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Hypnosis as a tool | What is it for?

Hypnosis, as a state, is therefore a modified or altered state of consciousness, based on concentration, absorption and imagination. Using hypnosis as a tool, the goal is to modify the subjectivity or change the point of view. 

In other words, hypnosis can increase one's ability to reconsider, reaffirm or change learned learning and conditioning, or to access understandings not conditioned by the learning and routines of ordinary states. 

For example, the same event may affect two subjects differently depending on their cultural, social or intellectual conditioning. It could be that an event considered as harmless for one person, is slightly more traumatic for another.

What can we deduce from the event itself? Not much, in reality, because it is the subjectivity and the mental constructions of the two subjects that intervene in their relationship to this event. 

 

Hypnosis is used for that - to become aware first of our conditioning, our subjectivity, our "own universe"; then to change our point of view in order to reshape, reshape, even reinforce our perceived reality, reconsider our learning, reaffirm our capacities, and align them with our conscious desires.


What about hypnotherapy, or therapeutic counseling?


Today, hypnosis is a recognized discipline, practiced as much in hospitals, in educational training, in high-level sports or in the professional world. 

Whatever our mental state or subjectivity, hypnosis can be a powerful tool to achieve our goals. Whether you are a high level sports person looking to improve your performance, a person with professional responsibilities listening to your teams, or an individual looking to change an automatic way of functioning. 

As soon as our automatic modes, our habitual or instinctive functioning are no longer in agreement with our environment, they can become uncomfortable or unsuitable for our conscious desires. 

However, it is sometimes difficult to change deeply rooted conditioning simply by drawing our attention to it. This is when we hear the usual phrases: "I know I need to change, but I can't", "something is blocking me", or "I don't know why I'm acting this way".

Hypnosis then becomes a tool to explore other ways of thinking, to change the subjectivity, the point of view, or to consider differently these blockages, questionings and uncertainties by drawing on our internal resources. 


What are the applications of hypnosis?

Since hypnotic states address our subjectivity, there are as many fields of application of hypnosis as there are subjectivities and human complexities.

 

That said, here is a non-exhaustive list of potential themes. 

Therapy and growth

Managing behaviours

  • Addictions (tobacco, alcohol, other)

  • Concentration

  • Procrastination

  • Doubts

  • Blockages

  • Relationship Problems

Managing emotions

  • Phobias - Fears

  • Stress

  • Self esteem

  • Trust

  • Sadness, Guilt

  • Grief

  • Anxiety(ies)

Life events

  • Professional transition

  • Break-up

  • Separation

  • Grief

  • Moving

  • Exams

Sport & performance

Professional context

 

The author

⫸Mourad - Ericksonian hypnosis practitioner, trainer and founder of @morpheose

⫸ What I offer

  • 1:1 sessions, in Geneva (17 rue Charles-Giron) and Online

  • trainings in hypnosis

  • workshops and introspection retreats, for individuals and corporations

⫸ former physicist and political scientist, former BCG consultant, sportsman and living being fascinated by consciousness.

⫸ founder of morpheose, for individuals, leaders and organizations in fast-paced and demanding environments.

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