Does hypnosis actually work? seems a bit far fetched to me?

Answer 1

In the hands of a skilled and well-trained therapist it can be practically the ONLY thing that works!

I read, decades ago, that conventional psychotherapy has a 3% cure rate - which equates to a 97% failure rate! I do not know for certain if it is true or not, but I do not know of ONE single person who has EVER been helped by it.

I think that the reason conventional therapies have such a poor track record is because they can reach only as far as the edges of the conscious mind, and most of our really deep-rooted problems lie in the sub-conscious. THIS is the territory entered into by hypnosis.

How many times have you been in a computer program where a blank is presented on the screen and it is labeled with the information you are to put into it? You fill that blank, and maybe hit another key or not and it takes you to the next blank asking for the next piece of information.
No matter WHAT key you hit or WHAT you do, you CANNOT land that cursor and do your typing anywhere BUT inside those blanks, can you?
If the first blank says "name" and you type in your name and then are transferred to the next blank labeled "phone number" you CANNOT change the label on that second blank to read "e-mail address" because you cannot get outside of the blanks, themselves. You can try putting your e-mail address into that blank anyway, but if it is pre-formatted to accept ONLY phone numbers, then chances are your e-mail address will not fit that format and will be summarily rejected. It will ALWAYS say "phone number" and will accept nothing that does not fit the format of a phone number!
However, a professional programmer CAN access parameters that WILL enable HIM to change the words "phone number" to "e-mail address" and enable it to accept the format of an e-mail address, instead.

THAT is pretty much what hypnosis does. Like the professional's access to parameters in the program that the average user cannot touch or change, it allows the therapist to access the parameters in the sub-conscious that everything else skips past, jumps over and leaves unchanged.

However, a hypnotized mind is also like a computer in that GIGO - "Garbage In - Garbage Out". Hypnotherapy is only as effective as the skill of the hypnotist. He/she must know - or at least strongly suspect - what to look for and where to look for it. The hypnotherapist's effectiveness depends on asking the right questions and then responding correctly to the information that their answers reveal.

Like anything else, some who do it for a living are really, really GOOD at it, some royally STINK at it and there are others occupying every gradient in between.

So, YES, it DOES work - but only if it is done right by someone who really knows what he/she is doing.

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Answer 2

Hypnosis will only work if you allow it to. You need to feel safe and relaxed.

I had a memory block in my childhood, something tramatic, so I tried it out through counselling. It was amazing. Like a dream but bright as reality, it was like I was really in the past. I could look around, see the sun setting, see the leaves on the trees, see my family around me, and hear everything! It didn't bring me back to the places I wasn't ready to go. We didn't push it that far. I decided it was better left alone. Time to move on.

Some people have a good success at quitting smoking that way too.

Don't knock anything until you've tried it.

Answer 3

has anyone ever manipulated you a little.. maybe made a few suggestions or put you in the right place at the right time.. to get what they wanted? That's the power of suggestion and is the same principle that hypnosis works on.. if you are susceptible to the power of suggestion then you are susceptible to hypnosis.

Answer 4

I have been in the trance...well as far as falling asleep...it does work

The thing is deep inside your mind you know u can stop it, but you just dont want to....if you want to get hypnotized, then you can.....I agree with you i thought it was far fetched till i experienced it!

Answer 5

I went to a hypnotherapist for several months. I really gave it a chance. It didn't work for me.

Answer 6

My brother's friend's sister's husband's cousin's father-in-law's niece had it done and swears it works.

Answer 7

If you trained you can do it, but it all ways messes up a persons mind.