Hypnosis Master Series: Problem solving with paradoxical intervention

Getting people to consciously ‘do more’ of their problem behavior helps them by taking away the pressure to stop doing it. It also incites curiosity, turning an unconscious pattern into a consciously intentional pattern.

Even if this doesn’t create a context in which they can immediately abandon the pattern, it can start to loosen the rigidity of it. And if we can make a problem pattern both conscious and burdensome then it becomes much easier for the individual to discard it completely.

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