Hypnotherapy

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HYPNOSIS:

Hypnosis is simply a state of focused relaxation. Most people are able to regularly enter hypnosis, sometimes without their knowledge. It is similar to day dreaming or "highway hypnosis."

Hypnosis is not the same as sleep. While the brain does pass through similar wave patterns and demonstrates similar activity to sleep, a person remains conscious during hypnosis. But because the conscious mind is less alert, the unconscious mind is able to more effectively accept, integrate, and act upon suggestions.

As psychiatrist Milton Erickson once observed, all hypnosis is self-hypnosis. The client remains in control of the hypnosis session, determines its depth and quality, and cannot be made to do anything that they might find objectionable.

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HYPNOTHERAPY:

Hypnotherapy is the use of guided hypnosis to improve a person's life. A qualified hypnotherapist leads clients into a state of focused relaxation and offers suggestions for how they might improve their lives or minimize the effects of problems, challenges, or issues they face. Hypnotherapy has been shown to improve a number of different conditions, and may prove successful in:

  • Improving the quality of sleep, memory, and concentration

  • Developing healthy habits or minimizing unhealthy habits like smoking or overeating

  • Managing some types of chronic pain, stress, and anxiety

  • Minimizing unhealthy or problematic apprehensions

  • Exploring a person's past or spirituality

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TRANSPERSONAL HYPNOTHERAPY:

Transpersonal hypnotherapy works with the intimate relationship between the body, mind, and spirit. Yet it also challenges the foundations of a traditional holistic approach to explore the connections between all people and the human ability to move beyond three-dimensional consciousness. It assists clients in reasserting balance among the body, mind, and spirit and in rediscovering relationships with others and with a higher consciousness.

Transpersonal hypnotherapists believe:

  • The unconscious is reliable and wise, and speaks through words, and images.

  • Clients and their unconscious minds inherently know the solutions to their problems, challenges, and issues.

  • Hypnotherapists are merely guides or coaches on the road to self-improvement.