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Hypnosis:
Software for the Mind
A free ebook by
Bryan M. Knight, MSW, PhD.
The Chessnut Press
ISBN: 0-919848-58-3
Copyright © 2000 Bryan M. Knight
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Hypnosis Headquarters
Hypnosis: Software for the Mind
[Updated and expanded from an article published in the Journal of Alternative Therapies].
"You can conquer phobias, lower anxiety, banish panic, build
confidence, control pain, and reduce stress with hypnosis" says Dr.
Bryan Knight author and psychotherapist.
"It's not the hypnosis but the therapy that is done while you're
hypnotized that helps you," adds Knight, who holds degrees in
psychology, social work and counselling.
According to Dr. Knight, hypnotherapy is much faster than regular
psychotherapy. [ About Dr Knight : http://www.microtec.net/drknight/kn-about.html ]
"The reason for this is that hypnosis links you directly with your
subconscious. This is also why hypnosis is useful in the treatment of a
long list of problems and challenges from stopping smoking to
recovering from childhood sexual abuse."
(The subconscious is that part of your memory which is outside of
conscious awareness).
Contrary to popular belief, says Knight, hypnosis is not something
someone does to you.
It is a way of using your concentrated imagination to change your
deeper, mostly subconscious, thoughts. First you relax your body, and
then you relax the conscious part of your mind and focus your
imagination.
To do this, you of course have to remain awake.
You are in control.
Your cooperation with the hypnotherapist enables you to experience
thoughts and images as though they were real.
"It's as though you are uploading fresh, positive, software to replace the
outdated or defective software that's now messing up your life."
Because the subconscious cannot tell the difference between real and
imagined experience the new "software" leads to changes in your
behaviour and your conscious thoughts, adds Dr. Knight.
"So if you were terrified of speaking in public, for example, a few
sessions of hypnotherapy could transform you into someone who loves to
get up and give a speech to a crowd."
That's what happened to Dr. Knight.
As a young man he was a tenants' rights organizer and was often
interviewed on radio and TV.
"I enjoyed organizing sit-ins and demonstrations but I dreaded the
media interviews. My mouth would dry up, my palms dampen with
sweat and my stomach churn in knots."
But since he began using hypnosis several years ago, Dr. Knight has
taken every chance he can to speak in public.
He appears often on radio and television and frequently conducts
workshops in Canada, England and the United States.
"For most people, being in hypnosis doesn't feel much different to how
they usually feel. But most likely, you'll feel relaxed, probably more
relaxed than ever before," says Dr. Knight.
He adds that you were born with a particular talent for hypnosis.
Perhaps you are among the small percentage [estimated 3% - 10%] of
people who have a terrific talent for hypnosis.
Or you may be among the small percentage [estimated 3%] of people
who have little talent for hypnosis.
Most likely, you are among the majority of us who fit somewhere in
between the two extremes.
The good news is that even a slight talent is sufficient for you to benefit
from hypnotherapy.
Your skill can be enhanced with guidance by a hypnotherapist -- and
with practice.
[To find a competent therapist go to http://www.microtec.net/drknight/kn-how.html ]
You relax into hypnosis by means of an induction.
This may well include slow deep breathing and most probably, soothing
words from the hypnotherapist.
Music, rhythmic sounds, gestures, visual props, even videos, can also
lull you into hypnosis.
Videos? Yes. Psychovisual Therapy videos, which Dr. Knight distributes
in the United States, enable you to drift into light hypnosis with your
Ten titles ranging from Stress Control to Positivity are available.
Mind & Hypnosis shows you how the mind works and what
hypnotherapy is all about.
You can easily learn to hypnotize yourself by following the step-by-step
instructions in Dr. Knight's latest book, Health and Happiness with
"Read this book and you'll come away with a clearer understanding and
respect for hypnosis, its uses and its benefits," says Dr. Eileen
Alexander, a family physician and past-president of the Ontario Society
of Clinical Hypnosis.
The book presents a myriad of examples of how hypnotherapy has
helped people overcome problems or enhance their creativity.
These case histories illustrate the three main ways hypnosis is used as
a therapeutic tool:
• to uncover the cause of a problem (e.g., why you are swept with
waves of rage),
• to deal with symptoms (e.g., to stop nail-biting, or to overcome
insomnia), or
• to make your psychotherapy sessions easier and faster.
If you're curious about using hypnosis on your own look here:
http://www.microtec.net/drknight/self.html for details about Dr Knight's affordable
ebook " SELF-HYPNOSIS: Safe, Simple, Superb ."
In a previous book, Love, Sex & Hypnosis: Secrets of Psychotherapy , Dr
Knight explains the close connections between hypnosis and
psychotherapy, historically and today.
"All successful psychotherapy has a hypnotic component," says Dr.
Knight, who has over thirty years' experience as a therapist.
He emphasizes the overriding importance of genuine caring for the
client by the therapist.
This caring has been called " Psychotherapeutic Eros."
[See http://www.therapyinsights.com for more about therapeutic love.]
"It's a kind of love that is similar to, yet very different from, the love in
your other relationships -- as parent and child, or pastor and penitent,
or teacher and pupil, or friend and friend," says Dr. Knight.
"The therapist is not emotionally involved in the client's life the way a
parent or a friend is, nor ideologically involved the way a priest or
minister is, but nevertheless 'loves' the client and thereby stimulates
his or her own resources to get better."
"The love liberates the client to flower, but hypnosis is the process by
which it actually happens."
Or, as he likes to say:
"Love makes change possible; hypnosis makes change real."
When hypnosis is used mechanically, without this love from therapist to
client, it may appear successful -- for a while.
"For more permanent effects, the client has to know you really care,"
says Dr. Knight.
Like the clients for whom he made personalized hypnosis audiocassettes
when he was about to go into hospital: they were thus able to continue
their therapy during the weeks Dr. Knight was unavailable.
Similarly for a fellow hypnotherapist who faced a serious operation, for
whom Dr. Knight made a get-well-soon audiotape.

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