Here’s How Hypnotherapy Can Help You Cultivate Positive Thinking - Page 3

Using Visualization For Long-Term Healing

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When you are in a state of hypnosis, your therapist will help you come up with a scenario you can really visualize that you will tie to the feeling or experience you want to have. Hypnotherapy relies heavily on patterns, metaphors and associations. So, your therapist might ask you what imagery, sounds and smells arise when you take yourself to a positive place. You’ll be encouraged to really go there in your mind as if it’s happening.

When you’ve reached the achieved state of mind – aka tapped into the unconscious mind – depending on what you’re working on, your therapist might encourage you to direct your thoughts one way or another. If it’s positive thinking that you’re working on, maybe you’d be encouraged to think about the silver lining of a situation instead of what’s bothering you or to think about your own attributes instead of your flaws. In this state, working from the unconscious mind, these positive thoughts can become your new truths and can replace the old, negative ones.

The idea is that you could bring yourself back to this state on your own over time. Through self-hypnosis, you could tap into your unconscious mind and your new, positive truths any time you felt negativity creeping in.

Not everyone can reach a state of hypnosis, and for it to be most effective, it’s best combined with other types of therapy like talk therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. If traditional, surface-level tools have not served you in your quest for more positive thinking, hypnotherapy might be the key to unlocking a new way of thinking.