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The Art and Science of Emotional Healing #1 — Waking Ericksonian Hypnosis
For an introduction to the entire series of my Medium.com articles about mental and emotional healing please read this post — Why You Suffer Mentally and Emotionally and Tips to Free Yourself — https://lewiscoaches.medium.com/why-you-suffer-mentally-and-emotionally-and-tips-to-free-yourself-d6292000a219
One of the most powerful and least invasive approaches to mental and emotional healing is creative visualization and hypnosis. Hypnosis a therapeutic technique based on the human capability to intensely focus attention, reduced peripheral awareness, and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestions. In spite of some ancient myths, it is impossible to hypnotize anything to do what they do not wish to do.
For over a century, people have assumed from films, television, shows and, and old school stage performers, (see above photo) that a person needs to be “put under” into a deep state of trance to be hypnotized. This however is not the case. In recent years a new technique, called “waking hypnosis” or Ericksonian Hypnosis has become quite popular. Ericksonian hypnotherapy (or indirect, metaphorical hypnosis) is the term used to…
