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Letter: Another perspective on hypnosis by Tonya Dunn I enjoyed reading Carol Perkins' item on her experience with hypnotism and I have a few comments. I have been studying hypnosis for over a year (as I intend to specialize in this type of therapy) and have conducted several very successful individual hypnosis sessions. I have a great deal of interest in the subject of hypnosis and the subconscious and would like to discuss why I think the group experience didn't help her. Our unconscious mind can be thought of as our autopilot. Everything not presently in your awareness is stored in and handled by the unconscious portion of your mind. This covers a broad span of important functions, from digestion and pulse rate to the experience of driving on a long trip and zoning out along the way but still making it home without having to think about every turn. The unconscious mind constitutes 88 percent of your mental processes. The other 12 percent is conscious awareness-what you are attending to at any given time. The unconscious is also a repository for everything you have ever experienced. It is not critical and it does not make judgments as to what is beneficial or harmful it just stores everything. When you learned to ride a bike as a kid and then 15 years later you decide to take up biking for exercise you don't have to relearn it, the "How to ride a bike" program is still there in your unconscious. That's why you can just hop on a bike and go--your unconscious mind still knows how to ride it. It's interesting and disconcerting to think of all the things that lodge in the subconscious during the course of our lives. Things we take in as we grow up that we usually never re-think as an adult. Like grandma giving you a cookie when you skinned your knee trying to learn to ride that bike. She may give you comfort and a cookie whenever you come to her crying. Grandma doesn't realize it but she is teaching an association. The result could be that you learn to associate comfort or love with food. Your unconscious mind is uncritical it just stores the two stimuli together. I am just using this as an example of how this could work. Sometimes people gain weight to keep others at a distance, to keep anyone from getting "too close". If you don't like either of those reasons, there could be any number of others. Whatever the reason, it's always unique to the individual and always stored in the unconscious mind and available for the competent therapist or hypnotist to find. I am just trying to make the point that hypnosis is a powerful tool for making positive changes when it is used properly, but it isn't a one-size-fits-all solution. In an individual session, I would discuss the individuals past experiences and determine when they first started to experience weight problems. I would then spend some time asking the questions necessary to get to their individual association with food and work from there. Hypnosis is an incredibly effective method for reaching the subconscious mind and can help an individual take back control and consciously clear out detrimental programming; but like any other tool its only as good as the individual using it. This story was posted on 2009-12-10 08:38:53
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