If we're as good as we think we are, why is bottled water more popular than hypnotherapy?

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Permalink Reply by docregal.com on September 5, 2011 at 9:23am

The rub is the unconscious state. All of the other primary brain states, i.e working in the conscious, semi-conscious and sub conscious realms are typically not of issue because the client's thinking brain is still active to some degree. Hypnotherapy does not require somnambulism to work. Yet, hypnotists on stage strive for that delta state and running on automatic pilot is not necessarily reassuring enough to those who have unresolved fear issues. Thus lighter states are usually where the therapeutic work begins until a deeper rapport has been established, such that the client comfortably allows for more "intense" depth levels.

Permalink Reply by Allan Nelson on September 5, 2011 at 9:39am

Better PR treatment is needed for 100000s of hypnophobics.

Permalink Reply by docregal.com on September 5, 2011 at 9:47am

The PR claim is "All Hypnosis is Self-Hypnosis." The naysayers are nitpicking about the unconscious state, yet that is only attainable by permission only. One cannot be hypnotized without his consent. Any other process is most likely a covert act that more closely resembles some form of brainwashing and is not clinical hypnotism.

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