What is Hypnosis and how can it help you?

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• Remember, "Hypnosis, Meditation, Imagery, Visualization, and Yoga are all forms of self-hypnosis." A rose by any other name is still a rose.
• Hypnosis is in no way a new practice. Hypnosis can be dated as far back as 1000 B.C., to stone carvings found in sleep temples, where high priests put their worshippers to “sleep,” and then gave them the “suggestion” that, while they slept, some god would come to them and they would be healed. Then the worshippers would be healed, just by the suggestion of the priests! Hypnosis techniques continued to be used throughout the next centuries. In the late 1700s, an Austrian physician by the name of Dr. Franz Anton became one of the most famous practitioners of hypnosis. Modern hypnosis is believed to have begun with him. The term “hypnosis” was first introduced by Dr. James Braid. In the 1800s, Dr. Braid, along with two other physicians, performed many surgeries using only hypnosis for anesthesia. Hypnosis was used during both World War II and the Korean War in the treatment of battle fatigue for pain control. Today hypnosis is still used by doctors and dentists as an aid for pain control. Hypnosis is not a new practice, although hypnosis is still a highly misunderstood practice. The most common misconception about hypnosis is that people believe it will put them into a sleep-like trance, taking away their control. The controversy surrounding hypnosis comes largely from religious circles, who believe that by giving up your control during hypnosis, such as allowing yourself to be put into a sleep-like trance, you are allowing the devil to take control. Some religions even outright claim hypnosis to be the work of the devil. Although the word hypnosis itself comes from the Greek word hypnosis, which means sleep, hypnosis itself is not a state of sleep. Hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness in which a person is guided by suggestions. Hypnosis occurs during the alpha state of brain activity, which is when our brain activity slows and in which we experience deep relaxation, producing hypnosis. When hypnotized, you are not unconscious, but within an altered state of consciousness—in other words, you are not out of control. We hypnotize ourselves every day, moving in and out of altered states of consciousness, without even thinking about it. Like when you catch yourself daydreaming. Or when you doze off before actually going into a deep sleep. When hypnotized, you are in an altered state of consciousness, and your subconscious mind is in charge. Your conscious mind is still there and you are still in control, but if you are willing, you can receive suggestions that will help you. All hypnosis is self-hypnosis. The only way you can be hypnotized is if you are willing to be. What makes these hypnosis and meditation downloads work for a person's inner healing is they are based on Christian hypnosis and meditation. If you are a Christian searching for self-help hypnosis and meditation downloads, these are the ones for you. 

•  Meditation is a way to quiet your body, heart, and mind, and is an invaluable way to de-stress your life and yourself. Meditation can improve your physical self by recharging your body, improve your spiritual self by bringing you closer to God, and improve your mental self by clearing your thoughts and mind. Meditation is just as important as any of the other things you do as part of your “quiet time”—prayer, self-hypnosis, relaxation—anything you do to shut out the outside world and take time for yourself. There is nothing wrong with putting as much energy into yourself as you put into others. Unless you take the time to recharge yourself, such as through meditation, you will not have the energy you need to help others. Meditation is also as important as the other things you do as part of your normal daily routine—taking a bath or shower, brushing your teeth, getting dressed, going to work, eating, etc.—these are all things you do to take care of your body, or your outer self. Meditation is used to take care of your inner self. With a more peaceful inner self, your outer self will perform better. Meditation should be part of your personal time. Not personal time in the sense of your usual personal time; i.e., relaxing with a book, watching television or a movie, talking on the telephone, visiting with friends, etc. These are enjoyable, but they are still outside distractions. These things still do nothing to benefit your inner or spiritual growth and well-being, while meditation will. During meditation, you can get in touch with that part of yourself that you unconsciously suppress—your true nature. Meditation helps you to find the truth you’ve been seeking, answers to your questions, and solutions to your problems. It is through meditation that you can experience true peace and love, and feel closer to God. Through meditation, you learn to release negative thoughts and emotions that rage within you and keep you from losing the simple ability to just be still. Psalm 46:10 says, “Be still and know that I am God.” How can you know that He is God if you can’t be still? Meditation not only allows you to be physically still but mentally still as well. When your mind is quiet, you are open to receiving God’s healing grace. That healing grace is always there, but it cannot come into a cluttered mind, while meditation helps to un-clutter those thoughts. Meditation is invaluable in tuning out the world and tuning in to the spirit, to God. Like being able to tune into that one radio station you’re looking for through the static of all the other competing stations. Meditation is to the soul as rain is to dry earth—refreshing, renewing, restoring. You may need to make time in your busy schedule, but it will make all the difference in your inner spiritual growth and well-being; in finding true peace and love; in finding the healing, strengthening grace that God can give you. And finding that peace, love, and grace is worth making the time for meditation. In meditation, we are not thinking or imagining God at all. In Meditation we seek to do something immeasurably greater; we seek to be with God, to be with Jesus, to be with His holy spirit. In meditation, we go beyond thoughts, even holy thoughts. Meditation is concerned not with thinking but with being. Our aim in Christian prayer and meditation is to allow God's mysterious and silent presence within us to become the reality that gives meaning, shape, and purpose to everything we do, and to everything we are. The task of meditation, therefore, is to bring our distracted mind to stillness, silence, and attention. In the Bible, Psalms 46:10 says: Be still, and know that I am God:: Meditation is being Still. That is what makes these hypnosis and meditation downloads work for a person's inner healing they are based on Christian hypnosis.

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