What is Hypnotherapy?
The hypnotic state is often misunderstood and assumed to be an artificial state with a complete loss of control by the subject. Stage hypnosis, the movies, cartoons and even the jokes about hypnosis are about fun but also create a lot of myths, making people look like puppets with no will of their own.
Yet nothing could be further from the truth! Rather, the hypnotic state is a natural state of mind that all people access daily. When used properly, this allows people better control over their minds and actions.
Unlike hypnosis stage shows designed for fun, Clinical Hypnotherapy is the therapeutic use of the hypnotic state to help clients effect significant change to their thinking patterns at the deeper, subconscious level. It improves their ability to cope with life and work more easily towards success in their goals. It is a process of helping the mind work in harmony with itself. It can be used to better manage anxiety and stress, manage or cease habits and additions, (eg: alcohol, drugs, gambling , food issues), improve performance in studies and sports, overcome traumas, deal with grief, reduce pain, and many other issues. It helps clients have better control of their own minds.
The hypnotic state is often misunderstood and assumed to be an artificial state with a complete loss of control by the subject. Stage hypnosis, the movies, cartoons and even the jokes about hypnosis are about fun but also create a lot of myths, making people look like puppets with no will of their own.
Yet nothing could be further from the truth! Rather, the hypnotic state is a natural state of mind that all people access daily. When used properly, this allows people better control over their minds and actions.
Unlike hypnosis stage shows designed for fun, Clinical Hypnotherapy is the therapeutic use of the hypnotic state to help clients effect significant change to their thinking patterns at the deeper, subconscious level. It improves their ability to cope with life and work more easily towards success in their goals. It is a process of helping the mind work in harmony with itself. It can be used to better manage anxiety and stress, manage or cease habits and additions, (eg: alcohol, drugs, gambling , food issues), improve performance in studies and sports, overcome traumas, deal with grief, reduce pain, and many other issues. It helps clients have better control of their own minds.
How do I know if Hypnotherapy is right for me?
It can be easy sometimes to consciously decide you want to make some changes in your habits, addictions or just your thinking patterns, but following through can be harder than expected. We all have patterns stored in our subconscious mind, some are helpful, some are not. Some may have been useful in the past and served us well then, but we’ve out grown them. Or perhaps there are others formed as a result of circumstances and have never been helpful!
If you have addictions, habits or just thinking patterns that you really want to change, but are finding it difficult to succeed, then the real problem may not be with your willingness to change, but rather with old patterns in the way.
If you would like to know whether hypnotherapy can help your situation, then maybe give Margaret a call and have a brief chat to find out more.
Misconceptions & Myths
There are many myths about hypnosis, and these myths and their expectations can get in the way. They come mainly from the stage shows that make people look like puppets, cartoons and movies that have characters appear to be under someone else’s control, and of course all the jokes about having people cluck like chickens at whim.
So lets take a look at some of the myths.
-The hypnotist takes control of you, and can make you do whatever they want, whether you want to or not
Truth: Your mind is your mind, and whether you know how you manage it or not, its yours. Hypnosis cannot make you do something you do not want to do.
-That you are in a blank space, unaware of what is going on
Truth: Its your mind we work with, of course you are aware. However in a session where the person is really comfortable with the therapy and the therapist, the mind can relax quite deeply. However, if it hears something not right, or there is an emergency, it snaps right back to full awareness.
-That you will feel like a robot, can’t think without permission
Truth: This comes from Stage Shows, movies and cartoons. You are actually always in control, and with the help of hypnotherapy can learn to control your mind in a more useful way for your quality of life.
-That you can get stuck in that state and not wake up
Truth: The hypnotic state sits between the levels of wakefulness and real sleep. If the person was not deliberately awakened, they could just roll in to a natural sleep and wake up refreshed after a brief nap.
-That some people can’t be hypnotised
Truth: The hypnotic state is a natural state of mind that everyone goes through, several times a day. And it feels natural, simply because it is.
The truth about hypnosis is actual quite simple. The hypnotic state is a natural state of mind that everyone goes through several times a day. It’s level of awareness that is a natural and normal part of the mind’s functioning. By learning how to use that state, it can help you create change more easily, having better control over your thinking, habits and outlook, helping you cope better with life. It’s actually a way of gaining better control of your mind, and how you cope with life.