Has anyone tried Hypnosis

GalwayDub2

I have my first session this evening. I'm afraid of flying, which never affected me before, but I'd a really bad flight in March, and have been having small panic attacks and anxiety lately thinking about my next flight. The hypnotherapist I'm going to is meant to be brilliant. Does it take long to get into a really relaxed state so they can do hypnosis? I'm not very good at relaxing

humanji

I've a friend who's a hypnotheropist and he says that it's different for each person. Just do what they tell you and just try your best to relax. The person will expect you to be nervous. Just remember the reason you're doing it and you'll be fine. It seems to work wonders for a lot of people.

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GalwayDub2

Thanks a mill for your help. I'm going at 5:00 this evening, will come back tommorrow (if I can) and let you know how it went

Sleepy

It largely depends on the type of person you are. For me, it was worthless (though quite a nice experience), for others I know, it works wonders.

GalwayDub2

What did you get hypnosis done for Sleepy? I had it done before for Spiders and it kinda worked. I'm definately nowhere as bad as I was.

pwd

i find that whispering things repeatedly into someone's ear while they sleep is a good way of implanting ideas in their head.

Sleepy

I'd rather not say GalwayDub2. I don't think it would matter what I had it done for, it just wouldn't work for me.

Blazer

Had it for smoking...after smoking 60 a day and tried everything else..was off then for 3.5 years and had 1 one day out of the blue..****ed it up then for me so had to go back..
At long as you're determined to help yourself hypnosis will work..

Mr Benevolent

Hypnosis is probably the best mind tool anyone can master, and it's by far the easiest. Everyone does it, all the time. Watch someone on the bus or train stare at nothing - that's hypnosis. It doesn't require a technique, just a willingness to relax everything, turn the little voice down and unwind inside.

(BTW, I trained as a hypnotherapist, pyschotherapist and NLP practitioner. NLP is great, but hypnotherapist are pretty good too imo.)

LegacyUser

yeah i found it good too,i had a lot of anxiety and stress and issues in my childhood i did every type of therapy to work through it... i also did regression hypnotherapy work into the times when i was abused so i was able to process them as an adult and comfort myself,it was very good for that i thought because it felt released from my body.

-i also had a secret thing i did which was really embarrasing,since i was thirteen i used to pull out sections of my eyelashes like nervous thing-i used to have to pack on the eyeliner!! but my mates and sisters used to laugh at me and i felt like Sh!t,so the hypnotherapy stopped that for me thank god,i now have my eyelashes back,and my confidence.

i did 10 sessions of the hypnotherapy and after every one i came out walking on air i felt the calmest i ever felt,i find that even if you are a fidget she is talking you through stuff so you are doing something which doesnt make you fidget.

I love the help with anxiety,where you conjour up the strongest anxiety feelings you can and then put a shape on it like a circle and then a colour-i chose pink and then she would say to through the pink ball away-i kicked it into oblivion!

i no longer suffer from anxiety of panic,but i did reiki,psychotherapy,massage everything i could to heal and it all worked,i was determined though because living in a self imposed mental prison is a life of suffering and pain-and it is great to feel that one can overcome anything when you put your mind to it.

GalwayDub2

Well I went yesterday evening, wasnt really sure what to expect. I was there for 2 hours, the first hour he was asking loads of questions, then he relaxed me, then made me go through the horrible flight that I experienced, God, my stress levels went SKY high, so he made me rewind and remember when I was happy at the airport and when I got off the other side. I think its made a bit of a difference, I have to keep kind of telling myself today to be positive and not negative, I havent had many negative thoughts today and when I do, I remind myself to change them to positives, whereas before I would have just been negative all day long.

Sleepy, sorry, I wasnt being nosey, I was just wondering if you got hypnotherapy for the same thing I did.

Sleepy

No worries GalwayDub2, it was something else.