Talk To Your Injuries – Words Can Start The Healing

When you were little and you hurt your knee, did your mum ‘kiss it better’? If so, those words could have started the healing process. According to hypnotherapist John Weir, those words have given a healing suggestion while you were in a state of altered consciousness, otherwise known as pain.

John Weir is 26 years old, has a degree in psychology and has been working as a full time hypnotherapist for six years. He is also Board certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists and is committed to raising awareness of hypnosis. World renowned hypnotherapist Tom Nicoli believes John is a rising star in the hypnosis profession.

John believes that when your brain is in an altered state, such as in the aftermath of an accident, the reassuring, positive words of aid workers, medical staff or firemen, could mean the difference between life or death. The words can start to heal the mind whilst the body is being bandaged. Doctor’s assistants in California and police in Michigan are being taught special techniques in the art of healing with words.

John is aware that hypnotherapy still has a difficult time extracting itself from the influence of and association with the ‘evil’ stigma or ‘entertainment’ of stage hypnotism. It is not too surprising then that John was first convinced of the power of hypnosis when he watched as a stage hypnotist balanced his sister’s petite frame between two chairs and stood upon her back. What amazed John was how his sister said she felt no pain and in fact, felt much better afterwards than she had before the show.

In an interview with the Pittsburgh City Paper, John describes when he was hypnotised for the first time and how another hypnotherapist stopped his desire to smoke in just 15 minutes. John knows that all hypnosis is really self-hypnosis as we are entirely in control, and suggestions work because the hypnotherapist is simply telling the client to take control of themselves and their actions.

As John himself says,

“We’ve got the greatest computer between our ears, now we’re figuring out the user manual.”