Therapeutic Approaches Within Your Hypnotic Toolbox
A vast range of different hypnotherapies and schools of therapy are out there. So, when we teach hypnotherapy, we teach our students critical therapy areas. So initially, you’re working with habits, you know, with what the person is doing in the here and now.
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So if you’re biting nails, or you smoke too much, or if you’re indulging eating biscuits while watching TV, all of those behaviours will benefit significantly from hypnotherapy.
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The next type is cognitive, which is all about thoughts and beliefs. Now, if you believe you can, you’re more likely to be able to. But if you feel you can’t, if you’re mentally thinking, I absolutely can’t do that, then you’re telling yourself, you’re setting yourself up to not being able to do that.
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Therapy is fantastic at helping you eliminate those limiting beliefs and develop new, healthy, resourceful beliefs and mindsets. Yeah, so you’ve got the behavioural aspects. So, using elements of conditioning and if you’re looking in terms of psychology, behavioural psychology is a vast field, just the same as cognitive psychology.
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CBT, cognitive behaviour therapy, you’ve got mindfulness, and acceptance and commitment therapy. All of those different types of treatment fall under the cognitive psychology bracket, and they all work well alongside or within hypnosis and hypnotherapy.
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If you’ve ever done any psychology training or anything, you’ll have heard of Freud and Jung and all those folks. We take much of what they’ve done and adapt it alongside the hypnosis we do to create subconscious change.
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So, I don’t necessarily need to delve deep into why someone did what they did in the past and how those events reflect this. We don’t go the completely Freudian route of finding out why your mum did that in your childhood, you know, that kind of thing.
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Or you are analyzing your dreams, so we don’t necessarily do that directly. However, it is a fantastic way of gaining insight from the subconscious mind. So that’s part of your mind or the processes in your mind that work to keep all of your memories and everything that you’ve ever done or learned can be accessed by your subconscious mind.
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So, you know, frequent answers and insight require a little prompting. Often, with hypnosis, it works well. But also, as well as getting insight from the subconscious mind, you can also create subconscious changes, like I said a moment ago.
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One of the key figures in hypnotherapy, Milton H. Erickson, was a massive proponent of the idea that our subconscious mind has the answers, that we have the answers inside. We need to allow them to come out to send us in the right direction to make those changes possible.
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And that’s where modern hypnotherapy approaches come in. One thing that crosses very much between behaviour and analytical is metaphorical work and teaching our students how to use stories to get insight and elicit changes in ways of thinking and behaving.
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So, there can be an integrative approach, blending one or more different models of hypnotherapy to create the best possible outcomes. Now, there’s one other model of hypnotherapy that’s amazing for its dual purpose.
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Things in our life, and we can use those positive things to build up our self-esteem and sense of self and become even more robust and better able to cope with change. You can also use TA to go back and look at the past.
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Sometimes, people will have events in their past that were an issue for them, whether they’re events that are still playing on their minds now because they didn’t necessarily process them properly at the time or whether it’s just such a significant event that it’s affecting their life or it affected their life at the start and then maybe built an unhelpful habit or behaviour or you know something born of that experience.
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So, it can be good to take people back into the past in hypnosis in their imagination to change how they interact or are affected. By those memories hypnosis is a fantastic way to do that because it’s a naturally dissociative state.
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So it’s taking them out of the here and now, their conscious, you know, whatever’s going on in their mind and sending that back into the past to connect to those memories, change them, and modify them.
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And you can use a lot of different therapeutic approaches within your hypnotic toolbox to make those changes happen. Absolutely. One of the critical things about hypnotherapy that we find particularly helpful is its integrative and eclectic.
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So you can use one or more different models simultaneously, even synergistically, taking various elements and working together. Or you could use two different components within the same hypnotherapy session.
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You can also draw from other areas, such as NLP, mindfulness, and therapeutic models and concepts. Fundamentally, we aim to tailor the therapy to suit the client and their needs best.
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So, rather than getting your client to fit your model or your process, you’re using the best models and methods for that particular client. And that truly is hypnotherapy. It is. If you’d like to learn more about hypnotherapy, we have an upcoming diploma course starting soon.
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