Why HypnoTherapy Is Giving Hypnosis a Bad Image.
The Guardian newspaper ran a piece this week in their business problems section, a sort of Agony Aunt self help section for wannabe
entrepreneurs, on the ethics of using Hypnotherapy to boost performance at work.
In “Is it OK to be hypnotised to improve my work performance?” a boss
has apparently suggested ‘Cognitive Hypnotherapy Treatment’ to his sales team to boost their performance.
Of course the author is a bit nonplussed and is questioning the ethics of being told he is sick or ill and needs ‘treatment’.
As always the worse thing here is the addition of the Suffix ‘therapy’ to the word hypnosis. Regardless of the origin of the word meaning to
give service, the common understanding is that therapy is what happens when you are broken and need to get fixed. That and the relentless and so far largely fruitless attempts by people in the therapy game trying to be ‘accepted’ by the established medical profession as a ‘clinical’
or ‘medical’ practice.
Now in the UK we have a wonderful duel aspect of our medical services. Whilst on the whole the average person will accept that the NHS works and saves lives etc, the majority of people largely distrust their doctors and hospitals with a grumbling passion we Brits are so bloody good at. In the States they seem to be even less enamoured of their medical professionals often portrayed, certainly on
the InterWeb if not by their TV shows, as money grubbing sawbones.
Personally I’ve always had a problem with my beautiful art of hypnosis being associated with something that for one it isn’t the only use of
our mind, and for two isn’t actually what the majority of hypnotherapists do. The vast majority of them actually do psychotherapy to someone with their eyes closed, and an even bigger majority do that from a converted bedroom or dining room on a part
time basis and have the audacity to join form and join ‘Professional’ associations.
Now the usual argument is that Stage Hypnosis gives the thing a bad name and that images like the one from Getty used in the Guardian
article of a
guy swinging a watch is the reason people have a bad image of the process and the people practicing it. But let’s look at the facts.
I went on a Google of hypnosis and hypnotherapy and whilst I found 1 case of an English Stage Hypnotist being found guilty of “A lack of
due care and attention” and being told to pay £6,000 in a civil case brought about by a disgruntled person who volunteered to go on stage and then blamed the hypnotist for feeling poorly six months later. He didn’t bother to defend the case so lost by default, the fact that her supporting hypnotherapist who brought the case to court was the infamous Derek Crusell who was involved with the campain aginst stage hypnosis and had also been the therapist on the more well know Paul McKenna case wich which Paul did defend and easily won because it’s silly thinking that taliking in an imaginary way like a Martian is going to cause full blown psychosis. But I guess that has nothing to do with anything.
I found Several cases of hypnoTherapists being Jailed for Cat to a few. And if I can find that most certainly the general public can. What I can’t find however is any public rebuttal in the defence of the slip ups. I know that wouldn’t actually kiss and make it better but it might go some way to show that hypnotherapy actually cared, even if it did come across as Volkswagen apologising for buying and still making the Skoda.
On the whole the general public’s view of hypnosis administered as a Therapy and its use as a form of recreation and a direct method of
personal development and experience enhancement is actually pretty accurate. And if that’s bad then hypnotherapy has no one to blame but
itself. They scream and shout that it’s the stage hypnotists who do what they do in front of thousands of witnesses, giving people the opportunity to romp about being kids again, that give hypnosis a bad image. May the Gods forbid it could be the fact that being hypnotised 1 on 1 behind closed doors and opening your most innermost self to a bloke who can’t even be bothered to rent an office and who has more letters behind his name than in it, might just be a bit scary.
Did you know that in the United Kingdom except for Northern Island Stage Hypnotists have to be licensed by your local authority for every public show and have to carry insurance where as anyone with no training other than a correspondence course, which lets face it is an expensive book, can set themselves up as a hypnotherapist?
I think it’s about time the therapy game stopped blaming everyone else for their image and started to clean up their own act. And I wish that the hypno’therapists’ who don’t actually hypnotise would call what they do Psychotherapy and stop giving the beautiful art of Hypnosis and the Hypnotist who practices it, such a bad image.
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Mindset for weight loss.
People are fat. There are more fat people than thin people in nearly all of the westernised developed countries. And being as the majority
of the rest of the world doesn’t count Most people are fat.
The truth of course is that most people are normal. Because most people have the mindset to be just as they are.
It’s the countries that are inundated with reports news and personal development evangelists telling us we are inadequate and focusing our
attention on obesity that have all the problems.
But don’t worry. Thanks to the InterWeb and the invasion of McD KFC & PH followed closely by translations of all the nut case diets out
there the rest of the world will soon catch us up.
Now I’ll admit to having around 50 or so pounds more than someone my height should on average have. I do however have an excuse… I don’t care much. I’m more or less happy where I am and don’t have any driving need to go anywhere else. However I am still intelligent enough to understand the process that got me here and what to do to get out of it if I wanted to.
It’s Mindset.
I know, I know – what’s a MindSet besides Personal Development inspeak? Well basically it’s two things, your mood and your repeated habitual thoughts concerning something. It’s the pattern of thinks and thunks your head runs when you are subjected to a certain event, like looking at your scales or trying to run upstairs, or worse reading a menu or trying desperately hard not to have just one more mouth full.
It’s your mindset that actually decides what you choose and puts into your body. If that mindset says you want to feel satisfied and ‘full’
then that is how you will choose to eat. If your mind set is different today, such as when you are upset and ‘Can’t eat’, then the story
is different.
What you do is down to what you think about what you are doing. Mindset.
So how do you get the mindset to change what you do as far as eating is concerned? Of course being a hypnotist I’d say go see a hypnotist.
On the other hand having a traumatic event can do it as well but I suggest you don’t go for that one as it tends to sting a bit. What is
left is restructuring your mindset the way it was created. Over time by repetition by talking to yourself.
Self suggestion is undoubtedly what creates the mindset that keeps you where you are. If it’s that good you can use it if you want to
change.
Just focus your mind on what you want. “I am thin.” would do but if you take that beyond just having a normal body shape to what you
can do when you get there, it’s way more powerful. “I Move With Ease and Grace” is the phrase I chose for my audio download recording,
because it’s that, along with suggestions that confirm that you want to do this, that will create the right mindset for your desired
outcome.
If you can’t be bothered to formulate your own self suggestion and put it in a format designed to use music and words to help you talk yourself into a better body regime then I have of course done it for you. And it’s on the front of the site on the homepage special offer box.
After all it’s what got you here, so we know for sure it can get you somewhere else.
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HypnoGoggle
I Googled “Hypno” just to see what would happen and in among the usual tragic attempts to give me a video hypno-high and the expected
stopsmokingreducstress stuff I found a Brilliant looking space age set of rollerblades-come-lesiure-shoe a design company who’s site looks
like my kids attempt at a WordPress blog, and buried deep dooooown a bed.
Not surprising and not very amusing.
Now last time I reported on my excursion into google-masturbation, that’s searching for your own name, so I thought I’d try it with some
of the other guys I know in the hypnotist business in the UK.
Naturally Paul McKenna is pretty much in control of his name. Although the Paul McKenna Band, and the reader for Physics at Strathclyde
University do get a look in on page one and two.
Derren Brown who of course doesn’t do stage hypnosis except when he is on stage or the TV benefits from misspelling his first name and no
other DB did I see, and I went five pages down and gave up.
So maybe there’s a lesson there. If you want to dominate Google, misspell your name!
Smiles
JonChase
