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What is Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy? The Big 3 Questions. Answered
How does hypnosis work? Do I remain in control in Hypnosis? What does Hypnosis does feel like?Q1 - How Does Hypnosis Work? Throw out what you have seen on the movies, T.V, hypnosis shows and the media. Today hypnosis is used by professional sports coaches, neuro-scientists, celebrities and major hospitals around the world. So to understand hypnosis lets turn to science. Your brain is made up of a number of different parts. Each part has different functions. When we engage in different activities, different parts of our mind are used.
By using a particular part we get better at the associated activity. We know we don't get better at maths by drawing pictures. We get better at maths by activating our logical functions in our brain. We know we don't run faster by sitting about and talking about  exercising. We run faster by activating the muscles responsible for running. So it makes sense that when it comes to feelings/emotions/ anxiety that we want to change, then we want to work with the same parts of the brain responsible for feelings/emotions/anxiety. If we read a self help book about how to change our life. Or talk about our problems in counseling. We are using the parts responsible for logic and reasoning. But this isn't retraining the emotional/feeling/anxiety parts that need to be changed. So the greatest benefit in using hypnosis, is because it is a process of engaging the parts of the brain you want to re-train. It is a process of activating the feeling/emotional/anxiety creating centers of the brain and then using techniques to have you retrain those areas on how you want them to respond differently to situations in your life.
Q2-Is Hypnosis Safe and Do I Remain in Control?We are always activating different areas of our mind through out the day. With hypnotherapy we are simple helping you to activate and remain in touch with very specific parts while we go through exercises on getting those parts to respond differently. You can identify activating these parts if you have ever become emotionally involved with a book, or T.V program. Day dreaming. Losing track of time. Concentration on work, to the exclusion of the sounds and distractions around you. Zoning out while some one is talking to you. These are all similar processes.
Because you have probably experienced the above states of mind before, you realize you can become very involved in what is happening. However at the same time, know you can get up and leave the movie, or snap out of the day dream when needed. When using hypnotherapy the sense of control is very similar.
Q3-What Does Hypnotherapy Feel Like?Hypnosis does not feel like anything. Much like thinking does not feel like anything. What you think about determines how you feel. Think about a sad thought and you may feel sadder. A happier thought, happier. The same is with hypnosis. When using hypnosis we activate the feeling/emotional/anxiety modules of the brain, so feelings tend to be amplified a little and with this comes greater clarity and understand about the feeling. Because you are lying in a comfortable chair, and because your eyes are closed, hypnosis in a hypnotherapists room generally feels very relaxing.
Hypnosis+Therapy= Hypnotherapy There is a therapeutic aspect to hypnotherapy and it is this process which will determine the results, rather than the hypnosis itself. Different hypnotherapists have a different skill base and it is important for a client to determine if the hypnotherapist they are seeing have the skills to enact change. See this page for the questions to ask.
A hypnotherapist with the basic skills may use a relaxation induction which may take up to 20 minutes of the clients session time and is then followed with direct suggestion to enact change.
Accomplished Hypnotherapists are able to use rapid inductions which take only 1-5 minutes for clients to switch thinking patterns. This ensures more time is used on therapeutic applications rather than spending half the session inducing hypnosis.
Lifestyle Hypnosis. Techniques and Applications
At Lifestyle Hypnosis we use direct suggestions plus powerful therapeutic tools such as gestalt dialogues, regression, informed child, forgiveness therapy, parts therapy, post hypnotic suggestions, habit reversal techniques, and metaphor modeling. The above skills are incorporated into the 5-path system as developed by Calvin Banyan, California.The process has been put together following thousands of sessions with clients, and draws upon the work of world renown hypnotherapists Gerald Klein, Gil Boyne and Ormon Mcgill and is used by some of the most experienced and accomplished hypnotherapists from around the world today such as Peter Field, Birmingham, U.K.
If you have any further questions about hypnosis or would like to book an appointment please feel free to contact myself by e-mail or phone 09-48634551.
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