How Hypnosis Helps With Procrastination

Hypnosis is known for its quality of helping people get over their negative behavior patterns and learn to think and act positively instead. There are hundreds of sufferers who tried in vain to grapple with some problem, who actually report tremendous improvement, even healing, thanks to regular sessions with their hypnotherapist. Hypnosis works to reverse many inhibiting tendencies in a person’s psyche, thereby releasing him from mental or physical trauma of some kind.

In this article, we look at how hypnosis can help with the most common condition of procrastination. Procrastination happens when one constantly keeps deferring his actions or duties to a later date. While there are times when we have to postpone some activities for later, taking this tendency to the extreme can end up being highly counterproductive to our entire life.

Hypnotherapy tries to deal with the procrastination issue using the following method:

• Bringing the problem to the patient’s notice

This nasty problem is sometimes so deep-rooted in the patient’s subconscious that it has to be literally dug out of his mind! We humans function largely on the pain/pleasure phenomenon. We very readily do a thing when we derive great pleasure out of it. But the minute we find a thing painful in some way, we start trying to avoid the activity altogether. In this case, the procrastination happens because the person in question finds that particular activity painful or even downright boring!

Here, the hypnotherapist brings to his patient’s notice the real reason behind his avoidance, behind the procrastination. This awareness itself helps him more than half the way.

• Creating a plan to ring in change 

Once the root reason has been found, the next step is to bring about a change in the person himself. The idea is to get him see the job as pleasurable and not the other way round, so that he would more willingly go toward its completion.

Here, the hypnotherapist would probably ask him to change his lifestyle or functioning. For instance, if the participant disliked a particular chore, he would be asked to take more breaks in between, so as to make it less tedious. Also, he could reward himself each time he successfully fulfill a deadline. In that way, he would sail through the journey in the hope of reaching its end more quickly.

• Giving positive suggestions

People very often think that hypnosis involves putting someone into this deep, unending trance, where the participant becomes a mere puppet in the hands of some evil, conniving hypnotist!

In truth, though, hypnotherapy helps the participant shed the inhibitions his subconscious mind created for him and becomes more flexible to positive suggestions and affirmations. In hypnosis, the person is normally consciously aware, though he is transported to a lighter state of mind, very similar to the initial stages of sleep.

The hypnotherapist first guides him to this state by suggesting certain bodily changes to him, such as eyelids growing heavy, breathing more deeply and so on. Once the participant starts to doze off, the therapist starts to verbally suggest positive affirmations to him. He then asks him to visualize how great he would feel going back to the chore and how pleasurable the entire experience would be from now on. This suggestion is given with the intention of bringing about the desired change in the person concerned.

• Testing final results
  

The last step of the process is to evaluate the rate of change in the individual. Once the subject responds positively, the technique is reinforced so as to make the new habit come automatically to him. This technique of alternate healing can now help him to get over his habit of procrastination in all walks of life, thereby helping him get more efficient, organized and, ultimately, successful in all his ventures!

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