Eunoia for Life
Beautiful thoughts , Beautiful mind
Carl Rogers
therapy
I use eclectic approach to therapy where I integrate various therapeutic techniques to create a plan according to the unique individual needs & problems faced by the clients. I integrate Clinical Hypnotherapy with Cognitive Behavior Therapy, EFT, Mindfullness & Meditation. . I value building a safe and supportive healing environment for my clients and bring an open, accepting, empathetic, non judging, genuine presence to the therapeutic relationship.
Hypnosis a trance like, naturally occurring state of mind that can bring you into a safe, natural state of relaxation. Hypnosis dates back more than 220 years as an area of scientific research and clinical practice and is used to bring about positive change in a wide variety of conditions. You are not asleep, and you are in control. It’s an imaginative free-floating and pleasant state of mind where you’re far more aware than usual but also a lot more focused.
Hypnotherapy is the use of various types of therapy in hypnosis, along with the mind’s own natural abilities, to resolve issues, relieve emotional burdens and achieve personal goals. It is a safe, effective process and involves the client and therapist working together to bring about positive changes in how a client think, feel and act.In Hypnotherapy we make use of the mind- body connection which helps us to understand how our thoughts, feelings and emotions can influence our physical & mental health. Hypnotherapy uses deep relaxation techniques and guided imagery to guide you into a state of deep peacefulness. Similar to mindfulness meditations, the brain lets go of distractions and becomes more focused. When you’re in a hypnotic state, your pulse and respiration rate slows down, and your brain starts to produce more alpha brainwaves. Alpha brainwaves indicate relaxation, positive mood, reduced anxiety and increased creativity.
Hypnotherapy can help you to find solutions to long-standing problem, Wipe away old limiting beliefs ,Turn negative thoughts into positive ones, Develop new and healthier habits, Release physical or emotional trauma, Set realistic and achievable goals, Take active control of your health, your career, your relationships, and your life in general and get deeper understanding of Self.
Advantages of Hypnotherapy from the Literature
Hypnosis allows engagement of the non-dominant hemisphere in the brain. It provides direct entry into the cognitive processing of the right cerebral hemisphere (in right-handed subjects), which accesses and organises emotional and experiential information. It can be utilised to teach restructuring of cognitive and emotional processes that are influenced by the non-dominant cerebral hemisphere. (Alladin A. Cognitive Hypnotherapy: An Integrated Approach to the Treatment of Emotional Disorders. Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons; 2008)
Hypnosis uses post-hypnotic suggestions and is an important part of therapy and is used to shape desired future behaviour; it can be powerful in altering problem behaviours, dysfunctional cognitions and negative emotions. suggestion and post-hypnotic suggestions during therapy emphasise the innate tendency of the mind to heal itself. (Barrios AA. Posthypnotic suggestion in high-order conditioning: A methodological and experimental analysis. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. 1973)
Hypnotic techniques are easily exported and can be easily assimilated with many forms of therapy. When hypnosis is used as an adjunct to a particular form of therapy whether behavioural, cognitive or cognitive behavioural therapy, the effects can enhance the treatment outcome. (Brown DP, Fromm E. Hypnotherapy and Behavioral Medicine. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum; 1986)
Hypnosis enhances the effectiveness of therapy and creates the belief of self-efficacy .(Brown DP, Fromm E. Hypnotherapy and Behavioral Medicine. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum; 1986)
Hypnosis adds leverage to treatment and shortens treatment time. (Dengrove E. The use of hypnosis in behaviour therapy. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. 1973;21:13-17)
Hypnosis induces deep relaxation, and in this state suggestions can be made that are effective for the reduction of anxiety.(Dozois DJA, Westra HA. The nature of anxiety and depression: Implications for prevention. In: Dozois DJA, Dobson KS, editors. The Prevention of Anxiety and Depression: Theory, Research, and Practice. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association; 2004)
Hypnosis uses post-hypnotic suggestions and is an important part of therapy and is used to shape desired future behaviour; it can be powerful in altering problem behaviours, dysfunctional cognitions and negative emotions.(Barrios AA. Posthypnotic suggestion in high-order conditioning: A methodological and experimental analysis. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. 1973).
Hypnosis strengthens the ego by enhancing self-confidence and self-worth.
Myths About Hypnosis
- You’ve never been hypnotized.
- Only the mentally weak can be hypnotized.
- Hypnosis is a sleep.
- Hypnosis is a ‘miracle cure’ for many things.
- You can’t lie under hypnosis.
- You can get stuck in a hypnotic trance and not wake.
- Hypnosis causes people to lose control and reveal secrets.
Research On Effectiveness of Hypnotherapy Meta- Analysis
- Meta-analysis of 18 studies revealed a moderate to large hypnoanalgesic effect, supporting the efficacy of hypnotic techniques for pain management. (Montgomery, Guy H.,David, Daniel, Winkel, Gary,Silverstein, Jeffrey H. M)
- Hypnosis to CBT substantially enhanced the treatment outcome for several problems like anxiety, obesity & pain. (Kirsch, Montgomery, and Sapirstein)
- Hypnotherapy is 3 times as effective as patch and 15 times as effective as Willpower (600 studies). (the University of Iowa (1992) )
- 6% success rate for smoking cessation using hypnosis (University of Washington School of Medicine, Depts. of Anesthesiology and Rehabilitation Medicine, Int J Clin Exp Hypn. 2001 Jul;49(3):257-66. Barber J.0
- Hypnosis over 30times as effective for weight loss (Cochrane, Gordon; Friesen, J. (1986). Hypnotherapy in weight loss treatment.Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 54, 489-492.)
- Hypnosis shows 77 percent success rate for drug addiction. (Intensive Therapy: Utilizing Hypnosis in the Treatment of Substance Abuse Disorders. Potter, Greg, American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, Jul 2004.)
- Hypnosis is an efficacious treatment for state anxiety and anxiety-related disorders, such as headaches and irritable bowel syndrome. Hypnosis in the treatment of anxiety- and stress-related disorders. (Hammond DC)
- self-hypnosis combined with cognitive therapy was more effective than cognitive therapy alone in sexual issues (Australian Journal of Clinical Hypnotherapy & Hypnosis, 1998: Sep., vol 19(2).
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
CBT uses a combination of behavioural and cognitive interventions aimed at changing negative thinking patterns and behaviours and is one of the most researched psychological interventions Kenny DT, Osborne MS. Music performance anxiety: New insights from young musicians. Advances in Cognitive Psychology. 2006;2(2-3):103-112
Cognitive-behavioral therapy was developed by Aaron Beck for anxiety and depression. CBT is a blend of cognitive and behavioral therapies that help patients tune into their internal dialogue in order to change maladaptive thinking patterns.
Exposure response Prevention Therapy (ERP) is yet another type of CBT that is usually used for OCD. In this therapy, patients are exposed to the situations or objects that cause them the most fear (obsessions) but are not able to engage in the behaviors that help relieve the anxiety they feel (compulsions).
Hypnosis provides a broad range of techniques that can easily be integrated into CBT. This allows CBT therapists to continue practising within the framework of their training without losing the benefits of effective techniques generated from the area of clinical hypnosis. A review of the strengths and weaknesses of CBT concluded that CBT and hypnotherapy can be combined to form a powerful treatment approach
Alladin A, Alibhai A. Cognitive-hypnotherapy for depression: An empirical investigation. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. 2007;55:147-166
A meta-analysis was conducted by critically reviewing 18 studies where a cognitive-behavioural therapy was compared with the same therapy supplemented by hypnosis across a wide variety of targeted disorders. Evidence showed that the addition of hypnosis to CBT enhanced treatment outcome compared to CBT treatment alone. The mean scores of the patients receiving cognitive-behavioural hypnotherapy showed a substantial improvement compared with 70% of the patients receiving only CBT
Kirsch I, Montgomery G, Saperstein G. Hypnosis as an adjunct to cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy: A meta-analysis. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 1995;63:214-220
It was found that hypnosis enhanced the overall beneficial effect of the treatment and reduced the number of sessions needed in comparison with CBT treatment alone. This investigation using cognitive hypnotherapy met the criteria laid down by the American Association Task Force and provided validation (for patients’ safety) of the integration of hypnosis with CBT in the management of depression
Chambless DL, Hollon SD. Defining empirically supported therapies. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 1998;66:7-1
Inner Child Healing
We all have a vulnerable, intuitive, instinctual inner self.
It is who we are when we were born, our core self, our natural personality, with all its talent, instinct, intuition, and emotion. The Child is our right-brain or creative aspect of being, feeling, and experiencing. It’s the part of us that existed before we had experience.
Once your Inner Child has been abandoned, you feel unlovable and unworthy at the deepest gut level. When your own Adult abdicates responsibility for defining you as a valuable person, you are then dependent on someone or something outside yourself for a sense of who you are and what you are worth. Each time we move on in our lives, unhealed from an experience we lose a part of ourselves. This wounded past –self then becomes an unhealed Inner-Child.
It is possible to heal your Inner child and healing them will help you to bring back in present your unique qualities which you might have lost in time.
Past Life Regression Therapy
The long term goal of past life therapy is the acceptance of self leading to a sense of peace and comfort with one’s place in the world. The mechanism of change in past life therapy is the same as that in psycho-analysis – making the unconscious conscious in an effort to re-establish the individual’s personal choice.
It may be used as a specific technique in the setting of ongoing therapy. Depending on the client, it may or may not be used.
During Maslow’s later years he helped usher in “fourth force psychology” known as transpersonal psychology (Aiken, 2003; Cunningham, 1999). Transpersonal psychology goes beyond the person or body and focuses on exploring altered states of consciousness
where people feel a connection with the spiritual. Transpersonal psychology does not see the human personality as an end in itself. The goal is to go beyond one’s ordinary consciousness and transcend the ego to incorporate a deeper sense of connection with others and the Divine.
Unlike the conscious mind, the unconscious never turns off; it can remember anything from anytime (Weiss; Netherton & Shiffrin). It is not bound by limits of time, logic, or space.
Deepak Chopra discussed this concept in his book Quantum Healing (1989), If there are unaddressed emotional complexes remaining from a previous life, they can interfere with the body’s ability to heal. If extensive work is done through meditation and imaging to heal the emotional complexes, healing can take place in this lifetime
A therapy in which an individual is regressed to past lives in order to heal and resolve situations from the current life.
Thoughts, feelings, attitudes, and experiences are unconsciously carried forward from past lives into this life (Neddermeyer, 2002). Raymond Moody, well known for his research into near death experiences, wanted to attempt to identify traits of the past life regression experience (Moody, 1990).
Past life experiences are usually experienced as sensory images. Most individuals report visual images in color, though some individuals describe odors or sounds. The images reported are described as more vivid than daydreams. For some individuals the experience takes place as thoughts.
- Past life experiences appear to have a life of their own as what takes place appears to be out of the conscious control of the individual experiencing the regression. Participants often describe it as similar to witnessing an event or watching a movie.
- The imagery in the past life experience has a feeling of familiarity. This feeling may be experienced as vague to quite intense to the degree that a feeling of homesickness may occur for the past life.
- The individual experiencing the past life regression identifies themselves as one of the individuals in the scene being recalled. Often the individual they identify with is very different than who they are in the current lifetime as they may be a different social class, race, or sex. It is not unusual for the individual to feel that they were actually that person in a previous life after the regression.
- The individual participating in the regression often experiences the emotional feelings of the character they have identified with. It is often apparent to the therapist what emotion the character is experiencing by the expression on the individual’s face or other form of body language. The feelings experienced have the possibility of running the entire emotional scale. 6. During the regression, past life events may be viewed from the 1″ or 3rd person
The experience that the individual recalls often mirrors events that are taking place in their current life, though this is not always apparent to the individual experiencing the regression. At times the individual is aware of the parallels and are able to leave the session with increased insight.
Past life regression therapy is suitable for people of all ages, but people with unexplained behaviours or illnesses will benefit more from it. It is extremely safe as it does not involve any drugs or invasive procedures. This type of therapy allows people to gain clarity about their current life in relation to their previous lives and choices.
( EFT Tapping)
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is a form of counseling intervention that draws on various theories of alternative medicine – including acupuncture, neuro-linguistic programming, energy medicine, and Thought Field Therapy (TFT). It is best known through Gary Craig’s EFT Handbook, published in the late 1990s, and related books and workshops by a variety of teachers. EFT and similar techniques are often discussed under the umbrella term “energy psychology.”
EFT has been extensively investigated for anxiety and depression. In the first large-scale study of 5000 patients seeking treatment for anxiety across 11 clinics over a 5.5-year period, patients received either traditional anxiety treatment in the form of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), with medication if needed, or acupoint tapping with no medication.26 An improvement was found in 90% of patients who received acupoint tapping therapy compared to 63% of the CBT participants.
Chakra Healing & Meditation
The word chakra is derived from the Sanskrit word cakra, meaning “wheel.” It was first mentioned in the Vedas, ancient Hindu texts that date to around 1,500 BCE. Chakras are energy vortexes that exist within each of us. These energy vortexes transport energy from the universe around you into your aura and body, as well as between the physical body and the layers of your aura. your chakra system connects and supports your physical self and your energy self. When our chakras are in balance, our lives are in complete harmony and our health is good. If a chakra becomes blocked, we will eventually experience emotional distress or disease.
Mindfulness-based cognitive hypnotherapy (MBCH)
Meditation is a way to calm mental chatter. When practiced regularly, it can help transform consciousness in a way that promotes inner peace, mental clarity, emotional positivity, deep knowing, and concentration, as well as ground us when we feel scattered. By maintaining a specific focus, like the breath, a mantra, or another tool, the mind can stop wandering and getting lost in thoughts, emotions, or other mental distractions. meditation involves the ability to observe distracting thoughts and emotions without judgment, we learn to control our reactions to stimuli that might otherwise create painful or upsetting reactions. This skill—called mindfulness