Hypnotherapy

 

The brain generally operates in four states determined by the frequency of the electricity generated by the exchange of chemicals in the neural pathways. The four states include Full Conscious Awareness (awake state), the Hypnotic State, the Dream State, and the Sleep State.

 

Full Conscious Awareness is where we spend most of our normal waking hours. In this state, our mind is attentive and uses logic to reason, evaluate, assess, judge, and make decisions. Ironically, its unfortunate when making life changes, the conscious mind often gets in the way.

In the Hypnotic State, the doorway between the conscious and the subconscious is opened, memories become easily accessible, and new information is stored. In the Hypnotic State, you are not really "thinking" in the traditional sense. You are "experiencing" without questioning, without critical judgment or analysis, like when you watch a movie, and the hypnotherapist can make suggestions that are very likely to "stick" - precisely because your conscious mind is not getting in the way. You are not "judging" or being "critical" of the suggestions and rejecting them.

We pass through all four bands sequentially as the electrical activity decreases on our way to sleep and as it increases up on our way to total wakefulness. Regardless of whether we are on our way to sleep or to wakefulness, when we pass through the upper theta / lower alpha range we go into hypnosis automatically. There is no power on earth that can stop it from happening but likewise, there is no person or power on earth that can force a subject into it; you must want to go into hypnosis and follow the hypnotist's direction to the letter for any hypnotherapy to be sucsessful.

A less technical definition of hypnosis is: A naturally occurring altered state of consciousness in which the conscious critical faculty is bypassed (mind in the conscious mode) and acceptable selective thinking established.

This simply means that the reasoning, evaluating, judging part of your mind (conscious) is bypassed. While in our concious state we wonder how this could possibly happen, we're offen unaware we are subject to it all the time. The advertising industry is dedicated to bypassing our critical judgment all the time in order to influence our buying behavior.

We suspend our critical judgment other times when an authority figure makes some sort of comment; doctors, clergy, professors, and many more fall into this category.

Children suspend their critical judgment frequently in games of "let's pretend". Actors do it in playing a part; they have to suspend their critical faculty, and they ask the audience to suspend theirs to accept them as being someone else.

With the critical faculty bypassed, specific thoughts and suggestions can be lodged in the subconscious where they can propel the client toward a desired goal or change behavior in a positive, permanent way. Any such suggestions must be acceptable to the client, of course. The suggestions would have no effect otherwise!

This focus on a specific goal or behavior is done with laser-like precision and intensity in hypnosis. One could liken it to looking through a telescope from the wrong end. You see just one tiny spec of the environment in focus though you may be aware of everything around it.

 

 

Prior to booking an appointment a short confidential phone consultation is usual to:

The consultation itself involves an extensive relaxation process to allow for ease of regression into the sub-conscious mind. This is where effective review of self limiting habbit patterns (from the past) can occur, and where future positive images (of the self) can be reinforced and imprinted without self limiting habits of mind body or behaviour. You can then move forward into the future holding these positive images firmly in all levels of the mind to allow you to make positive changes.