HYPNOTHERAPY

How does Hypnotherapy work?

The action of hypnosis puts a client into a hypnotic trance, and it is this trance that facilitates a connection between our conscious and our subconscious minds. 

People sometimes find it helpful to think of the subconscious mind as a filing system, like one stored on a computer. Everything we think, feel and experience is stored there. 

Under the controlled guidance of a skilled and trained hypnotherapist, and with the mind in a relaxed but focused state, repressed memories and buried emotions can be accessed and brought to the conscious mind. With the right search enquiries being made, often the root causes of a mental issue (or physical issue) can be uncovered.

Take smoking, for example. Many people accept this to be an unhealthy choice, and yet they still smoke. Through hypnotherapy, however, a skilled practitioner can investigate a person’s experiences to discover what ‘pushes’ their client to make unhealthy decisions, despite their best judgement. The aim then is for the hypnotherapist to examine the impulses that drive a seemingly unbreakable habit and create new conclusions/decisions for that person to make. It isn’t so much about suggesting that the smell of cigarette smoke, for example, is horrible, but more about facilitating the thought of an alternative approach to someone so that they decide to pursue a different behaviour.

Put simply, hypnotherapy takes something that is seemingly irrational and reveals the logic/rationale that actually sits behind it unconsciously.

What issues will Hypnotherapy help with?

On the face of it, people often think of hypnotherapy as treating deeply ingrained psychological issues. And that is certainly the case. But what people don’t always realise is that it can be those deeply ingrained issues that then trigger things like performance anxiety, sleep problems, and weight gain. So turning to hypnotherapy for relieving these things will often also relieve other challenges an individual faces and ‘free’ their mind up in many other ways.

What happens?

Repressed memories from childhood, both traumatic ones and lower-key repeated experiences, leave their mark. The fact that these memories are repressed, though, means they cannot be dealt with and are closed off.