Chester County Hypnosis

Can Hypnosis and Self Hypnosis really help me in a recession ? Sure it can, and I’ll give you 5 easy ways that it will.

1. To keep a positive attitude and be optimistic.

It’s natural to get down when times are tough, however, the tought times are the times when we most need to be positive and optimistic. If we are in a situation where our employer is cutting back, the positive and optimistic people are a commodity that a company wants to keep. Morale is a problem when layoffs occur and an employee with a good attitude is needed to keep a company going. A positive attitude, under all circumstances, can separate you from the crowd in the view of management and place you in a position of being noticed for advancement in the future. Optimism and a positive attitude are contagious and can often be overlooked by all of us as assets that we bring to our job. Hypnosis and Self Hypnosis are valuable tools to keep us in a good mental attitude to be resilient and benefit from those tough times.

2. To overcome fears and uncertainty.

Recessions are definitely scary times. At my age, I’ve lived through them before, but our recent times have been quite good for a long while and many people have never lived through these events. They do end, but that doesn’t help the fears that we have during them. Distressed economic situations cause many personal, family and social problems. People lose jobs, houses, cars and sometimes even worse. Now, that doesn’t mean that will happen to you and it doesn’t do you any good to lie awake at night worrying. In tough times we all need clear thinking, not worrying. Hypnosis and Self Hypnosis can help us to overcome our fears, think clearly and make wise decisions.

3. To be at your best in situations that you need to.

Recessions present all types of situations that we wouldn’t expect and it helps to be at our personal best when they arise. If something would happen that would really change our situation, such as a layoff or a family member laid off, we might need to make some tough decisions and take some new actions. If we would need to look for another job, we will need determination and motivation. If we get a job interview, we need to present our best to a prospective employer. All of these types of situations require being at your best and Hypnosis and Self Hypnosis can help you to be at your best when you need to be.

4. To relieve your daily stress.

Tough times are tense times, make no mistake about it. Stress can make us depressed, make us get sick, weakens us and takes away our drive and attitude. During a tough time we really need strength and stamina and to be free from draining stress. Hypnosis and Self Hypnosis are the best ways to deal with our daily stress so that we can rest and relax when we need to.

5. To keep your motivation and determination high.

Just as optimism and positive attitude are contagious, so are pessimism and negative attitude and you may find yourself surrounded by it. If we don’t have methods like Self Hypnosis to use, it’s very easy to buy-in to all of the above mentioned dilemmas. However, Hypnosis provides us with a proven method to keep us on the right track and going in the right direction, regardless of what the rest of the world is doing.

Hopefully those give you a few ideas of some of the great benefits that Hypnosis and Self Hypnosis can bring you in a recession. Always remember that recessions are times of great opportunity. While we are always told of the many people who were ruined in the Great Depression of 1929, there were also many who were able to take advantage of situations that arose to become greatly prosperous. I would imagine that those people possessed some of the same things we just talked about.

Joseph Nunan CH is a Certified Hypnotherapist and Hypnosis Instructor and sees clients by appointment at his Chester County Hypnosis in West Chester, PA USA.  He offers Professional, Personal and Business Hypnosis Training at The Hypnosis Academy and audio hypnosis sessions are available for download at MP3 Hypnosis Downloads. He is also featured on Best Hypnosis Guide and frequently appears in the media. He can be reached at info@chestercountyhypnosis.com.

Most of my clients are familiar with the term “subconscious” and generally believe that it’s a spooky place deep inside your mind that holds all your deepest, darkest fears and inhibitions. This is a place where there is constant turmoil, repressed urges, dreams, taboos and fantasies.

Pierre Janet, the famous French Psychiatrist is credited with the term, which has now become almost extinct in usage in modern psychology. Janet was also one of the early teachers of Hypnosis in Psychiatry and trained at the Saltpierre under Jean Marc Charcot and was a colleague of Freud’s; some credit him as the Father of Modern psychotherapy, instead of Freud.

The Saltpierre school of thought worked under the premise that hypnosis is but a form of hysteria, which is somewhat understandable since hysteria seemed to be very much a part of everyday life back then.

Today, we hypnotists, not being the theorists that psychologists are, consider the subconscious as any of our human processes that exist below the level of our ordinary awareness. Some of us further separate that into the “subconscious” and “unconscious” which reflects on the workings of our body and nervous system. A good everyday understanding of it would probably be to say, “All of the stuff we do, that we don’t actually do”. That would include our beating heart, to a lesser extent our breathing and the mental concepts that guide our operation in daily life.

Say for example you see a fireplace with a nice warm fire going on. It makes you feel warm and safe. However, you won’t go over and put your hand right into it, the thought would never occur to you, why, you would, of course, burn your hand. When we are small children, we might do exactly that, usually only once or twice, before we learn that while fire is warm and comforting, more is not necessarily better there.

As we become older, we often forget the incident but remember the lesson. We don’t stick our hand in open fires, we don’t even think of doing it. We don’t have to think about it, it just is an operational guideline anymore to us. Same thing with, hopefully, running out in the street before looking both ways and playing with dry cleaning bags around our heads. They’ve become generalizations to us that we operate on below a conscious level, we don’t have to sit and think and reason to come up with those guidelines, they just “are”.

And that is what our subconscious does for us, it runs our daily life, much as an assistant would handle all the mundane details of an important executive. Now, the primary task of this assistant is to keep us safe. That is the main goal, protection and safety.

I read recently how De Boeff (European psychologist of the early 20th century) believed that man had developed this “assistant” through evolution to satisfy the need for it, where most animals today exist solely on the conscious level. When you look at a squirrel, everything about his existence is right on the surface, beating heart, search for food, everything. He lives in the moment, to his peril.

When we, as hypnotists deal with the subconscious we don’t deal with the dark, hidden labyrinth of mental dungeons that we imagine. We deal with something that resembles a 10 year old child. Literal in interpretation, unable to reason or deduce, but always there to protect us and make us safe.  We must be careful to be be simple and succinct in our words, be precise and completely understandable without coloring our words with colloquialism, innuendo or hidden meanings.

We don’t really get involved in the “why” as much as psychologists do, we don’t have to and don’t really want to. We deal with the subconscious in the place it lives, under the surface and below awareness. We deal with the misdirected generalizations we have acquired over our lives and try to bring them to a conscious level and create new generalizations we desire.

For example, if you were dangled out an upstairs window as a child by a bully, you’d most likely have a fear of heights. You might also be afraid of air travel. That has absolutely nothing to do with being dangled out of a window by a bully, but the 10-year old sees no difference. Height=Fear, regardless of the method, if we go up, we won’t be safe. Through Hypnosis, we can bring reason and clarity to our subconscious and allow ourselves to now generalize that the window and the airplane are two different experiences and have more differences than similarities. We can now believe that air travel is much safer than being dangled out of a window, in fact, it’s quite different and much safer.

Now this person can fly fearlessly and travel the world and have a greatly enhanced life-experience, thanks to hypnosis and the subconscious. And, it was not a matter of dealing with somewhere spooky, it was all done by explaining to the 10-year old assistant, their protector, that it was acceptable.