How and why hypnosis can produce lasting changeFor all of the neat things we can do with hypnosis, there had to be a reason why it can create lasting change in our lives. After all the research, after all the study, after all the analysis, it comes down to this: Change via hypnosis relies on 2 separate natural abilities we have, and because of how they work, enables them to work in our favor. Let me explain. The first of these natural abilities is our ability to automatically adapt to our constantly changing environment. Think about getting into a hot tub, at first its hot!! hot!! hot!!... and then, after only a few moments, we adapt and it feels wonderful. We automatically adapt to whatever reality is presented to us in the best way we can. As far as effecting permanent change with hypnosis, this is how most of it works... We have an ability to determine what is real and true in the world. We use our senses and analytical abilities to determine this as best we can about what we encounter. As you have seen on other pages here, this ability is what I call "the critical faculty" (or critical factor). When in a hypnotic trance, this critical faculty becomes diminished or dormant, so whatever is presented to us as a suggestion, is accepted as real and true and our adaptive ability makes it our new reality. This is why we can suggest someone's hand is stuck to a wall and it works...because their natural adaptive ability made the suggestion a reality to them. If you think about the ramifications of this, and think about what is possible when operating with this kind of understanding of what you are doing...you begin to realize that a whole lot more is possible with hypnosis than we already do. But this is the bottom line of why we can create permanent change with hypnosis:
John
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