5/23/2018 Informative Speech: Hypnotherapy
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Goodafternoon everyone, im romayra Albarracin and the title of
my speech is about hypnotherapy for
childhood trauma.
Did anyone of you experience a kind of trauma before and having
a dilemma if it can still be cured or
not? Well, dont fret, medical advances has discovered a solution
to this. Some people had experienced
traumas in their lives. One of these is the one that is
experienced during childhood; childhood trauma has
profound impact on the emotional, behavioral, social and
physical functioning of children and would also
one way or another affect their adulthood. According to a
psychiatrist named Dr. Judith Herman,
specializing in treating victims of interpersonal violence,
normal regulation of emotional states is
disrupted by traumatic experiences that repeatedly evoke terror,
rage, and grief. Most people who had
experienced childhood trauma are those who are exposed to drug
use, risky sexual decision-making,
anxiety, depression and academic problems. Oftentimes there are
various medications given to these cases
and one of these is Hypnotherapy. So what is hypnotherapy? It is
basically the use of hypnosis as a
therapeutic technique. It is a form of psychotherapy used to
create unconscious change in the patient in
the form of new responses, thoughts, attitudes, behaviors or
feelings.
Since hypnotherapy is the use of hypnosis in order to heal
childhood trauma its important to know first
about hypnosis. Look at the picture is it familiar to you? I
assume that most of you already have an idea or
a background about hypnosis or maybe even had a chance to
witness a person getting hypnotized. One
misconception about hypnosis is that some people thought that
any person can get hypnotized at any
moment but its not true. According to Dr. Diane Stoler, Hypnosis
is an altered state of consciousness
characterized by enhanced receptivity, relaxation and heightened
imagination. Its not really like sleeping,
because the subject is alert the whole time. It is most often
compared to daydreaming, or the feeling of
losing yourself in a book or movie. The person is fully
conscious, but he tunes out most of the stimuli
around him. He only focus intently on the subject at hand, to
the near exclusion of any other thought
which means that being hypnotized is actually voluntary. So, the
first step is to release after the traumatic
event. When the client can talk about those things and feel
peaceful, the next step is to inform the person
on what is about to happen. Now, the shifts that occurred have
already flowed back into the patient
before the event.
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The purpose of informing the patient is not merely to deliver
bad news or prepare the patient for the
event. The purpose of informing the client serves three
purposes.
1. Empowerment2. Reprogramming3. Forgiveness
Empowerment is about choice. Informing the patient allows the
client to make better decisions
about how to respond, from now on, to things that used to act as
triggers.
The goal of hypnotherapy is not to change the event itself, only
how the client feels about the event and
the meaning s/he gives it.
Next is reprogramming, changing the perception reprograms the
clients expectations of the
future. So even though those things will happen to the patient
because it already did, the client
can expect to make it through okay which leads us to the third
which is forgiveness, Forgiveness
to those people who did it to the patient and also
self-forgiveness. Its not only that the patient
would be able to forgive those people who caused him pain but he
would also be able to accept,
forgive and love himself.
Once the patient is ready, the process of having the client go
through the event is simply a test.
The client is instructed to stay focused on feelings in the body
as they move through the event.
The moment theres even awhisper of discomfort, the
hypnotherapist will let the patient know.
In this way the client would be able to titrate the event,
pausing along the way to release any
residual aspects.
When the client can go through the entire event without any
discomfort, they have convincing
proof of the power of their own mind both to create and to heal
problems that have plagued
them for a lifetime. This is where suggestions that tie the
changes to the presenting issue can be
utilized effectively by the hypnotherapist. Future pacing or
mental rehearsal techniques will then
help compound positive expectations and new behaviors.
So I think its really a good thing if a person who has
experienced childhood trauma would be
able to have hypnotherapy because it would not only help that
person to heal himself but it can
also help him to have a better relationship with other people
and maybe even have a brighter
future because he would be able to move on from his past
experiences.
