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myths
There is much incorrect information surrounding Hypnotherapy and this can prevent people from accessing a technique which may change their lives. We all see stage hypnotists making people carry out actions that they would otherwise never think of doing. This has given rise to the myth of the Hypnotherapist being a mind controller, or being able to manipulate people.
This is not true. During therapy it is not possible for you to be controlled in any way. For the therapy to work both client and therapist must be engaged and in agreement as to therapeutic goals.
Neither will you engage in a session and have any lasting negative effects outside the therapy room. Hypnotherapy is a relaxing and pleasurable process and is gradually becoming recognised for its great healing potential.
Hypnotherapy has had an interesting history, which has also contributed to its mythology. In the 19th century there was much mistrust of anything that could not be explained though traditional thought systems, especially when set in the context of science and religion beginning their conflicts during the enlightenment period.
One of the more famous hypnotists of this era was Franz Aton Mesmer. He thought that trance states were brought on using magnets and could only be induced by people with a strong 'animal magnetism.'
Mesmer was also a performance artist and would augment his demonstrations with wild and wonderous instruments to make the specticle that much grander and flamboyant. Mesmer was cast out of the scientific community by the king of france and lived out the rest of his life in relative obscurity.
However, as rationalism and science began to take hold in europe hypnotherapy was to come under renewed scruntiny by such luminaries as Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud. From then on in hypnotherapy began to gain ground as a technique, although not understood fully, could not be doubted on the strength of tangible results.
Not only having shrugged off the myths of the past hypnotherapy is now moving into a new era of being acknowledged as a viable and verifiable therapy capable of making real and meanigfull differences to people lives.