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hypnotherapy
self-hypnosis
psychospiritual approaches
definition
Many people find that the rest phase of their ultradian rhythm (a 90 to 120 minute basic rest-activity cycle which runs throughout the day) is the best time to meditate or do self-hypnosis. An ultradian approach to self-hypnosis utilizes natural psychobiological rhythms that are more deeply rooted in the state-dependent matrices of personality.
Stage 1. Recognizing and facilitating the ultradian healing response:
When you're tired, irritable, or simply feel the need to take a break, recognize it as a moment of opportunity to facilitate your natural ultradian healing response.
Stage 2. Accessing and utilizing inner resources:
Explore where the comfort is in your body. (pause)
Notice how it spreads and deepens, as you wonder about how your unconscious can therapeutically utilize your experiences of optimal healing and how it is able to deal with current problems all by itself.
Stage 3. Ratifying continuing ultradian healing and coping:
After awhile you'll notice that you're awake and aware of yourself. Recognize the comforting, healing changes that have taken place and resolve to do this again, a few times a day, whenever you need to.
Rossi recommends that people wonder how their unconscious will resolve whatever problem is presenting. Wondering is one of those words (like comfort, relaxation, sleep) that has a specific ideodynamic significance that goes beyond the cognitive meaning. He speculates that wondering facilitates a degree of dissociation for the habitual ego controls, which in turn may facilitate some of the creative aspects of right-hemispheric processing. Wondering absentmindedly during an ultradian rest period is a natural way of accessing and spontaneously reframing and resolving the state-bound encoding of a problem.
(Rossi, 1986, p. 138)
see:
bodymind psychobiology
converting a symptom to a signal
hypnotherapy: overview
hypnotherapy: techniques
hypnotherapy: guidelines and precautions
process paradigm
reframing
relaxation techniques
shifting cerebral hemispheric dominance
state-dependent learning
the shadow and physical symptoms
ultradian rhythms
footnotes