Last week Hypnosis Institute Netherlands was in the national spotlight due to the fact that we were the first in the Netherlands to train a dental practice in hypnosis. And then not the "normal" way of doing hypnosis as still a number of dentists do, but the rapid hypnosis. This dentist can now put patients into hypnosis within a minute.
Dentist and hypnosis
And that, of course, is super, because how nice isn't it when you can just relax the treatment. These hypnosis methods are very old and very effective only most hypnosis and hypnotherapy courses teach you Milton Erickson's hypnotherapy.
This takes way too long, and they have forgotten that Erickson used this form because he needed to do hypnosis secretly. At the time, it was illegal in his state to do hypnosis, after all.
Nowadays, you don't have to and, as a (dental) doctor, you can apply hypnosis just fine the way hypnotists do on TV. These hypnotists can put you into hypnosis with a snap of their fingers, which is also useful for a dentist if he could do so.
Obviously not to put on a show, but to help people relax quickly. Unfortunately, TV has kind of thrown the baby out with the bathwater. It is suggested that you cannot get people into hypnosis quickly but that it takes a long time. Nonsense, it can be done within a minute and is therefore just right for doctors, midwives and dentists.
Media
Hence, the Telegraph also jumped in there and you can read that article below:
There are few regions in the Netherlands where the inhabitants are more down-to-earth than in Koog aan de Zaan: straight roads, ploughed fields, Dutch wooden houses and just act normal or else you're crazy. No hocus-pocus! Yet, just here dentist Jeroen Koning has had great success since last month with .... hypnotizing.
"Look at my hand!" says dentist King. "Keep looking, keep looking and close your eyes but.... And with each time you breathe out, you get more relaxed and more relaxed... And relax your eye muscles but.... Until they don't work anymore, until you are sure they don't work anymore... And now count to three and open them and when you close them again they are ten times more relaxed than before..."
Patient Angela lies there looking satiated. When King lifts her hand a little and drops it, the body part plops down completely relaxed. It seems like magic, but there is nothing else magical about the modern, bright, crystal-clear practice room . And dentist Koning certainly does not want to be associated with someone like show-hypnotist Rasta Rostelli , who preferred to have his audience jump through the room croaking like frogs. "This is not show hypnosis, this is a far-reaching way of relaxing. And who doesn't want to relax at the dentist, where the average visitor is stiff as a board in the chair anyway?"
King arrived at the unusual method through hypnosis trainer Edwin Selij, who applied it to his terrified little son during 
King was so impressed that he and the entire team of three dentists, dental hygienists and assistants went to take a course with hypnosis trainer Selij.
Selij explains: "This quick form of achieving relaxation revolves around three things: getting the patient's full attention, bypassing critical thoughts and stimulating the subconscious through suggestion. People relax their eye muscles until they feel that they no longer work; and then they are given the idea that they feel little to nothing. The pain threshold becomes higher. And that's nice to have at the dentist anyway."
Patient Angela, meanwhile, may take an "elevator to a lower floor. In a toneless voice, she counts down. Dentist King emphasizes that he does not apply the method to all of his patients. "With most it is not necessary. I also don't shout, "I'm going to hypnotize you now!" because then they are instantly terrified. I just ask if they need a relaxation method. Almost everyone finds it extremely pleasant. But of course there are also people who don't feel like it and shout: just pull the molar out. Also fine, whatever the patient wants."
King will soon join his working group of area dentists for a lecture on what he sees as a successful phenomenon. According to Dyonne Broers, director of care at the Foundation for Special Dentistry, hypnosis is already used by more dentists but not much and often. "It can be very helpful in people with mild to moderate anxiety," said Broers, who has taken two hypnosis courses herself. "With severe anxiety, however, more powerful techniques are available. Hypnosis is then seen more as a good adjunct."
Misconception
Unfortunately, Ms. Dyonne Broers has a misconception about hypnosis. There would be more powerful techniques to resolve a fear she states. If she has a way to resolve a fear within the hour such as a panic fear of the dentist, she may call me because I am very interested in those methods.
Fortunately, an interview appears in the North Holland newspaper with a very anxious patient whom I helped in a 15-minute session. The anxiety was gone. Perhaps, then, hypnosis is considered the most powerful technique there is for resolving anxiety.
And of course, it' s not the hypnosis that does it, but the technique you apply in hypnosis. There are many differences in that apparently because otherwise you wouldn't think after 2 hypnosis courses that there are better techniques. I always wonder then which two they are... At least not the courses I teach;-)
Q Music
And after the article, Jeroen van Inkel also called me. It turned into a fun interview and you can hear it below.
Ben
on05 Mar 2013