(This blog was originally posted on June 15, 2014)
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I
always consider right brain/left brain theory when I work with my hypnotherapy
clients. According to Hypnosis Motivation
Institute founder John Kappas, Ph.D., it refers to the most effective way
to communicate with a person based on his or her suggestibility and how the
client’s subconscious mind communicates with his or her conscious mind.
According to right brain/left brain theory, each hemisphere (half) of the brain
is responsible for processing information that it receives. The right
hemisphere is generally associated with symbols, pictures and images
(inferences), while the left processes language and words (direct and literal).
The hypnotic
script must emphasize direct and literal instructions to target the left
hemisphere of a physical-suggestible client, while images and metaphors are
more to likely to activate the right hemisphere of an emotional-suggestible
client’s brain. (Someone who has emotional suggestibility will understand and
process a direct and literal suggestion, although those phrases may not
resonate as strongly with this person.) When a client is in a deeper state of
hypnosis, he or she can’t relate to the world in terms of words. At this is fourth-level
stage of amnesia—which is associated with the right hemisphere of the brain—pictures
and images (metaphors) are required to facilitate communication between the
right and left hemispheres of the brain. Those words are intended to instantly
call up a picture/image, emotion or sensation that the subconscious mind instantly
recognizes and understands to increase the effectiveness of the hypnosis script and the
hypnotherapy.
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