Hypnotherapy
What is Hypnosis?
Hypnosis, often surrounded by intrigue, is a state of heightened focus and suggestibility. It’s a therapeutic technique inducing deep relaxation, guiding individuals into a state where they’re more open to suggestions, allowing for behavioral modifications. Rooted in increased relaxation and focused concentration, hypnosis enables improved mental focus and heightened awareness
What are the Benefits of Hypnosis?
- Pain Management: Effective in alleviating pain related to burns, cancer, childbirth, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), fibromyalgia, and dental procedures.
- Anxiety Reduction: Encourages the body’s relaxation response, aiding in anxiety relief and stress management.
- Stress Relief and Relaxation: Promotes relaxation, easing stress, and addressing mental blocks, benefiting those trying to conceive or facing childbirth.
- Habit Control: Aids in habit changes like quitting smoking, altering eating patterns, and managing other behavioral habits.
- Enhanced Performance: Supports improving self-esteem, motivation, goal-setting, and enhancing performance in various aspects of life.
- Improved Immune Functioning: Hypnosis can positively impact immune functioning, potentially boosting the body’s immune response.
- Grief and Loss Support: Provides assistance in coping with grief and loss, offering emotional healing benefits.
- Enhanced Focus and Concentration: Assists in improving focus, concentration, and mental clarity.
Hypnosis offers a versatile approach to address diverse health and wellness concerns, providing holistic benefits in both physical and psychological aspects.
“While some scientists still regard hypnosis with mistrust, it has proven useful in clinical settings and insightful in research into mental processes such as “sensation, perception, learning, memory, and physiology” (Faymonville et al., 2006).
Q: What is Hypnosis?
A: Hypnosis, also known as hypnotherapy or hypnotic suggestion, is a trance-like state characterised by heightened focus and concentration. Hypnosis is typically performed with the assistance of a therapist and involves the use of vocal repetition and mental pictures. You normally feel peaceful and comfortable while under hypnosis, and you are more susceptible to suggestions.
Q: Dispelling Myths About Hypnosis
A:
- You cannot get ‘stuck’ in hypnosis – this is quite impossible.
- You do not become in any way unconscious or semi-conscious.
- You cannot, at any time, be made to do things you do not want to do.
- You are totally aware of yourself and your surroundings at all times.
- You do not go to sleep – you do not have to have your eyes closed.
- You are not in anybody’s power and nobody can take control of you.
- You can voluntarily leave the hypnotic state whenever you wish to.
- You cannot leave your body.
- You cannot ‘lose your mind’.
- You cannot be ‘possessed’ in some way.
- Hypnosis is a truly natural state of mind and body.
- There is no such thing as a ‘hypnotised feeling’.
Q: How Effective Is Hypnosis?
A: Despite the many myths and misconceptions surrounding hypnosis, it is a genuinely real procedure that has therapeutic applications. Hypnosis has been shown to have positive medical and therapeutic effects, particularly in the treatment of anxiety and pain.
Q: How successful is hypnotherapy?
A: Hypnotherapy can change our perspective and behaviour, according to scientific research.
Hypnotherapy’s success rate is often linked to the person’s openness, engagement, and willingness to participate actively in the process
Q: Stage and Television
A: What you witness on stage or on television may be somewhat artificial, but not necessarily fake. The common misconception, however, is that the people who participated have no idea what they are doing… well, they do, and they normally enjoy every moment of it! This may appear strange at first, but simply accept it as the word of a respected professional in the field of hypnosis – Terence Watts.
Q: I don’t believe I can be hypnotised
A: Many people feel that they cannot be hypnotised, but the real reason why they feel like this is that they misunderstand what hypnosis is and isn’t.
First of all, I would say, 95% of people can be hypnotised, and yes, even you!
Q: Will Hypnosis Help Me Lose Weight?
Q: Hypnosis Online
A: With todays technology it is now possible to conduct hypnosis over their computer or device (Zoom, Teams, Skype,) and experience hypnosis.
Hypnosis is a deep state of relaxation and focused attention so there is no real reason why it cannot be done online.
You will need a good set of headphones and internet speed, a comfy chair and privacy.
Common issues Hypnosis can help with
- ADD or ADHD
- Addictions
- Age regression
- Alcohol abuse
- Allergic skin reactions
- Anger
- Anxiety – spiders, dental, fear of heights, travel, public speaking sexual assault
- Arthritis (rheumatoid)
- Asthma
- Binge eating
- Blood pressure – lowering
- Breast cancer
- Burn wounds
- Cancer
- Chemotherapy related distress
- Children – anxiety, medical procedures,
- Chronic pain
- Compulsive behaviours
- Coping strategies for depression and pain
- Dental phobias
- Depression
- Insomnia/sleep disturbance
- IBS
- MRI
- Medical procedures
- Sexual dysfunction
- Pain management: acute & chronic
- Past Life Regression
- Performance enhancement
- Phantom limb pain
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Pre-surgical anxiety
- Regression
- Sexual abuse
- Skin disorders
- Sleep disturbance
- Smoking cessation
- Stress
- Vomiting
- Weight Management
“Hypnosis, viewed askance by many, is not magical or mystical; it does not make anybody superhuman, nor does it imbue an individual with mystical powers beyond the understanding of the normal human mind. Nor does it allow anybody to ‘burn up resources’ for which there is an eventual price to be paid. It is nothing more than a psychological tool – and an amazingly efficient one, too – which can help to achieve total excellence for anybody who chooses to use it.”
Watts, T. (2000). Warriors, Settlers & Nomads. Crown House. (ISBN 189983648-9 available from Amazon)