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Hypnosis is a natural state of heightened
awareness, where you are able to open your mind to beneficial
suggestions and where you can make use of your imagination
to help make positive changes in your life.
What does it feel like to be hypnotised?
Everybody experiences trance differently
- it is a unique experience, but the client is always
in control. In general a hypnotic trance is a pleasant,
relaxing and tranquil experience. While hypnotised you
will be aware of all physical sensations around you,
perhaps even noticing sounds you wouldn't otherwise
be aware of. After a traumatic incident such as a car
accident or violent robbery, a subject under hypnosis
may be able to recall with extreme accuracy, car numbers,
details etc that their subconscious mind has remembered
but their conscious mind has overlooked. When you are
fully aware again you may be able to recall everything
that happened while you were in your trance, depending
how deep your trance was.
Remember way back to this morning when
you were half awake and half asleep? You couldn't be
bothered to wake yourself up properly but because you
weren't really all the way deep down asleep you could
appreciate all the comfortable feelings that go with
being snuggled down in your bed. Well that's pretty
much how it feels to be hypnotised. You're not asleep
but you're not awake either. Hypnotherapy is rather
like being in a daydream, it is a state called "trance".
It might be a deep trance or it might only be a light
trance. Whatever level you achieve it's absolutely the
right level for you at that moment. With hypnosis there's
no right or wrong way to experience it, there's just
different ways and they're all good. Many people experience
a trance like state while driving a car - the journey
is often made on "automatic pilot" mode, the mind being
totally occupied by other matters. How many times do
you "switch off" in the middle of a boring conversation
or lecture, and daydream?
How is Hypnotherapy
different to other therapies?
Hypnotherapy is a brief
strategic therapy - one that is aimed specifically at
finding a resolution to your problem as quickly, safely
and efficiently as possible. It is not a long drawn
out method of solving a problem. A skilled hypnotherapist
will have the ability during a case study to ascertain
whether you need to regress back to find the root of
the problem, or whether it is more applicable to use
future progression techniques to change tomorrow.
Hypnotherapy utilises
hypnosis, a state of altered consciousness in which
the therapist can help you to access the deeper levels
of awareness, to which you are usually oblivious in
your normal day-to-day functioning. More often than
not, what you are experiencing as a problem, whether
emotional, psychological or psychosomatic (i.e. actually
producing physical symptoms) is only a surface EFFECT
of a deeper underlying mental/emotional CAUSE. It is
at these deeper levels of consciousness that we as hypnotherapists
work with you, to bring about change in the way you
feel, think and behave. A skilled hypnotherapist will
always work with your co-operation and in the most caring
and nurturing manner.
If left
untreated, problems can sometimes create a ripple effect
into other areas of your life, and what many people
find is, on completion of effective hypnotherapy, other
problems seem to melt away.
Life is
what you make it, so why not make it better? Hypnotherapy
can improve your life for the better on a daily basis
including the way you feel about both yourself and the
world around you. You have nothing to lose and everything
to gain. To look
for one of our professional and qualified hypnotherapists
in your locality, simply click here.
"Our
thinking creates problems that the same type of thinking
will not solve" Albert
Einstein
One of
the fundamental aims of the Hypnotherapy Association
is to make information about hypnotherapy more available
to the general public. If you have a question that we
have not answered here, please email
us directly.
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