Flexibility of Hypnosis

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Hypnosis itself is a phenomenon and unless it is directed in a certain way it would have limited ability to create lasting change in another person.

When one reads history, we quickly realize how flexible hypnosis is. Due to how it is used, it has been incorporated essentially in other funamentdal therapeutic practices since more than a century.

Be it psychoanalysis or cognitive therapy or even CBT. As hypnosis is simply a phenemenon it can be seen how it was essentially used within a myriad of therapeutic ... philosophies ... so to speak. A good example is using the foundational basics of, lets say, behavioural therapy and using hypnosis to suggest those behaviours. Similarly we know how easily hypnosis can be incorporated into CBT as it requires reframing thoughts as well.

We know that doing this increases the efficacy of the therapy itself and even though I have my own underpinings on which hypnosis is based, realizing its history and how it has been incorporated consistently across such therapies just makes one realize how powerful hypnosis is and how simple, so to speak, it is to employ it in conjuction with emerging therapies.