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The common--though incorrect--perception is that hypnotherapists only put people INTO trance. But a vastly significant percentage of the work a good hypnotherapist does is help people OUT of the unhealthy trances they're in.
Take a look around and see if it isn't so! Who doesn't have an IPOD attached to their head or a phone on their ear? Who isn't spending hours staring at a TV or hooked into the internet. Our culture is now almost entirely media driven""we're surrounded (all the time!) by advertising, media, and even music that tells us what we need, who to love, and what drugs to take to make us happy.
We don't know who we are or what we're doing here, but we are convinced that Viagra or a breast implant will somehow make it all better.
There are more pervasive cultural delusions that I can go through in one article but this is a brief list.
1. Viral Fear
2. Moritis
3. The Eruption of Ugly
4.The I'm-1-N-1 Virus
All of these are pandemic in proportion and are driving American culture headlong into the critical care unit. Is there a fix for them? I think so.
Viral Fear
Viral Fearis the oil for the American drive shaft.
It moves the market because it moves us to buy. We believe we need something because we get convinced that the absence of it puts us at grave risk""for attack, hemorrhoids, loneliness, heart failure or social scorn. We pour more pharmaceuticals into our bodies than ever, yet we have more heart disease, panic attacks, isolation, and asthma in this country than ever before. And with all the surveillance, bombs, and barricades we've erected around us we are still the most frightened we've ever been""which is exactly where Madison Avenue wants us.
Because when we're afraid, we're needy. And when we're needy like that, we'll buy anything.Including bad ideas, bad politicians and ultimately sign on for bad policies.
Moritis
The second American disease follows the first in both style and substance. It is consumption""not the tubercular one that plagued the weak, poor and malnutritioned in the late 1800's, but the modern, psychological version of it in which we never have enough.
What's in your garage? In your cabinets? When you walk through your neighborhood, what do you see in their yards, their storage areas? How much of it do you think you (or they) actually use in a year, in a decade? My assumption""if my experience is anything like yours""is that you use very little of what you have. And that you need even less than that.
