The Healing Power of Nature – (Vis medicatrix naturae)

More people like you are looking to solve their stress related problems in a natural drug-free way. Not only to solve their psychological stress, but also their physical stress problems.

We are in the decade that will see people looking to stay well, rather than wait till they are sick and in need of treatment.   And Clinical Hypnosis is one of the most dynamic therapies that may just be able to help you to achieve this.

Today there is much more talk about buzz words like EQ and HQ.    IQ is thought to be much less important than we gave it credit for.  What are these?

Early in the 20th Century, IQ (human Intelligence), that is the knowledge we have accumulated through learning at school and by reading books etc.,  was  thought to be the most important thing for us to acquire to do well and deal with life.  In fact, in the world of Academia this thinking still prevails.

Yet interestingly as far back as the 1600’s BC, Socrates already knew that EQ (Emotional Intelligence) had much more to do with healing than the actual physical illness that required treatment.

EQ is driven by a response to our feelings, intuition and Gut instinct.  Did you know that we had a second brain in our Gut?  (You can read more about that in an article on my blog page written in December 2009 – http://www.bbbenefits.com.au/articles.htm.)

The discovery of HQ (Higher Intelligence) unfolded in the 1990’s when  neurologists began to investigate our brain’s electro-magnetic fields, that is said to vibrate in a single coherent frequency.  Exciting research using high-tech equipment such as fMRI and PET scans has proven that these higher intelligence whole-brain vibrations are the aspect of our brain that we use to aspire to higher levels of achievement and consciousness.  HQ is the aspect of our intelligence that allows us to create     meaning in our lives — to reach beyond our rational and emotional thinking.  So what am I on about you say….  Just bear with me a few more minutes, so you understand what is required for you to make dramatic changes in your life, through using what comes naturally to us…i.e. hypnosis.

This is what happens.  IQ, EQ and HQ work by themselves but they also work together with each other.  Each has its own job:

• IQ analyses a situation and comes up with logical conclusions based on its knowledge.
• EQ comes up with the emotional response to IQ’s conclusions, and
• HQ allows us to create a new ‘reality’ by making sense of and re-evaluating our lives with the ability to make new informed choices and transform unwanted situations through therapies such as Clinical Hypnosis.

o   Whilst IQ is able to understand through new learning why things are what they are, EQ response from the original conclusion through past happenings through repetition that has taken the original conclusion from short term, to long term, to habit.

o   Habit is the culprit that makes change difficult, especially if the EQ response experienced fear, anxiety or a traumatic experience.

The ability to access your HQ is able to occur through Hypnosis, where your therapist assists you to access this conscious-subconscious bridge through the A -T (alpha-theta) brainwave states.

Can hypnosis help?  Hypnosis is a state of relaxation in which at some level (some people go much deeper than others) we are completely aware of everything that is going on.  Through releasing our fears, anxieties and traumatic experiences, and through suggestions then given if they are acceptable to our moral, political, religious beliefs and defence mechanism, this altered awareness allows us to create changes to benefit and enhance our lifestyle.  Our top sports people use it to better their performances.  It has helped boost the immune system to aid conventional healing methods, alleviate stress related problems such as trauma, fears, phobias, anxieties and nervous conditions as well as helping people to stop smoking, lose weight, pain control, birthing, concentration, memory, study and exams, fingernail biting, hair pulling, bedwetting,  bruxism, psoriasis, irritable bowel syndrome, motivation, migraine headaches, insomnia, self esteem, assertiveness, relationship problems, etc. and the list goes on.

The experienced hypnotherapist has many techniques that can bring about the most amazing transformations that through conventional methods have not been able to be achieved.

Your Autonomic Nervous System is concerned with your self-protection.  When you become aware of a dangerous or fearsome situation, your brain automatically alerts your body to care for itself.  If, for example, somebody threatens to hit you, your body is automatically prepared to fight back or run away.  Under such circumstances certain physical and chemical changes take place in your body and can produce sensations and reactions which you may not understand.

Unfortunately this Autonomic Nervous System does not recognise the difference between a real danger, which one can see and act upon, and an imagined one, such as fear or severe anxiety which is in the mind only and which one cannot physically fight or run away from.