What is Hypnotherapy?
So how does Hypnotherapy work?
Hypnotherapy is totally natural………
People often think of hypnosis as something mystical and mysterious, but actually it is a totally natural state that we go into and out of many times in a day.
For Example:
- When you lose yourself in a really good book
- Or become absorbed in a film
- Or realise you’ve been driving for the last ten minutes, but have no idea how you got there…
…..You’ve been in Hypnosis!
Hypnosis just means a Focus of Attention, and Hypnotherapy is the use of Hypnosis to create Therapeutic Change.
Our Conscious and Unconscious Mind
Our mind is made up of 2 parts; our Conscious and Unconscious mind.
The Conscious part of our Mind is in charge of planning, organising and anything we actively aware of at a particular time.
Our Unconscious part is in charge of all the the things we do automatically, such as breathing and digestion. It runs our habits, beliefs and responses….. in fact all the things we do without conscious awareness!
97% of our responses are Unconscious!
So how does Hypnotherapy work?
When we are in Hypnosis, we are able to bypass our more analytical Conscious Mind, and access the imaginative Unconscious Mind, which is the biggest and most influential part of our mind.
Our Unconscious Mind, is then more open to exploring and addressing the root causes of our feelings and behaviours, and then for accepting positive suggestions for change.
Long Term Change
By working in this way, not only can we deal with the symptoms to create short term change, but can also address the causes to make that change stick.
Quick Change
Changes are made quickly and clients often feel different after the first session.
However most clients tend to need an average of 5 sessions to feel secure in the long terms changes made.
Sometimes less sessions are needed and sometimes more, depending on what the issues are.
No Need to Re-Traumatise!
It is very important to note that when dealing with a traumatic incident, clients DO NOT need to explore it in depth in order to clear the negative emotional response.
Clients DO NOT need to re-live or be re-traumatised in order to be treated using hypnotherapy. I explain this in more detail when looking at the condition of trauma and PTSD and how it can be treated.