Does Hypnosis Work Like Magic?
Have you ever heard, “Hypnotherapy is great but it’s not a magic wand”?
What if you could say, “Actually, it’s exactly like a magic wand”? Here’s my take on the Cinderella story that will let you do just that.
If I was Cinderella, I’d want my Fairy God-mother to have a much better magic wand.
What I’d really want is to be picked up from that lonely fireplace, and zapped straight into the Prince’s arms – whirling elegantly in my beautiful dress. Or (given my exceptional lack of dancing skills) why not cut straight to the proposal scene? Or even the wedding?
No midnight curfew, no time limit to the coach hire, no obscure search that might put the wrong girl with the right sized feet in my rightful place.
But it isn’t like that, is it?
It’s “Here’s the dress, here’s the coach. Now go get him. But do it before midnight or the whole thing goes pear shaped. And, by the way, I'm off for a cuppa and a quiet night in front of the telly, so you're on your own.”
Imagine how it must have felt; you arrive alone, late. You enter the ball room. Everyone stops, stares, the whispers start. The Prince is intrigued, comes forward, speaks. And we head quickly (after a detour or two) towards 'Happy Ever After' land.
All done by magic? Actually, no.
Despite the free Rolls Royce coach and designer clothes, the courage and confidence to open the door and walk into that room had to come from inside Cinderella herself.
If you think about it, the magic wand didn’t solve Cinders’ problems at all. It simply gave her the tools to solve them herself.
And that's exactly like hypnotherapy…
(c) Debbie Waller
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