Hypnotherapy today

Hypnotherapy is the use of hypnosis to help people with their problems.  Almost all problems and almost all people can be helped using hypnosis.  The most common problems that hypnotherapist’s help people with are stop smoking, weight loss, anxiety and phobias.  In order to help, the hypnotist will put a client into a trance.  A trance is a really relaxed state, the client is not asleep, in fact they are 10 times more aware of their surroundings.  The reason the client is put into a trance is so that the conscious mind can be bypassed in order to make suggestions to the subconscious mind.  The subconscious is the part of the mind that is our ‘automatic pilot’ – it keeps us breathing, our blood pumping and our body temperature static – it could be said that the subconscious is the part of the mind that keeps us alive.  The subconscious mind will only switch off on the day that we die.  Once the client is in a trance the hypnotherapist will give positive suggestions to the client’s subconscious mind.  Because the suggestions are of a positive nature the client’s subconscious will take these on board and will use them to help them survive – remember that the subconscious wants to keep us alive.  If we use smoking as an example, the subconscious mind believes that it is pleasurable to smoke because it made us feel part of a group and made us feel older when we first started to smoke, therefore the subconscious mind of a smoker believes that smoking is a pleasure and therefore will not allow the person to stop.  Even though the conscious mind knows that it is bad for ones health, is expensive and anti social, a smoker’s subconscious will not allow them to stop.  By putting the client into a trance a hypnotherapist can suggest to the subconscious mind that it will be more pleasurable to not smoke and cause displeasure to carry on smoking.  Remember the subconscious prefers to work with pleasure than displeasure.  The subconscious mind will then take this on board and ensure that when the person does not smoke, they will feel pleasure, thus making them want to continue getting this pleasurable feeling.

Modern hypnosis is a combination of traditional hypnosis, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), life coaching and motivational interviewing.  Many hypnotherapist will give the client a list of things to do after the session that will help to maintain their desired outcome.  In addition, some hypnotists will give the client either a recording of the actual session or a pre-recorded CD to help reinforce the hypnotherapy session.  The client can listen to the CD many times, each time reinforcing the subconscious mind. 

To book a session contact me on 01686 650632 or via email: crudyrawel2004@btinternet.com

Fees: £57 per session, discounts if several sessions paid for in advance