Mind Reality

Its much like comparing apples to oranges. Both are fruit, but hardly taste the same.

Hypnosis has the advantage because it can be applied to much deeper therapy.

Using Depression as an example, if the depression has a root cause that stems from childhood, then applying brainwave entrainment to a person will only manage and mask the symptoms, not the cause.

If on the other hand, you worked with the person through a course of hypnotherapy (hypnosis - therapy), then you can eradicate the emotional damage that stems from that initial cause of the depression, thus not only removing the symptoms, but also the cause of those symptoms.

If one only removes the symptoms, more often than not, the mind will respond with more symptoms. The symptomology is your minds way of shouting “HEY! There’s a problem HERE!!! Deal With It!”.

Brain Entrainment has its applications, however those applications should be to compliment a person, not a replacement for a much larger issue.

Thanks for the feedback, Andrew! And very much agreed - partially. ;-) Of course it is apples and oranges, that was one of the reasons I got upset by this stupid headline.

From what you are writing, I assume that you are familiar with brainwave entrainment as a technique, but primarily in the sense of those “listen to this 35min session and you will fall asleep/get rid of your headache / whatever”-sessions. They are used and consumed like pills - and do little more than help with the symptoms (which they do pretty well in many cases).

If you work with brainwave entrainment over a prolonged period of time, e.g. using a system like Holosync or working with a carefully and individually selected set of sessions from different sources, the effect is much different. One could compare it to many years of self-exploration and meditation, the “Great Work”, or the (serious, not “wellness”) use of Reiki. Just faster, since the waves will help you enter states that are very hard to reach normally.
Buried stuff will start to emerge, and usually just in time where you are ready to solve it (e.g. because you just came to know a great hypnotist and can do some timeline therapy with his help). Often enough old scars on your soul will just become visible - and dissolve. Fascinating mechanisms, and not yet clearly understood, AFAIK.

Real “therapy” or better healing can only happen in the client - any treatment or advisor or doc just helps on that way, helping to lift some all too heavy obstacles, handing over some tools, or just delivering the “professional” “excuse” to become healthy and stronger, because most people do not dare to heal themselves, and need some kind of authority to write them a diploma: “Yes, you may get better now. I say so. Now go and LIVE”.

Guess there is still much to explore.

Anyways: I see hypnosis and brainwave technology as two of the most important toolsets for healing and development. Allies that (can) work well together. It just makes me sad and sometimes upset, when the protagonists of “alternative” or slightly “esoteric” (meaning “not fully understood” in that case) methods keep fighting each other, as if there were the one and only most holy sandal to follow (”Life of Brian”…)…
The real “enemy” (if one wants to use that term) are the drug-dealers and all those who try to keep people weak and permanently dependend on their “help” and their “health system”.

All best and kind regards to “down under”!