Hypnotherapy: Overcoming Anxiety

According to “Relaxing Your Fears Away” by Wolpe, J. (1961), which describes the systematic desensitization treatment of neuroses, people cannot experience relaxation and fear at the same time. The author stated the theoretical proposition that the reason people get phobias is that they learned a certain behavior sometime in their life and this thing became the fear in their brain.

When it comes to Meditation and Hypnosis there can be some frustration, even people who practice this process can get confused about the differences. They both are used to relax your body and calming states of mind, this disciplines can help you keep a calm and positive life without the bad vine. Deeply relaxing is one of the main result this disciplines guarantee. Meditation is another way to call when you are entering into the stage of Hypnosis. They both have great benefits that can help you improve the success of any disorders as Phobias, fears, and anxiety.

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Phobias can be treated one of four ways. The most common is to faces the fear. This person would either get assistants from a behavioral therapist or go at it alone. This would be the most extreme way of getting over the phobia. Or a person can receive help from a behavioral therapist. The therapist may ask the patient to read up on the object or place, then look at photos of their fear. The patient might be asked to final go face their fear after all the research and preparation (Mayo Clinic). The treatment with medication is always an

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Emetophobia is an intense fear of throwing up or vomiting that often starts in childhood. While the psychological disorder can happen at any age, this fear also includes either seeing or witnessing someone else vomit. While this is seen as irrational, the fear can be gripping and negatively affect a person’s quality of life if left untreated. We will explore ways in which clinical hypnotherapy and behavior modification can be used to add long-lasting positive results.

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It starts with going to get a diagnosis from your doctor. “Your doctor will ask questions about your symptoms and take a medical, psychiatric and social history.”(Mayo Clinic, paragraph 1). While there is many treatments or medications for phobias, psychotherapy is currently the best one. Psychotherapy has two main types, Exposure therapy and Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Exposure therapy includes slowly exposing the person to the fear to manage anxiety. For example, if you’re afraid of flying an airplane(aerophobia), you might start off thinking about airplanes, to looking at pictures of airplanes, going near an airplane,and then stepping inside one. And eventually riding an airplane on a short ride and then a longer flight. CBT involves a mix of exposure and other techniques to learn to cope with the feared object or situation. “CBT emphasizes learning to develop a sense of mastery and confidence with your thoughts and feelings rather than feeling overwhelmed by them.”(Mayo Clinic, paragraph 6). While psychotherapy is commonly successful, medications like beta blockers and sedatives, may sometimes be used in long term or short term

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Hypnosis improves self esteem. Using the state of trance or hypnosis to change dis-empowering beliefs or nagging self doubt is one of the most common reasons someone might seek out a hypnotherapist. In hypnosis, the mind is open to positive suggestions and new patterns of thinking, so here is where those old beliefs can be changed into new empowering

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Hypnosis explained by the psychology community as an altered state of consciousness that leaves people in a more subjective state, or more likely to listen to verbal suggestions. The term of hypnosis came from the Greek root word for sleep. There have been records of Hypnosis going back 2,500 years in ancient China and Egypt, (Gurgevich, 2011-2015, para.1). Hypnosis or also known as hypnotherapy is said to be used to help you gain control over undesired behaviors or to help you cope better with anxiety or pain, (“Test and Procedures Hypnosis,”2015, Para. 2). An example of how a hypnotherapy session might go like this; a therapist comes in while a patient was in an relaxed state and proceeds to tell the patient that they will be cured from their illness when they came out of the relaxed state and then the patient may or may not be cured.

For clinicians to work efficiently, it is important to find ways to create distance from the suffering. Self-hypnosis is very effective in recovering the energy needed to let go of stress and manage the accumulation of negative influences (Ruysschaert, 2009, pp. 164-165). Regular practice of self-hypnosis is recommended as a “first important step in self-care, promoting self-awareness, and distancing the self from the outside world to enter the inner world of one’s own experience” (Ruysschaert, 2009, p. 165). Letting go is possible through self-hypnosis by the use of guided imagery. For example, “imagining thoughts as clouds, coming and going, and just noticing what happens” (Ruysschaert, 2009, p. 165). One way in particular can be to “imagine

In the twenty-first century our society has become sceptic on the controversial issue of hypnosis. Our society recognizes hypnosis as a foolish man holding a swinging stopwatch in front of people saying, "When I snap my fingers, you will feel sleepy". Our society does not recognize hypnosis as a way of therapy or treatment. Hypnosis by definition is a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject.