{"id":494,"date":"2014-11-07T18:07:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T18:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/integrativemedicine.org\/go\/?p=494"},"modified":"2024-06-28T18:08:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T18:08:03","slug":"using-hypnosis-to-be-better-at-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/integrativemedicine.org\/go\/using-hypnosis-to-be-better-at-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Hypnosis To Be Better At Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forbes
\n7-11-2014
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Using Hypnosis To Be Better At Business<\/strong><\/p>\n

Entrepreneurs and executives use many tools and rituals to stay focused and get ahead. Jack Dorsey assigns business themes to each day of his workweek, Winston Churchill worked from his bed each morning, and President Harry Truman would down a shot of bourbon after a brisk walk each morning before his days toiling in the oval office. But some leaders follow slightly more mysterious regimens to hone their psychological prowess.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s remarkable just how many celebrities use hypnosis\u2014how many CEOs and heads of production companies,\u201d says Dr. Steve G. Jones, a hypnotherapist based in Savannah, Georgia, who charges $25,000 for two hour sessions with top executives, actors, directors and producers. \u201c\u2026It\u2019s sort of a secret weapon for a lot of very successful, very wealthy people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones spends the first hour of his sessions simply speaking with his clients to get to know them and understand the goals they wish to achieve through hypnotherapy. \u201cI\u2019m looking for what it is that\u2019s getting in their way,\u201d he says. \u201cSometimes it\u2019s just a life event\u2014divorce, someone died, some sort of illness, they got fired.\u201d Jones also searches for his clients\u2019 strengths, or a hero they have that\u2019s real or imagined that he can use to inspire their subconscious selves.<\/p>\n

As far as goals are concerned, mostly it comes down to money. \u201cUsually they say, \u2018I want to make X amount of money per year,\u201d says Jones. \u201cThat\u2019s not really a juicy enough goal. It\u2019s got to be something that there\u2019s passion about.\u201d Instead, he zeros in on what his client could create that\u2019s positive that might result in a large payday.<\/p>\n

Hour two of Jones\u2019 sessions consists of the actual hypnosis. \u201cI get them focused on the success they\u2019ve had in the past and anchor them to that so they can move through that in the future,\u201d he says. If clients have not had tremendous successes, he has them imagine what success might feel like \u2013 or to grasp onto their strengths or personal hero \u2013 and connects them to those emotions to boost their confidence. Though it\u2019s difficult to calculate \u2013 and all patients are different \u2013 Jones claims the effects of his sessions last an average of six months.<\/p>\n

Hour two of Jones\u2019 sessions consists of the actual hypnosis. \u201cI get them focused on the success they\u2019ve had in the past and anchor them to that so they can move through that in the future,\u201d he says. If clients have not had tremendous successes, he has them imagine what success might feel like \u2013 or to grasp onto their strengths or personal hero \u2013 and connects them to those emotions to boost their confidence. Though it\u2019s difficult to calculate \u2013 and all patients are different \u2013 Jones claims the effects of his sessions last an average of six months.<\/p>\n

Cramer soon found that the clients she gravitated to more profoundly were those in need of help overcoming obstacles in the entrepreneurial and business realm. Not surprising since she\u2019s a bit of a serial entrepreneur herself, running a small marketing firm and soon to launch an online security company called Tokinu.<\/p>\n

Today Cramer works primarily with clients focused on maximizing their effectiveness in business, operating entirely through internet connection from her home in Wausau, Wisconsin. \u201cIf somebody is terrified of public speaking and they need to have that skill to further their business or their career, hypnosis is a really effective technique,\u201d she says. \u201cBut I also attract a lot of clients that just have extreme stress and anxiety.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hypnotherapy encouraged FORBES contributor Vanessa Loder to leave a decade-long career in finance and private equity that she loathed. \u201cI knew that I wanted to quit my job and do something entrepreneurial but I didn\u2019t know what I wanted to do and I felt scared.\u201d<\/p>\n

Loder says that while hypnotized she relived moments of a past life in which she was a troubled troubadour who died before her time and never realized her potential\u2014a singer who never got to sing. \u201cI just started crying\u2014it was as if something in me was unlocked,\u201d Loder remembers. \u201cThat was one of the moments when I realized that I would never be happy in finance, that I needed to quit my job.\u201d Today she is an inspirational speaker, writer and executive coach with her own company, Akoya. She\u2019s also a hypnotherapist herself now.<\/p>\n

NLP<\/p>\n

Another tool entrepreneurs, businesspeople and leaders can use to communicate more effectively is neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). The practice focuses on the use of body language to express emotion, send messages to others and command the attention of those with whom you\u2019re speaking. FORBES spoke with Rachel Hott, of the NLP Center of New York , to learn more about how it can be used by the career-oriented. According to Hott, NLP can be most simply described as \u201can awareness of communication both non-verbally and verbally.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to placing emphasis on making sure your body language matches your message, NLP encourages its practitioners to watch how others speak, sit or behave. By matching them and understanding how they communicate, one is more able to achieve their trust and connect with them. \u201cEntrepreneurs have to sell their ideas,\u201d says Hott. \u201cThey have to meet with investors or meet with potential customers.\u201d Dressing, behaving and even speaking \u2013 voice, tone and tempo \u2013 strengthens the connection and builds rapport. \u201cThat approximation of nonverbally saying \u2018we\u2019re the same.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Hott says she\u2019s worked with business owners who were toiling to get startups off the ground. In those cases, unlocking their belief in themselves was key. \u201cThey really needed to feel ready to meet with investors and a lot of the work was about how to connect with their level of confidence and competence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Entrepreneurs can also use NLP on themselves. Says Hott: \u201cWhat do you need to say to yourself to get the next task done? What do you need to see yourself in your successful moment? We explore how you talk to yourself, how you visualize, what you imagine you would feel like\u2014we set up more outcome-oriented statements to help others.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conspiracy theorist have pinned President Barack Obama as a practitioner of NLP, claiming that his use of rhythm and tone in speeches is part of a subliminal form of hypnotism used to influence the masses. Crazy-talk aside, leaders and ambitious figures have used body-language, verbal cadence, mild hypnosis, expressions of emotion and symbolism to stoke the fervor of groups of people for generations, from the steps of the Athenian acropolis to the locker rooms of high school football teams. Might mass inspiration be the product of a form of hypnotism? Perhaps. Either way, entrepreneurs across the spectrum would do well to further develop their grasp of the psychological arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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