7/25/2019 Review b.ingg Widy

1/2

MINDFULNESS-BASED HYPNOTHERAPY FOR COMMON

PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS

Mindfulness is an essential element of Buddhist meditative practices. It is

proposed that mindfulness, the radical and unmitigated attention to pleasant as

well as unpleasant experiences, is the means of counteracting experiential

avoidance and alleviating human suffering.

Hypnosis is a state of a state of increased suggestibility with constriction

of peripheral awareness and increased focal concentration on task at hand. hus

hypnosis can be used to reprogram the subconscious mind.

here are some similarities between hypnosis and mindfulness, such a be

used as a psychological process that can produce outcomes, begin with attempts to

relax and training the mind! can reduce anxiety and autonomic arousal, be a

means to promoting positive personal growth, etc.

Mindfulness is a skill which allows one to be less reactive, helps one to

not get entangled in past"future, focuses ones attention to the task at hand, helps

one to be non #udgmental and develop acceptance towards things #ust as they are.

he leading approaches are as follows is Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

$MB%&', Dialectical Behavior Therapy $(B', Mindfulness Based Cognitive

Therapy $MB)', and Mindfulness Based Hypnotherapy $MBH' by Michael

*apko.

here are two parts of MBH is mindfulness+based part $consist of

observation without evaluation and progress' and hypnotherapeutic part $consist

of expansion of awareness, relaxation training under hypnosis, and use of post+

hypnotic suggestions. MBH has many segments such as assessment, awareness of

body, awareness of mind, befriending the unpleasant experience, befriending

oneself, and relapse prevention.

Mindfulness Based Hypnotherapy $MBH' can be applied for common

psychological disorders, they are

-. For depressive disorders : he individual is taught that thoughts are not

facts but #ust thoughts hus he"she is not always experiencing depressed

mood.

7/25/2019 Review b.ingg Widy

2/2

2. For aniety disorders : he individual is taught to be less identified with the

thoughts and simply noticing the event, as it is occurring, with a sense of

acceptance.

/. For chronic pain : he individual is made aware of the role their cognitions

and emotions play in pain. Hypnotic suggestions are given to the individual

to help increase his tolerance to chronic pain.

0. For su!stance use disorders : Hypnosis helps by creating motivation

through suggestions, changing the meaning the substance has to the

individual and mindfulness helps the individual to become more aware of

his urges"cravings without identifying with them and reacting in automatic

habitual manner.

In conclusion, our review indicates that mindfulness based hypnotherapy

has promise in the treatment of a variety of psychological disorders.