Can hypnosis enhance creativity?
In his article Writers Thrive On Anxiety, hypno-psychotherapist Dr. Bryan Knight declares that hypnosis can help writers in a number of ways - helpful for other artists as well as writers, of course: “first, in lowering anxiety, second, in dealing with our own negative self-talk, third, in providing motivation to stop procrastinating, fourth, in building self-confidence (hypnotherapy is excellent in that regard), fifth, in releasing the creative power of the subconscious.”
He quotes Ralph Keyes, author of The Courage to Write: “Many authors enter a trance-like state as they write. Distractions disappear. Anxiety is put on hold. After what seem like minutes, writers glance at the clock and see they’ve been working for hours. Writers often end a working session unable to recall a word they’ve written.”
In his article Creative self hypnosis, painter Robert Genn talks about using techniques from experiments with students at the Architectural Foundation in London, England, including “trance inducing music.”
The image is from the article Hypnosis Can Spawn Unlimited Creativity, by Clinical Hypnotherapist Steve G. Jones, who explains that hypnosis “works to relax an individual to the point that ideas and images can be suggested and put to use.. to think in more creative terms. This works because the signals and messages that spark creative thinking are already within the person. It is just a matter of relaxing the mind to the point that they are unleashed.”
He offers a number of MP3 programs such as Unlimited Creativity Self Hypnosis.
Another resource for hypnosis products is Wendi.com. Clinical Hypnotherapist Wendi Friesen notes “We are constantly hypnotizing ourselves. I think that sometimes we are our own worst enemy, when we call ourselves names, or put ourselves down and reinforce fears and limitations.”
Working with a therapist or using a self-hypnosis program can help change that, so we are more free to be creative.
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April 13th, 2007 at 8:02 am
Yes!