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Posted by Maxime on February 25, 2006, at 14:58:20
Had anyone tried self-hypnosis for depression or anxiety. My pdoc hypnotises me sometimes and it's very relaxing.
BTW, does anyone have a book on self-hypnosis that they could recommend?
Maxime
Posted by nolvas on February 25, 2006, at 17:00:53
In reply to Self hynopsis anyone?, posted by Maxime on February 25, 2006, at 14:58:20
I've actually been to a hypnotist years ago to help me with anxiety. It can help relax you but it's no way a cure.
I think for it to be truly effective you have to go to a hypnotist of the quality of Paul McKenna. Some one who has studied not only hypnosis but NLP as well and other techniques. They can employ all these techniques to help you overcome your fear or depression.
I've seen videos of Richard Bandler (Father of NLP) and Paul McKenna in action and they have the skills to help. Finding some one as good as them is difficult though.
Paul McKenna had a TV series called I can cure you or something like that last year. He is impressive I noticed he used a lot of techniques that Richard Bandler invented. His toughest case was a severly agoraphobic woman and he eventually got her to come out of her house and walk to various places, and even travel to Picadilly Circus in London and stand there with crowds of people. If you had the money you'd pay just to go to some one like him.
Posted by Maxime on February 25, 2006, at 21:13:01
In reply to Re: Self hynopsis anyone?, posted by nolvas on February 25, 2006, at 17:00:53
Thank you for your input. Why do you think NLP has to used as well? I hadn't thought about it.
I wish I did have the money to go and see an expert. :-)
Maxime
> I've actually been to a hypnotist years ago to help me with anxiety. It can help relax you but it's no way a cure.
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> I think for it to be truly effective you have to go to a hypnotist of the quality of Paul McKenna. Some one who has studied not only hypnosis but NLP as well and other techniques. They can employ all these techniques to help you overcome your fear or depression.
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> I've seen videos of Richard Bandler (Father of NLP) and Paul McKenna in action and they have the skills to help. Finding some one as good as them is difficult though.
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> Paul McKenna had a TV series called I can cure you or something like that last year. He is impressive I noticed he used a lot of techniques that Richard Bandler invented. His toughest case was a severly agoraphobic woman and he eventually got her to come out of her house and walk to various places, and even travel to Picadilly Circus in London and stand there with crowds of people. If you had the money you'd pay just to go to some one like him.
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Posted by nolvas on February 26, 2006, at 3:39:49
In reply to Re: Self hynopsis anyone? » nolvas, posted by Maxime on February 25, 2006, at 21:13:01
NLP has some very powerful techniques for visualisation, techniques like the fast phobia cure.
"For instance: In 1992 a study of the NLP ``fast phobia cure'' was completed. The study took a population of ``simple'' phobics, and divided them into three groups. Group A was given the NLP process and then was interviewed each week for six weeks about their phobic experiences. Group B was given accelerated progressive-desensitization treatment and the interviews, and group C was given just the interviews. The subjects were re-evaluated at 6 months, one year, and 5 years and grouped by the level of returning symptoms: none, few, many, all. At the end of the 5 years, the results showed that the NLP group fell 90%+ into the ``none'' category, the p-d group was about 35% ``none", 33% ``few'' and the rest ``many'' or ``all", and the control group was 90%+ ``all"."
It may be hard to find but watch Paul McKenna's TV series "I can change your life".
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art33578.asp
The Bandler Effect is a great DVD by Richard Bandler it shows him working with clients and the effect afterwards. I have watched and read quite a lot about NLP and Richard Bandler and he has a novel approach, quite a genius I think.
Of course getting to see Bandler or McKenna would cost a heck of a lot of money, the problem is finding a practitioner with the same sort of skills. It does depend on yourself as well. As with anything some people respond better than others. When NLP and Hypnosis get results they can be startling.
Posted by Maxime on February 27, 2006, at 17:42:40
In reply to Re: Self hynopsis anyone?, posted by nolvas on February 26, 2006, at 3:39:49
Thanks for expanding on the subject of NLP. :-)
Maxime
> NLP has some very powerful techniques for visualisation, techniques like the fast phobia cure.
>
> "For instance: In 1992 a study of the NLP ``fast phobia cure'' was completed. The study took a population of ``simple'' phobics, and divided them into three groups. Group A was given the NLP process and then was interviewed each week for six weeks about their phobic experiences. Group B was given accelerated progressive-desensitization treatment and the interviews, and group C was given just the interviews. The subjects were re-evaluated at 6 months, one year, and 5 years and grouped by the level of returning symptoms: none, few, many, all. At the end of the 5 years, the results showed that the NLP group fell 90%+ into the ``none'' category, the p-d group was about 35% ``none", 33% ``few'' and the rest ``many'' or ``all", and the control group was 90%+ ``all"."
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> It may be hard to find but watch Paul McKenna's TV series "I can change your life".
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> http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art33578.asp
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> The Bandler Effect is a great DVD by Richard Bandler it shows him working with clients and the effect afterwards. I have watched and read quite a lot about NLP and Richard Bandler and he has a novel approach, quite a genius I think.
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> Of course getting to see Bandler or McKenna would cost a heck of a lot of money, the problem is finding a practitioner with the same sort of skills. It does depend on yourself as well. As with anything some people respond better than others. When NLP and Hypnosis get results they can be startling.
Posted by Magdalene on October 6, 2007, at 16:57:14
In reply to Re: Self hynopsis anyone?, posted by nolvas on February 25, 2006, at 17:00:53
Hypnosis is one of many tactics we can use to conjure reason for those cyclic equations that, I think, only appear to change.
As for myself, absorption and creation are the only ways I know out of my frozen sense of self...
My obsessions on paper, I can render them to match the more oppressive pressures my mind examines in its subconscious.
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