helping you make positive changes
What is hypnosis / hypnotherapy?
Hypnosis
Everyone has been in a state of hypnosis. Someone in a hypnotic state has their attention very focused on something while being aware of what’s going on around them. Anyone who has watched a film or TV programme, or read a book, and enjoyed it so much that they have been ‘wrapped up’ in it, has been in a state of hypnosis. Each of us passes through a brief hypnotic state everyday, just before falling asleep at night and upon awakening in the morning.
Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy helps us access our unconscious mind to bring about therapeutic changes. Our unconscious mind is responsible for looking after us 24 hours a day. It takes care of all our automatic responses, such as the regulation of our breathing, blood circulation and tissue repair. We don’t have to think consciously about these processes for them to happen.
The unconscious mind also stores all the responses or behaviours we’ve learnt, right back to when we were infants. Automatic actions such as picking things up, walking, or riding a bike are all things that we learnt to do long ago and can now do without having to think about consciously.
But the unconscious mind also stores our less positive and sometimes problematic responses or behavioural habits. Phobic responses to ‘normal’ things or situations, or simply being unable to stop compulsive impulses (such as smoking or frequent snacking), are examples of unwanted operations of the unconscious mind.
In order to change undesired habits or behaviours, we must first access the unconscious mind and then replace them with more positive ones. Hypnotherapy is a process for doing this. It is a safe and enjoyable treatment that can change our lives in the most positive and exciting of ways.
