Hypnosis for bad habits

Hypnotherapy in the treatment of drug addiction

Smoking.

The most common form of drug abuse is undoubtedly smoking. Among the general population, this is considered a bad habit of little harmful. In fact, far from it.

In the works of Russian and foreign scientists proved that nicotine is a vasoconstrictor dangerous poison and carcinogen.

According to statistics, it is clear that lung cancer is 15 times more common in smokers are several times more likely to occur in smokers as vascular disease, hypertension, angina and other diseases than non-smokers. There is no doubt the negative impact of smoking and on the stomach and the upper respiratory tract.

The harmfulness of smoking is obvious.

It affects not only smokers but also the surrounding, especially the children. No wonder abroad stopped advertising of tobacco products. In our gipnotary often approached by people who want to quit smoking. It turns out from the questioning that led them to that caused serious heart and vascular diseases.

Many have suffered an acute myocardial infarction, other occlusive disease, and others - stomach ulcer and so on. N. The further smoking only dangerous to life and throw themselves can not. In such cases, we try to meet these patients and to pursue a course of hypnotherapy. The hypnosis patients disgust to tobacco to dizziness to nausea. Therapeutic suggestions are based imperatively and advocacy.

Especially a lot done for the treatment of smokers professor Yu Povorinsky, who believed that smoking is a firm foothold in a conditioned reflex to many everyday stimuli. If that is the case, you can use hypnotherapy to extinguish this pathological conditioned reflex in a patient who wants to quit smoking.

Of the 100 patients with smoking as a result of treatment, 85 managed to eliminate the habit, only 15 had a slight effect, it was possible to reduce the number of cigarettes, but full recovery has not come, because of insufficiently serious attitude of people to the proposed treatment.

Here is an extract from the case.

The patient was 38 years old, cameraman. Directed from the clinic due to a sharp weight loss, and pain in the heart, as well as insomnia, poor appetite, and nausea. Smoked more than a pack of cigarettes a day. All independent attempts to stop smoking do not work out. The patient is asking to help her quit smoking. Started training in hypnotherapy. From the first sessions a deep hypnotic state of the third degree depth.

After the 2nd session of hypnotherapy patient to quit smoking. "To myself I do not believe", - stated the patient. The treatment extended to 15 sessions. I gained weight, became sleep well, have disappeared nausea and pain in the heart. Experts observed 2 years. Tobacco addiction is no recurrence.

Thus, when smoking hypnotherapy proved very effective and can be recommended to combat the spread of drug abuse, mistakenly think a little bad habit.

Alcoholism.

It is known worldwide spread alcoholism. In the West and in the US factors causing drinking are social reasons (unemployment, fear for the next day), as well as greater availability of alcoholic beverages.

In our country, in spite of the social security, nevertheless cases of chronic alcoholism is not isolated. On the dangers of drinking alcohol more than once wrote, and now there is a need of organization of medical institutions - drug treatment clinics, where treatment of patients with chronic alcoholism was successfully combined with occupational therapy and to drug therapy.

In many of these drug dispensaries are increasingly began to use and hypnosuggestive psychotherapy, which was proposed in 1901. Academician Bekhterev successfully used hypnosis and suggestion, along with other treatments.

Suggestion and autosuggestion

In our country, the issues of self-hypnosis and suggestion a lot and fruitfully engaged academician Bekhterev. He believed that suggestibility is a normal characteristic of the human psyche,

expressed, however, in different people in different degrees. The suggestion, self-hypnosis, vzaimovnushenie widespread in human society and is accompanied by a person from an early age to old age.

In the words of spondylitis, suggestion (as opposed to belief) is in the mind of man, "not from the front entrance, as it were by the back door", bypassing the guard - criticism.

All that is taken for granted, without adequate critical processing incoming information in the human brain, there is a suggestion.

If VMBekhterev summarized the psychological basis for the phenomenon of suggestion, that Pavlov gave this property scientific physiological studies. The scientist wrote that the word for man is just as real a conditioned stimulus as irritants in common with animals.

But for a man of his word it is more versatile and mnogoobemlyuschim conditioned stimulus, which can not be compared with the conditioned stimuli of animals. As you know, for the animal, even highly organized, the word - just the sound, while for a person every word has a deep meaning, value.

Word of thanks to the previous adult life is associated with all external and internal stimuli that come in the cerebral hemispheres, and therefore can cause all those actions, reactions, which have determined these stimuli. "The suggestion is the most simple, the typical reflex of man" - sums up Pavlov.

Here is an example.

Imagine that a researcher puts into the mouth of the test slice of lemon. What if this happens? In response to a natural food stimulus (lemon), on the basis of innate unconditioned alimentary reflex, select the saliva.

However, you can get the same saliva without giving the subject a lemon, but only showing it (acting through the visual analyzer). In this case, salivary response was made through so-called first signaling system (through sight, hearing, smell).

But you can get the same response, talking about the lemon, its sour taste, "I'm taking a big juicy lemon, cut it and start to squeeze out of his sour juice in a glass!" - Says the experimenter. And from the words alone of lemon in the subject begins to salivate.

In this case, there is the impact through the second signal system, inherent to man. The word in the signal of brain activity as it directly replaces the natural stimulus. The word "lemon" as a conditioned stimulus, the second signal system excites the first signal system and even through subcortical causes a physiological response - salivation.

It should be remembered that the first signal system is in close connection and interaction with the second signal system, which is the basis of speech, thinking, writing, word analysis, and that the first signaling system in the "pure form" a person does not exist.

The word reflects the social and historical experience of humanity and the individual experience of the individual. The range of meanings of the word is extremely large: from a simple object to a symbol of abstract, abstract concepts and ideas that reflect the human mind. Accordingly, the range is diverse and wide range of verbal suggestion.

For example, if the word "lemon" can cause salivation, and the word "food" a hungry man - the secretion of gastric juice and intestinal motor response, it is not surprising that the word "sleep" on the mechanism of suggestion can induce hypnotic sleep. Now, the examples show the action and the power of suggestion, self-hypnosis and vzaimovnusheniya.

In a lecture to medical students, it was stated: "Today we are going to study the activity of the olfactory analyzer: the propagation velocity of the smell of the room. We invite you to experience the next." Professor poured on the cotton a little dark liquid from a bottle and brought to the department put cotton wool. Students were asked to raise their hands as soon as they feel a sharp, unpleasant smell.

Soon, in the forefront to raise a few hands of students, smell. Then the smell of "spread" into the heart of the audience, and finally reached the back row. At this time, sitting in front of some became ill and had to be put out of the lecture hall. What surprise of the students when they experience after said: "There is no smell was not! You inspired him. You waited tensely for him," sniffing ", and that you have developed a massive, suggestion olfactory hallucination!"

As seen from the experiment conducted in the normal waking state, without hypnosis, suggestion was strong enough. If young and educated people in our time, managed to cause olfactory hallucinations mass character, it is not surprising that in the Middle Ages, or closer to us while under the influence of suggestion church representatives often flashed mass hallucinations of a religious nature.

In Europe in the Middle Ages used the powerful influence of the Catholic Church. Priests instilled a believer that the devil as all-powerful as God himself, demons disguised as ordinary people can freely penetrate into human dwellings and come into contact with people. Moreover, the demons could scaled down to fit flies penetrate into the human body through the nose, ears and mouth.