Anne wrote:
>I've been reading with interest all the posts regarding positive
>affirmations and it reminded me of something. Quite a few years ago I
>sang for some competition in Baltimoreand I was so nervous about it I
>went to a hypnotist so I wouldn't be nervous. Well, the day came, no
>nerves, totally calm and the most boring and lifeless performance of
>"Steal Me, Sweet Thief" in music history. The next day my nervousness
>hit and my knees began to shake. I had forgotten to have the
>hypnotherapist give the right positive suggestion, like having energy,
>etc. I never did that again.
That's the big problem suggestion has: it may mask a problem and make it
rise to the surface in a different and harder-to-assess fashion. Hipnosis is
practiced nowadays with much more care, and certainly avoiding suggestions.
It should be used to facilitate the access to repressions, beliefs, traumas,
etc, not to change them. Affirmations, theoretically saying, are of the same
nature. Theoretically saying again: 'Affirmationists', take care! ;-)
Bye,
Caio
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