If you have ever seen hypnosis performed on screen, whether at home on TV or during a film at a movie theatre, then likely have only ever seen the Hollywood version of hypnosis. Contrary to what movies and TV shows would have you believe, a real therapy session is actually nothing like how it is portrayed on screen. For example, in movies, people are often put to sleep by someone swinging something in front of their face, telling them, “You are getting sleepy. Very sleepy.” But in reality, nobody is put to sleep. In fact, they are very much awake and super attentive to what someone is telling them. Hypnosis and the subconscious mind work hand in hand with each other.
Even though people have been studying the subject of hypnosis for centuries, and a lot of progress has been made in the last century or so, there is still a lot that remains unknown about the subject. What researchers do know is the basic fundamental ways that hypnosis works and they have used that information to successfully use it as a therapy to treat many things. Some of the things it has been used to treat are things involving people’s behavior, like stop smoking, lose weight, stop drinking and anger management. It is even used to help people recall repressed memories that wouldn’t normally remember. The reason all of these things are possible is because hypnosis and the subconscious mind work together very well.
During a normal day in people’s lives, they are thinking about all kinds of things, and for this they are using their conscious mind. The subconscious mind is something is harder to delve into because it requires the person be perfectly relaxed without any outside interference. That is why hypnosis usually works to help people change their behavior. Hypnosis taps into the subconscious to enable a hypnotherapist to offer suggestions for your subconscious mind to take on board. This is how many people have been able to lose weight or quit smoking with hypnosis.
While hypnosis and the subconscious mind work with one another, it is not always successful in changing someones’ behavior patterns. You have to want to change your own behavior, first and foremost, because a therapist will not have any control over you. It is all up to you to either listen and change or ignore their advice and keep the status quo.
Once a person truly wants to change, hypnosis has a very impressive success rate. The best way to try hypnosis is to buy a hypnosis MP3 from one of the many great hypnosis download websites on the internet. These are a low cost and effective way to give hypnosis a try.