Hypnosis can be a fantastic tool for helping you build a business. And it has other uses on the job, so to speak.
The procedure for using hypnosis to achieve your goals in business is well described in the classic Think & Grow Rich (not that the author ever calls it hypnosis!).
You make yourself comfortable in your favourite chair, let yourself relax, and picture your goal. That could be seeing yourself in front of your successful shop, or receiving an award as Best Businessperson of the Year, or owning a mountain of cash. . .whatever your business goal may be.
You may wish to use some kind of induction to more formally enter hypnosis. In that case, learn about the various inductions either from a hypnotherapist, or from a good book, like my Health and Happiness with Hypnosis . [Or my ebook, "Self-Hypnosis: Safe, Simple, Superb" ] Repeated practice of this creative visualization will send a powerful message to your subconscious. That, in turn, will help you be open to opportunities, energy, and motivation to achieve your aims.
Remember, whatever your mind can conceive, and believe, you can achieve.
This is the key to hypnotic benefits in other aspects of work. Hypnosis is an ideal technique for enhancing skills, building motivation, tapping creativity and relieving stress.
It is also useful in the resolution of personal problems that interfere with work performance. Personal troubles often spill over into the workplace, resulting in lower productivity and higher absenteeism.
Although not a panacea, hypnosis can be used with people of all ages and with a myriad of problems such as phobias, anxiety, insomnia, alcoholism, depression, eating disorders and sexual dysfunctions.
Hypnosis is natural and safe. In hypnosis you are not asleep. Neither are you unconscious. It's what you experience, for instance, when so engrossed in writing your business plan or visualizing your company's expansion, that nothing around you can disturb your concentration.
Hypnosis is not something one person "does" to another. It is a built-in ability of your brain. One theory is that hypnosis taps into the resources of your brain's right hemisphere. In contrast to the left brain's logical, rational emphasis, the right brain teems with images, intuition and creativity. Usually most of the right brain's activity is outside of your conscious awareness. But it has a deep influence on your behaviour and feelings. With hypnosis you can use this power to the full by harnessing your imagination to achieve your personal and professional goals.
President or typist, you can use hypnosis to enjoy your work more. For example, a swift session of self-hypnosis will drain stress and refresh you. This is particularly helpful in boring, bustling or bureaucratic workplaces.
Potential conflicts with clients, colleagues or superiors can be reframed as win-win dialogues by rehearsing effective, low-anxiety approaches in hypnosis.
Other uses of hypnosis in business include:
- preparation for exams
- conquering the fear of public speaking
- enhancing the learning of a language
- overcoming shyness
- ending procrastination
- learning to fly without fear
- conceiving fresh ideas
- developing the motivation to make cold calls
- strengthening the determination to achieve sales-targets.
On its own, hypnotherapy is often enough to resolve a problem. Frequently, though, hypnosis is used as a pleasant, efficient way to speed up regular psychotherapy.
In a very real sense all hypnosis is self-hypnosis. Many of us are adept at negative self-hypnosis (NSH). These are the thoughts with which we constantly belittle ourselves:
"I'm bound to fail"
"I'm not good enough"
"I'm too short [or tall, or fat, or thin]"
"I'm stupid"
"I'm a klutz"
"People don't like me"
"It won't work out"
and the classic:
"I can't ...."
Successful businesspersons use PSH: Positive Self-Hypnosis:
"I can do it"
"I'm competent"
"I'm a good person"
"I deserve the best"
"I know what I'm doing"
"I will achieve what I'm working for"
and the essential,
"I can."
Reaching the subconscious with PSH is what counts. You can go about this in four main ways:
- Being hypnotized by a therapist and accepting a post-hypnotic suggestion about later going into hypnosis on your own,
- Listening to a CD or audiotape of your own or someone else's voice,
- Relaxing and using pre-hypnotic suggestions.
Nothing is more powerful than imagination harnessed to effort. Create that engine of profit by putting hypnosis to work.
Dr. Knight specializes in helping people conquer phobias, banish panic, lower anxiety and proof themselves against stress.
Bryan M. Knight, MSW, PhD., holds a degree in psychology from Sir George Williams University, a Master's in social work from McGill University and a doctorate in counselling from Columbia Pacific University for his dissertation, Professional Love: The Hypnotic Power of Psychotherapy
