Hypnosis CD's vs One-to-One
Treatment
What's
best?
Whenever
we are about to invest money, whether it be a tin of baked
beans, or a complete new hi-fi, we ask ourselves the question
what's best? Where will we get the best value for our money?
Where will we get the best return for our investment? Now
where we all differ is in what we consider best. For some
of us, value is the most important so we go for the lowest
price that does the job (covers the toast, or plays CD's).
For others it's quality so we go for best we can afford (tastes
divine, or makes you feel like you're standing right next
to the band).
These
choices seem fairly simple but they are much more complicated
than that. They are complicated by things like personal knowledge
(what we think we know), personal preferences (style,
design, taste), informative advertising (this product
does this in this way and it's new and innovative and better
than all the rest).
So
we might have to consider what additives, artificial colouring,
sweeteners, pesticides are in the beans. We might have to
take into consideration branding and choose a reliable name
that's been around awhile, or be modern and innovative and
take the heavily advertised newcomer that's totally healthy,
and it's on the telly so it must be good. Or might know all
about the difference between real watts and the sort they
mention in advertising when their kit doesn't have enough
of the proper ones. Or about woofers and squeakers or is it
tweeters and all that techno stuff that only makes sense if
you know the code. But again, apart from the mechanical performance,
there's 'sound', and branding and advertising and innovation
and you probably know an Aiwa won't sound quite like a Bose
kit, or Sanyo the same as Bang & Olufsen. But you might
be perfectly happy with any one of those if it sounds good
to you and is set at a price where you think you've got best
value for your money.
So
what's all this got to do with the title of this article?
It's
about making choices when you don't have enough personal knowledge
to buy the best for you. It's about when you have a problem
and you've decided you'd like help and you don't want to waste
your money by spending it on something that doesn't help,
or doesn't help as much as something else would have done.
There's no feeling worse than feeling that you've just wasted
your money on the wrong thing, because someone with more knowledge
comes along later and tells you that you should have bought…
Hypnosis,
unless you've experienced it at the hands of a good therapist
(rather than an entertainer), is a subject most people
know very little about. But it's a subject you're bound to
know someone who thinks they know all about.
For
the majority hypnosis is associated with stage shows, after
that it helps people to stop smoking and after that it helps
people to lose weight and after that they use it in past-life
regression and after that there isn't any after that. But
this article isn't about what hypnosis can and can't do; it
is about the availability of treatment and the format that
treatment can take.
In
a one-to-one session you get to:
* have personal attention
* ask questions
* have a session that can be changed dynamically depending
upon your responses
* effective treatment
* deal with unusual problems that CD's don't normally cover
* know that you are safe because you have a professional
watching you
with
a CD you get to:
* enjoy low-cost treatment
* listen to a session as often as you like
* have much more practice at entering trance (you go deeper
the more you do it)
* enjoy treatment at a time and place that suits you
* portable treatment
* effective treatment
* feel safe because you are in a place of your own choosing
where you feel secure
* experience hypnosis if you just want to see what it's
like and if it works for you.
Like
the beans, or the hi-fi, what's best is what's best for you.
And what's best for you depends in part upon what you want.
If you want to go and see someone and it's important for you
to have someone listen to your story and give you personal
advice and help and guide you step-by-step back to wholeness,
and cost isn't a consideration then a one-to-one with a qualified
hypnotherapist is what's best for you.
If
you don't like talking about your problems; or you feel uncomfortable
about the idea of choosing a therapist from Yellow Pages;
if cost is a consideration, if the problem you want help with
is a problem for which CD's are readily available then buying
a CD and listening to it until you feel better is what's best
for you.
One
isn't better than the other. They are different. Both effective.
Both with advantages.
At
the end of the day what matters is that you make the right
choice for you, even if that's a CD for weight loss, and a
one-to-one for a phobia cure. The right choice for you is
the one that makes you feel pleased that you spent the money
because you feel good about the results, feel good about the
choice you made, and feel good about encouraging others with
the same problem to do what you did.
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