It seems most people feel as if they and their problems are unique among human experience. While our experiences make each of us unique, what we feel, how we respond to the world around us, and how we interact with other people is not unique. We all have the same senses. The way we deal with this life is greatly variable, but only within certain parameters. There are boundaries to human experience and behaviour. Your feelings, thoughts, behaviours, and problems aren’t as strange or unusual as you might think.
People don’t tell others about their fears, doubts, worries, anxieties, or things they think are strange about themselves. Believe me, whatever your difficulty in life might be, it isn’t as strange or unusual as you think. I have never been shocked by something a client told me. As a matter of fact, I haven’t even been surprised for some time now. There are only so many things humans can do.
There certainly have been some clients over the years for which hypnotherapy was not the appropriate form of therapy. These people were referred to other professionals. In most cases the presented problem is far less serious than people think. I believe that in most instances people can solve their own problems, with a little understanding, direction, positive motivation, and effective mental dynamics.
Metaphysical hypnotherapy, of course, uses the mental tool of hypnosis combined with the therapists (and there are not many metaphysical hypnotherapists) skilled guidance in the application of the laws of metaphysics. Many people have seen too many movies or television shows where a writer needed a magical solution to a plot problem and used that mystical power of hypnosis to solve his problem. Hypnosis may indeed hold a mystical element when it is combined with a metaphysical approach to therapy. It IS a very effective mental tool that enables people to take control of things that may have seemed beyond their control in the past. Metaphysical hypnosis is a completely natural, yet different, state of consciousness from the normal waking state. When a person is in the state of hypnosis he/she is completely awake and alert. He/she knows exactly what is happening at all times. You can not be controlled by someone using hypnosis. While under hypnosis, your awareness is actually heightened and carefully focused. You become very receptive to positive suggestions that are acceptable to you, and are able to learn from the artificial experiences or perhaps reconnection with past states of being or even precognition of future or alternative states or dimensions perceived in the hypnotic state.
I have been asked, hundreds of times, “ What about those stage shows where they make people do all those ridiculous things?” They don’t MAKE anyone do anything. Think about who goes up on stage and why. You would certainly never see me up there! I don’t like being foolish in public. These people are volunteers. They want to be foolish and playful on stage and not be responsible for their behaviour. They are having fun. None of them will ever do anything they don’t want to do under hypnosis. No one ever does. A person under hypnosis is only doing what he wants to do aided by the freeing and emotive power of hypnosis.
A well-trained and experienced therapist can use the artificial (guided models) or perhaps past-life, future life projection, time-line metaphysics or similar experiences perceived under hypnosis to desensitize a client’s fears, improve his self-image, or gain other behavioural or emotional goals. Goal achievement is an area of human behaviour where this tool of hypnosis is very helpful. Other areas include overcoming fears, improving sports, performance, stress control and relaxation, elimination of habits, gaining self confidence, sexual dysfunction, smoking cessation, tinnitus reduction/management and success motivation. Basically, if a feeling or behaviour in your life is undesirable to you, in most cases Metaphysical Hypnotherapy can be of value by helping an individual to connect with and draw upon the power of the universal mind.
The real goal in most cases is for the client to learn effective mental dynamics and take control of his life. This is often achieved with a mix of therapeutic techniques. There are no easy fixes. There is no effortless cure for your problems, but with a little knowledge, a little effort, and personal responsibility you can make your life what you want it to be. The real magic is in responsibility, focus, new understanding and application of universal principles. It helps a lot to have effective tools and the knowledge with which to apply these principles effectively for healing and positive change. Your life should be what you want it to be. It is your life. Take control and get what you desire out of it.
Alan Crisp DHP MAPHP GQHP LNCP is one of the UK’s leading Metaphysical Hypnotherapists and Counsellors. He has been involved in people development and healing for more than 25 years and is the author and developer of many ground breaking therapy styles and techniques. Alan practices in Westcliff on Sea in Essex, UK but clients have visited him from many parts of the UK and abroad to benefit from his extraordinary abilities and techniques in therapy for a vast variety of problems and challenges.
Further information can be found at www.metaphysicalhypnosis.co.uk and at www.hypnoseek.com