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What is Hypnotherapy?
What is hypnosis?
Hypnosis is a natural state of total relaxation in the body and a state of increased awareness within the mind. As you enter the hypnotic state you will become less aware of your surroundings and more aware of you inner mental and emotional processes. Your attention becomes more focused on the suggestions offered to you in order to master a particular problem or develop a desired skill.
What happens in hypnosis?
We have one mind that seems to be divided into two compartments known as the conscious and unconscious. During our waking hours the conscious mind assumes the dominant role as it absorbs information from the world around us via the five senses and analyses. It proceeds to test it for acceptability against our beliefs, values and innate sense of self. Information then goes through a process of generalisation, distortion, and deletion prior to being stowed away in the memory bank.
The task of the unconscious mind is to maintain consistent and reliable patterns of behaviour as well as to reproduce previously learned skills such as driving, writing and using utensils and tools. Some think that the subconscious mind achieves ascendancy during REM sleep (rapid eye movement) when it processes experiences and information normally held at an unconscious level. This is a process which has been described as ‘sorting out the clutter in the attic’.
Hypnosis helps to reduce the amount of stimuli from the environment entering the conscious part of the. This enables the unconscious mind to focus like a narrow beam of light onto a given subject of the client’s choice.
What is hypnosis?
Hypnosis is a natural state of total relaxation in the body and a state of increased awareness within the mind. As you enter the hypnotic state you will become less aware of your surroundings and more aware of you inner mental and emotional processes. Your attention becomes more focused on the suggestions offered to you in order to master a particular problem or develop a desired skill.
What happens in hypnosis?
We have one mind that seems to be divided into two compartments known as the conscious and unconscious. During our waking hours the conscious mind assumes the dominant role as it absorbs information from the world around us via the five senses and analyses. It proceeds to test it for acceptability against our beliefs, values and innate sense of self. Information then goes through a process of generalisation, distortion, and deletion prior to being stowed away in the memory bank.
The task of the unconscious mind is to maintain consistent and reliable patterns of behaviour as well as to reproduce previously learned skills such as driving, writing and using utensils and tools. Some think that the subconscious mind achieves ascendancy during REM sleep (rapid eye movement) when it processes experiences and information normally held at an unconscious level. This is a process which has been described as ‘sorting out the clutter in the attic’.
Hypnosis helps to reduce the amount of stimuli from the environment entering the conscious part of the. This enables the unconscious mind to focus like a narrow beam of light onto a given subject of the client’s choice.
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Closing the eyes reduces our conscious awareness by about one-eight because when the eyes are closed over 240 million cells called rods and cones which are sensitive to light, colour and movement are shut down. In addition, over 30,000 optic nerves that convey messages from the eyes to the visual cortex become inoperative.
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Deepening of the trance state occurs as you focus on a specific topic or a natural physical process like breathing or muscle relaxation.
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It is during this altered state of consciousness that the unconscious mind achieves a position of dominance over the conscious during which several things occur:
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the conscious mind is less focused on what is going on in the surrounding environment and is much more relaxed.
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the unconscious mind is now open to consider new beliefs and values, reconsider impressions about self-image, and to create clear outcomes and appropriate skills necessary to achieve these outcome
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Hypnotherapy aims at solutions
Traditionally, counselling and psychotherapy have focused on problems, and while hypnotherapy takes personal history and possible causal events into consideration, it primarily concentrates on solutions and future outcomes.
Hypnotherapy is used to great effect in a number of areas including:
Traditionally, counselling and psychotherapy have focused on problems, and while hypnotherapy takes personal history and possible causal events into consideration, it primarily concentrates on solutions and future outcomes.
Hypnotherapy is used to great effect in a number of areas including:
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Breaking unwanted habits such as nail-biting.
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Resolving phobias, anxiety, inhibitions.
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Sexual difficulties caused by inappropriate guilt, vaginismus, premature ejaculation, shame, embarrassment and performance anxiety. As unresolved childhood issues are addressed, limiting beliefs transformed, guilt resolved and myths about sexuality dispelled, sexual freedom and vitality replaces anxiety and numbness.
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Cleaning up the past. Treating the sources of problems - unpleasant experiences and past traumas, negative emotion, limiting beliefs and their subsequent decisions - gives way to a freer and more dynamic life-style. Using hypnotherapy enables us to ‘travel back’ in time in a safe and non-traumatic way to ‘clean up the past’.
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A single-session hypnotherapy treatment has helped many clients to successfully break free from the smoking habit.
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What is hypnotherapy?
This is a branch of therapy that uses hypnosis as one of its main ‘tools for change’. The brain rules every cell in the body and thereby controls every response and behaviour whether it is an intentional act or one done outside of conscious awareness as is the case with unwanted habits.