Erickson Hypnosis
Milton H Erickson, the father of modern hypnosis was quite a character. He loved the colour purple and believed that we are all capable of so much more than we realise.
He brought to us permissive hypnosis. From his studies and his clinical experience in Psychiatry in the 1950’s and onwards he understood that only 20% of people would actually go into a trance when told to, however since the unconscious mind actually takes us into trance about every 90 seconds we are all predisposed to it.
Don’t believe you can trance?
Ok, there are many types of trance, there is the driving trance. On a familiar journey that takes no time at all or to one that takes hours we remember getting in the car, we remember arriving we don’t tend to remember the details of the middle part. The journey itself is something that we don’t need to remember we are in a light to medium trance.
Doing things automatically driving along coming up to alertness when necessary to check directional signs or other indicators of difference, we are all capable of multi-tasking and we pay little or no attention to the job in hand once we have mastered it.
Watching television...you want to change the channel and something stops you – catches your attention and you sit transfixed, remote in hand, slack jawed totally absorbed in what you are looking at and not noticing that you are in a cataleptic trance.
Yes, you do it a lot and now perhaps after reading this you may notice it happening.
You may even smile a bit at the understanding that you can actually ‘tune out’, be ‘in a trance’ be ‘not with the rest of us’.
The reason that we zone out occasionally is to keep us healthy. Were we to be totally aware of everything that was being done for us and noticed by the unconscious the conscious mind would blow a bundle of fuses.
The conscious, logical mind processes +/- 7 pieces of information, the unconscious mind processes 23 to the power 10 i.e. everything else.
We may not understand at the time just what the significance of the stray thought or whatever has prompted the unconscious mind into making sure we notice it but it may become clear to us later. Or we will sock it away in our deep memory somewhere. Some of these may well take the form of dreams or even nightmares. Fears and phobias can be rooted deep in the unconscious and were possibly born through trauma. The quick learning brain fixes behaviour to an object or animal or situation and that becomes a strategy for safety. Though a safety element it may well be that as adults we need not elicit this behaviour as we are no longer at risk as we were as children but we have kept hold of the habit of it as it serves us somehow.
Sometimes these deep memories are resources that we forget we have. Ways of being, thinking, understanding, problem solving. When we need them they have been buried so deeply that we need some help to excavate them out.
Help with changing habits, learning new things, shifting emotional blocks, even dealing with grief or anger. Again these may be deep seated and have to be unearthed gently by way of hypnosis so they can be healed.
There are a lot of reasons that people seek help from hypnosis, but one thing that should be remembered is that ALL hypnosis is SELF HYPNOSIS and that without your permission no one can make you do what you would not morally agree with.
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