Thursday, November 20, 2008

NLP Hypnosis: Combining NLP and Hypnosis

By Joel Chue

Hypnosis and NLP are two different concepts used for mind control, but they are also interrelated in many ways. NLP or neuro- linguistic programming is a technique that is widely used and adopted in the interpersonal communication. The techniques of NLP have been effectively used as effective approach to modern psychotherapy.

NLP has also been widely adopted and incorporated into the commercial sectors within the scope of human resources training. Many training advocates use NLP in their training activities, seminars and workshops programs. These workshops are conducted to help alter the participants' perceptions and views. The essences of these training is to equip the participants with enough knowledge and motivational ideas to effect positive behavioral changes in the participants.

Hypnosis is also a means that is used to influence the mind and the behavior of a person, but this process is highly unconventional, but none the less popular. Hypnosis generally targets the person's subconscious. In this a person is commanded to perform actions, in a state of half sleep. In such a state of mind, the mind is more conducive to the obeying and accepting external demands from a third party. Unless recently, it was often regarded that hypnosis was like dealing with psychic. But of late this perception has entirely changed. Now hypnosis is treated with utmost scientific approach, according to the new study, we face hypnotic trance almost daily in our lives. You yourself must have experienced hypnosis while watching scenes in a movie or television.

Many experts have questioned whether these two concepts can be merged together and if the answer is yes what would be the impact and significances of such the merger. Trails have shown that such a merger of concepts and techniques is possible and this has lead to better control over the disseminations of both knowledge and skills especially within the realm of human resources training. Nowadays many training seminars adopted such approaches to achieve maximum impact during their training sessions. When we combine both approaches, we actually are dealing with both the conscious and subconscious mind thus giving the trainers better control over the whole training sessions. The results of these combinations have so far being positive.

Hypnosis unlike NLP, motivate a person to act out in a certain way and made to recall memories that are buried deep inside our mind. It acts more on the subconscious mind.

If one is planning to conduct a workshop based on using both these techniques, it is imperative that you enlist the aid of those who are professional in these areas. Hypnosis is a very sensitive and delicate subject matter and as such it is crucial that those who are targeting people's subconscious mind knows what they are doing and dealing with. Although, this may call for more investment and research to find the suitable professional, it is necessary that you do so because of the ethical issues involved. - 16004

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