1. Speaking of Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy follows a brief therapeutic model. Focus is crucial to success. Objectives are defined from the first moment between the hypnotherapist and the hypnotized person. Once this basis is defined, the process must be monitored between each session and after the end of the sessions. Each meeting between the professional and the client should be used to improve the results obtained, clarify and redefine the pre-determined objectives, or even give up some items initially proposed.
2. The Therapeutic Strategy
Each model and professional has its own working method and its own strategic logic of use with hypnosis. Some work with a single strategy throughout the therapeutic cycle, while others are more versatile and change the strategy according to the reality, perspective, objective and problem of each individual.
Each professional chooses to use the method most suited to their principles, since the range of options and hypnotherapeutic approaches is vast.
3. Dynamics between Hypnotherapist and Hypnotized
Hypnotherapy uses hypnosis as a standard, judiciously and primarily to promote the excellent therapeutic results obtained in its practice, using the flexibility and versatility inherited from universal human conditions and plasticities, both in its cognitive, behavioral, physical and intellectual application. Below we see some variables that help define the dynamics of operation in hypnotherapy and their respective uses.
4. Application Dynamics
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Therapeutic: The most common. Ritualistic by nature, its successful application tends to be attributed to well-defined procedures. The beginning, middle and end are easily recognizable and are strictly therapeutic in nature.
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Conversational: Focuses on reproducing hypnotic effects and phenomena casually, through conversation. Produces good therapeutic effects. Its performance can take various forms, with dialogue and voice-over being the most practiced.
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Conversational Therapy: Union of the previous dynamics. It seeks to streamline the therapeutic application of hypnosis by focusing on the unique needs of each hypnotized individual. Widely used in Fail-Safe Psychotherapy.
4.1. Types of Trance
Assuming that the functioning of hypnosis requires specific trance(s), we can distinguish them into two basic categories:
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Naturalistic: This type of trance is based on spontaneity. It occurs daily, mechanically and deliberately or spontaneously and conditionally. Deep down, consciousness itself, the waking state, in itself, is a trance. Common examples of naturalistic trance are: driving, speaking, reading, writing and tying shoes. For most people, these activities tend to be practiced with competence and excellence, without operational analysis or judgment. Both characteristics are hypnotic in nature.
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Ritualistic: Presupposes the need for preparation and skill. Interpretation comes from presentations (stage hypnosis) and rumors. Therapeutically, the scenario tends to be the same: the hypnotist's focus is to obtain the best result from the hypnotized person. For the hypnotized person, the focus is to reproduce and experience with their mental and physical apparatus, possibly more genuine hypnotic phenomena. Conventionally, the hypnotized person's suggestibility profile helps define this trance.
In the table below we can see how the Hypnotic Dynamics and Trance Typesssociate in hypnotherapy.
Table 1. Hypnotic Dynamics, Types of Trance and Hypnotic Techniques applied
| Conversational | Therapeutic | Conversational Therapeutic |
Ritualistic? | No | Yes | Yes |
Naturalistic? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Direct or Indirect? | Indirect | Both | Both |
4.2. Physical Positioning
Table 2. Hypnotic Dynamics and Physical Positioning
| Conversational | Therapeutic | Therapeutic Conversational |
In foot | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Sitting | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Laying down | No | Yes | Yes |
4.3. Physical Conditions of the Hypnotized Subject
Table 3. Hypnotic Dynamics and Physical Conditions
| Conversational | Therapeutic | Therapeutic Conversational |
Stationary or Moving | Both | Both | Both |
Eyes Open or Closed? | Both | Both | Both |
Physical Contact | Optional | Optional | Optional |
4.4. Physical Touch Points
Table 4. Physical touch points during hypnotic dynamics along with their frequency of use, inherent utility and therapeutic efficacy
| Frequency | Inherent Utility | Efficacy Therapeutic |
Feet | Rare | High | Medium-High |
Hands | High | Medium | Medium-High |
Arms | Low | Low | Medium-Low |
Stump velo | Low | Low | Medium |
Forehead | High | High | Medium-High |
Knee | Medium-Low | Low | Medium |
Note: In addition Application Dynamics, Trance Types and other information presented above, both hypnosis and hypnotherapy, in their application, can take verbal and non-verbal forms. In the verbal case, a conversation can follow a logical line of highly intellectualized reasoning; favorable to people who have the habit of talking about the same subject for longer periods. In the non-verbal case, looks, gestures and even heartbeats and breathing become elements used to transmit emotions, which are in themselves naturalistic resources for inducing and deepening the hypnotic trance.
5. Dynamics, Potential Results and Effects
Regarding effectiveness and results, the search for Hypnotic Dynamism can be qualified as Physical Dynamism, Intellectual Dynamism, Synergetic Dynamism (or physical-intellectual).
Commonly, some Hypnotherapy Approaches have as their sole basis for functioning the search for physical dynamism first, and the co-relation and co-dependence of intellectual dynamism for measuring results in session in hypnotic procedures. Synergetic dynamism is the union of the two dynamisms, however, there is no co-dependence in the results obtained by the two dynamics in operation.
5.1. Therapeutic Effects of Hypnosis
We can say that the best approach is the one that is best for the hypnotized person. Not even physical dynamism or intellectual dynamism can be considered as an object of measurement for therapeutic results, but rather, improved, coordinated and amplified according to the need for each objective and result sought by the therapist.
A hypnotized person may have as an objective better conditions that require more accentuated physical dynamism: swimming better, running faster, however, the physical responses during the hypnotic trance in the office, with regard to hypnotic phenomena (arm levitation, relaxation, stimulation, etc.) will not always be the adequate means of anticipating these results. Nor are possible errors employed in the post-hypnotherapy moment in the short, medium or long term.deadline.
Example: A hypnotized person wants to run faster in their exercises and seeks hypnosis to help them. They respond well to progressive relaxation and ideomotor reactions in the first 3 sessions they did, but they did not obtain any results in the exercises. Medically, there is nothing wrong with the individual. Does this mean that they do not respond well to hypnosis? No. In this case, new variables of action in hypnotherapy should be sought. Exploring different strategies during the hypnotic trance always proves useful in this case. The hypnotherapist here should seek to leave the comfort zone, taking the hypnotized person out of the same situation. And this can be one of the most exciting and difficult activities for a hypnotherapist.




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