Hypnosis, you stay in it if you look for the answer outside yourself. You get out when you find the answer within yourself. Everyone is in hypnosis. You may be thinking right now that that's not possible at all. Are you reading that everyone is in hypnosis, unbelievable!
But the definition of hypnosis, a lot of people think yes very very crazy things about hypnosis. You might too if you read this blog. You may be thinking "Then you are completely gone, right? Then you have lost your whole consciousness? Then you are at the mercy of the hypnotist or all that kind of crazy stuff.
What people think is just not true.
If we are just going to approach it very scientifically, in other words: How does this work in the brain? Then we see that children from 0 to 7 are in the state of hypnosis. If we compare brain scans of people who are in deep hypnosis with those of children, they are similar.
So that means everyone has been in hypnosis at some point anyway. Now you're thinking, but didn't you say everyone is hypnosis?
First, let it dawn on you that you were in hypnosis as a child anyway. Whether you believe it exists or not. Whether you say you can't be in hypnosis, that is so not true. Because you have been able to do it once and when you have been able to do something you can always do it.
So the whole thing of believing or not believing is really not even relevant.
Brain activity and hypnosis
The brain activity, brain waves of children, are identical to those of people in hypnosis.
There are a number of types of brain waves.
Gamma waves, then you are very focused.
Betá waves, then you're a little busy, it's a little hyperactive. That's where many people spend most of their time. 93% of the time you're in that betá wave.
Alpha waves, then you are relaxed. This is part of meditation, relaxing, musing nice and relaxed. Most people are not often in this, but of course there are exceptions.
Then you have the theta waves. This is an even lower brain activity than the Alpha waves. This is about what you can imagine, your imagination. That's also where you get the insights from. Just before you fall asleep, or just before you wake up. It's also the dream state, then you can get those insights or when you're just lying on the couch or something. It's also the state of hypnosis[1].
The delta is even lower brain activity there are mostly babies in there, or if you are sleeping very deeply.
What you unconsciously learn in childhood
Children are in theta, deep hypnosis is theta. Then you are so open to suggestions. You just download everything that you see, hear, smell, feel or taste and you make something out of that. And that program from the age of 8 you are there all the time. Until now.
Now you may be thinking, Yes, but I learned a bit more after that. Happy and true, but learning afterward was harder.
Maybe you remember your first car driving lesson. That was a lot of repeating, repeating, repeating and repeating. Until you could do it and that's how you still do it today. You learn with repetition, and then you have to put quite a lot of effort into it. As a child, you learn more effortlessly because you are in that theta state.
You then have no critical thinking, of course even with repetition, but it is unconsciously stored better.
Think about talking, walking, reading, eating, anything you do unconsciously automatically now.
But also to programs such as: I'm Not Good Enough, Persuasion. I'm worthless. I never do it right anyway. Programs of pleasing or aggression to get something done and you still do it.
Go ahead and unlearn that.
And then if you spend 93% of the time doing those unconscious programs, what you've unconsciously learned. 93% of the time predictably engaged, according to studies. Then 93% of the time we're sitting around doing what we used to be taught. How we used to be hypnotized.
Not everything, of course. But between 0-8 years, your parents and environment passed on everything. School even more and then adolescence, even more. So you're still in that hypnosis.
So who are you? That's kind of interesting, who are you when you are yourself?
So the statement everyone is in hypnosis is actually accurate. Who is out of hypnosis? Now if you think you have always done your own thing. Never looked to the masses. You are separate from the system, but then what is the system and the mass. Your idea about that and that you are separate from it is also a form of hypnosis.
No matter which way you go, you always end up in some kind of hypnosis. And that's fine. For example, I live differently now than I did in my previous hypnosis of addicted construction worker. I'm happily out of that and now I'm in a hypnosis that works for me.
It's all fairly doable.
Also listen to this podcast:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/195236/852967-iedereen-is-in-hypnose
Unlearning unconscious programs
At some point you may notice that certain strategies you have in place to achieve goals in life are not helping. For example, if you have unconsciously learned that aggression helps and you still lose all your friends and life partners as a result, that is surely a sign that you have an unhelpful unconscious program.
Just as I had the epiphany that my addicted builder hypnosis was not helping me move forward in my life, you too can realize that what you are doing now is just not really helping. This realization alone is enough because it means you want to change too.
But how do you go about unlearning those unconscious programs.
As mentioned above, children learn very quickly in the theta state, and so you achieve that state with hypnosis. Hypnotherapy can therefore help you very quickly add information to an unconscious program that allows you to transform it and interpret it in a different way.
This can change your entire unconscious habits or program making it easy to change your behavior. For example, you become more peaceful where you had normally used your aggression. You become brave instead of fearful.
So you very quickly change your "normal" behavior to new "normal" behavior. You create your new hypnotic state in which you live a life where you do move forward.
Hypnosis helps on a variety of levels
Hypnosis can provide solutions for all kinds of problems. For example, it is used to get rid of addictions (for which I am still grateful every day), to lose weight, to quit smoking, against alcoholism, to reduce pain, warts and even asthma[2].
Many such problems are related to the unconscious programs. Addictions are usually the program that tries to numb your pain. Emotions also often play a major role in weight loss, and food, for example, can be used to get rid of negative emotions.
You may have seen how your parents dealt with negative emotions and because you learned everything quickly, this was like a "lesson" on how to deal with them.
One hypnosis technique that helps change these types of childhood "lessons" is regression. This technique gets a lot of attention in the training of the Hypnosis Institute Netherlands. With this technique, you go back to the first moment when you thought a certain problematic habit was the "solution" to achieve something in your life.
Then, with the help of the hypnotist, you revisit this moment. Because in the meantime you have indeed learned new things, but they have not necessarily been added to your unconscious program. You are going to do just that now. You are going to empathize with the people around you at that moment and why they did what they did. You are going to think of how they could have reacted as well, maybe even how you could have reacted. You might even place your adult self in the situation to change the whole thing.
You do this with your imagination. Because for your brain and for changing that lesson, it doesn't matter at all. You don't have to repeat new behavior in "real" life first in the theta state to change it in the long run. No, you change the information from the lesson.
With this, you change your beliefs and this can then very quickly influence your behavior to the point where you no longer do addiction. Stop eating too much unhealthy food, stop smoking and tackle other problems differently than usual.
Want to know what it's like to be in hypnosis, even without getting therapy, and how to bring people into hypnosis? Then come to a hypnosis playshop. The playshop is given in Wormerveer and Zwolle.
Want to learn more about what hypnosis can do and how to make people feel good with hypnosis? Then come to a seminar.
Want to get started right away and learn more about techniques you can use to change unconscious programs? Then sign up for one of our trainings. The trainings are held in Wormerveer, Zwolle and online.
