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帮我忘记这个人

作为催眠治疗师(确切地说,是认知行为催眠治疗师或催眠-CBT治疗师),我时不时遇到来访者提出这种目标。通常,他们想忘记某人,一段感情,或完全忘掉一段记忆(通常还是与某个特定的人有关)。

自然地,基于科学和我们对人类思维的了解,理性的大脑会告诉我们这实际上是不可能的,对吗?然而,当涉及到催眠和催眠疗法时,人们通常会“失去理智”,在催眠领域里,似乎能实现在其他任何地方都不可能实现的一切!?

这同时是正确和错误的。的确,我们可以通过催眠来成就许多大小事,我们更自信地生活,我们变得更加敢于表达自己,我们更快乐,我们能面对最大的恐惧,我们更加按照价值生活,我们戒掉各种不良习惯,我们更好地享受生活,我们达到我们最大的潜力,我们可以更好地处理危机和压力,我们可以管理以前无法承受的痛苦和创伤,我们……忘记某人?

我经常向他们解释,只要我们相信,我们就可以通过催眠实现很多事情。确实,头脑的力量是巨大的。但是这个目标是唯一的例外。不幸的是,我们的思想和记忆并没有像我们期望的那样发挥作用。它们与书橱上个别存储各种文件的文件夹不同,可以经常参阅和置放却不会被影响(就像您在动画 Inside Out!中看到的那样)。

在动画中,记忆“球体”像文件夹一样独立摆放在架子上。

我们的大脑(心),身体,情感,感觉,行为和思想都相互关联,我们的记忆也相互关联。每次您回忆起“上学第一天”时,您都会更改记忆中的一部分(取决于您回忆时的心境和状况等),并且加强与之相关的一些其它记忆链接,并削弱一些不相关的记忆链接。

想象一下,如果您想忘记这个男朋友,一段外遇感情或一个不幸逝世的孩子,而我能够用催眠将它带走,那么与之相关的其他回忆,与之相关的人和事件又如何呢?怎样填补没有了记忆的岁月和时间?也许我可以在催眠里自由“补充”些什么…?

是的,就创造虚假的记忆而言,催眠是一个很好的工具,这是有大量科学研究根据的。您可能会在催眠过程中“回忆”一些比真实感觉更真实的东西,但是那不是真实的……您可以在以下视频中观看更多:为什么您的记忆不能被相信 (需要的话,你可以点选中文字幕自动翻译):

没错,我们不能删除记忆,而创建虚假的记忆来代替它们是不道德的(毕竟所有催眠治疗师都不是上帝,谁来决定您的生活故事并随意地改变它?但是不可否认的是,有一些催眠疗法会这么做,这点也许我们下回再讨论)。

但这并不意味着催眠治疗师或心理治疗师将无济于事。 我实行循证催眠疗法,我可以使用催眠治疗来帮助您学习接纳这个人或记忆或婚外情等作为您“人生历史”的一部分,让它对您的影响变小,学会与之共处并继续前进,而不会干扰您的日常生活。 我也可以使用催眠来促进适当的总结这段关系,告别这段关系和记忆。 试想想,如果它不再对您的生活造成多少影响,对您来说仍然是一个问题吗?

生活教练

这年轻的女生于去年7月左右与我联系,告诉我说她不认为自己有严重的心理问题,但需要帮助。当我第一次见到她时,她说她想重考SPM考试,但一直缺乏动力。而且已经拖了2-3年还没去考。

我不太习惯接受相对“健康”的来访者/患者。通常,我的大部分患者的任何抑郁/焦虑或情绪困扰量表上的得分都很高。但是那时我想接收一些不同类型的来访者,所以我和她开始合作解决她的问题,例如拖延症,处理愤怒和恐惧等负面情绪,处理忧虑和负面思想,建立常规和练习好的生活习惯,还有一些冲动行为的问题。

我们并没有花费很长时间或很多次咨询,大多数治疗目标均已实现。我最近与她联系,她说她目前在等待SPM的成绩的同时正在做咖啡师的工作。

我意识到这原本就像我常在治疗快结束时(当病情稳定得多时)或当他们正在服药并由精神专科医生转介给我时(他们第一次见我时,症状已相对缓解),常做的事情。我还认为,这其实是很多人需要的,尤其在他们积累了很多无法解决的问题之前,对自己的感觉越来越糟之前,开始陷入沮丧或其他心理问题之前,就该得到的帮助。

因此,我决定写这篇关于“生活教练”(或生活指导, life coach)的文章,给予一些不见得患有心理问题,但需要一些生活上的帮助、引导的人。一般上,可以使用催眠、基于正念的CBT(认知行为疗法)和ACT(接受和承诺疗法)来得到帮助。

如果您希望达到以下目标,请在下方评论或与我联系(电子邮件hello@huibee.com或whatsapp 0172757813):

  • 变得更自信
  • 对特定领域/情况更有信心
  • 学习/工作更有动力
  • 厘清您的人生/职业/未来目标
  • 解决拖延症!
  • 解决生活中的特定问题
  • 成为更好的问题解决者
  • 厘清您的人生价值/方向
  • 开始为实现目标而采取行动
  • 变得更具情感弹性
  • 处理负面情绪,思想和忧虑
  • 更加集中注意力并更好地控制注意力(提高集中力与专注时长)
  • 更好的沟通
  • 更好地表达情感和感觉
  • 执行您的健身和饮食计划,以保持或减轻体重
  • 应对各种恐惧(例如与上司/权威人物谈话,黑暗,身高,约会等)
  • 畅所欲言并捍卫自己的权利
  • …和更多

Is hypnosis for me?

Is hypnosis/hypnotherapy for me?

Try these!

Exercise 1 – Postural Suggestion:

  1. Stretch both of your arms in front of you at shoulder level, palms facing up. With eyes closed, imagine a pile of books being stacked on your right palm.
  2. Imagine a couple more books, and then a couple more books being stacked on top of those books on your right palm. Feel the strain in your arm as it gets heavier and heavier, heavier and heavier.
  3. Now imagine a huge balloon filled with helium has been tied to your left wrist and is tugging it up into the air ….higher and higher ….higher and higher.
  4. Open your eyes and notice where your arms are relative to each other.

Exercise 2 – Postural Sway:

  1. Stand up with your eyes closed and imagine holding a big heavy suitcase in your left hand.
  2. Imagine bigger and bigger suitcases weighting down your left side, pulling you over.
  3. After 2 or 3 minutes, open your eyes and notice any changes in your posture.

Make sure you read the instructions clearly, then only you close your eyes and try them.

Most people who try these two exercises notice that their bodies/arms move at least a little in response to these suggestions (Exercise 1 works particularly well for me). If you don’t notice any movement, practice the exercises a few more times. If you still don’t notice even the slightest amount of movement, hypnosis may not be for you!

Also, some contraindications of hypnosis include people who are disorientated due to organic brain syndrome or psychosis, people who are severely mentally retarded, and people who are paranoid or hypervigilant. So these people shouldn’t be performing self-hypnosis or being hypnotised.

Where to find Hypnosis or Hypnotherapy in Malaysia?

I’ve come across this question three days in a row, of people asking for hynotherapist in Klang Valley or Kuala Lumpur or Malaysia.

All the while I never really mentioned to people that I’ve a diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy (accredited by the UK College of Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy), especially ever since I came back from the UK. I thought the Malaysians would hold so many misconceptions about hypnosis that if I were to tell people about this qualification of mine, people were going to be worried what I was going to do to them! (Make them give me all their savings?!)

But these people that I spoke to kind of change what I thought, although some of their beliefs of what hypnosis can do are still not quite true or slightly exaggerated (based on my training background of evidence-based cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy & clinical psychology).

Here I’d like to introduce a few basic introductory (text) books to self-hypnosis, mainly cognitive behavioural based and empirically supported, you can learn more about them and perhaps try to practise them at home, do let me know if you have come up with any problems or obstacles. Not that I’ll definitely be able to answer all your questions BUT I do know a number of therapists in the UK who use hypnosis to help people in their own private clinics.

Books: 

Alladin, A. (2008). Cognitive Hypnotherapy: An Integrated Approach to the Treatment of Emotional Disorders.

Heap, M. & Aravind, K. (2002). Hartland’s Medical & Dental Hypnosis (4th ed.)

Lynn, S. J. & Kirsch, I. (2005). Essentials of Clinical Hypnosis: An Evidence-based Approach (Dissociation, Trauma, Memory, and Hypnosis Book Series)

Robertson, D. (2012). The Practice of Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy: A Manual of Evidence based Clinical Hypnosis. (my review here)

Straus, R. A. (1982). Strategic Self-Hypnosis.

(The Alladin’s and Lynn & Kirsch’s text books are easy to understand, especially when you have some backgrounds in psychology or practicing self-help; The Robertson’s book is the most extensive resources on CBH you can ever find!)

Websites:

A wide range of resources about what hypnotherapy can do, a private clinic in South Manchester: Manchester Hypnotherapy & Counselling

N.B. If you do come across any hypnotherapist in Malaysia please do share it here!