24/02/2020
FAQs and Common misconceptions about Trance work / Hypnotherapy
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1. How or Why Hypnotherapy works?
Our thoughts and mind stuff impacts our physical body and health. And hypnotherapy is the science of unearthing, altering or modifying the stored emotions in the form of memories (mostly forgotten) in our subtle body that is responsible for the present behavioral issue, physical disease or mental attitude.
To understand the working of the mind and its impact on the body, I suggest you to go through the following quote from one of our great contemporary saint Swami Sivananda Saraswati describing our Subtle body or Linga Sharira. He was a Doctor from Tamil Nadu before he took up Sanyas.
[ "The mind performs all actions very speedily in the linga sarira (subtle body) and fluctuates thereby. But the gross body knows not anything and is inert. This physical body is the mould, as it were, of the mind. It is made by the mind for the outpouring of its own energy, for its own enjoyment.
The body is really our thoughts, moods, convictions and emotions objectivised, made visible to the naked eye. Every cell in our body suffers or grows, receives a life impulse or a death impulse, from every thought that enters the mind. You tend to grow into the image of the thing you think about most. When the mind dwells on a particular thought, a definite vibration of matter is set up. This tends to repeat itself, to become a habit.
The body follows the mind and imitates the changes. Every change in thought makes a vibration in your mental body (linga sarira) and this, when transmitted to the physical body, causes activity in the nervous matter of the brain. And this activity in the brain and nerve cells causes electrical and chemical changes in the body.” ]
-Swami Sivananda Saraswati
2. Will the person under trance be sleeping or unconscious ?
No, the person under trance will be fully aware of everything that is happening around him or her. In fact, the mind achieves theta state – a deeper state of relaxation that occurs during hypnosis or meditation.
3. Will the person under trance lose self-control?
No, at any point in time, the person under trance is in control of his or her self.
4. What if I get stuck in my past life?
There is no possibility for anyone to get stuck in any past life memory because it is just a memory replaying itself.
5. Will I get stuck in trance if the hypnotherapist forgets to bring me back to reality?
No, even if the hypnotherapist forgets to bring you out of trance, you will come out of trance state on your own.
6. Is this a recognized mode of medical practice?
Yes, hypnotherapy is recognized as an alternative medicines in India and worldwide.
7.Can hypnotherapy be used for positive behavioral changes like building confidence, positive mental attitude?
Yes.
8. Is there a free person to person orientation provided about hypnotherapy and how it works?
Yes, time to time we arrange awareness sessions about hypnotherapy and how it can change your life. You can contact us through email or mobile to get the details of the next session timings.
9. Hypnotherapy and its workings sound too abstract to be real – how can change in our mental stuff bring change in our physical body?
Yes, it seems difficult to believe as to how change in mind stuff can actually bring positive change in our physical body. But it is a fact and this has been demonstrated time and again with every case we resolve using trance work.
10. What is the role of subconscious mind in hypnotherapy?
In trance we work with the subconscious mind of the person. In other words, the subconscious mind is part of our subtle body / linga sharira that defines a person.
11. How is the hypnotic state different from sleep?
During sleep state we don’t have awareness however in hypnotic state we are fully aware.
12. Is Hypnosis an accepted mode of alternative medicine in developed countries?
Yes, in US and Europe, Hypnosis is very popular and accepted mode of alternative medicine practice.