Hypnosis is a state of consciousness which involves three components: relaxation, attention and suggestion. It is a very old technique used in the nineteenth century for pain control during surgery (DiMatteo, 2007). However, at the present time, it is widely popular in Western countries with many effective advantages of hypnosis. For example, it helps people to stop smoking through hypnotic suggestion. Then, the taste and smell of cigarettes are unpleasant (Feldman, 2009). Moreover, many physical disorders can be healed with hypnotherapy; such as, chronic pain, diabetes and allergy. The most important, it can heal people from any stressful conditions. Therefore, it will be very useful to apply this kind of treatment with Thai society.
The first cause is people can change their negative attitudes to positive causing appropriate behaviors; such as using drug, drinking alcohol, smoking and using diet pills. Firstly, when people stop using drug and drinking alcohol, it can reduce crime in the society which is in a very high rate. According to the statistic of Metropolitan Police Division, the number of crime due to drug and the risk of life are almost three hundred thousand last year. It can be reduced by hypnotherapy. Moreover, if the number of smoker decreases, the atmosphere will be better because the therapy can help people to stop smoking. Thus, people in the society can feel with the fresh air around them. It also saves smokers’ health from lungs cancer and many diseases due to smoking. Finally, it can deal with eating disorders also, so there is no need to use any diet pills; it is very risky to use them for weight-losing that affect negative result such as yo-yo effects and hallucination. Since people can control their eating, it affects good result to their health as well.
The second cause is that hypnotherapy can reduce the number of sick people in the society. It can heal many diseases, such as, allergy, blood pressure, chronic pain, and diabetes. Thai people have to spend lots of time and money for treating these diseases. Dr. Chatchai Sribundit said that “in Thailand, there are more than four million people who are suffering from diabetes and it is possible to be up to five million people” (2009). Such a disease, it is a kind of chronic disease that it needs a very long time to heal, so people will waste of their time and money for healing it. Hypnotherapy can help to get rid of it which is affecting good effects. First, people can save money they have to spend for hospitals because going to hospitals is very expensive, and some might have to stay over in the hospitals for recovering and rehabilitating. Second, people can work more effectively because they are healthy; there is no such a disease to annoy their works. Last, since people can work more, it increases the level of development of the country. Although it is just a little point that most people think it is just a common thing, it is very close to people’s life dealing with their bodies; so it is very important.
In the third cause, although there are many problems and conflicts in the society, people can relax and be happy with their everyday life. Hypnotherapy is concerned about mental health directly, so any problems which are relevant to mind can be healed effectively. Currently, there are so many problems in Thai society that can lead to stressful conditions. Those are politic problems, social problems, economic problems and family problems. They make people to face with stress which occurs in both children and adults (Pingklasai, 2010). However, the level of tension in the society can be reduced with Hypnotherapy. People will have good emotions and enjoy their life. If they are healed with hypnosis, they will know how to handle and face the problems. It is very useful because mood and emotion are the basis of living. If people feel bad or have bad moods, they do not want to do anything; or if they do, it will not be satisfied as expected. According to research studies of medical and educational program based on regular relaxation having impressive benefits, they state that there are many advantages of being relax. Firstly, it can increase self-esteem and self-confidence, so people will have appropriate personalities. Secondly, students improve exam results, work habits and cooperation and decreased absences. Thirdly, it can reduce severe headaches such as migraine and cluster headache. Lastly, it can deal with short-concentrate problem, so students have better concentrations while studying in schools or doing activities (White, 2010).
Does hypnotherapy really save the society? Although it is very new for Thai society, its benefits are totally useful to adapt in the social. It solves problem dealing with thought directly. How fantastic if we can control our subconscious mind because people do what the brains command. This kind of therapy does work in Western country, and it develops successively. Many companies hire hypnotists to help their employees because once their workers act appropriately, they gain lots of benefits. Doubtlessly, that is why the westerns are powerful over our society. As a result, if we just receive some of their successes to adapt with our country, we will succeed as well.
Reference
DiMatteo, R. M. (2007). Health psychology: Hypnosis. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
Feldman, R. S. (2009). Understanding psychology: Hypnosis and meditation. London: Mcgraw-Hill.
Metropolitan Police Division 2. (2011). ข้อมูล สถิติ คดีอาญา 5 กลุ่ม. Retrieved from http://div2.metro.police.go.th/satiti.html
Pingklasri, J. (2010, December 2). เผยคนไทยเครียดเพิ่มขึ้นกว่า 20%. Thaibizcenter.com. Retrieved from http://news.thaibizcenter.com/hotnews.asp?newsid=6985
Sribundit, C. (2009, May 5). เบาหวาน... นับวันจะกลายเป็นโรคยอดฮิต. Retrieved from http://www.absolute-health.org/doc-003.htm
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