What is Hypnotherapy?

Hypnotherapy is a treatment where the client is induced into a trance/hypnosis, through deep relaxation, focused attention, or both, to treat a variety of conditions. 

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It’s well known that most elite athletes use hypnosis to enhance their performance. What is not so well known, is that just as physical skills can be learnt quicker and more effortlessly through hypnosis, so can mental and emotional skills.

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Through science we now know that you have the capacity to rewire your brain and change old habitual ways of thinking, behaving and feeling. This re-wiring can be done through practice and repetition, or through hypnosis which is quicker and therefore takes less effort.

 

What is a trance/hypnosis?

We all go in and out of trance/hypnosis several times a day. Ever read a book, watched a movie or got so focused on something that you lost track of time, surroundings, even bodily sensations? Maybe you even had a headache and forgot all about it? That’s an everyday trance!

 

How does it work?

Being in hypnosis helps us bypass the conscious mind. This enables direct communication with the subconscious mind. When this happens:

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• new skills can be learnt quicker and with less effort
• troublesome events or personal problems can be reframed easier
• trauma can be processed and transferred quickly through the limbic system to the long-term memory part of the brain, thereby calming the nervous system
• destructive beliefs and programs can be changed to constructive and helpful ones
• the creativity and wisdom of the subconscious mind brings about solutions and “aha” moments that could not be conceived consciously
• new neural pathways are created

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