Contents:
- Medical Video: Guided Meditation for Releasing Subconscious Blockages (Sleep Meditation for Clearing Negativity)
- Which is true, hypnosis or hypnosis?
- Use of hypnosis for psychological therapy
- 4 myths about hypnosis
- 1. "You will not remember what you did when you were in hypnosis"
- 2. "Hypnosis can help someone remember events in detail"
- 3. "You can be hypnotized even if you don't want to"
- 4. "People who hypnotize you have complete control of yourself"
- Can everyone be hypnotized?
Medical Video: Guided Meditation for Releasing Subconscious Blockages (Sleep Meditation for Clearing Negativity)
Hypnosis, or more often you are familiar with hypnosis, is a therapeutic technique in which an expert (psychologist or psychiatrist) will make someone in a relaxed and calm state so that he can focus more on his own mind and respond to suggestions given. Although the hypnosis technique caused controversy, the majority of experts believe that hypnosis therapy can greatly help overcome various health problems, such as overcoming pain, excessive nervousness, mood changes, to help people change or stop a habit such as smoking.
Which is true, hypnosis or hypnosis?
You may hear hypnosis more often than hypnosis. Actually the two words have different meanings. According to the Big Indonesian Dictionary, hypnosis is a noun, which means a condition like sleep because of suggestion. While hypnosis is an adverb, which means making or causing someone to be in a state of hypnosis.
Use of hypnosis for psychological therapy
As previously explained, hypnosis is one of the psychological therapy methods that is controversial and sometimes misinterpreted. Hypnosis tends to stick with the image of picking someone's secret or giving someone a suggestion to do strange things. In fact, hypnosis is a method in psychology that is valid for use in the practice of clinical psychology.
Simply put, hypnosis is a condition in which a person focuses or concentrates fully, thereby increasing the ability to accept suggestions. Hypnosis is also often associated with being calm or relaxed. When someone is in a state of hypnosis, they tend to be more open to suggestion when compared to when they are not in a state of hypnosis. Hypnosis in therapy psychologists can be used to deal with pain, especially physical pain, anxiety, it can even reduce the symptoms of dementia. Some other functions of hypnosis are:
- As a therapy for chronic pain as in arthritis arthritis sufferers.
- As a therapy to reduce pain during childbirth.
- Helps control some symptoms in ADHD.
- Helps reduce nausea and vomiting in the treatment of cancer patients.
- Helps control pain when undergoing procedures for treating or treating dental and oral problems.
- Reduces insomnia and other sleep disorders.
4 myths about hypnosis
Some of the statements related to hypnosis below might be heard frequently. But are the myths related to hypnosis correct?
1. "You will not remember what you did when you were in hypnosis"
This statement is not entirely wrong. Amnesia can occur in some cases, but people usually remember everything that happens when they are in hypnosis. Hypnosis can indeed have little effect on memory. Posthypnotic amnesia can make someone forget what happened before and when hypnotized. But this condition is usually rare and even if it happens, the effect is only temporary.
2. "Hypnosis can help someone remember events in detail"
Hypnosis can be used to increase memory acuity or scrape a person's past events, but the effect actually isn't as large as one might think. Some studies reveal that hypnosis cannot fully make people remember things in detail and accurately, even hypnosis can make someone misinterpret their memory.
3. "You can be hypnotized even if you don't want to"
You may often see it on TV, some viewers are randomly selected to be hypnotized and almost 100% of these people are then in a hypnotic state. Actually, hypnosis requires 'permission' and the willingness of the person to be hypnotized. To be able to be hypnotized, a person must be truly open and willing to be hypnotized. This situation can make suggestions given by psychologists or psychiatrists more easily accepted by patients.
4. "People who hypnotize you have complete control of yourself"
Even though some people experience feelings where they act outside of their wishes, actually people who hypnotize you cannot tell you to do something that is beyond your will.
Can everyone be hypnotized?
You might think that you are immune to hypnosis, but actually 15% of people are very responsive to hypnosis, especially those who are easily carried away by fantasy or fantasy. For example like children who tend to be easier to carry into the hypnosis phase. But indeed there are some people (approximately 10% of adults) that are indeed difficult or even cannot be hypnotized at all.
The success of hypnosis depends on who is doing the hypnotic process and how you will be hypnotized. Those who see hypnosis more positively (for example seeing hypnosis as a therapy or tool to help their problems) will be easier to enter into the hypnosis phase and accept suggestions.
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