Why Is Therapy Impossible Without Hypnosis?

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

Why is therapy ineffective without hypnosis?

“Severe stress always changes the state of mind and body. This condition can be interpreted as spontaneous hypnotization that codes for problems and symptoms associated with the condition.

The state of hypnosis appears spontaneously during times of stress. In turn, this determines that this phenomenon is a dependent condition on the state, which activates the previous information in the subject's memory associated with a similar state. »[David Cheek, MD]

In other words, during stress, spontaneous hypnotization extracts from the psyche in an associative manner all related information with similar situations of stress.

This is well illustrated by the example of psychosomatic allergy.

Imagine this situation, a child returns home after school, enters a room, and there are two parents sitting and silently looking at him inviting him to sit down. He sits down, looks expectantly, and then the reaction of his parents follows, they either shout at him for some incident or shock him with some traumatic news, like divorce, death, etc. At this time, as the traumatic event takes place, flowers bloomed in the room and the room was filled with an incredibly intense smell of this very flower.

And so we have the event itself - an episode, it evokes in the child an unconditioned reflex in the form of fear, shame, guilt, etc. And there are conditions in which this traumatic episode occurs, for our brain are no less important than the event itself.

At the moment of the episode itself, we deliberately could not pay attention to the conditions in which the trauma occurred, but the brain encrypted this information as well.

Therefore, in the future, every time the child is faced with such stress, the state into which he enters regresses to the previous experience, assessing the current situation for identity and rewriting, if necessary, new details. This state is the state of hypnotization.

From the above, a simple conclusion can be drawn: in order to change the unconditioned reaction to a conditioned experience, it is necessary to be in the same state in which it arose. That is, in a state of hypnosis.

Therefore, hypnosis is sometimes referred to as a state of editing experience.

And here is an obvious question from you: my therapist does not use hypnosis, but I have results, how can I explain this?

1. Some specialists, without knowing it, often use hypnotic techniques in their practice;
2. Some clients may spontaneously enter hypnosis during therapy; what is not the merit of the therapist, otherwise the given person could receive the same result from a friend whom he trusts;
3. Placebo effect. This effect is not hypnosis, as it has a different physiological nature. To make it work, you need to have high expectations that embrace critical perception. Often this happens when you go to a vaunted specialist transferring your expectations from the work to him.