How does hypnosis work?
When you hear the word hypnotist, what comes to mind? Many people conjure up images of a hypnotist on stage making people cluck like chickens or barking like hound dogs. Amusing as this is, it actually is only a small part of what hypnosis can be used for. Clients in a hypnotic trance are not slaves, cylons, androids or robots. You will have absolute free will. A good comparison is something like driving to work and not sure how you arrived there. Or even daydreaming about winning Lotto 649 or about that next vacation. You are fully conscious and aware, but you actually tune out most of
the distractions around you. You focus is intently on the subject at hand, and the near exclusion of any other thought. Despite that hypnosis is often described as a sleep-like trance state, it is better expressed as a state characterized by focused attention, relaxation stated with heightened suggestibility, and vivid fantasies.
Is Hypnotherapy real?
Yes most definitely. Hypnotherapy is a combination of relaxation and focused imagination. Since the subconscious is not as directive and logically-oriented as the conscious mind, the benefit of working with a hypnotherapist is that you have a trusted guide to ask your unconscious the next logical question. Do not rely on those hypnosis DVD's. In hypnotherapy, the client and the hypnotherapist are cooperating toward a mutually desired result. In the clinical use of hypnotherapy, both client and hypnotherapist are interested in accessing the power of the client’s subconscious mind to assist the client achieve his or her specific goal(s). Hypnotherapy is a social interaction set up at the request of the client, and for the good of the client. In each new session, the client and hypnotherapist usually discuss the progress of the previous sessions, and then lay out the next step in your journey. In hypnotherapy, YOU are always in control and aware at all times.
How does hypnotherapy work?
Hypnotherapy works by updating the subconscious mind with new and additional helpful information. It would be akin to reprogramming a computer. It can be used to change associations. An example is that you may come in for weight loss since you eat 3-5 chocolate bars and ice cream a day. You subconscious can be told that these items are no longer seen as "little friends." Your mind will then view them as some undesired food that you may not fancy like liver or eggplants. It can also be used to mentally rehearse better ways of dealing with things.
Since the unconscious mind controls our autonomic bodily processes, physical change can also be achieved through hypnosis. Pain control is a very good example. The mind alters our awareness of pain all the time. An example is that professional chefs get burnt on a regular basis, but rarely notice it unless it's particularly severe. You'll have experienced this yourself if you've ever discovered a cut or a bruise and wondered how it got there. Physical events are still occurring, but the unconscious has relegated them to the 1,999,993 bits of sensory information you're not aware of every single second.
Hypnosis can therefore be used to amplify that same response and apply it to a specific situation, such as the control of headaches. Hypnosis works, then, by shaping our perception of reality by dealing directly with the unconscious mind, the seat of most of our problems, and most of our solutions too.
When you hear the word hypnotist, what comes to mind? Many people conjure up images of a hypnotist on stage making people cluck like chickens or barking like hound dogs. Amusing as this is, it actually is only a small part of what hypnosis can be used for. Clients in a hypnotic trance are not slaves, cylons, androids or robots. You will have absolute free will. A good comparison is something like driving to work and not sure how you arrived there. Or even daydreaming about winning Lotto 649 or about that next vacation. You are fully conscious and aware, but you actually tune out most of
the distractions around you. You focus is intently on the subject at hand, and the near exclusion of any other thought. Despite that hypnosis is often described as a sleep-like trance state, it is better expressed as a state characterized by focused attention, relaxation stated with heightened suggestibility, and vivid fantasies.
Is Hypnotherapy real?
Yes most definitely. Hypnotherapy is a combination of relaxation and focused imagination. Since the subconscious is not as directive and logically-oriented as the conscious mind, the benefit of working with a hypnotherapist is that you have a trusted guide to ask your unconscious the next logical question. Do not rely on those hypnosis DVD's. In hypnotherapy, the client and the hypnotherapist are cooperating toward a mutually desired result. In the clinical use of hypnotherapy, both client and hypnotherapist are interested in accessing the power of the client’s subconscious mind to assist the client achieve his or her specific goal(s). Hypnotherapy is a social interaction set up at the request of the client, and for the good of the client. In each new session, the client and hypnotherapist usually discuss the progress of the previous sessions, and then lay out the next step in your journey. In hypnotherapy, YOU are always in control and aware at all times.
How does hypnotherapy work?
Hypnotherapy works by updating the subconscious mind with new and additional helpful information. It would be akin to reprogramming a computer. It can be used to change associations. An example is that you may come in for weight loss since you eat 3-5 chocolate bars and ice cream a day. You subconscious can be told that these items are no longer seen as "little friends." Your mind will then view them as some undesired food that you may not fancy like liver or eggplants. It can also be used to mentally rehearse better ways of dealing with things.
Since the unconscious mind controls our autonomic bodily processes, physical change can also be achieved through hypnosis. Pain control is a very good example. The mind alters our awareness of pain all the time. An example is that professional chefs get burnt on a regular basis, but rarely notice it unless it's particularly severe. You'll have experienced this yourself if you've ever discovered a cut or a bruise and wondered how it got there. Physical events are still occurring, but the unconscious has relegated them to the 1,999,993 bits of sensory information you're not aware of every single second.
Hypnosis can therefore be used to amplify that same response and apply it to a specific situation, such as the control of headaches. Hypnosis works, then, by shaping our perception of reality by dealing directly with the unconscious mind, the seat of most of our problems, and most of our solutions too.