Sometimes, it is difficult to find good articles about hypnosis published elsewhere. Too often, they still rant about stage hypnosis and how volunteers are made to chicken around on stages as chickens.
Not this article.
It is one of the best I have ever read:
"With dreams in his eyes and fire in his veins, 28-year-old Vikram Kumar, a senior executive in a US company, had everything going his way. When the strapping youngster came to India a year ago, he seemed out to conquer the world. That was until his own world came crashing down after he met with a life-shattering accident. What followed was a coma spanning over three months and a whopping 47 major and minor surgeries. The dreams in his eyes withered into a failing vision and the high-flying job that once defined his identity disowned him. A nervous wreck by then, he merely bade his time, exhausting all possible methods of healing. Then someone suggested hypnotherapy.
For the next two months, he had regular sessions with Dr Malathi Kuppuswamy, a Mumbai-based certified clinical hypnotherapist and past life regression therapist, who used hypnotherapy to "feed positive suggestions into his subconscious and let go off his traumas". Soon enough, he regained confidence. Today, his eyesight is near normal, he is back in the US heading a company and is set to tie the knot.
For many, hypnosis has long been about mind-control techniques straight out of childhood stories or stage shows where normal subjects ended up clucking like chicken. But what was hitherto equated with psychological mumbo-jumbo and casting magic spells through the eye is now gaining ground as a complementary self-healing technique.
More Indians are now approaching qualified hypnotherapists to get over physical and psychological disorders. "In the last five years, there has been a hundred per cent increase in the number of people seeking hypnotherapy," says Dr Ramanand Rao V. Jhingade, a Bangalore-based hypnotherapist, and founder of `A Cure For Incurables' Clinic.
Self-healing technique
Contrary to popular perception, clinical hypnosis is only used to guide the patient to help him heal himself. The prerequisite for the therapy to be effective is to give up notions like hypnosis supplants the will of the hypnotised individual or that it is a sleep state that could permanently alter one's personality. "Hypnosis is a state of consciousness in which your logically analytical faculties are reduced sufficiently to allow deeper levels of your subconscious mind to be utilised for health benefits," explains Dr Malathi.
"A hypnotic trance is a state of `focused concentration' in which you are neither fully awake nor fully asleep but are open to suggestion, and can be de-sensitised to fears, phobias or pain. While being virtually oblivious of what is going on around, you are acutely aware of a narrow range of stimuli the therapist calls to your attention."
Adds Dr Jhingade, "It is you who is in control and if you don't like something, you can just open your eyes and say you will not do it."
He says hypnosis works by programming the sub-conscious mind. "The hypnotist only guides you into a relaxed, altered state of mental consciousness by causing your brain frequency to slow down to 7-13 cycles per second when your mind becomes highly susceptible to suggestions or instructions. By giving constructive suggestions to your subconscious mind, you can change your life for the better."
Dr Malathi claims that even those suffering from cancer, kidney problems and psoriasis have responded positively to hypnotherapy. Like Chetan Khaire, now in his late 20s, who started getting epileptic attacks a few years ago due to an emotional shock. "I was under allopathic treatment, but to no avail. With repeated attacks, I couldn't continue my job," he says.
He then consulted Dr Malathi, who used hypnosis and past life regression therapy to help him dig deep into the root cause of his mental trauma and overcome it. "I'm now working with a multinational company," says Khaire with a smile. "The fits I dreaded so much haven't recurred."
There are different techniques of hypnotherapy. "Those generally talked about are the
Ericksonian and the Kappasinian techniques," says Dr Jyotika Chhibber, a Gurgaon-based certified clinical hypnotherapist and past life regression therapist. "In the Milton Erickson-devised indirect or inferred approach, individuals respond better if they are given options and allowed to make their own decision, thereby utilising their creative potential," she explains.
Kappasinian hypnosis involves having the therapy make sense to the client, providing psychological groundwork, and giving hope to the client by explaining the process, building momentum and leading to the solution, she adds.
Explaining the merits of hypnotherapy, Dr Malathi says, "It is the mind that is the origin for thought, which leads to emotions. The subconscious stores all emotions and experiences, including the negatives. The suppressed negativities result in mental, emotional and physical diseases throwing the system out of balance. Hypnotherapy effectively removes the causative factors and restores balance."
She clarifies that there is no danger whatsoever in undergoing therapy with a properly trained, certified and registered clinical hypnotherapist. It is affordable too.
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