Exploring the Effects of Hypnosis on Various Aspects of Human Behavior

This report explores the multifaceted effects of hypnosis, delving into its applications in performance enhancement, weight loss, stress management, and smoking cessation. It begins by defining hypnosis as a state of relaxation and heightened suggestibility, highlighting its use in sports to improve mental focus, motivation, and concentration, and its potential to overcome psychological barriers. The report then examines hypnotherapy as a treatment for obesity, emphasizing its role in altering eating habits and promoting weight loss, with supporting evidence from clinical studies. Furthermore, it discusses the use of hypnosis in managing stress by reprogramming the brain and employing techniques to reduce mental and physical stress, including stress-related disorders. Finally, the report explores hypnotherapy as an effective method for smoking cessation, focusing on how it targets the subconscious mind to reduce the desire to smoke, with evidence suggesting it is more effective than other physical means. The report includes references to research supporting each application of hypnosis.

PLACE
STAMP
HERE

EFFECT OF HYPNOSIS ON PERFORMANCE
ENHANCEMENT
In order to get success in any sports performance
mental focus, motivation and concentration play an
inadmissible role. Hypnosis is referred as a mental state
of human condition which involves relaxation
(decreased peripheral awareness), increased attention as
well as increased capacity to react to suggestion (Pelka
et al., 2016).
One such therapy used for performance enhancement in
sports is popularly known as hypnotherapy. This therapy
basically acts as a complementary medicine. By using
this therapy attention of an individual gradually
increases. Sport hypnosis can be defined as an
application hypnotherapy.
It is noteworthy to state that clinical sport hypnosis
provides a great therapeutic impact on the sport
performance enhancement. Clinical sport hypnosis helps
the sport athletes to overcome various psychological
problems and symptoms. This type of sport hypnosis
helps athletes to collect particular cognitive,
behavioural, psychological qualities in order to improve
athletes’ physical and mental capabilities (Nemeth et al.,
2013).
There are various case studies that show that clinical
sport hypnosis improves sport performance of an athlete
in a successive manner. Clinical sport hypnosis
increases motor coordination, muscular contraction,
strength as well as endurance in an athlete. The main
principle behind the application of hypnotherapy on
sports performance enhancement of an individual athlete
to increase his or her performance capacity. This is done
This is done by reducing the mental stress of the
athlete. Hypnosis reduces stress by increasing the
production of endorphin of the individual athlete. There
are different issues that influence the mental as well as
physical condition of an athlete. These influences are
personal (athlete’s own) competence, career planning,
identity issues, mental fatigue as well as physical
fatigue.
Clinical sport hypnosis helps to reduce these influences
in an athlete. This procedure, by increasing the
endorphin level in an individual athlete and causing
muscle relaxation of that particular individual reduces
stress in an athlete. This, in turn, increases the
performance of an athlete.
This is the place for your ‘elevator pitch.’
If you only had a few seconds to pitch your
products or services to someone what
would you say?
[Web Address]
Obesity is referred as a chronic physical issue
having various aetiologies as well as severe
complications. Treatment of this major health issue
has puzzled/ confused the researchers as well as
health experts. However, psychology provides
different effective treatments for obesity.
Hypnotherapy is one of them and considered as an
effective treatment for weight loss. Considering the
fact that hypnosis is defines as a mental state of inner
absorption as well as concentration, hypnosis is
usually performed by a certified hypnotherapist
(Byom and Sapp, 2013).
Hypnosis is a tool for hypnotherapists to treat various
physical as well as mental disorders. In some cases,
hypnotherapy is more effective for weight loss than
regular exercise and diet. The main theme of using
hypnotherapy for weight loss treatment depends on
the fact that psyche may be influenced to change
different food habits such as hyperphagia.
According to one study of Journal of Clinical
Psychology individuals having hypnotherapy lose
weight extensively in comparison to the individuals
who do not have hypnotherapy. Nowadays few
studies have assessed the application of the weight-
loss hypnosis. Several studies have shown that 18
months of consecutive hypnotherapy produces 6
pounds or 2.7 kilograms weight loss in particular
individuals There are several advantages of using
hypnotherapy for treating weight loss. The main
function of hypnosis therapy is to provide a mentally
relaxed state in an individual. This mentally relaxed
state is useful as it makes the patients more open to
suggestion in order to change specific habits.
It has been observed that susceptibility to
hypnotherapy always increases after 40 (both
in case of men and women). Hypnosis in
combination with cognitive behavioural
therapy is an effective method for treating the
obese patient (Yapko, 2013).
EFFECT OF HYPNOSIS ON WEIGHT LOSS
REFERENCES
Pelka, M., Heidari, J., Ferrauti, A., Meyer, T.,
Pfeiffer, M. and Kellmann, M., 2016.
Relaxation techniques in sports: A systematic
review on acute effects on
performance. Performance Enhancement &
Health, 5(2), pp.47-59.
Nemeth, D., Janacsek, K., Polner, B. and
Kovacs, Z.A., 2013. Boosting human
learning by hypnosis. Cerebral cortex, 23(4),
pp.801-805.
Byom, T.K. and Sapp, M., 2013. Comparison
of effect sizes of three group treatments for
weight loss. Sleep and Hypnosis.
Yapko, M.D., 2013. Essentials of hypnosis.
Routledge.

EFFECT OF HYPNOSIS ON STRESS
MANAGEMENT
It is noteworthy to state that in modern days stress
can be defined as a critical mental and health
condition. Stress can affect the physical, behavioural,
mental as well as emotional balance of the affected
individual (Brown and Fromm, 2013).
Stress can severely affect different systems as well as
organs of human body. Pulse rate, respiration rate and
blood pressure increases abruptly due to stress. This
can also interfere with the digestion, sleep, sexuality,
metabolism.
The word “hypnosis” is derived from a Greek word
“hypnos” which means sleep. Hypnosis is referred as
a mental state of human condition which involves
relaxation (decreased peripheral awareness),
increased attention as well as increased capacity to
react to suggestion (Brown and Fromm, 2013).
Stress-related disorders are considered as an
important health issue across the globe. Stress always
creates a critical imbalance between perceived
troublesome necessities and controlled regulation of
available resources. Nowadays various stress
management techniques are available in order to
manage sever chronic stress. One such therapy used
for stress management is hypnosis or hypnotherapy.
This therapy basically acts as a complementary
medicine in order to manage stress. Considering the
fact that hypnotherapy always deals with the strong,
specific subconscious mind, hypnotherapy is an
effective therapy to treat stress related disorders.
Hypnotherapy helps in managing chronic stress
related disorders by reprogramming the affected
patient’s brain.
The hypnotherapist uses the PCA approach in order
to reduce the chronic stress in an individual. The PCA
approach comprises of four different parts problem,
analysis of critical conscious mind, access the
resources and transform the problem) (Spiegel 2013.
Problem: The patients affected with severe chronic
stress has to talk with the hypnotherapist first.
Avoiding the critical conscious mind: According to
hypnotherapeutic approaches, the patient suffering
from chronic stress has to change his or her thinking
pattern to manage stress related situations.
Hypnotherapy produces a relaxed state within the
individual affected with stress related disorders thus
helps to avoid the thinking patterns of conscious mind
(Christmann, Hoffmann and Bleser 2017).
Access the resources: Every individuals have
numerous inner resources to deal with the chronic
stress situation.
Smoking is popularly known as hazardous, deadly
habit. It is one of the most common causes of
developing lung cancer. Smoking is the foremost
cause of preventable illness and death across the
globe.
Smoking develops severe health problems among
youth. However, adults show a lower level of
nicotine addiction in comparison to young
individuals. Smoking affects the nearly every organ
of the body. In fact it has been observed that nine out
of ten smokers start to smoke by the age of 18.
Nowadays, 1 out of 4 high school students as well as
1 out of 3 young adults under age 26 are considered
as chain smokers (Hasan et al., 2014).
Hypnotherapy is considered as an elegant method
for aiding smoking cessation. There are different
types of hypnotherapy that are useful for aiding
smoking cessation. The principal theme of
hypnotherapy in smoking cessation is to reduce the
desire to smoke (Brown and Fromm, 2013).
The success rate of hypnosis or hypnotherapy for
treating smoking habit is much higher than any other
physical means such as gums, transdermal patches as
well as pills. This is due to the fact that hypnosis or
hypnotherapy always deals with the strong
subconscious psyche. This subconscious mind
always carries out a definite habituated patterns of
behaviour (such as smoking). This subconscious
mind dictates the brain for a cigarette. The
subconscious psyche of a man knows when to light
up another cigarette.
In order to treat the smoking habit strictly it is
important to convince and dominate the
subconscious psyche of the individual (having
smoking habits). This hypnotherapy is proposed to
act on the subconscious impulses of mind to reduce
the desire to smoke.
However, the other physical means that are
available in the market for controlling smoking
behaviour strictly deal with the conscious mind.
One or two sessions of hypnosis (duration 30-40
minutes) or hypnotherapy is required to treat
smoking habits (Riegel 2013).
EFFECT OF HYPNOSIS ON SMOKING
CESSATION
REFERENCES
Brown, D.P. and Fromm, E., 2013. Hypnotherapy and
hypnoanalysis. Routledge.
Spiegel, D., 2013. Tranceformations: hypnosis in brain and
body. Depression and anxiety, 30(4), pp.342-352.
Christmann, C.A., Hoffmann, A. and Bleser, G., 2017. Stress
management apps with regard to emotion-focused coping
and behavior change techniques: a content analysis. JMIR
mHealth and uHealth, 5(2), p.e22.
Riegel, B., 2013. Hypnosis for smoking cessation: Group
and individual treatment—A free choice study. International
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 61(2),
pp.146-161.
Hasan, F.M., Zagarins, S.E., Pischke, K.M., Saiyed, S.,
Bettencourt, A.M., Beal, L., Macys, D., Aurora, S. and
McCleary, N., 2014. Hypnotherapy is more effective than
nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation: Results
of a randomized controlled trial. Complementary therapies in
medicine, 22(1), pp.1-8.