Neuro-Linguistic Programming Therapy

 

Neuro - Linguistic programming (NLP) is a set of principles and techniques aimed at enhancing self-awareness, increasing confidence, building communication skills, and motivating positive social actions.

NLP was created by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in the 1970s. It became popular in the commercial and self-help realms; however, there is no regulation of NLP, nor is there a widely-shared definition of the techniques that constitute NLP.

It is important to note that neuro-linguistic programming is not actually a form of psychotherapy. Although NLP techniques may be used to supplement conventional therapy, the empirical evidence for its efficacy is limited.

When It's Used

Neuro-linguistic programming has been applied to achieve personal development or work-related goals, including increasing productivity and moving forward in one’s career.

It has also been used in the treatment of mental health issues such as:

·        Anxiety

·        Depression

·        Fears and phobias

·        Poor self-esteem

·        Weight management

·        Substance misuse

·        Stress

·        Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Most studies addressing the effectiveness of NLP in treating these issues have been small in scale and have had mixed results.

What to Expect

Based on their sensory experiences, people develop their own preferred representational system (PRS) or unique way of viewing the world. Therapists may employ NLP techniques to identify their client’s specific PRS and adjust their communication style and therapeutic goals accordingly.

Some common NLP techniques include but are not limited to:

·   Anchoring: Associating an external or internal trigger with a healthier response until it becomes automatic

·   Belief changing: Replacing negative thoughts or beliefs that prevent the client from achieving their desires

·    Reframing: Putting a situation in a different context to elicit an adaptive reaction instead of following the same maladaptive behavioral patterns

·    Visualization: Forming a mental image of something the client wants

·   Visual-kinesthetic dissociation: Guiding the client in reliving trauma by evoking an imaginative out-of-body experience

  How It Works

Neuro-linguistic programming is intended to help clients understand their own minds and how they come to think and behave the way they do. With the aid of NLP techniques, clients can learn to manage their moods and emotions and "reprogram" the way they process information. At the same time, NLP is designed to help clients see why they have been successful in the past and determine how they can most easily and efficiently repeat that success in other areas of their lives. NLP therapists believe that their clients have the answers to their problems within themselves; it is simply a matter of helping them draw out those answers.

Therapists who practice NLP often start by building a rapport with their client, mirroring the client’s verbal and nonverbal behavior to create empathy and connection. They will gather information about the client’s objectives and identify problem areas to work on. Along the way, they may correct any language that leads to negative thinking and faulty communication. NLP-based therapy will conclude with a plan for how the client can continue to integrate the positive behavioral changes into their daily life.

NLP therapy can be short-term or long-term, depending on the individual and the extent of the problem.

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The Human Optimization Pyramid: Sleep, Nutrition, Fitness, Cognition, Happiness and Longevity

 

Performing at the top of your game requires optimizing your entire body, and maintaining a healthy baseline. As the saying goes, you’re only as fast as your slowest moving part, and if just one area of your body is lagging behind it will slow down the entire system!

But knowing where to start can be a challenge! Do you focus on your diet or exercise first? How do you set measurable goals? Sequencing is very important, which is why we have put together this step-by-step guide for anyone wanting to optimize their body from start to finish!

 

In this guide we walk through the human optimization pyramid, a simple protocol that you can follow to perform at your peak and kick more ass at life! Pretty cool right?

 

The aim of this guide is to help you overcome health related hurdles and generally get the most out of your body, by using evidence based science backed by reputable clinical data sources. To achieve an optimal state of being, one must take a Holistic and Systematic approach, whereby you look at your body as a set of individual systems that make up the whole, and optimize them in order of priority, from sleep, diet and fitness, to your cognition and longevity.

 

It’s all about identifying what needs to be improved, and taking steps toward enhancing each area of your body. Let’s get up and move to it.

 1. Sleep.

Introduction:

Good sleep is the bedrock of a healthy body. Without adequate sleep, we wake up feeling like zombies — tired and grumpy every subsequent hour of the day, with only one thing on our mind: Getting back into bed and closing our eyes.

 

Sleep is one of those things we all know we need more of, yet continue to neglect. Sleep gives you more energy during the daytime, improves your mood, helps you recover from physical activities, improves your immune system and just makes your body run smoothly.

 

According to the Sleep Association, up to 70 million US adults (20% of the US population) have a sleeping disorder. If we assume the same 20% ratio around the world, this would indicate that approximately 2.0 billion people have issues when it comes to sleep as of 2019! This is a crazy number. Even if it were only 1/10 of this figure, that’s still over 100 million people, which indicates sleep is clearly an issue for many individuals.

 

But not only that, 37.9% of people reported unintentionally falling asleep at least once a month! Without a coffee fix (in fact, several fixes!), many people can feel exhausted to such a degree during working hours that they become very unproductive and unhappy, which is a vicious cycle.

 

How can you improve your sleep?

Below is a list of methods that you can implement to improve your sleep.

  

1. Circadian Rhythm: We all have a built in clock called a circadian rhythm. It’s a 24-hour biological system that regulates our lives from a high-level, and governs certain highs and lows during each day. When one’s Circadian Rhythm is out of whack and not aligned with their daily schedule (such as a 9–5 work schedule), it can cause imbalance and chronic sleep deprivation.

2. Sleep Cycles: Directly related to Circadian Rhythms are sleep-cycles. Sleep cycles are a specific area of the circadian rhythm process (the part when you’re sleeping), which determine the quality of your sleep. Improve your sleep cycles (aka sleep states), especially getting more deep, uninterrupted sleep can help you feel much more recharged and refreshed every day.  

3. Environment: Environmental factors play a MASSIVE role in your sleep quality. Our bodies respond to light, noise and temperature in very predictable ways, on a chemical level. If you’re not sleeping in an environment that’s pitch black, completely silent and an ideal temperature, chances are you will not only find it hard to get to sleep in the first place, your sleep quality will be poor once you finally count your last sheep.  

4. Natural supplements: In addition to all of the habitual practices, you can take several natural supplements that will help ease you into a calm and sleepy state before bedtime.  

2. Diet.

Introduction:

A clean and healthy diet is like servicing your car. It ensures your hormones, mood, energy, biological processes and thousands of other bodily functions are working as effectively as possible.

Hippocrates’ famously said: “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”, which still remains one of the most highly accurate and important takeaways for overall health.

 

Our bodies rely on the vitamins, nutrients and minerals that are found in food. Quite simply, you are what you eat and absorb. If you eat crap you will feel like crap. If you eat well your body will respond and say “thanks”, and all of a sudden life becomes that little bit more enjoyable.

Unfortunately many people do not have healthy diets or lifestyles, which leads to serious medical conditions, and drastically impairs one’s overall potential from a health-span / life-space perspective.

 

According to the U.S. department of health and services, more than two-thirds (68.8 percent) of adults are considered to be overweight or obese, which is a clear sign of poor dieting and lack of exercise (mainly the former).

 

Second to the obesity epidemic, the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention reports that up to 10% of the U.S. population (32 million people) are deficient in key nutrients, such as Vitamin B6, Iron, Vitamin D, Vitamin C and B12. Another report suggests that only 10% of the U.S. population get their recommended Choline intake, a key precursor to the neurotransmitter Acetylcholine. A Choline deficiency can cause clinical illness in humans and impair cognitive function. It’s also estimated that up to 70% of the U.S population are deficient in Omega 3 Fatty Acids (EPA & DHA), which increases the risk of cardiovascular and cognitive diseases, as well as impairs learning abilities (especially in developing children).

 

As you can tell by the numbers, the facts speak for themselves! Hundreds of millions of people around the world who live in first world countries are obese, deprived of nutrients and overprescribed medications as a quick-fix for underlying health issues.

Instead of becoming part of the chronically ill population, make the choice to be part of the optimally performing group!

 

How can you improve your diet?

Below is a list of methods that you can implement to improve your diet.

 

1. Focus on a protocol, not some fad diet: Most of the time diets are just fads popularised by “celebrity doctors” and the mainstream media, based on little evidence and rather just a bunch of unproven pseudoscience, fooling people into thinking there’s some magic diet that will allow them to lose 20 pounds of fat in a week with “one simple trick”. So instead of searching for diets which are not tailored to your needs, focus on utilizing protocols that align with your goals. 

 

2. Meet your nutritional intake requirements: Our bodies have three main quotas that need to be fulfilled each day: Nutrition, Energy and Calories. Hitting this mark and not going over or under is the foundation to a healthy body.  

3. Fitness.

Introduction:

Though we assume EVERY adult on the planet knows this already, exercising regularly is important! Whether people practice it or not (which less than 5% of the population do per day), I’m sure we know we should be moving our bodies more!

 

Many people may think the purpose of exercise is primarily to maintain (or lose) weight, when in reality if you need to exercise in order to lose weight it indicates that you have an underlying dietary issue. In this context, exercise is of course useful for speeding up the process, and similarly a clear reason as to why you should adjust your diet at the same time. More important than weight loss (once you’re at a healthy weight anyway) is exercising for the many health and lifespan benefits!

 

Exercising regularly literally changes your brain. From improved memory and enhanced thinking skills, according to Harvard Health Publications, to offsetting neurological diseases like Dementia, improving cognitive function in general and boosting your mood, according to STAT.

 

And they’re just the cognitive benefits! What about the health benefits?

 

Well, in a systematic review from CMAJ (the Canadian Medical Association Journal) of clinical studies conducted on exercise, specifically, they found that regular exercise can reduce all-cause cardiovascular-related death, decrease risk of diabetes, reduce cancer risk factors and help with musculoskeletal fitness in the elderly.

In fact exercising has a dose-dependent relationship (to a point), meaning the more you do it the better your health outcomes will be.

 

All of that evidence should you enough to convince you that getting your daily dose of exercise is essential for a happy, healthy and long life!

 

How can you improve your fitness?

Below is a list of methods that you can implement to improve your fitness.

 

1. Choosing a health focused protocol: As we mentioned in the health guide, diets are not the right approach to take, rather it’s better to focus on a general protocol that is tailored to your goals. Well you guessed it, the same applies to exercising! Focus less on the latest two week celebrity fat burning programs, and rather focus your energy on building a routine that specifically helps you achieve your fitness goals. 

2. Building habits that stick: What’s the point of exercise if you can’t make it a habit, right? Exercise is about consistency, as is improving all the other areas of your health. An example of habit building is brushing your teeth after each meal, with the reward being the prevention of tooth-decay and brighter looking teeth. This reward is also neurological, as dopamine is released which expresses a pleasurable sensation, thereby giving the action a positive association. This positive association helps create cues that will intuitively remind you to do it again, as your body knows it will get a reward for doing so.  

3. Office best practices: With more and more people working at desks nowadays there’s a massive shift in how our bodies are utilized, namely there’s a significant reduction in movement which has many nasty side effects. Historically humans were very physically active, needing to hunt and gather food, explore new lands and generally enjoy the beauty that is nature. Ever since the industrial revolution this has changed, as many new forms of jobs have been created, which don’t involve a whole lot of movement. Not only is a lack of movement unhealthy for the body, but other things such as poor posture can lead to a lot of pain. So it’s important to practice healthy office habits, as it will lay the foundations for your fitness success.  

4. Mind.

Introduction:

Improving one’s mind is possibly the most powerful practice of the Human Optimisation Pyramid, in terms of the possibilities it opens.

 

Sleep, diet and fitness are all very much about the avoidance of negative outcomes (such as disease states and chronic illnesses), whereas cognitive enhancement is just that, enhancement!

 

It’s expanding your toolkit and going beyond your current capabilities, in order to quite literally take your mind to a new level. This distinction—albeit subtle—is quite important to understand.

 

To improve your mind you first need to enhance your body, by taking care of all the other systems (sleep, diet and fitness). Once they’re taken care of it’s time to explore new domains, and make use out of that 3 pound blob of neurological soup in your head, aka the brain. It’s a beautiful thing, irrespective of its blobby appearance.

 

Thankfully science has a relatively solid understanding of how neurotransmitters work in the brain, and what systems they influence. This allows one to partake in certain activities, utilise certain gadgets and ingest many classes of compounds that have many neurological and pharmacological effects on your brain and body, which in turn help us get a mental edge without negative side-effects.

 

How can you improve your mind?

Below is a list of methods that you can implement to improve your mind.

 

1. Mindfulness: This is the practice of centring your attention on the present moment, and immersing yourself in a deep and calming state of flow. Aside from the cliche photos and meditative-poses, mindfulness is a really powerful practice that can be utilised to stay calm. It’s a way of filtering out stressors that come up in everyday life, and respond to them in a calm and collected manner, instead of getting stressed whenever something out of the ordinary comes up. 
2. Meditation: Meditation comes in many forms! From classical meditation that involves focusing on your breathing and then bringing your mind’s attention to the present, to more pragmatic methods such as auditory stimulation, walking / running, flotation tanks and even psychedelics. Overall, meditation helps you break the train of your everyday thoughts to evoke the relaxation response, slowly shifting your body into a peaceful state allowing you to drift off to sleep. 
3. Vitamins and nutrients: Following on from the former diet section, it’s really important that your brain is getting all of the nutrients it needs to function properly, otherwise it won’t have the fuel to fire those synapses, which will lead to impaired cognitive performance and potential neurological damage. 
4. Auditory stimulation: We’re sure most people have heard the expression “music to my ears”, which is well known for a reason. As humans, we respond very acutely to sound, and certain audio-frequencies can really hit a chord, so to speak. We all know that feeling when we listen to a new song that instantly changes our state of mind, and has the ability to send shivers down our spine. We can go from feeling average to feeling upbeat and wanting to dance around in a matter of seconds! This is the powerful influence that sound has on our brain. There’s a range of audio frequencies that affects our brain in different ways. 
5. Brain training games: You may have heard the term “use it or lose it”, which suggests the less we challenge our mental muscle the more it fades away, especially with age. Brain games have been shown to provide a range of benefits, namely influencing neuroplasticity (the changes in neural connections), which keeps your brain healthy and active. The difference between the person who brainwashes themselves with reality TV everyday vs the person who takes that time to learn new things is dramatic. One is passive, and one is active. Just because you’re awake doesn’t actually mean you’re fully using your brain. There’s a few quick activities that you can do daily to improve brain functions such as short and long term memory, task switching, recall, reaction time, concentration and many more. 
6. Natural cognitive supplements: In addition to the many other brain boosting practices, there’s another category known as Nootropics, which are safe and natural nutrients for your brain that can improve several cognitive functions. While traditional supplements focus on “whole body” support, nootropics are very much oriented toward cognitive enhancement. 

5. Longevity.

Introduction:

Most of us would like to live longer, so long as we have happy and healthy lives. Luckily, there are things we can do today, with our current knowledge and technology, to extend our lifespans.

While there is a large genetic component to longevity, here at Hapi we estimate we can realistically alter lifespans +/-20% through the alteration of environmental factors such as lifestyle and therapy.

 How can you improve your longevity?

Below is a list of important longevity concepts and methods that you can implement to improve your health span and lifespan.

1. Improve your lifestyle habits: From reducing the consumption of toxic drugs like alcohol, to reducing your body fat, exercising more and getting great sleep, there’s several fundamental habits that you need to get right in order to improve your life-span. 
2. Oxidation: Reactive oxygen species can damage both mitochondrial and cellular DNA, and induce epigenetic and metabolic changes. As we age, there is an accumulation of these damages. We want to restore endogenous antioxidants like glutathione and buffer the antioxidant system so all of these reactive species are mopped up. 
3. Glycation: Over time, sugars in our blood will haphazardly bind to proteins and fats, leading to advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs). The accumulation of junk within and around cells is a major cause of aging — when enough of these damaged molecules accumulate the body starts to dysfunction. We can either prevent the production of AGEs inside the body, prevent the intake of AGEs from the environment, or increase their clearance from the body. 
4. Inflammation: Inflammation is a complex and multifaceted category of interactions between the immune system, cardiovascular system and molecular mediators. It is best to think of optimal inflammation as a balancing act — we want some, but not too much, well timed acute inflammation, and to avoid excess chronic inflammation. Day to day, we want to boost the readiness of the immune system without directly activating it, increase response to infectious agents while reducing chronically elevated inflammatory cytokines, and minimize auto-immunity. 
5. Immunosenescence: Related to inflammation is the concept of aging of the components of the immune system. Immune stem cells provide parent cells for the whole system, and if they become damaged over time then they lose self-renewal capacity and the whole immune system loses functionality — for example Natural Killer Cells become less powerful against pathogens, and antibodies become less diverse and lose affinity. 
6. Cellular and Mitochondrial DNA Repair: The programming code for up keeping the body’s cells, and the cell’s power stations (mitochondria), becomes scrambled or deleted over time. If there’s no code, then the body cannot make proteins properly and we see increases in risk of disease. 
7. Major Health Markers: Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease are the top two age-related killers. Early detection and treatment are paramount to surviving as long as you can. When it comes to cancer, doctors can measure many markers for tumors. 
8. Nutraceuticals: We’ve put our favourite longevity-promoting nutriceuticals together into a table. Realistically, not everyone will benefit from taking any/all of them, but if you’re taking a very proactive approach, or feel you need support in any of the categories, then it’s worth taking a look. 
9. Methylation: Is a way of talking about how the programming code in our cells is expressed. Even if we have great code, if the body isn’t reading and writing it properly then the body cannot make proteins properly and we see increases in risk of disease. 
10. Unique Pharmaceuticals: Two really promising pharmaceuticals that promote longevity are Rapamycin and Selegiline. 
11. Hormone Replacement Therapy: We think that as we age it is important to maintain youthful levels of most hormones. Hormone replacement therapy, like all other therapies, should be personalized. It is important to work with a longevity-friendly endocrinologist when establishing what are the correct dosages for you. Discuss with them this list of hormone replacement therapies, and after getting blood tests, see which are relevant to you. If you get tested and have high-normal levels of a certain hormone then there’s no reason to take anything to replace your natural levels. 

12.    Cryonics: Cryonics may seem like a silly science fiction, but it is an actual technology that exists today. If you plan on living a long time, you’ll need to take advantage of future medical technology. If you die before an effective treatment is invented, getting cryonically vitrified will give you a non-zero chance of being revived and treated in the future. If you do not get cryonically vitrified then your chances of survival after clinical death are zero.

Diagnosis and treatment of hysterical conversion reactions

 

It is a neurotic disorder characterized by a wide variety of somatic and mental symptoms resulting from dissociation, typically beginning during adolescence or early adulthood and occurring more commonly in women than men.

Hysteria, in its colloquial use, describes unmanageable emotional excesses. People who are "hysterical" often lose self-control due to an overwhelming fear that may be caused by multiple events in one's past that involved some sort of severe conflict; the fear can be centered on a body part or, most commonly, on an imagined problem with that body part.
Hysteria can be described as a type of psychoneurosis (minor mental health problem) causing emotional excitability, such as fear or panic, and disturbance of the sensory, motor and psychic functions of humans. It is described as an overwhelming and unmanageable excitable behavior and has no organic basis.
 
Medically, the term hysteria is no longer used. The disorder is broadly divided two: Somatization disorder and Histrionic personality disorder. The father of medicine – Hippocrates gave hysteria its name, as he thought it was limited to women and was somehow connected to the movements of the uterus (wandering uterus); in Greek the word for uterus is ‘hystera’.
 
Causes of Hysteria:
·        Past trauma
·        Conflict
·        Undue stress
·        History of abuse
·        Another theory proposed to be a cause of hysteria is repression of sexual or aggressive behavior, 

      which could have brought on a conversion disorder
·        Sexual repression
·        Excessive idleness
·        Heredity factors
·        Family history of nervousness
·        Faulty emotional training
·        Mental strain
·        Fear
·        Worry
·        Depression
·        Traumatism
·        Masturbation
·        Prolonged sickness
·        Brain tumor
·        Dementia
 
Symptoms and Signs of Hysteria:
 
Somatization disorder is a rare psychological condition where the individual has a long list of medical complaints but upon examination and investigation, no medical cause can be attributed to it. Symptoms include various aches, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain, sexual complaints like low libido and erectile dysfunction.
 
Histrionic personality disorder is one of many personality disorders. People who fall into this category are socially a success, but a failure at inter-personal relationships. They tend to dress and be provocative and talk about their emotions in an exaggerated fashion. They are usually shallow, self-centered and unhappy when they are not the center of attention.
 
 
Some of the common symptoms are mentioned below:
·        Partial paralysis
·        Temporary blindness or tunnel vision.
·        Sensory disturbances like heightened sense of sight, smell, touch and taste.
·        Involuntary movements like eyeball rolling inwards contracted facial muscles.
·        Abnormal muscle contractions causing person to have unnatural positions, for e.g. the leg may be 

      folded backwards. Heaviness in the limbs
·        Severe cramps
·        Strong feeling of ascending abdominal constriction
·        Continual sighing
·        Difficulty in breathing
·        Constriction in the chest
·        Palpitations
·        Feeling of a foreign body lodged in the throat
·        Swelling of the neck
·        Suffocation
·        Headache
·        Clenched teeth
·        Generalized and voluntary tensing of muscles of locomotion
·        Loss of consciousness
·        Violent and tumultuous heartbeats
·        Weakness
·        No willpower
·        Tendency towards emotional instability
 
Types of Hysteria:
 
Conversion Hysteria:
One type is the conversion disorder, in which a patient usually complains of a physical illness that has no medical cause. The other type is the dissociative disorder, in which the patient experiences interruptions in his memory, consciousness, and his awareness of his surroundings. Both types are said to have a common cause: a repressed or suppressed psychological or emotional experience that manifests itself in a physical manner.

Between the two types of hysteria, the conversion disorder is said to be more common.
Common symptoms include pain and inability to use a body part, such as not being able to lift one’s arms. A specific symptom called “astasia-abasia” refers to the patient’s inability to stand or sit up, but oddly enough, the person can easily move his legs when in a relaxed position, like lying down. In some cases, there is also an inability to use a sensory organ, such as blindness or deafness, or even a predomination of a certain sensation, such as constantly hearing a certain sound. When pain is not involved, partial paralysis or weakness can also be experienced.
One important criterion for diagnosing a conversion disorder is that the patient is not “faking it,” or just making up the pain. He actually feels the pain as real, although medical exams cannot find a proper cause for the pain. The physical symptoms also create difficulties in social and emotional well-being of the patient. Some disorders under conversion hysteria are body dimorphic disorder, hypochondriasis, and pain disorder.
 
Dissociative Hysteria:
In the other type of hysteria, the dissociative disorder, the patient has “spells” wherein he does not act like himself and often does not remember the incidents. The DSM Fourth Edition defines four disorders under the dissociative disorder, one of which is dissociative amnesia wherein a person fails to recall certain periods of time and information about her identity such as her address and family relatives. Usually, an object, a word, or a scene would trigger a sudden recall, although complete retrieval of memories might not happen.

 

Another well-known type of dissociative hysteria is dissociative identity disorder, in which the patient is observed to have several identities, the most assertive of which may suddenly emerge during especially stressful moments. These identity transitions are usually not remembered, but the patient usually comes to disoriented and confused.

 
Diagnosis of Hysteria:
The physician will take a thorough history of the symptoms causing concern to the person after which there will be a thorough examination. Investigations may be advised if a certain problem is suspected. If the examination and investigations are inconclusive, the physician may recommend a consultation with a psychiatrist or psychologist for further evaluation.

Some might feel that because there is no abnormal finding, the patient is faking it to just draw attention. But it is important to understand that the patient is disturbed, and wants the problem to go away.
 
Investigations include:
·        Routine investigations like blood, urine and stool tests as well as X-rays.
·        An EEG is important to check whether the electrical activity of the brain is within normal limits.
·        Blood levels of brain chemicals like serotonin, dopamine and noradrenaline can be done.
 
Treatment for Hysteria:
 
Conventional Therapy:
Conventional therapy offers little to treat those with hysteria. Drugs like antidepressants or anxiolytics can be tried if depression or anxiety co-exists. Painkillers for symptoms of backache, body-ache, headache etc. can be given for a short time.
 
Psychotherapy for Hysteria:
Psychotherapy is useful in encouraging the person to go through life daily with a positive attitude. Once the person develops coping strategies, his mind will stop converting the mental disturbance into a physical symptom, which is seen in somatization disorder.
Psychotherapy consists of a series of techniques for treating mental health, emotional and some psychiatric disorders. Psychotherapy helps the patient understand what helps them feel positive or anxious, as well as accepting their strong and weak points. If people can identify their feelings and ways of thinking they become better at coping with difficult situations.

Hypnotherapy for Hysteria:
The term "hypnosis" comes from the Greek word Hypnos, meaning "sleep." Hypnotherapists use exercises that bring about deep relaxation and an altered state of consciousness, also known as a trance. A person in a deeply focused state is unusually responsive to an idea or image, but this does not mean that a hypnotist can control the person's mind and free will. On the contrary, hypnosis can actually teach people how to master their own states of awareness. By doing so they can affect their own bodily functions and psychological responses.

Hypnotherapy is a kind of psychotherapy.  Hypnotherapy aims to re-programmed patterns of behavior within the mind, enabling irrational fears, phobias, negative thoughts and suppressed emotions to be overcome.
 
Self-care Measures for Hysteria:
 
Walk Around: The act of walking is surprisingly calming. Staying in one place makes it easier for your thoughts and symptoms to run wild. Ideally, you need to try to get walking to help stimulate blood flow, improve breathing, and create natural distractions that come from the sensations of walking.
 
Call Someone: Talking to someone on the phone can actually be very beneficial for decreasing hysteria. In some cases it can be even better than talking to someone in person, because in person some people feel more embarrassed and pressured about their anxiety while on the phone that embarrassment tends to decrease. Talking to someone on the phone takes a surprising amount of brain power, which means that you're taking your mind off of your anxiety while also listening to a calming voice on the other end of the phone.
 
Yell: Sometimes letting that emotion out is very important, and sometimes the best way to do that is to let out a great, loud yell. It's a way of accepting your emotions and stimulating your blood and energy. Obviously you should make sure that no one is around (otherwise you may scare someone), but letting out a good, loud yell can make you feel better.