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Sunday, 15 June 2014

Online Hypnotherapy & Past Life Regression



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Can you experience real hypnosis online?

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Back in 2013 I did a past life regression online with Maria, a friend I have in Alaska, via Skype. Before this, I would never have suggested hypnotherapy or past life regression online, because I thought it would be difficult to get hypnotized and connect with the experience, but because she is a friend I agreed to do the regression. Her experience was one of the most genuine I have ever seen.
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Using a Skype video call, she went into hypnosis, did the arm-raising, met her guide, and regressed to four of her past lives that answered her questions and clarified the decisions she was struggling to make about how to move forward in her life.
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"Thank you, I have been shifting through strong emotions quicker than usual, which I know from my practice is an indication that some strong response is on its way out. Since the session I have had therapeutic pulse (When emotional experiences gets released from the physical tissue) at my back, left solar plexus area."
Maria
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To understand how it is possible to experience real hypnosis via an online video call, let's define what hypnosis really is:

  • The brain functions in deeper states of consciousness - Alpha or Theta state - slower than conscious thought
  • The linguistic phrasing of hypnotic suggestions is delivered in such a way as to sound agreeable, and avoid raising any argument
  • The hypnotic state of receptivity can be accentuated with the correct use of techniques such as binaural beats and isochronic tones, to active the brain's frequency-following response [FFR]
  • The more you desire to experience the suggestions you are receiving in hypnosis, the more profound your reaction will be
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When you think about it -

why should it matter where you are when this occurs?

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Since Maria's experience I have been using Skype and Google Chat more frequently, and I am finding that people with very little "spiritual experience" can quite easily let go of trying to decide whether or not to follow the suggestions, and begin to explore where they are going, and in this way, you can go into hypnosis exactly as if you were in your Hypnotherapist's room. Using ear phones, the soundtrack of binaural beats and isochronic tones provides a frequency-following response for your brain to maintain a state of receptively for the duration of your treatment, and with your eyes closed, it really doesnt matter where you are. Reclining in a comfortable chair at home, having assured that you will not be disturbed, you are able to do the mental training you desire in the receptive state of hypnosis, without having to leave your house.
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Saturday, 31 May 2014

Fears & Phobias

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Fear is Logical

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Fear is your subconscious primordial state of noticing that things are going wrong, and that you are running out of options.
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When your mind has exhausted all ideas for action, you feel paralysed because you don't not know what to do. Fear is the unknown. Not knowing makes us helpless when things go wrong.
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But fear is actually very rational. Your subconscious mind uses previously accumulated information (accurate or otherwise) to decide whether a situation is safe or dangerous, and based on your past experiences, you feel safe or fearful. An incident of near drowning may cause a rational fear of water or swimming.
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Phobia is Illogical

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Phobias occur when your subconscious mind associates a certain non-related object, place, or animal with an actual fearful experience, which has been forgotten.
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In order to remember important information about your environment, your subconscious mind represents forgotten fearful events as symbols, hence the tenet: phobias are irrational.
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A person with a phobia for water, may in the past have experienced stomach cramps and panic while swimming, due to having eaten too much prior to swimming. The person forgets or dose not understood the reason for the cramps, and only remembers the feeling of panic, which in the subconscious mind, is symbolised by large expanses of water. The resulting behaviour is an anxious, phobic reaction when any suggeson is made involving lakes or swimming pools.
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Fearful and phobic behaviour is debilitating. You may have to avoid certain activities that are important for your life style or that you would usually enjoy, like swimming, flying, or driving. Sometimes unconnected activities that you used to find enjoyable can become subconsciously associated with your phobia. In this case, the feeling of anxiety seems to spread to these other areas of your life, and depression may result.

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Exam Stress

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Even if you know your subject and you prepared well, anxiety or panic during an exam can block information from your conscious mind, resulting in an unfair score instead of an accurate measure of your ability.

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Exams judge you, regardless of your performance before or after the test. Subconsciously, your mind sees an exam in primordial terms: What you are doing is familiar, but this time the consequences are more serious than usual.
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In your wild subconscious mind, you know how to balance, walking along a fallen tree trunk on the ground. Some time later in life, you may have your skill tested by crossing a river using a fallen tree as a bridge. During an exam, your subconscious mind triggers adrenaline, to increase awareness, balance, and body strength, but this is of little benefit to you, sitting in an exam hall. In fact, it increases the problem: the enforced lack of movement causes anxiety - hence fidgeting or leg bouncing. Adrenaline and anxiety block the memory from functioning. And then:
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I panicked!

I knew the work but my mind went blank!

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If this has ever happened to you, your subconscious mind remembers the experience, and anticipates the same anxiety in your next exam. Anticipatory anxiety actually creates anxiety out of nothing but fear.
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This is a subconscious survival strategy designed to for-warn you about what is to come, but it doesn't help with your studying!

  • It makes studying very difficult, the mind wonders, you become easily distracted
  • You put off studying until the last minute
  • You then have even more anxiety in the exam because you have not been able to study
  • The cycle repeats, gaining momentum every time
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The only way to break the cycle is:

  • learning and applying the skill of directing your mind
  • re-establish good recall and efficient access to your memory
  • overcoming your anxiety and anticipatory anxiety by learning a new habit
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The NBSR treatment of exam stress

Sunday, 25 May 2014

NBSR Hypnotic Sound Recordings, Durban

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Having an affirmation is great - if you use it every day. Do you sit and close your eyes and spend 10 minutes visualising, working on The New You every day?

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What would you do if you were offered a business opportunity with a Chinese company, and you knew it would be a great advantage if you spoke enough Mandarin for greetings and small talk?
  • First prize would be a teacher, close second, and you would probably do them both, would be a CD
  • Listening to the language over and over, it becomes familiar to you
  • Speaking the language every day, you would never forget it
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Your brain needs to repeat a new circuit for it to become a habit. When you teach yourself to be more calm, or more motivated, it's just like learning a new language - and you can do this by listening to your affirmation from your phone.
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Hypnosis and Effective Affirmations

Hypnosis allows information to bypass the firewall of your critical thinking, and become accepted by your subconscious mind. In most cases, hypnosis is necessary, because your subconscious is very protective over your belief systems. For a belief to change, neuro-plasticity requires the formation of a new circuit, which can only happen with the acceptance of the subconscious defences. If the new belief is perceived in any way to be a threat to your existing belief systems, your mind will defend itself, and reject the new belief, even if it was highly beneficial, or enabled your survival.
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The easiest way to achieve hypnosis is to be hypnotised by a professional Hypnotherapist. Self hypnosis is equally effective, but takes some practice. There are also some tools one can use to deepen hypnosis, and to stabilize the state. 


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Saturday, 12 April 2014

Hypnotherapy Durban - Does Hypnosis Work?

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Andrew Wilding is an HMI trained Hypnotherapist in Durban. During hypnosis, he uses an Isochronic soundtrack with Binaural Beats, and provides free support PDFs and audio hypnosis downloads for all his clients.

NBSR Hypnotherapy since 2005





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Does Hypnosis Work?


Two things are important when evaluating the effectiveness of hypnosis:
  1. Your expectation
  2. The skill level of the Hypnotherapist
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Pharmacology is an extremely lucrative industry. Over the last century, it has completely overwhelmed the medical profession, to the point where even common sense is often set aside in favour of medication. The approved treatment of cancer, for example, actually causes cancer.

The field of Psychology is equally dominated by pills, which are dispensed in most cases without any regard for the healing process of an individual, and if they work, at best they do little more than hide the symptoms.

There is very little common knowledge about hypnosis, because it is not part of the main stream curriculum of medicine or psychology. However, like so many modalities sidelined by corporate medicine, Hypnotherapy remains an extremely effective method of personal transformation and emotional healing.
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Your Expectation

Most people have expectations of magic, being a puppet on a string, swirling lights, turning into a chicken, or losing their minds. The reality is: hypnosis is the same state as meditation. The electroencephalogram (EEG) measures brain activity, and has been used in countless scientific tests and studies, observing brain activity in hypnosis.
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Brain States of Frequency-Following Responses, entrainment
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Despite the implication, slow brain activity is not a sign of slow intelligence, but of relaxation. The slower your brain rate, the more relaxed you are. Hypnosis is most commonly observed between 4 and 10 Hz, ranging from Theta state, when the subject is very deep, to Alpha, a state of higher activity also associated with dreaming.

Reality in Hypnosis:
  • You can hear sounds around you
  • You can hear the Hypnotherapist's voice
  • You can not be hypnotised to do anything which is against your nature
  • You can feel deeply relaxed and calm
  • You can find it easier than usual to let go of your thoughts and just be
  • If you go to a properly qualified Hypnotherapist, you can not become stuck in hypnosis
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The skill level of the Hypnotherapist

Your Hypnotherapist should have the skill to hypnotise you, even if you find it difficult to let go in the beginning. The way you go into hypnosis is exclusive to you, and everyone goes in differently. Some people take 30 minutes to be hypnotised, others are deep in hypnosis within a few seconds. It's up to your Hypnotherapist to find your way into this state, and guide you to go deeper.

A sure way of knowing how deep you are, is your rapid eye movement (REM). A skilled Hypnotherapist can see how deep you are by the way your eyes move under your lids.


Why Hypnotherapy?


  • Unprocessed problems, create
  • subconscious defence mechanisms, which become
  • negative beliefs about your self, and that leads to
  • self-sabotaging behaviour and more problems.
  • Hypnotherapy processes the problem, by
  • training you to think and act positively and constructively, and
  • re-enforcing your positive belief in yourself, and that leads to
  • successful behaviour, self confidence, and happiness.


Monday, 31 March 2014

Transform Your Affirmation Into Self-Hypnosis Audio With Isochronic Binaural Beats




How is your affirmation going? Are you still doing it every day? Is it easy to do your self hypnosis, rain or shine, no matter how busy you are?

If you would like to continue with your subconscious programming, but you're struggling to make the time to sit and visualise, I have a wonderfully simple 2-step solution for you. All you do is: 

  • Have a listen to some audio samples and choose a self hypnosis background that works for you
  • Record your affirmation as a voice note on your phone
  • Email it to me. 
  • I will produce your personalised self hypnosis audio track with your choice of binaural beats, isochronic tones, or both, and send you a link to download it.




Once you've downloaded your personalised self hypnosis track I suggest you put it strait onto your phone, so you can listen to it ALL THE TIME!!

The binaural beats and isochronic tones that make up the self hypnosis backgrounds, allow you to engage with your dream state at a level which you decide. If you do have a moment to lie down and close your eyes, you can go in quite deeply, but if you are shopping and running errands, you will still be able to function while connecting with the messages in your affirmation on a more subliminal level.


This method allows you to use both direct and subliminal hypnosis:

  • Direct hypnosis occurs when you give your your full attention to your hypnotic messages, in this case you affirmation. You can still hear sounds around you but it feels quite dreamy. You are able to relax more than usual, and you learn the new program by listening, and following the words you are hearing with your imagination.
  • Subliminal or covert hypnosis occurs when you hear the messages in your hypnotic material (affirmation) as an ambient or atmospheric sound, while your conscious mind is busy with other thoughts or errands. Consciously you may not even be aware of the words of your affirmation, but your subconscious mind is 8 TIMES more receptive than your conscious mind. Subliminally, you pick up 800% of the messages that your conscious mind can process. 


Both direct and subliminal hypnosis 
achieve the end goal - 
SUBCONSCIOUS ACCEPTANCE 
- which is why listening to your affirmation as a self hypnosis audio track, with binaural beats, isochronic tones, or a combination of both, is an amazing, rapid learning experience. 



The "Am I Depressed?" Quiz - 20 causes and symptoms to test if you have depression - with solutions!

Depression is so common, that it may feel completely normal to you. Even if you were depressed, you may not even realise it. 

The "Am I Depressed? Quiz" is designed to test your level of engagement with your life. If this quiz indicates that you may be depressed, please do some reading around the topic before seeking medical help. You will discover two conflicting views:

  • The Medical View - you will hear this from any conservative doctor or psychiatrist: You have little or no hope of ever changing, and you have have to take pills to make you normal.
  • The Humanist View - you will hear this from any therapist who has a good record with helping people overcome depression: Your environment effects the way you feel. If you are not happy, look around you and identify what is stressing you or hurting you. Then make necessary changes to make your life enjoyable. You will need to follow a system. There are hundreds of self-help options, but nothing beats a good therapist to help you get back on your feet.

This quiz is designed to test your level of engagement with your life. If the quiz indicates that you may be depressed, please do some reading around the topic. Your environment effects the way you feel. If you are not happy, look around you and identify what is stressing you.

So: If you do find that you have one or two symptoms or causes of depression - how can you change your life for the better? If you answer yes to any question, or if you feel curious as to how to improve any area, click the question for the solution :)

The "Am I Depressed?" Quiz - 20 causes and symptoms to test if you have depression - with solutions! 


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