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HYPNOSIS,
SUGGESTION & PSYCHOTHERAPY |
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Picture
the following scenario: You have just told a close friend about
something that is bothering you - every morning, at exactly one
hour before leaving for work you contract an unpleasant headache
which disappears entirely once you arrive there; it bothers you,
and you can not understand why this happens. Your friend, who
is not into psychology, but has a sound "common sense" suggests the
following: "Since you love your work (and the resolved headache
once at works confirms that), why not pretend that the time of
your headache is the time you are already at work, a part of
your work schedule". You start thinking about this idea
for a few days, then decide to give it a try; it does not do
the trick immediately, but to your surprise it starts "working" after
two or three attempts... Suggestion works!
We act
through suggestions, our own or other's many times a day,
every day, but we are not fully aware of the phenomenon. |
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Suggestions
work efficiently and faster under clinical hypnosis, since the
conscious/critical mind is bypassed, allowing our unconscious
to "accept" them directly, then convey them to the
entire system.
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Suggestions
are not necessarily direct. Just think of an event when you conveyed
some idea to someone, and he/she responded saying "do you
really think so...?" only to find yourself questioning that
very idea a few days later... There is no surprise then that
suggestions are powerful tools of the psyche and quite essential
to any kind of psychotherapy.
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