Hypnotherapy For Dummies

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ISBN: 9780470019306 | 0470019301
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Copyright: 7/28/2006

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An easy-to-follow, reassuring and responsible guide that shows how you can use hypnotherapy to identify and overcome unhealthy modes of thinking, deal with emotional issues, improve performance, and banish bad habits. Whether you're seeking to overcome anxiety or depression, improve your performance professionally or personally, lose weight or beat an addiction, hypnotherapy can help you make the changes you want.

Introduction.

About This Book.

Conventions Used in This Book.

Foolish Assumptions.

Why You Need This Book.

How This Book Is Organised.

Part I: Understanding Hypnotherapy.

Part II: Considering How Hypnotherapy Can Help.

Part III: Expanding the Reach of Hypnotherapy.

Part IV: The Practical Stuff.

Part V: The Part of Tens.

Appendix.

Icons Used in This Book.

Where to Go from Here.

Part I: Understanding Hypnotherapy.

Chapter 1: Examining Hypnotherapy .

Getting to Grips with the Basics of Hypnotherapy.

Discovering the differences between.

hypnosis and hypnotherapy.

Sliding into trance.

Examining states of mind.

Getting Past that Old-Style Hypnosis.

Finding Help with Hypnosis.

Understanding the Therapy Part of Hypnotherapy.

Hypnosis plus counselling.

Hypnosis plus psychotherapy.

Chapter 2: Techniques: The Tools of a Hypnotherapist .

Choosing a Tool from the Hypnotherapist’s Toolbox.

Giving It to You Straight and Not So Straight:.

Direct and Indirect Suggestions.

Getting direct suggestions.

Going the indirect route.

Blending both.

Safely Splitting Your Mind with Dissociation.

Minding your associations.

Associating hypnosis and dissociation.

Adding the Sum of Your Parts: Parts Therapy.

Communicating and negotiating with a part of you.

Bringing it all back together again: The importance.

of reintegration.

Travelling in Time.

Going back in time: Age regression techniques.

Going forward in time: Age progression techniques.

Altering time: Time distortion techniques.

Scanning a Variety of Other Common Techniques.

Visualising, imagining, or pretending change.

Finding out how to forget.

Substituting a memory.

Telling stories.

Chapter 3: Preparing for Hypnotherapy .

Keeping Your Individuality in Mind.

Identifying Your Problem.

‘I’m not exactly sure what my problem is’.

‘I know my problem but haven’t been able to solve it’.

‘I have more than one problem’.

Communicating Your Problem.

Prioritising your problems.

Providing as much information as you can.

Setting SMART Goals and Checking Your Motivation.

Using your SMARTs to set your goals.

Examining your motivation.

Negotiating Your Goals with Your Hypnotherapist.

Breaking down bigger goals.

Winning the goal game.

Part II: Considering How Hypnotherapy Can Help.

Chapter 4: Making the Mind-Body Connection .

Understanding the Mind-Body Connection.

Fitting up the connectors: Your nervous system.

Making the connection with hypnosis.

Considering How Your Emotions Affect You.

Depressing the effects of low moods.

Stressing about fear and anxiety.

Fighting or fleeing: Facing the fear response.

Integrating Hypnosis into the Mind-Body Connection.

Relaxing mentally and physically through hypnosis.

Manifesting the mind through the body.

Chapter 5: Breaking Away from Old Habits .

Examining Habits and How to Change Them.

Quitting Smoking.

Preparing to quit: What to do before.

visiting your hypnotherapist.

Addressing your fears about quitting.

Using hypnosis to become smoke-free.

Managing Your Weight.

Taking the safe route to the body you want.

Eating yourself thin.

Getting a Good Night’s Sleep.

Solving your insomnia.

Trance strategies to help you to sleep.

Sweet dreams are made of this – turning.

your nightmares into nothing.

Sorting out snoring – for both you and your partner.

Controlling Your Words: Stammering.

Stumbling over anxiety.

Relaxing your speech through hypnotherapy.

Reaching a Nail-Biting Conclusion.

Chapter 6: Touching on Body Matters .

Letting Go of Pain.

Experiencing pain.

Perceiving pain.

Relieving pain.

Helping Your Skin Look Good.

Scratching away at psoriasis and eczema.

Stop kissing frogs: Treating your warts.

Easing skin problems with hypnotherapy.

Relieving the Pressure of Hypertension.

Taking a Pregnant Pause for Childbirth.

Conceiving options.

Delivering the goods.

Improving Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

Dealing with your IBS anxiety.

Coping with constipation and diarrhoea.

Loving the Dentist!.

Drilling away at your problem.

Grinding down your bruxism: Teeth-grinding and hypnotherapy.

Dealing with Problems with a Psychological Basis.

Obsessing about change: Obsessive.

compulsive-disorder (OCD).

Beating bulimia.

Chapter 7: Feeling Good.

Conquering Performance Anxiety.

Playing the starring role.

Feeling your star fade.

Acting your way to a better performance.

Regaining your lustre.

Summing up your parts.

Taking the Confidence Trick.

Feeling ten feet tall (when you’re used to feeling like a midget).

Changing your self-talk.

Putting your confidence into practice.

Sorting Out Your Anxieties.

Beating the Blues.

Understanding the different types of depression.

Working your way out of that black hole.

Stress Busting!.

Cooling yourself off and hypnotherapy.

Responding with stress.

Reframing your stressed-out world.

Making a molehill out of that mountain.

Accessing Your Creativity.

Tapping into your endless well of creativity.

Unblocking your creative flow.

Touching on Sexual Problems.

Chapter 8: Considering the Limits of Hypnotherapy .

Realising That Hypnotherapy Helps, It Doesn’t Cure.

Accepting Hypnotherapy’s Limitations.

Setting yourself up for success.

Highlighting the importance of your motivation.

Letting Go May Be Harder Than You Think.

Facing the fact that you may want to keep your problem.

Overcoming your secondary gains.

Sabotaging your own therapy.

Examining Your Hypnotherapist’s Ethical Responsibilities.

Looking at Your Hypnotherapist’s Legal Responsibilities.

Part III: Expanding the Reach of Hypnotherapy.

Chapter 9: Your Kids and Hypnotherapy .

Considering Ethical Issues.

Noting the Differences in Hypnotising Children.

With eyes wide open.

Trance through imagination.

Helping Your Child with Therapy.

Making the decision to seek therapy.

Listening to your child’s hypnotherapist.

Understanding Some Common Childhood Issues.

Hiding behind sofas: Dealing with your anxious child.

Solving bed-wetting.

Chapter 10: Visiting Your Former Selves .

Examining Past-Life Regression.

Beliefs about PLR.

Reasons to revisit past lives.

Journeying to Your Past Life.

Revealing any past-life memories.

Choosing a route.

Reaching a dead end.

What to Expect during Your PLR Session.

Setting the scene.

Visiting those important times.

Being present at your death.

Healing past hurts.

Completing the journey and returning to the present.

Chapter 11: Removing Your Phobias .

Rationalising the Irrational: Defining Phobias.

Explaining phobias.

Comparing phobias to plain old fear.

Pointing out triggers.

Examining the Various Types of Phobia.

Specific phobias.

More complex phobias.

Removing Your Phobia through Hypnotherapy.

Starting with the basics.

Approaching the trance.

Picturing your life without your phobia.

Confronting Your Phobia: A Contract for Action.

Part IV: The Practical Stuff.

Chapter 12: Finding a Hypnotherapist .

Looking Out for a Hero.

Knowing what to look for.

Believing adverts – or not.

Cruising the information superhighway.

Relying on word-of-mouth.

Looking Into Your Hero.

Researching by word-of-mouth.

Making sure your hypnotherapist is professionally trained.

Talking to a few therapists.

Asking the right questions.

Selecting Your Therapist.

Chapter 13: Your First Hypnotherapy Session Step by Step .

Entering the Office.

Caring enough to pay your own way.

Knowing how many sessions it may take.

Starting Your Hypnotherapy Session.

Getting acquainted with your hypnotherapist.

Creating a working relationship.

Teaming up with your hypnotherapist.

Supplying a Case History.

Going Into a Trance.

Inducing a trance.

Homing in on what a trance feels like.

Taking you in and taking you deeper.

Experiencing the Actual Therapy.

Choosing the best approach for you.

Receiving post-hypnotic suggestions.

Strengthening Your Ego.

Adding the feel good factor.

Bolstering a weak ego.

Waking Up.

Coming completely out of trance.

Continuing therapy while you’re coming out of trance.

Doing Your Homework.

Chapter 14: Practising Self-Hypnosis .

Connecting to Your Unconscious.

Setting Your Goal.

Hypnotising Yourself.

Inducing your own trance.

Deepening your trance.

Trusting your unconscious mind to carry out your suggestion.

Strengthening your ego.

Waking yourself from trance.

Examining the Pros and Cons of Self-Hypnosis.

When self-hypnosis is appropriate.

When self-hypnosis isn’t appropriate.

Developing Your Own Scripts.

Ongoing Self-Hypnosis.

Making your hypnosis work.

Establishing a routine.

Improving your effectiveness.

Chapter 15: Meeting the Family: Some.

Cousins of Hypnotherapy .

Looking at Reasons to Use Something Other Than Hypnotherapy.

Asking why your hypnotherapist isn’t using hypnotherapy.

Making sure that you understand what.

your hypnotherapist is doing.

Gazing at Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR).

Eyeing EMDR’s theories.

Wagging a finger: EMDR in action.

Tuning into Thought Field Therapy (TFT).

Feeling Out the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT).

Talking about Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP).

Digging into the name.

Looking at NLP in practice.

Part V: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 16: Ten Common Misconceptions about Hypnotherapy.

Hypnosis Is Magical and Mystical.

You’re Under the Power of the Hypnotherapist.

Hypnosis Is Dangerous.

Hypnosis Makes You Cluck like a Chicken and Lose Control.

You Have to Keep Your Eyes Closed and Stay Completely Still.

Hypnosis Is Therapy.

You May Not Wake Up from Trance.

You Go to Sleep during a Hypnosis Session.

Some People Can’t Be Hypnotised – Even if They Want to Be.

You Don’t Need a Hypnotist – You Can Hypnotise Yourself.

Chapter 17: Ten Pioneers of Hypnosis .

Franz Mesmer (1734–1815).

James Braid (1796–1860).

Hippolyte Bernheim (1837–1919).

James Esdaile (1808–59).

Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–93).

Pierre Janet (1859–1947).

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939).

Clark L Hull (1884–1952).

Milton Erickson (1901–80).

Ernest Rossi (1933–present).

Chapter 18: Ten Qualities to Look For in a Hypnotherapist .

Confidentiality.

Honesty.

Well-Trained.

Empathy.

Ethics.

Experience.

Tidiness.

Punctuality.

Non-Judgemental.

Active Listening.

Chapter 19: Ten Tips for Choosing a Hypnotherapy.

Training Programme .

Making Sure the Institution Is Accredited.

Training for Clinical Hypnosis, NOT Stage Hypnosis!.

Looking at Length of Training.

Going through the Interview Procedure.

Sitting Still for Classroom-Based Training.

Checking the Experience, Background, and Variety of Lecturers.

Getting Help from Tutorials.

Talking to Previous and Current Students.

Offering Continuing Professional Development.

Supporting You After Training.

Appendix: Resources.

Hypnotherapy Organisations.

United Kingdom.

United States.

Canada.

Australia.

Training Institutions.

United Kingdom.

United States.

Canada.

Australia.

Malaysia.

Portugal.

Spain.

Useful Books.

The Handbook of Hypnotic Metaphors and Suggestions.

The Wisdom of Milton Erickson: The Complete Volume.

Hartland’s Medical and Dental Hypnosis – 3rd Edition.

Hidden Depths: The Story of Hypnosis.

Training Trances: Multi-Level Communication.

in Therapy and Training.

Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton Erickson, Volume 1.

Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy with Children, 3rd Edition.

Time Distortion in Hypnosis: An Experimental and Clinical Investigation.

Ericksonian Approaches.

Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.

Code of Ethics.

Index.

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