I have been hypnotized hundreds of times over the past 5 years or so, both directly by hypnotherapy professionals, by recordings of all sorts and through self hypnosis. Something I have noticed time and time again, is no matter how deeply I go into trance, I seem to have a strong resistance to certain words or phrases.
One word that in the past has been guaranteed to pull me right out of trance, cause muscle twitches and often weakening the effectiveness of an entire session is "Power". For some reason, I abreact (highly emotional response during hypnosis) whenever someone mentions that word to me while I am in trance. Not only have I noticed it, but at least two hypnotherapists working with me have noticed it as well.
Phrases like "You have the power to succeed." or "Your power to improve your life is increasing", etc...tend to actually impede my progress instead of helping me.
In some intense hypnosis work over the last few weeks, I realized that one of my key beliefs from since I was very young is based around that old saying "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Now imagine applying this deep seated belief to a new concept like "You have the power to succeed."
Can you imagine how those two ideas could cause havok in a persons life. Either you use the power to succeed and thus become corrupted, or you don't and therefore you never succeed.
In working on removing my blocks against the idea of power, and getting rid of that internal link between power and morality I have been working on some files to help myself out.
One of the things that I have been doing is using some of the modelling concepts used in NLP to examine concepts of power...man did I open a can of worms. There are at least 44 DIFFERENT meanings of the word power...its can be used as a noun, an adjective, a verb or an adverb...talk about a word that invites ambiguity.
Since the subconscious mind is literal not logical, I have come to the conclusion that the word "power" probably causes a lot of people problems because its invites the sub-conscious to misinterpret every thing that is said in conjunction with it. Can you imagine how a person who has a strong disbelief in Psychic "Power" could have trouble with other types of power if the subconscious mind lumps them all together under the word "Power"
Any way, I wanted to get some opinions about whether a set of files focusing on Personal Empowerment by Refining and Redefining Power would be of interest to the group, and also just start up a thread of potential interest in the process.
One thing if anything else you should hopefully get out of this thread is that you should be careful in how and in what context you use the word "Power" in hypnosis because it is a symantical nightmare that has a lot of potential for misinterpretation.
Rob