Trance-Formed. Changing Your Life With Hypnosis
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This is a simple and no nonsense guide to what hypnosis is and what it isn't. Included are some practical exercises including how to use self hypnosis techniques. Written by Benjamin E. Kelly, qualified and practicing hypnotherapist it serves as a summary of some of the latest thinking in the psychology and science of hypnosis. With a foreword by consultant neurologist Rod Mackenzie MD this work is accurate and helpful for those wishing to change virtually any aspect of their life. A bonus chapter on therapy options in Australia is included in this edition.
Benjamin Kelly
Benjamin Kelly is a qualified hypnotherapist, psychotherapist and registered nurse. He currently operates a busy hypnosis and life coaching practice in Sydney. His personal interest include running, SCUBA, rock climbing and staying as active as possible in both his professional and personal life. Ben is committed to lifelong learning and reads more than he writes!
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Trance-Formed. Changing Your Life With Hypnosis - Benjamin Kelly
TRANCE-FORMED
CHANGING YOUR LIFE WITH HYPNOSIS
– Benjamin Kelly (Clinical Hypnotherapist)
with a Foreword by Dr. R. Mackenzie (Consultant Neurologist).
Copyright © Benjamin Kelly and Parramatta Hypnotherapy 2012.
Smashwords Edition
Except as provided by the Copyright Act 1968, no part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher. All Rights Reserved.
www.hypnosisparramatta.com.au
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1. Change
Chapter 2. Hypnosis
A Brief History Of Hypnosis
What is Trance?
What About Stage Hypnosis?
Chapter 3. The Brain And The Mind
Chevreul's Pendulum
Chapter 4. Using Trance to Facilitate Change
When can self hypnosis be used?
Reprogramming the Subconscious
4 Key Factors Of Subconscious Change
Chapter 5. The Feelings-Thoughts-Behaviour Chain
Feeling Replacement
Thought Replacement
Behaviour Replacement
Chapter 6. Creating Your Self Hypnosis Experience
The Practicalities
The Steps
Chapter 7. Getting Help
Case History
Foreword
I first encountered hypnosis during my university medical training. I read that hypnosis is a legitimate technique and that the hypnotic state, or trance, exists somewhere between alertness and unconsciousness.
Later, Ben showed me Dave Elman’s book Hypnotherapy
and I became more comfortable with his concept of hypnosis as simply an alteration in the state of mind, or altered mind-set. This is consistent with the fact that people can remember what happens during hypnosis (unless they fall asleep!) and also that people cannot be persuaded to perform acts unless they really want to do so.
Armed with this new knowledge, I embarked on my own journey into hypnotherapy, which is described in my Case History at the end of this book.
One thing this book helped crystallize in my understanding of how the brain works was the concept of subconscious
- I had always rejected this term as meaningless and unnecessary, being equivalent to, and replaceable, by unconscious. However, reading this tome led me to realise that we need this extra level between conscious and unconscious to explain phenomena such as being able to perform automatically, without consciously remembering, acts in our everyday experience such as dressing, cleaning our teeth and putting things away in their usual place - things we have difficulty recalling having done when asked, yet were done in full consciousness.
Even our ability to carry out complex actions such as driving a car need input from a memory bank that is being continuously tapped - a source that must be closer to consciousness and more easily accessed than an amorphous unconscious
. It is also a much more satisfactory (or perhaps the only) way to explain the phenomenon of post hypnotic suggestion - the compulsion to perform an act that has been stored in the brain, which is then subsequently unconsciously triggered by a preset stimulus. This post hypnotic suggestion can result in performance of a task that can be remembered afterwards but which is not fully explainable by the ‘subject’.
I commend Ben’s book to you as providing a lucid explanation of hypnosis and hypnotherapy, and I hope it