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Hypnosis is a lot like daydreaming. You are conscious and aware, yet you remain oblivious to the outside world.
We all daydream from time to time. It is safe and healthy and normal.
Like daydreaming, hypnosis is very safe. You can go into hypnosis naturally every day
Many people have had the experience of driving along a familiar road and suddenly realising that several miles have gone by of which they have been completely unaware.
This is very similar to the hypnotic state; you are awake and aware- but somehow not quite there.
Similarly when you read a book or watch a film you are in a hypnotic state, aware but not quite there.
The experience of hypnosis is in many ways similar to the way you feel first thing in the morning when you wake up or last thing at night just before you go to sleep: being neither asleep or awake and prone to imagery and association, with a pleasant feeling of calmness and relaxation behind it all.
Hypnosis employs a naturally occurring state of mind. The hypnotic state occurs normally in everyone when certain physiological and psychological conditions are met and with the assistance of a properly skilled hypnotherapist it is possible to use this state to make deep and long lasting changes to thoughts, feelings and behaviour.
If your problem has an emotional, habitual or perhaps psychological origin then hypnotherapy is an excellent way to communicate with these parts of your mind.
Hypnosis is a different state of consciousness to the normal alert state and you can easily enter it so that, for therapeutic purposes, beneficial suggestions may be given directly to your receptive subconscious mind.
In hypnosis your conscious mind takes on a passive role and the subconscious mind is more accessible. The tendency then is that the suggestions are more readily accepted by the subconscious mind. Hypnosis is an effective way of communicating with our inner self, our subconscious, which is both a reservoir of unrecognised potential and knowledge as well as being the unwitting source of many of our habits and problems.
Clinical Hypnotherapy means using hypnosis to treat a variety of medical and psychological problems. It does not usually deal with problems that have an organic origin, but those that are due to emotional and psychological sources.
It is estimated that 85% of people will readily respond to clinical hypnotherapy and it may even succeed where other more conventional methods of treatment have been slow to produce the desired results.
When carried out by a professionally trained and skilled hypnotherapist, the benefits are usually long lasting and often permanent. It is completely natural and safe, with no harmful side effects.
You will hear everything the hypnotherapist says
You will be aware of everything
You will remember everything
You could get up anytime you want
But you would feel that you can't be bothered to get up
You will only accept suggestions that are right for you
You are in total control at all times
A person can be hypnotised and made to do things against their will - totally false.
No one can be hypnotised against their will. The subject must be 100% co-operative.
In hypnosis you cannot be made to do anything you don’t want to do.
Hence if you don’t really want to give up smoking, lose weight etc, hypnosis will not make you do it.
You will not do anything in hypnosis that you would not do out of hypnosis.
In hypnosis you can chose to accept or reject the suggestions. You are in total control at all times.
A person might reveal personal details that they would rather keep secret - again totally false
If this were true the police would be the biggest fans of hypnosis!
In hypnosis you are quite conscious and aware, perhaps even more so than usual.
You are in control and will not reveal anything you don’t want to.
My main priority is for you to feel comfortable and relaxed.
The first session consists of giving you more information about hypnotherapy and also for you to find out more about me and for you to feel comfortable with me.
I would also take a case history. You would then have hypnotherapy.
If you need further sessions, then they would follow on from the first session and would be very much guided by you.
You are in complete control at all times.
Sessions last approx one and half to two hours.
Some conditions may only need one session,while other more complex conditions would require a minimum of four sessions.
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