Is hypnosis harmful to humans: what is the danger of hypnotic influence, possible health benefits

A hypnotherapist (the correct name for a hypnotist) is not a magician, but a medical specialist, or a person endowed with a special gift, with the help of which we can solve many problems.

What is trance?

There is nothing super unusual about trance or hypnosis. This is a natural state in which we arrive several times a day. We are more accustomed to call this state as “daydreaming”, “thinking”. At such moments, our heads “sort” information and events that happened to us during the day. It’s as if everything is sorted into pieces in my head. This state, specially induced by a hypnotherapist, is called hypnosis. But there is relaxing hypnosis, and there is healing.

What diseases are treated with hypnosis?

Hypnosis treats problems such as: phobias, excess weight, stress, colds, runny nose, allergies, diseases of the heart, liver, stomach, lungs or other internal organs.

We treat joint diseases, skin diseases, vision and hearing problems, alcohol and nicotine addiction, and any other diseases, from the mildest to the most severe, up to those that are generally considered incurable in medicine. In most cases, a hypnosis session is resorted to when other methods have already been tried. But hypnosis helps to effectively get rid of depression, resolve difficult situations at work and in your personal life, and cope with feelings of unrequited love. It makes sense to resort to a hypnosis session, even if you cannot make some important decision. In a trance state, the left hemisphere of the brain, which is normally responsible for rational thinking, receives the ability of the right hemisphere (imaginative thinking). This will help you find a way out of a difficult situation better and faster and change your life for the better.

The most common use of hypnosis is in the fight against addictions. According to medical studies, 60 percent of patients who quit smoking with the help of hypnosis did not return to the habit even five years after treatment.

How does a hypnosis session work?

Oddly enough, the only person who can put you into a state of trance or hypnosis is yourself. The hypnotherapist only helps you enter this state.

When you hear the word hypnosis, a picture pops into your head of a doctor starting to swing a pendulum in front of your eyes. In fact, you can enter into a trance using sound, light or voice. Even on distance. Each specialist has his own method, developed over the years.

They say that during hypnosis our consciousness turns off. It is a myth. In fact, during the entire session, you are in control of the process yourself. There is no subordination of the will or suggestion to the patient of any things against his wishes. All you will experience while sitting comfortably in a chair is self-hypnosis.

In fact, the hypnotist acts as an instructor who tells you what and how to do so that you achieve your goal.

Will you succeed?

All people are interested in the question of whether they can be hypnotized. Many people think that they cannot enter a trance because they have enormous willpower. Hypnosis is not the subjugation of one will by another. It has nothing to do with willpower or struggle. Absolutely anyone can enter a state of hypnosis.

There is another myth - that you cannot come out of a trance state. There is not a single fact confirming that the patient “went into himself and did not return.” In the most extreme case, the trance state can turn into normal sleep. You will sleep and wake up.

How many sessions are needed?

The hypnotist's task is not to take the problem away from you, but to lead you to a solution to this problem. Therefore, the frequency of visiting a doctor or viewing a recording of a session depends entirely on you. After all, some people are used to going “straight” in solving their problems, while others, on the contrary, choose a more tortuous path. The latter, of course, will need more sessions. The speed of movement is set by the patient himself, and the hypnotist only helps not to beat around the bush. Typically, a hypnosis session is carried out once a week and lasts about an hour.

Who to contact?

There is no such profession as “hypnologist”. There are psychologists who use hypnosis as one of the treatment methods, and there are people whom nature itself has endowed with the gift of hypnotic treatment. Which one to contact is up to you to choose.

One of the main conditions of hypnotherapy is trust in your hypnotherapist. Be it live communication, or therapeutic sessions from the TV screen. Therefore, when choosing a specialist, trust the opinion of people who have already contacted him.

Hypnotherapy is psychotherapy using hypnosis. In this case, hypnosis treatment is used as a powerful healing factor. Hypnosis is a special and very useful state of consciousness. Each session, despite its apparent similarity to others, is a completely unique experience. And treatment with hypnosis is also a unique method of psychotherapy.

In consciousness and subconsciousness, throughout our lives, formal goals imposed on us, false values, our internal prohibitions, restrictions and negative attitudes accumulate. However, they are not just stored there, but actively poison our lives, since everything that worries and torments us at a conscious or unconscious level is inevitably “translated” by the body into the language of disease over time. While under hypnosis, a person suppresses the critical influence of consciousness. Attention is focused in a very narrow direction, and the level of perception in the focus is much higher than outside the hypnotic influence. This heightened level of perception helps to send suggestions directly to the subconscious and achieve rapid and qualitative changes during the hypnosis treatment process.

This approach, using specific, specially selected hypnotic formulas, is usually used in classical (directive) hypnosis.

There are also more modern and gentle methods of hypnotic influence (non-directive). With such hypnotization, the main task of the hypnotherapist is, with the help of trance techniques, to activate your own capabilities and resources that will allow you to cope with the problem or achieve your goal. At the same time, acquired limitations accumulated throughout life are eliminated. It becomes possible to effectively and creatively search for new opportunities, new behavior options, new ways to solve problems using your internal resources. Working with resource states is also widely and effectively used in hypnosis treatment.

Each of us has a huge amount of resources.
We are all capable of winning, achieving success, creating, creating. All this is inherent in us, but we cannot always use what we already have. From this point of view, when a person has a situation that he cannot solve, this means that there is no access to his internal resource or for some reason he cannot use it.
We often try to solve problems with the conscious mind by analyzing. We were taught this at school, at college, we were taught this all our lives - to use only this instrument. But, in addition to consciousness, we also have the unconscious. And we don’t know how to use this tool very well. This is what we learn in hypnotic sessions, including during hypnosis treatment. We all know that a person has what he is aware of at the level of consciousness, but there is also the unconscious.
The unconscious is an internal computer with a huge number of useful programs. But in order to use the computer, you need to enter a password, as you know. So, hypnosis is the password that opens a cave with treasures. We are entering this state - and resources can be used. It is important to understand that trance is not a loss of consciousness or something imposed from the outside.
With the help of hypnosis, a person’s own experience, his own capabilities, which previously seemed to be dormant, are used. An experienced hypnotherapist will give the patient the opportunity to understand that the result depends on his own capabilities, even if these capabilities have hitherto been unrealized, unconscious or misused. Non-directive hypnosis is good because nothing is imposed on you; Only your own unique capabilities and resources are used. This is a very humane and very flexible method. Hypnosis is a time of free discovery, exploration and awareness of your abilities.

Consequences of hypnosis

The use of hypnosis can have positive and negative effects. The benefits include:

1. Possibility of treating various pathologies. Psychosomatic diseases respond well to therapy.
2. Identifying limiting beliefs, gaining access to memories, adjusting the perception of negative experiences in the past, getting rid of fears and stress.
3. Unleashing your creative potential.
4. Use as an additional therapeutic agent to speed up the recovery process.

What negative consequences for the human psyche can be accompanied by hypnosis? Highlight:

1. The occurrence of seizures in people with serious mental pathologies. As a rule, hypnotherapy is contraindicated for such patients. Some doctors working with such diseases do use aspects of hypnosis therapy.
2. Excessive attachment, subordination to the attending physician. This usually happens with long-term therapy.
3. Are hypnosis sessions dangerous for a patient if they are performed by an inexperienced or ignorant person? There is an opinion that in this case, traumatic, unpleasant memories are likely to move to the surface of consciousness. Hypnotherapy should be practiced by people who are responsible for their actions.
4. The hypnotherapist may gain access to personal information that a person does not want to share with anyone.
5. Addiction to hypnosis sessions. When significant improvement in the patient's condition is observed, therapy can be discontinued. Some patients experience psychological discomfort, as they want to plunge back into a state of euphoria.

Childbirth in a dream

Tell me, is it really possible for a woman to give birth while in a comatose state?

Ninel, Barnaul

Gynecologist Olga Prokofieva answers:

– World obstetric practice knows many examples when doctors had to deliver births to women in labor who were in a chronic unconscious state. Proof of this is the story that happened to thirty-six-year-old Chinese woman Song Yingkuon. After being involved in an accident while five months pregnant, she safely gave birth to a healthy boy after three months in a coma. The child was born by caesarean section.

Another, no less fantastic incident occurred in Brazil. A woman who was in a comatose state for five (!) months was able to give birth to a healthy child. Experts don’t see anything surprising in this. In theory, in a coma a woman can even... become pregnant (in a chronic state of unconsciousness, representatives of the fair half of humanity even experience “critical” days, only with some deviations from the norm). Another thing is that in this case the probability of giving birth to a viable child is very small: the mother’s coma slows down the development of the fetus and causes disturbances that threaten its life.

The principle of therapeutic hypnosis

Translated from ancient Greek, “hypnosis” means sleep. For many years, the hypnotic state was presented as a special type of sleep, accompanied by a partial or complete blocking of consciousness, with inhibition of responses to external signals - with the exception of interaction directly with the hypnotist. According to the modern interpretation, medical hypnosis is a temporary change in consciousness, between sleep and wakefulness, during which a person’s suggestibility increases and the control of his mind over what is happening decreases - while immersion in a hypnotic state intensifies, a stable concentration of attention arises on the meaning of the words and actions of the hypnotist. It is believed that people who are open to this type of influence are susceptible to hypnosis, i.e. it is very difficult to hypnotize a person without his consent. This effect is largely self-suggestion; the effectiveness of therapeutic hypnosis, first of all, depends on the patient’s willingness to undergo suggestion.

Thus, a hypnotherapist can give guidance on getting rid of bad habits - alcoholism and smoking, gaming and drug addiction, as well as overeating. Suggestion and self-hypnosis will help reduce pain sensitivity, literally “speak your teeth,” alleviate the patient’s condition, and also cure psychosomatic disorders - depressive conditions leading to physical illnesses.

When can it be used

Is therapeutic hypnosis harmful for illnesses? For most chronic diseases there are no contraindications to the use of trance. N

Hypnotherapy is used to treat psychosomatic diseases (hypertension, psychogenic impotence, sexual coldness, bronchial asthma, sleep disorders, etc.). Hypnosis is indispensable for overcoming panic attacks, phobias, anxiety, stuttering, neuroses and depression, as well as getting rid of addictions (smoking, alcoholism, bulimia).

Why is hypnosis dangerous? There is an opinion that during hypnosis one symptom can be replaced by another. But since the cure occurs at the will of the patient, it is unlikely that he will want to replace the disappeared unpleasant symptom with a similar one. There are also scientific arguments about the dangers of hypnosis for mentally unstable and mentally retarded people, as well as patients with the last stage of alcoholism and drug addiction. In other cases, the indications for the use of trance are very wide. It should also be borne in mind that not all people who consider themselves hypnologists can be trusted with treatment. If hypnotherapy is carried out by an inexperienced specialist, then harm from hypnosis cannot be ruled out. Although, most likely, there will be no harm here, but simply the absence of any result.

How a patient is put into a hypnotic state

Special rooms are usually used for hypnosis sessions. A specialist hypnotherapist, using certain methods and techniques (verbal formulations, monotonous and rhythmic stimulation of the senses), introduces the patient into a narrowed state of consciousness, in which the external information flow is reduced to verbal contact with the hypnotist. At the same time, the activity of certain areas of the brain differs from both sleep and wakefulness. Shallow hypnosis is characterized by some drowsiness, while moderate exposure is characterized by a state of drowsiness. Very few patients are able to reach the last (somnambulistic) stage of hypnosis, even under the guidance of an experienced specialist.

It is believed that under the influence of hypnotic suggestion, a person can carry out only those instructions that do not contradict the innate instinct of self-preservation, as well as the moral principles acquired throughout life. For example, in a state of deep hypnosis, the patient can be told that he does not see people present, and he will be sure that there is no one in the room. If a person standing nearby takes a glass in his hand, the person being hypnotized will believe that this object rose into the air on its own. The patient may agree that there is no furniture in the room, but if he receives instructions to walk straight, he will carefully avoid all obstacles in the form of tables and chairs along the way.

Lapse of memory

In one of the television series, according to the plot, a man suddenly suddenly loses his memory: he cannot remember what happened to him and in general who he is and what his name is. Is this really possible?

Nikolay, Omsk

Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Director of the Moscow Psychoendocrinological Research Center Stepan Matevosyan answers:

– What happened to the hero of the television series is called dissociative amnesia, which can occur in response to powerful stress, resulting in severe emotional shock, an emotional state of shock. Sometimes this may be preceded by a slight trauma to the skull.

The basis of dissociative amnesia is a primary involuntary change in the state of consciousness, which allows a person who has experienced severe stress to perceive unwanted, painful, psychologically unbearable events as having nothing to do with him. In fact, in this case, the protective mechanism of psychological defense is triggered, displacing a threatening impulse from consciousness, and with it denial, ignoring certain aspects of conscious reality.

Typically, this condition lasts from one to seven days, but in rare cases it can last up to 1 month, after which it ends suddenly. Upon exiting this state, individual elements of the traumatic event that occurred are restored in memory. But in some such cases it is impossible to do without drug therapy.

Hypnosis treatment of psychosomatic diseases

The presence of the disease leads to psychological disorders. There is also an inverse relationship. Some diseases occur in humans against the background of frequent stress, psychological problems, social conflicts, etc. For psychosomatic diseases, treatment with hypnosis is often used (the disease can be called psychosomatic if physiological pathology has been excluded during diagnosis).

Classic psychosomatic diseases include:

• bronchial asthma;
• ulcers of the stomach and duodenum;
• ulcerative colitis;
• neurodermatitis;
• rheumatoid arthritis;
• essential hypertension (hypertension).

Today, irritable bowel syndrome, migraines, psoriasis, vitiligo, enuresis, obesity and infertility are also added to the list. These diseases in 5% of cases are of psychogenic origin.

Hypnosis is used when differential diagnosis did not reveal organic disorders, and traditional therapy did not produce results. But if you start treatment with hypnosis without conducting an examination, you can worsen the disease.

Hypnotherapy will help patients with neurodermatitis

What happens after the session?

The state after a hypnosis session is comfortable, calm, like after a soft relaxing massage. After hypnosis, a person experiences a state of inner peace, a surge of strength and vigor, a state of lightness and inner liberation from inexplicable heaviness. If during the session there was intensive work with suppressed negative emotions, a pleasant state of release and relief is felt. Some absent-mindedness is possible, but after 10-15 minutes you will most likely be able to get behind the wheel of a car, and even more so, travel on public transport.

During treatment with hypnosis, unnoticed by you and others, your condition and the quality of your health changes. First, this affects subtle behavioral reactions: intonation, gestures, reactions to stimuli. Gradually you become calmer and more confident, you feel better both physically and emotionally. As you change, the circumstances around you also change. Communication with you will become easier and more productive. During this period, you can notice amazing changes in relationships with others. Patients often tell us about unexpected changes in the behavior of family members, co-workers, or loved ones.

Over the course of several sessions, the help of hypnosis becomes noticeable. The severity of depression decreases; Anxiety, fear, aggressiveness, panic become controllable. Obsessive thoughts and desires that were previously formed into bad habits, etc. disappear. Of course, to completely get rid of the problem and recover, one hypnosis session may not be enough, but you can sign up for a course of hypnotherapy and undergo a full course of hypnosis treatment.

How does the session work?

A hypnosis treatment session differs little from a regular appointment with a psychotherapist. Only the patient will have to lie down on the couch.

First, the psychotherapist listens to the patient and learns about his problem. Then they discuss it together and try to find solutions. It is important for a specialist to determine the depth of the disorder and how interested the person is in recovery. The patient is then placed on a couch and put into a state of hypnotic trance. Different specialists have their own methods for this. All of them represent a monotonous effect on one of the channels of human perception: vision, hearing, tactile perception. Sometimes three channels are affected simultaneously.

In a state of hypnosis, a person’s attention narrows and is directed inside himself. The images and attitudes inspired by the hypnotist are perceived much more acutely than in the normal state. In a trance, a person is not aware of where he is, in imagination or in reality. Sometimes he acts as a passive bystander.

The purpose of therapeutic hypnosis is to find out the true cause of the disease. To do this, the psychotherapist asks the patient questions or creates images that could prompt him to the correct answer. Then the person is given settings that help in solving the problem. The hypnologist is an authority who forces obedience.

Hypnotherapy reviews

Typically, patients turn to hypnotherapy when other methods of solving problems have failed. The best results are achieved by people who have complete trust in the doctor and are ready to find and work through underlying problems.

Patients say that hypnotherapy helped them get rid of psychological disorders forever: love addiction, panic attacks, deep depression, childhood trauma, eating disorders, aggression, and self-doubt. Individuals who completed a course of hypnotherapy noted not only positive dynamics in solving problems, but also an improvement in their general emotional state, increased energy, and a return of interest in life.

However, there are a number of people for whom hypnotherapy sessions were useless. Typically, these patients note that they mistrusted the doctor and doubted the effectiveness of the therapy.

Treatment of children using hypnosis

Many childhood illnesses are the result of mental instability and unstable emotional background. Hypnosis treatment for children is perceived negatively by parents. They fear that interference with consciousness will affect memory and mental development. All these fears have no basis.

Psychological disorders in a child can be treated with hypnosis. In the process of therapy, the child gets to know himself better, learns the correct worldview, and his psyche becomes more stable.

The Ericksonian approach is used to treat children.

Historical background on hypnotherapy

Franz Anton Mesmer

Hypnosis has been known to man for a long time - it began to be actively used more than 3 thousand years ago in Egypt, India, Greece and Rome.

The pioneer of modern hypnotherapy was the Austrian physician Franz Mesmer (1734-1815). He was the first to propose a rational basis for the effects of hypnosis, and the first to develop a consistent method for hypnosis. Although he was accused of fraud by the medical community of his time, hypnosis was known as "mesmerism" for a very long time. A Viennese doctor first demonstrated the effects of hypnosis in public at the end of the 18th century in Paris.

The very concept of “hypnosis” appeared several decades later, it was introduced by the English physician James Braid. The term comes from the ancient Greek word "ὕπνος" (sleep). The method of hypnotherapy received scientific recognition at the end of the 19th century after the report of the French neurologist Jean Martin Charcot at the Paris Academy of Sciences.

The founders of the theory of hypnosis in Russia are V. M. Bekhteev and K. I. Platonov, who at the beginning of the 20th century studied the problems of hypnosis and suggestion and created methods for using hypnotherapy for therapeutic purposes.

But the major figure of modern hypnotherapy is the therapist Milton Erickson (1901-1980), who pioneered “indirect hypnosis,” a permissive style of trance induction based on subtly persuasive language patterns. His approach was based on the understanding that hypnotherapy must be meaningful to the individual in order to be successful - an approach that is still used in the 21st century.

Hypnosis during pregnancy

Pregnancy is not included in the list of contraindications to hypnosis, but most experts still recommend that expectant mothers, even if they are completely healthy, refuse to undergo this procedure, especially in the first trimester.

During the gestational period, a woman is responsible not only for her own health, but also for the development of the baby. Since hypnotherapy, especially when working with psychological trauma, is often accompanied by negative emotions, this can lead to extremely unpleasant consequences, including miscarriage.

Sometimes hypnosis, if there are no other contraindications, is still prescribed to a pregnant woman by a therapist. In such individual cases, the potential benefit is considered to be greater than the risk. For example, the method of suggestion can be used as psychological support when the patient experiences a strong fear of the upcoming birth, or fear of not being able to bear a healthy child.

Hypnotherapy training

Hypnosis is taught in medical schools.

The following are accepted for training in hypnotherapy with the right to further practice:

• specialists with higher education in the field of psychology;
• doctors of other fields who have received additional (second) higher psychological education;
• psychiatrists;
• psychotherapists.

Training is conducted by qualified medical psychologists and hypnotherapists. The program consists of a large theoretical block and practical exercises. Students practice using hypnosis techniques.

Based on the results of the training, the specialist receives an official document on advanced training, which allows the doctor to immediately begin practicing as a hyptotherapist.

Books on hypnotherapy:

Elman Dave - “Hypnotherapy” (download)

Buhl P.I. — “Techniques of hypnosis and suggestion” (download)

Antonov Alexander - “Hypnosis. Hypnotherapy techniques in consulting practice" (download)

Treating allergies with hypnosis

Allergy symptoms appear when the brain perceives a certain taste or smell as potentially dangerous to the body and “turns on” a protective reaction. Therefore, we can say that this pathology is mental in nature.

Official medicine considers allergies to be an incurable disease, however, in practice, there have been cases of complete recovery of clients with the help of hypnosis. Important conditions for achieving high performance are:

• age under 60 years;
• clear motivation for healing;
• absence of brain pathologies;
• the disorder is not associated with intoxication or organ diseases.

Contraindications

In some situations, hypnotherapy can be harmful rather than beneficial to a person. The main contraindications for the use of this method are mental disorders, as well as alcohol intoxication. In addition, other contraindications for the use of hypnotherapy include:

1. Functional failure of cardiac activity.
2. Bronchial asthma.
3. Affective insanity.
4. Mental retardation and other intellectual disorders.
5. Any injuries to the musculoskeletal system that are accompanied by limitation of motor activity.
6. Drug intoxication.
7. Tendency to develop convulsive or epileptic seizures.

In some situations, hypnotherapy may be contraindicated for a patient while taking antidepressants, tranquilizers or antipsychotics.

If symptoms such as fever, general malaise, urinary disorders, vomiting and diarrhea occur, discontinuation of hypnotherapy sessions is considered.

Hypnosis and suggestion: 10 interesting facts

The word “hypnosis” is translated from Greek as “sleep,” but it cannot be compared with the state that most people experience every day at night. The subcortex and consciousness at this time are not in a relaxed state, but, on the contrary, are activated in some narrow direction. They focus only on the words of the hypnologist, who can instill in his client the necessary information and give instructions.

The phenomenon of hypnosis is unique in its kind, many even consider it something supernatural. This opinion is erroneous, because there are a huge number of scientific works on this topic. Various discussions and disputes are fueled by interesting facts discovered during the practical application of the method.

1. The maximum effect of hypnosis is achieved in the most suggestible patients, while an excessively high threshold of suggestibility can give the exact opposite result.
2. There is such a thing as “self-hypnosis” - a phenomenon in which an individual, having some knowledge, can independently influence his subconscious and achieve the same effect as when suggested by a hypnologist. By the way, a person can involuntarily fall into a state of hypnosis for a short period of time in one day in order to relieve the psyche from overstrain.
3. The positive effects of hypnosis on the human psyche were discovered more than three thousand years ago; the method of suggestion was used by the ancient Romans, Indians and Greeks, and Tibetan shamans for various purposes.
4. At the beginning of the 19th century, the method of suggestion was very popular to alleviate the condition of the sick and wounded and was called “anaesthesia by hypnosis.” In the modern world, the range of applications of hypnosis is much wider.
5. A hypnologist does not have complete power over a person’s subconscious; in fact, he is simply a good psychologist. The client would rather faint than carry out a suggested attitude that contradicts his moral principles. Any decision made by a person in a state of trance has already been made in advance, and the specialist seems to give confidence that it is correct and the only possible one.
6. A person remembers perfectly what happened to him during a hypnosis session, unless there was a suggestion to forget everything. This setting for erasing memory can be given by a hypnologist or the patient himself.
7. Many stars of Western show business turned to hypnosis specialists. For example, Drew Barrymore decided to use this method to get rid of drug addiction, and Fergie - from alcohol addiction. Carmen Electra and Britney Spears include a visit to a hypnologist as a must on their list of important monthly to-dos.
8. If a person lacks motivation and desire, the hypnologist will not be able to influence his consciousness and subcortex against his will.
9. In a large crowd, suggestibility is much higher than one-on-one between a patient and a therapist, so individual sessions for a hypnologist are much more difficult than public ones.
10. When scientists at Stanford University studied the human brain in a state of hypnosis, modern technical devices were used. It was found that during the session the activity of the zone that is responsible for external stimuli decreases. At the same time, the structures responsible for controlling the internal state of the body begin to activate.

Harm or benefit of hypnosis for humans

The benefits of hypnotherapy and the hypnotic state for humans

Currently, hypnosis is increasingly gaining popularity among specialists and ordinary people.
People turn to hypnologists for a variety of reasons. The most common situations for the use of hypnosis are various neuroses, phobias, fears, depression, skin diseases, allergies, OCD, IBS, VSD, digestive, sexual disorders, correction of human behavioral reactions, low self-esteem, complexes, bad habits. Moreover, in these cases, hypnotherapy remains the only effective method, since it is aimed at ridding the patient of the causes of his disease, while all other methods, including pharmaceutical ones, claim only to temporarily relieve symptoms. At the same time, there is still an underestimation by doctors of the role of psychotraumatic factors in the occurrence of various disorders of the functions of internal organs and systems, as well as stereotyped ideas that often force one to look for the organic nature of the disease where it is actually functional (psychogenic, conditioned reflex). Hypnosis is, first of all, a tool in the hands of a hypnotherapist, with the help of which there is a unique opportunity to get to the causes of various pathologies, both in the mental sphere (emotions, feelings, thinking), and in the somatic and physiological, caused by a psychogenic factor. This can be compared to an excellent surgeon who cannot perform an operation without surgical instruments and equipment.

The word in hypnosis turns out to be an extremely powerful healing factor, producing a direct and immediate effect on the nature and dynamics of cortical processes. This opens a direct path to eliminating pathological processes and mobilizing the necessary internal resources of the human body.

Therefore, hypnotherapy is the only method of psychological assistance to a person that allows one to eliminate the cause of the disease for life, and not its symptom. The reason for this is the memory of the destructive event, which is stored at the molecular level in a memory engram. Not drug treatment, not conversations with a psychologist, psychotherapist, not the struggle of one’s own consciousness, not alcohol, not drugs, not a brick falling on one’s head, will not allow one to change the enzymatic order of the macromolecule, the memory in which all the emotional and physiological reaction of the body to something is collected an event or situation in a past life experience. Therefore, other methods are ineffective and are aimed at the eternal fight only against symptoms.

Meanwhile, while there is a fight against windmills, and an unnecessary waste of time and money, the patient’s psycho-vegetative failure does not stand still and is generalized, synthesizing with human life, acquiring new, more heterogeneous feelings and reactions of the body. The range of objects and situations in which a person begins to feel fear or anxiety is expanding, somatic and physiological dysfunction of the body is generalized, a feeling of loneliness, insecurity, a feeling of uselessness, a feeling of low self-esteem, a feeling that no one loves, depression and exhaustion of the nervous system appear, The tone of the cerebral cortex decreases, irritability increases. And this is the law of neurophysiology! The Law of Human Development! Any aberration in the conditioned reflex connection of an event will certainly lead to further pathogenesis according to the law of the formation of new connections, through the extraction of destructive associations and stereotypes from memory.

In the light of the doctrine of the unity of the psyche and somatics, any somatic disease is inextricably linked with a greater or lesser disruption of the functional state of the patient’s higher nervous activity. With the help of hypnosis, you can successfully fight not only many neuropsychiatric diseases, but also diseases of the internal organs. This is especially true for disorders of neurohumoral and psychosomatic regulation. Even during the life of I.P. Pavlov, his student K.M. Bykov experimentally proved the possibility of conditioned reflex connections of the cerebral cortex with all internal organs and systems. In the laboratories of Bykov (1947), the possibility of forming a temporary connection through humoral pathways with denervated organs (kidneys, spleen, pancreas) was also proven. This means that the endocrine glands are involved in the conditioned reaction, the hormones of which in turn exert an effect through the blood on the entire organ system.

Thus, the entire internal environment is to a certain extent subject to the influence of the cerebral cortex, impulses from which can affect the state of any internal organ and any system. Because of this and thanks to temporary connections, the cerebral cortex carries out a close relationship between the external and internal environment of the body.

Therefore, hypnotherapy is the only method of psychological assistance to a person that allows one to eliminate the cause of the disease, and not its symptom, having a direct and immediate impact on the nature and dynamics of cortical processes, mobilizing the necessary internal resources of the human body.

In Europe, the USA, and Japan, this therapeutic approach works effectively for 60–70% of cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, bronchopulmonary, endocrine, skin, and other diseases. Traditionally, Health gives an exceptionally good and stable effect in diseases that are based on psychological stress, behavioral corrections, stress, internal mental conflicts, phobias, and depression. It can also be pain in the joints, spine, gastrointestinal ulcers, colitis, IBS, disruption of the female cycle, cardiac arrhythmias, allergies, neurodermatitis, diabetes, thyroid dysfunction, food addiction disorder, sexual addiction, OCD, addiction, etc. .

It should be noted that the method of hypnotherapy is effective not only in cases of psychogenic functional disorders of higher nervous activity and in psychogenic disorders of the functions of various organs and systems, but also in organic diseases (as an adjuvant). At different times, many laboratories carried out research to help the physiological substantiation of hypnotherapy, and with it psychoprophylaxis (A. G. Ivanov-Smolensky, N. I. Krasnogorsky, S. N. Davidenkov, F. P. Mayorov, B N. Birman, L. B. Gakkel, V. N. Myasishchev, Yu. A. Povorinsky, V. E. Rozhnov, etc.).

Today, more and more people are talking about the benefits of therapeutic hypnotherapy and the hypnotic state itself. But the question arises, what exactly is the benefit of this hypnotic state itself?

To date, scientists have conducted more than 3,000 studies on the effects of therapeutic hypnotherapy on humans.

They have proven that regular sessions of therapeutic hypnotherapy lead to:

• Restoring homeostasis of the body.
• Restoration of compensatory functions of the body.
• Restoration of a person’s mental activity, with all the integrated complex of emotional internal and external alarms.
• An increase in dopamine and serotonin in the body.
• Restoring concentration and mental abilities.
• Restoring the general tone of active life.
• Stress resistance.
• Improved mood.
• Restores sleep.

The first results after therapeutic hypnotherapy appear after the first session.

1. Therapeutic hypnotherapy improves your sleep.
   Scientists from the University of Minnesota have concluded that regular therapeutic hypnotherapy promotes stronger and healthier sleep, and the body recovers better during the night, helping to detach from everyday problems, thoughts about which often prevent you from falling asleep quickly. The level of cortisol, a stress hormone that interferes with proper rest, also decreases.
2. Therapeutic hypnotherapy improves your ability to concentrate.
   Therapeutic hypnotherapy improves the ability to maintain attention for a long time and helps control neuropsychic agitation. One study led by Fadel Zeidan, a cognitive neuroscientist at Wake Forest School of Medicine, found that people who completed four sessions of relaxation therapy performed significantly better on a cognitive test. They were better able to ignore the time allotted for the test, which helped them focus on the task at hand.
3. Therapeutic hypnotherapy will reduce anxiety and stress.
   Recent research shows that therapeutic hypnotherapy can actually reduce cortisol levels, and Zeidan's research showed that anxiety decreased by 39%
4. Therapeutic hypnotherapy will make you less susceptible to mood swings.
   Many of us automatically interpret events and words in a negative way and assume the worst about ourselves and others. This can cause depression, which therapeutic hypnotherapy can help overcome. It helps us to be distrustful of thoughts that arise purely automatically, without our conscious participation. This means you focus on reality rather than speculation.
5. Therapeutic hypnotherapy changes your sex life for the better.
   Therapeutic hypnotherapy strengthens connections and increases the size of an area of ​​the brain medically called the anterior insula, says Marsha Lucas, Ph.D., a neuropsychologist in Washington, D.C., who has conducted research in this area.
6. Therapeutic hypnotherapy will help you recover faster and live longer.
   A study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that those who attended twice-weekly hypnotherapy sessions for 8 weeks had far fewer cases of influenza and severe infections than those who did not attend. Dr. Daniel Müller, who conducted the study, explains this by saying that therapeutic relaxation helps restore homeostatic balance, that is, the body strives for an ideal balance between the environment and its needs. According to a recent study from the University of California, San Francisco, it may even help us live longer because DNA will be better protected from degradation.

Hypnosis helps in achieving athletic performance.

With the help of hypnosis, you can solve both general problems (for example, motivation) and specific tasks (for example, preparation for passing a specific route or for a fight with a specific opponent, etc., etc.) Today, this is possible carried out using hypnotherapy.

Hypnotherapy also helps in developing the right hemisphere. For some sports, increased activity of the right hemisphere is preferable. For example, for successful hand-to-hand combat, boxing, karate, wrestling, etc. a person needs to activate and strengthen the functions of the right hemisphere and weaken and slow down the activity of the left, since it is the right hemisphere that is responsible for spatial orientation, coordination and speed of movements. Externally, this is expressed in the acceleration of the body's responses. The fact is that at the verbal (abstract-logical) level, human thinking manages to process no more than 100 units of information per second, while at the figurative and sensorimotor (motor) levels - up to 10 million units! Thanks to this, the “mind of the body,” freed from the “chains of the mind,” almost instantly triggers the motor reaction necessary in the situation. This is why masters of hand-to-hand combat actually repel attacks and counterattack before they even know it.

Hypnotherapy allows the athlete to mentally perform an element of sports technique at the level of imagination, to work out the connections between the brain and muscles that should be involved in this case. Only by fixing a unique psychomotor complex in his mind can an athlete be able to implement it “in physics” immediately without flaws. This way, he practices the movement correctly, and his technique reaches a new level.

Hypnotherapy will allow you to relax your muscles, recover faster after training, eliminate microtraumas and normalize muscle trophism, acquire additional vitality, and more thoroughly assimilate the skills and abilities being trained. Hypnotherapy allows you to find and eliminate psychotraumas, some of which were received in early childhood, and get rid of fears, self-doubt, low self-esteem, anxiety, and jitters. The psyche of every person is, to a greater or lesser extent, clogged with fears, phobias, and anxieties.

The goals and objectives solved in sports with the help of hypnosis are very wide - from issues of motivation, emotional and psychological mood, searching for the elimination of psychological trauma and increasing physical fitness, to practicing specific skills and abilities.

Goals and objectives solved in sports with the help of hypnosis:

• Emotional and psychological mood
• Relaxation and restoration of the body
• Restoration of muscle trophism
• Stress resistance
• Improved focus and mental performance
• Elimination of psychotraumas
• Increased activity of the right hemisphere
• Increasing general physical fitness

Benefits of hypnotherapy for thinking.

Recent magnetic resonance imaging studies show that during hypnotherapy a person's temporal lobes and areas of the brain associated with attention are highly activated. After a course of hypnotherapy, an increase in gamma waves is also detected on the electroencephalogram.

• Improves brain function
• Improves concentration
• Improves sleep
• Intuitive abilities develop
• Analytical and logical thinking improves
• Improved performance
• Makes complex things easier to understand
• Information processing speeds up
• Organization of thinking improves
• Memory improves by 25%
• Gain clarity and peace of mind
• Improved learning ability
• Creative abilities improve

Benefit for health.

• Benefit for health.
• Reduces the risk of heart attacks and heart disease
• Reduced blood sugar in diabetes
• Reduces lactic acid levels in the blood
• Improves sleep and cures insomnia
• Removes headaches and other pains in the body
• Strengthens the immune system
• Reduces the need for alcohol and cigarettes
• Relaxes muscle tension, promotes rapid recovery after exercise
• Improved vitality and adaptability
• Allows you to keep your body and mind in good shape
• Restores the nervous system
• Improves the coherence of all organs and systems of the body
• Reduces irritability
• Reduces restlessness, anxiety
• Increases the duration of youth and life

Benefits for your emotional state.

• Increases resistance to stress
• Decreases irritability and anxiety
• Increased emotional stability
• Self-confidence grows
• Helps get rid of depression
• Increased self-control over emotions
• Relieves anxiety
• Achieving internal balance

Are there possible side effects from hypnosis?

According to experts, to date no such facts have been identified. Research at different times was carried out by such prominent and authoritative scientists as: V. M. Bekhterev, I. P. Pavlov, S. S. Libikh (1974), A. I. Zakharov (1982), A. A. Tokarsky (1989) , M. S. Lebedinsky, A. T. Pshonik (1952), L. L. Vasilyev, I. P. Bryazgunov (1970) L. Chertok (1972), V. I. Sukhorukova (1977), P. K. Anokhin, N. E. Vvedensky (1911-1913), N. I. Krasnogorsky, V. M. Shklovsky (1975, 1994), V. N. Myasishchev, Yu. A. Povorinsky (1950), S. N. Davidenkov , K. M. Varshavsky (1973), S. S. Korsakov, K. M. Bykov, A. M. Svyadosch (1982), V. Ya. Danilevsky, B. N. Birman (1922,1925, 1946), L. B. Gakkel (1955), D. Ya. Vengerovsky (1955), I. Z. Velvovsky (1984), A. L. Groysman, K. I. Platonov (1957), S. L. Rubinstein, V. E. Rozhnov, A. A. Ukhtomsky, I. M. Sechenov, A. M. Svyadosch, A. P. Slobodyanik, E. S. Katkov, M. P. Kutanii, V. V. Kuzmin, P. P. Podyapolsky, E. N. Dovbnya, F. E. Rybakov, V. N. Khoroshko, A. I. Yarotsky, A. F. Lazursky, Yu. V. Kannabikh, V. M. Narbut, F. D. Netkachev, V. A. Gilyarovsky, M. V. Strelchuk, G. V. Morozov, V. M. Banshchikov, N.V. Ivanov, N.K. Lipgart, A.G. Ivanov-Smolensky, etc. Scientists have proven that the human psyche self-regulates during a therapeutic trance, its internal reserves are mobilized, the body’s defenses are activated (compensatory ), the body’s homeostasis returns to normal, and therefore there is no danger to the patient’s mental and physiological health.

The most famous scientists exclude the possibility of the danger of hypnosis.

Dr. Liebeau of Nancy, the founder of the doctrine of hypnosis as a method of therapy, wrote: “Many years of experience in the use of hypnotic suggestion gives me reason to assert that it, if used correctly, is much more effective than medical treatment. Unlike drug treatment, it is safe, its effect is quick and pleasant.”

Professor Brüggelmann from Paderborn: “To the question whether hypnosis can be dangerous, I must answer briefly - no.”

Dr. Mohl adds: “The cardinal issue is whether properly performed hypnotic suggestion poses a health hazard. The answer to this question is no.”

Dr. Ringier of Zurich: “I can only repeat what I have said many times, namely: I have never, in any case, encountered the harmful effects of hypnosis.”

Director Dr. Scholz from Bremen: “I have never heard any complaints about the harmful effects of hypnosis occurring in practice. These are just theoretical constructions of opponents of hypnotic methods.”

Professor Mobius: “Of course, there are doctors who are prejudiced against hypnosis, but these are precisely those people who have no personal experience in this area and who limit themselves to false conclusions.”

Professor Sutherland from Massachusetts: “How can doctors talk about dangers who themselves are not knowledgeable in hypnosis. Show them to me, and I will instill in them so that they never again stutter about the dangers of indoctrination.”

Dr. Otto Wetterstrand: “I predict a great future for hypnosis and can only join the opinion expressed by Professor I. Bernheim in his epoch-making work on suggestion, namely: suggestive therapy is one of the most valuable achievements of modern medicine.”

Be healthy and take care of yourself!

Hypnosis in psychosomatic medicine

According to statistics, from 15 to 50% of the population of our country suffers from various psychosomatic disorders. In a healthy person, the psyche is part of the whole organism. Its task is to regulate autonomous recovery processes from damaging agents. When the natural process of self-regulation is disrupted, symptoms of a psychosomatic disorder appear and the person needs psychotherapy.

In other words, the root cause of psychosomatic pathology is mental factors. Repressed emotions do not disappear, but go out of consciousness into the subconscious, they gradually accumulate, and then “pour out” on the physical level in the form of all kinds of sores. In this case, patients often complain of pain and other symptoms, however, the problem cannot be identified clinically.

Vegetative-vascular dystonia, asthma, insomnia, stuttering are only a small part of psychosomatic diseases. The main difficulty lies in diagnosing the nature of the pathology. If the specialist nevertheless manages to draw a parallel between the manifested physical symptoms and mental disorder, the patient is prescribed treatment using various methods of psychotherapy, including hypnosis sessions.

The hypnologist’s task consists of the following tasks step by step:

1. Identify the cause of the disorder hidden in the subconscious.
2. Eliminate the influence of these reasons on the psyche (negative attitudes are replaced with positive ones).
3. Activate the patient’s own internal reserves.

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As a child, I was fascinated by scary stories, which often featured stories about people falling asleep in a lethargic sleep. Does this happen in real life?

Tatyana, Magadan region.

Psychotherapist Igor Dyatlov answers:

- Happens. But quite rarely. Over the past 20–30 years, new classes of drugs have emerged that have revolutionized the field of neurology and psychiatry. Documented cases of true lethargy can be counted on one hand. If we talk about this phenomenon today, it’s more about its hysterical variety - psychogenic lethargy, which occurs in people who are overly emotional, suggestible and sensitive as a defensive reaction to severe stress. Unlike true lethargy, hysterical sleep, as a rule, does not last more than two or three days. At the same time, a person who has disconnected from communication with the outside world comes to his senses from time to time (for physiological functions), and then falls into oblivion again. And just as unexpectedly it can come out of it.

Conditions after hypnotherapy: on what day are changes felt?

As for the effect, with normal hypnotizability, in some cases it is felt immediately after leaving the hypnotic state. Clients with serious pathologies require repeated sessions. In addition, the person being hypnotized must desire to achieve a positive result and follow all recommendations as part of complex therapy.

It is difficult to answer the question of how long it will take to see the effect of hypnotherapy, because each person and each case is individual. If hypnotherapy is carried out correctly and in the required volume, then when analyzing the results it can be noted that after a certain period they do not weaken, but, on the contrary, intensify.

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Talking look

Is it possible to tell by the eyes what a person is feeling?

Andrey, Izhevsk

Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Director of the Moscow Psychoendocrinological Research Center Stepan Matevosyan answers:

– The eyes have long been considered the mirror of the soul and the key to unraveling emotions. If you have doubts about what a person is telling you, you can ask him to look you in the eye. Many experienced poker players claim that they can spot a bluff in the eyes of their opponents. Psychologists believe that in such a situation, our pupils give us away the most. Specifically, excitement, interest, or attention activates the sympathetic nervous system and causes the pupils to dilate. Pupil dilation can occur during both pleasant and unpleasant emotions. Despite this fact, most people still interpret large pupils as a positive sign, and constricted pupils as a negative sign.

Leading expert opinion

Dr. Andrew Weil is a leading expert in the field of integrative medicine. The safety and effectiveness of this therapy method has been clinically proven. According to him, further study of this aspect can bring many benefits for medicine. Previously, hypnosis was not widely studied and was perceived by the general public, rather, as a charlatan method of influencing suggestible patients. In addition, the research community was in no hurry to study the problem and debunk the stereotypes that were well-established among the people. However, Dr. Weil, in his direct work with patients, was able to discern the advantages of this method. Patients with stress-related skin conditions, smokers, and patients suffering from autoimmune diseases experienced the greatest benefit from hypnosis.

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