“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at changes,” says Dr. Wayne Dyer, an internationally renowned author in the field of self-development.
The holistic view of improving performance of individuals emphasizes on three major aspects- incubation, inculcation of desired behavioral traits and insightfulness about performance methodology. Hypnosis helps all the aspects above. In hypnosis, the hypnotherapist places the subject in an induced trance-like state where he is deeply relaxed and his subconscious is revealed. The subject has heightened awareness of his subliminal perception and narrowed focus on the therapist’s words in the relaxed state; however the subject is not asleep. This allows an individual to realize the deep-seated emotions that hinder the individual’s performance and narrate it to the hypnotherapist. Thus, the subject plays an active role in healing through hypnosis, contrary to the stereotype that the subject is in deep sleep.
Many athletes have worked on self-doubt and enhanced their self-confidence through hypnosis. Hypnosis can also improve athletic performance by increasing sustained focus and concentration, implant positive self-belief and self-perception before critical games, increase mental endurance and release anxiety and work on acquired behavioral traits and addiction. Tiger Woods is one sports persona to have improved performance through imagery or visualization, which is an effective hypnosis tool.
Hypnosis can help in pain management by tackling the psychological impact of pain, post trauma anxiety and phobias. Hypnosis helps dealing with painful diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, burns and cancer and also in the reduction of anxiety associated with surgery. This goes a long way in reducing the dependence on painkillers that are harmful to health.
Hypnosis effectively manages mild, effective hypertension. It can be effective in reducing hypertension over long terms. Furthermore, it can help patients in reinforcing appropriate diet to tackle obesity and related diseases.