Why is Hypnosis So Useful ?
In all our ordinary activity, without even knowing it, we rely enormously on unconscious programs which do the majority of
things we need with only a minimum of conscious thought.
This has the enormous advantage of leaving our minds free to be aware of other things without concentrating on all the petty details of our performance. The downside is that these seamlessly automatic processes are mostly ' up and running ' before we realise, even where they are about to plunge us into embarrassment, conflict or even greater difficulties.
Many times when attempting to wilfully deal with a difficult situation, we find ourselves locked in - too far into a process to detect where our attempt has been going wrong. Already feeling uncomfortable we cannot then help but be 'over-aware' of some part
of the process.
This over-awareness tends to block access to other unconscious options which, under other circumstances, we would readily have
recognised as far more useful.
Thus, by trying harder to put it right or get what we want, we find ourselves playing out behaviour or persisting with efforts that have a minimal chance of success. This is often frustrating or upsetting for ourselves and others.
Although we would not want these things to happen, the difficulty is that these habitual programs are very deeply entrenched and powerfully reinforced.
In order to change the operation of automatic programs our cerebral processes need a way of going 'off-line' - as we do every night when
we sleep.
With the automatic programs disengaged, the brain can adopt a
much more flexible mode where it can re-organise its own internal neurological structures.
But our everyday real-time difficulties do not permit us the option to sleep on it but require a more immediate response.
Hypnotic work can create processes which stop the old automatic reactions and make new ways of seeing and doing things available
spontaneously - when they are most needed.
Choice is not removed but it becomes much easier, more natural
and obvious at the time how to do something better, instead of only realising that later.
Instead of a desperate struggle against the seemingly uncontrollable there is a sense of expanded possibilities and the leisurely arrival of good options.
This is an important part of the process of naturally becoming a changed and more capable person.
Copyright keith bibby august 2007 >> Return
