Hypnotherapy Explained

Hypnotherapy can best be described as:

'the use of hypnosis in conjunction with different therapeutic techniques to bring about a positive, lasting change in an individual'.

It's a simple, brief effective therapy used to treat all kinds of emotional or behavioural problems, which may be having a negative effect on your day-to-day life.

It's widely accepted now that many illnesses are psychosomatic, that is, the body has been made ill by the workings of the mind.  It would seem obvious therefore, that in cases where the mind has been the cause of our ill health, then we should be using the mind to bring about good health.

Simply put, our minds work on two levels, the conscious and the unconscious. We make decisions, think and act with our conscious mind and there are no emotional problems at the conscious level.

The subconscious mind is always working monitoring and affecting all our physical and psychological functions such as blood pressure, hormone levels, hunger, and fatigue, even when we are asleep.  Additionally, the subconscious holds our memories, instincts, behavioural patterns and emotions.  It's here that all emotional problems have their roots.

Hypnotherapy is a natural and effective therapy for accessing the subconscious mind - the key to unleashing our potential, changing our unwanted habits and behaviours and finding solutions to our problems and concerns.

Through accessing the unconscious mind, hypnotherapy can help you learn how to react differently to certain situations.  It's also possible with hypnotherapy to access memories and past events, which are still having a detrimental impact on the present.  With a better understanding of what happened and how patterns of behaviour and feelings were created then it becomes possible to transform how those memories affect us in our life.

You can't erase and forget the past, but you can learn to feel differently about it.

So the question is, who may benefit from hypnotherapy?

The simple answer to this question is virtually everyone!  Given that hypnotherapy can be utilised to access a person's inner potential and that probably no one is performing to their actual potential, then the answer is literally true.

However, it's not just potential which hypnotherapy is well placed to address but also one's inner resources to effect beneficial change.  In this regard, it's the innate healing capacity of our own body that maybe stimulated by hypnotherapy. 

Consequently, the list of problems that may be amenable to hypnotherapy is far to long and varied to catalogue but certainly includes: Stress, anxiety, panic, phobias, unwanted habits and addictions (e.g. smoking, overeating, alcoholism), disrupted sleep patterns, lack of confidence and low self esteem, fear of examinations and public speaking, allergies and skin disorders, migraine and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).

There are two different types of hypnotherapy: suggestion therapy and analytical hypnotherapy, more commonly known as hypno-analysis.  Following a free initial consultation I will advise you on the type of therapy most likely, in your particular case, to achieve the results you require.