Dr. J. Ojeda Hypnosis * Psychotherapy
An Overview: Learning how to Change destructive Thoughts and Change Your Life.
A cool cutting wind off the Upstate (Middletown), New York makes it feel like 10 below, but I'm
outdoors in may bathing suit. I can feel hot sun on my back. Actually, I'm indoors--- and in
hypnosis, a state of relaxation in which the unconscious is more open to suggestion than usual.
I'm mentally at the beach because my hypnotherapist told me to imagine a place I love.
Hypnosis, once scorned as wizardry more appropriate for the stage than a doctor's office, has
gained respect among medical professionals. Many view it as an efficient tool for treating
problems not caused by serious disorders.
Dr. Joseph A. Ojeda is Upstate New York. He consults on stress, weight control, smoking
problem, and phobias, such as fear of flying or public speaking. Dr. Ojeda also uses hypnotic
techniques in corporate programs to motivate salespeople and build confidence.
Practitioners say anyone can be hypnotized, though it's easier when the subject has a vivid
imagination. A hypnotherapist cannot make you do anything you don't really want to do. But
short-term hypnotherapy can lessen your resistance to chance.
Deep Focus. There's nothing spooky about it. The state of concentration when you see a good
film is not unlike a "trance." You may lose your sense of time-- an hour can seem like
minutes-- but you don't lose control.
The best way to find a reputable Clinical Hypnotherapist is though organizations such as the
National Council for Medical & Clinical Hypnotherapy, the International Association of
Counselors & Therapist, or The American Council of Hypnotists Examiners, (to name a few).
These groups require members to complete formal training programs. If you want a doctor or
psychologist who is also a hypnotherapist, call the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. Don't
just check the Yellow Pages, because hypnotherapist is not regulated in the New York, but
licensed in some States. And it's rarely reimbursed by medical insurance, even when
administer by a doctor.
Beware of claims that you can be "cured" of a lifelong bad habit in one session. Try to find a
Clinical Hypnotherapist who teaches Self-hypnosis, so you can go on treating yourself. A few
sessions (at around from $ 85.00 -- and up each) can give you the basic method. When Dr. Ojeda
"wakes" me. I don't remember much of what he has said. On the way home, though, I suddenly
think: "Cigarettes are poison." Such formerly alien ideas keep me from buying a pack and
assure me that something constructive happened while I was at the Beach.
What we do is management by hypnosis: the following mentioned disorders as was briefly
discussed with its many forms and causes.
It is impracticable to give in a small space anything approaching a complete list of the direction
in which hypnotherapy may be beneficially employed— of course, often in conjunction with
other agents.
The following list is intended to include the more pronounced: Alcoholism, Anxiety, Opsomania
(gluttony), Morphinism, Cocainism, Stammering, Stuttering with certain other speech defects,
Sexual Perversion, Excessive Nocturnal Emissions or masturbation, Bed-wetting, certain cases of
Asthma, Neuritis, Neuralgia, Nervous breakdown, Psychasthenia, Headache, Earache, Singing
in the ears, certain form of Rheumatism, Insomnia, Sleep-walking, Uneasy Dreams,
Functional Paralysis, Blindness from functional paralysis of the optic nerve, various other eye
troubles, Functional Deafness, Functional Loss of Smell, many cases of Loss of Voice, Writers
Cramp, Spasmodic Wry Neck, Hypochondria, Hysteria, Cases of Epilepsy, Bashfulness,
Nervousness, Delusions, Dominant Ideas, Incipient Melancholia, certain cases of Heart Trouble,
Irregularities of Menstruation, other female complaints, Dyspepsia (symptom) and Constipation,
Loss of Appetite, Defective Circulation, Excessive Perspiration, Shingles, Sea and Railway
Sickness, Extreme Ticklishness, Warts and certain Growths, Blushing and various Skin
Complaints, and much more.
Clinical and Medical hypnosis has often been described as a valuable modality in the
therapeutic arsenal of the advanced clinical hypnotherapist. A good hypnotherapy practitioner
should have available to him many methods of treatment. To choose the proper mode of
treatment for the selected patient is the mark of a resourceful and adroit therapist, and one who
is dedicated to the welfare of his patient. Even though some cases get prematurely terminated,
others may be considered to terminated successfully.
Our efforts, however, are rewarded by cooperative patients who are able to achieve moderately
hypnotic state and follow post hypnotic suggestions. One thing we know is that hypnotherapy
has certain advantages over other forms of therapy. It helps many individuals solve their
personal problems, as you have read from some of the case-illustrations cited in the HYPNOSIS
NEWS link. When one has found the solution to a particular problem; one will have acquired
not only maturity, but personality maturity as well.
The word "hypnosis" and the prevalent opinions concerning it lead many clients to believe that
sleep is necessary for the success of therapeutic suggestion; and there is no idea of sleep for
them when, after waking they remember the events of the hypnosis. Though sleep favors the
objectivity of suggestions, it is not necessary and actual, sleep occurs in only about a third or a
fourth of all patients hypnotized.
Many somnambulists are "Mind Awake," but without memory after the hypnosis. They speak,
walk, and do not present the appearance of sleep in any way, but "think that they have slept,"
because they remember nothing. The opposite of this illusion of sleep is present by those
persons who actually appear to sleep, dream, snore, etc., and still after waking protest that they
have been really asleep. Such patients often have an indistinct memory of the events of the
hypnotic state, and are often deceived concerning the time sleep has lasted. How little weight is
to be given to the memory of patients on this state of self deception is shown by the fact that
suggestion may awaken or destroy post-hypnotic memories.
After gaining the confidence of the patient, hypnotherapeutic techniques are use for relaxation
and for suggestive therapy. Hypnotherapy for nerve disorders depends for its success on the
willingness of the patient to want to be helped and at the same time a good vivid imagination to
easily be able to go into a light trance state. It's very important to bolster their ego strength. If
they were able to produce a self-induced trance, then they felt an inner strength which they used
to increase their possession of controlling their Mind or power of influence. This positive
thinking plus the increase in their sagging ego support is enough, sufficient to give them the
desired effect of completing their goals successfully. Some still call for a re-enforcing session,
but spend most of their hour bragging about their new-found confidence.
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