About Hypnosis :: Dr. Joseph Mancini, CCHt :: Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy

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Hypnosis is a naturally occurring process of the human psyche. It has been known and used in various ways for healing by shamans in indigenous cultures for centuries. However, everyone spontaneously goes into a hypnotic state several times a day--every time there is focused attention and thereby altered awareness. For instance, this trance state may occur when one is listening to music, meditating, daydreaming, having a massage, cooking, reading a book, riding a bike, fixing a motorcycle, and doing a cross-word puzzle.

In a Hypnotherapy session, this naturally occurring modality of transformative relaxation is harnessed for therapeutic purposes. A paradoxical state of relaxed alertness allows the client to develop selective awareness of what otherwise escapes his or her notice during waking distractions.

Increasingly deeper relaxation allows the individual to bypass the limitations of the critical, conscious mind to enter the realm of the subconscious where old patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving may be directly faced and reconfigured or transformed. Changing such patterns may result also in better coping with physical pain and the acceleration of healing. In addition, Hypnotherapy may facilitate the client's connection to the deeper unconscious or SuperConscious Mind, the source of vast creativity and talent, accurate intuition and profound wisdom. Under the guidance of a Hypnotherapist, the individual may also recover seemingly lost aspects of him/herself and/or integrate hitherto conflicting dimensions.

Another, more active form of hypnosis called HypnoDrama uses verbal and movement improvisation to achieve the same hypnotic bypassing of the critical mind to find new possibilities of thinking, feeling and behaving. This kind of hypnosis is used in a group context for spiritual development, particularly in the improvising of past-life scenes that can contribute to the well-being of the individual in question and even that of the group members who intuitively stage the scene.

Finally, hypnosis is used effectively in a business context with individuals and groups. In leaders, managers and teams, Hypnosis can facilitate the emergence of new possibilities in mind-set, promoting, among other outcomes, the development of competence and confidence, greater focus and concentration, creativity, productivity, professional presence, strategizing, goal-setting and problem-solving. Executives and managers can especially benefit from hypnosis in a coaching context.

Best of all, Hypnosis often achieves lasting results faster than do many other healing modalities.

The client's commitment to the process, however, is central to his or her achieving these benefits. Clients must acknowledge that they are active participants in their own transformations, that their life-satisfaction depends on how well they care for themselves, and that they in fact create their own reality through their thoughts, feelings, beliefs and behaviors. The hypnotherapist is only a guide to the client's journey to expanded awareness. Therefore, the client's learning self-hypnosis is indispensable to his or her reinforcing and continuing the benefits of a hypnosis session. Together, the client and hypnotherapist create the context in which profound life transformation often occurs for the individual.