The mind's unlimited
capabilities BY CLAUDIA BLAXELL
ALFRED Bellanti is a rigidly trained clinical hypnotherapist who has been
successful in private practice for many years. "Never underestimate
the capabilities of your own mind," he said, gazing firmly at me
over the top of his glasses. "You'd be surprised at the harm people
can do to themselves physically, spiritually and emotionally through misconception,
delusion and lack of knowing."
Taking the opportunity
to perhaps gain some insight into the workings of my own mind, I probed
him for further details. "It's very basic really," he continued,
"we are born with a little inherited knowledge and then we immediately
become moulded by environmental forces: parents, school, friends, the
media and so on. This knowledge and conditioning forms the basis for all
our thoughts, behaviours and actions. Now, enlightened parents and teachers,
it's more than likely that everything we think, say or do comes from a
very limited foundation.
"Above all,
what we accept as real is only a tiny aspect of the total picture. Those
of us who have had more education may be a little better off, but think
of your brain as the hardware. This hardware started developing at conception
and was built through the years of the inputs I mentioned before. If the
hardware is limited, no matter how sophisticated the software it operates
is, the results will be limited and at worst, faulty," he explained.
Just as I began
to resign myself to 'faulty goods' status, Alfred offered a glimmer of
hope. "This is where hypnotherapy comes in," he enthused. "The
therapist helps the client to develop a state of deep relaxation. It's
a state of mind between waking and sleeping where the client is conscious
and aware of physical sensations and surroundings, yet more receptive
to therapeutic suggestions than he or she would normally be. A whole range
of problems and conditions can be explored, treated and overcome through
hypnotherapy. Not only emotional and psychological problems, but things
like warts and psoriasis. I've seen documented evidence of patients undergoing
major surgery using hypnoanaesthesia in place of chemical anaesthetic."
This all made so much sense to me.
Intrigued, I asked
Alfred about the self hypnosis tapes he has
developed. "The tapes are the result of years of professional practice;"
he said. "I was able to take the best and most successful aspects
from my experience and combine them into self hypnosis programs from which
people can obtain great benefits. The tapes have been designed to improve
a person's outlook by encouraging deep self-exploration. Hopefully many
people will discover their true paths by using them. I am currently working
on another program that is designed to help people work through emotional
issues and release unwanted patterns and habits--excess baggage."
- 'The Planet'
Newspaper May 1999
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