them do anything against their will, morality or ethics.  Micheline admonishes claiming that “These fears and misconceptions are rooted in movies and are completely unfounded. Hypnotherapy works only how and when the person wants it to work.” The individual is always in control, and in fact, is more aware of what is happening while in the hypnotic state.” During hypnosis, we are actually awake and aware of our surroundings and hear everything because our senses are magnified 8 times. In fact, we are actually more alert while in hypnosis than we are in our normal waking state. As the hypnotist, “I am merely the guide who directs and leads the person into the hypnotic state. The hypnotist cannot make you do or say anything you ordinarily would not do, unless you want to”, claims Micheline.

One usual argument is that hypnotherapy ‘comes from the devil’. “Why would something which brings so much of positivity in a person’s life be from the devil? The only thing that hypnotherapy does is replace the bad with the good”, maintains Micheline. She further explains that the mind has natural defenses built in which it will automatically reject any suggestions it deems harmful.  “When we sleep, only our consciousness sleeps while our sub consciousness remains alert and never sleeps, such that, if your house catches fire, you’ll instantly be on guard.  Likewise, if during hypnosis session, if something goes wrong, your sub consciousness will just signal you out of it. Your body will react and take control.”

The success of the hypnotherapy session is entirely dependent on the person as Micheline articulates: “hypnotherapy is not something the hypnotherapist can make you do. If you are serious and really want to work on the issue and improve your life, then hypnotherapy will work wonders.  Hypnotherapy cannot work on somebody who does not believe. Everything is in your mind. Like when you are wearing heels. If you believe you will trip and fall, you most probably will.” Basically the choice is ours, because healing is possible only when our body, mind and soul accept it.

It should be noted that hypnotherapy is only an adjunct to traditional medical or psychological treatments, but is not meant to be a replacement.  It is used often in the medical and dental fields as well. Hypnotherapy can be used as a substitute to anesthesia during medical operations, child delivery or even tooth extraction and to assist doctors in terms of re operation and post operation pain management.

According to the hypnotherapist, “anesthesia makes the patient feel drugged and it remains in your body for more than a year while hypnotherapy allows the patient to come out of healing quicker. Moreover, because there is lesser bleeding and more blood control, the surgeon can work quicker. The healing is quicker with no pain. With its many benefits, hypnotherapy is now becoming very Western.”

We are mostly fascinated by the act of hypnosis and trance. For most people, it represents something almost mystical.  However, we are not aware that trances are very much part and parcel of our lives. As Micheline suggests, consider this: “you are in the bus, on your own, looking at the window. You start thinking, and drive subconsciously and mechanically and then you suddenly realise that your exit was 3 miles back. This is because hypnosis is a natural and normal state of the mind in which the body experiences a state of deep physical relaxation while the mind remains clear, alert and focused.  In this altered state of awareness, the subconscious mind becomes open and suggestible. 

Trances

A person naturally enters this state many times during a normal day. It is only that most of us are not aware that it is happening.” Trances allow for the proper channelling of positivity and creativity which were hitherto pushed down by stress and depression.

With her permanent dose of positivism, Micheline serenely advises our readers. “If you have any chance to cure a disease as in disease or a discomfort, in any form, seize the chance. If you can get rid of it, why not take that opportunity? Hypnotherapy has proven to be an asset, use this tool.”

We need to understand that just as our sickness come from within ourselves, we need to seek the remedy within ourselves. We all have the abilities to deal to get rid of the “disease”, only that the stress of everyday life made us forget how to heal ourselves. For Micheline, who is a hypnotherapist just because she “loves showing people how great they can be and how much power they have in themselves”, hypnotherapy is the tapping of this knowledge and prompts our bodies to accept self healing, which is why it is strongly on the recommendation list.

Text by Faits sur Maurice
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