Hypnotherapy Helps Entrepreneurs Succeed

Copious research supports hypnosis as a valid method for treating insomnia, stress and other mental health problems.

1. It Relaxes You Enough to Pause on Obsessing About Your Problems

When you run into snafus in your business, it triggers your body’s stress response. This stress response keeps your mind in a problem-focused state as opposed to a solution-focused state.

According to the Cleveland Clinic, hypnotherapy uses “guided relaxation, intense concentration, and focused attention” to achieve a heightened trance-like state. This heightened state is so intense that it can bypass the stress you’re feeling, which means that the stress hormones that would have been building can take a hike.

When you come out of hypnotherapy even after a quick 10-minute recording your previous stress is significantly reduced or eliminated, allowing you to approach the problem from a different mindset.

2. You Can Finally Sleep Like You’ve Been Dreaming About

According to a Swiss research team, short hypnotherapy audios can help you spend two-thirds less time awake as your mind is grinding away. The study also found that the participants who use the hypnosis audio spent 80 percent more time in deep sleep. Deep sleep is critical, as it strengthens memory, fortifies your immune system, and restores your energy. Those are all vital components to helping entrepreneurs perform at their best.

3. Hypnotherapy Eliminates Pesky Negative Thoughts that Keep You Stuck

Hypnotherapy has been used by leading athletes, including Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and Olympic gold medalist Mary Lou Retton to help them dominate by eliminating negative thoughts. 

Hypnotherapy can help you to have a similar competitive advantage in your niche. Hypnotherapists focus on guided imagery and future pacing to help their clients see themselves as having already achieved their outcome, and ease the subconscious into the idea that it’s already happened.

4. It Can Improve Your Mental Health

Entrepreneurs have significantly higher rates of mental illness than the general population. A recent study found that 49 percent of entrepreneurs surveyed were dealing with some form of mental illness, such as depression or ADHD.

Hypnotherapy can be a useful part of a treatment plan for mental health issues. As hypnotherapy helps rewire neural pathways, it can shift your attention away from unfocused, depressive, or anxiety-ridden thoughts towards happier, more positive outcomes.

For example, hypnotherapist and psychotherapist Fayina Cohen says that anxiety is a negative form of self-hypnosis, so combatting it with hypnotherapy helps the brain to rewire itself towards positive self-hypnosis instead.

5. Hypnotherapy Helps You Confront Fear

As an entrepreneur, you’re continually tackling new things, and many of them require confronting your fears.

Take public speaking, for example. Almost everyone has a negative public speaking memory from childhood that leads to a life-long fear of public speaking. Hypnotherapy can help you deal with that fear through positive suggestion and visualization.

Hypnosis can inhibit fear pathways in the brain, and reduce the need for medication in everything from dental procedures to flying.

Edited by: 浪子

Bibliography

Erika Ashley. (2018). 5 Science-Backed Ways Hypnotherapy Helps Entrepreneurs Succeed. 
Retrieved from https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/320118