The Therapy Centre :: Hypnosis
What is it and how does it work?
Hypnosis is a two way process between the therapist and the client. A person cannot be hypnotised unless he or she agrees to it and co-operates. Whilst hypnotised, nobody can make you do anything which you do not want to do. Stage hypnosis is very different and is a form of entertainment. Hypnosis has been practised since the Roman times and as yet nobody has ever got "stuck" in Hypnosis!
Contrary to popular belief, hypnosis is not a state of deep sleep. It does involve the induction of a trance-like condition, but when in it, the client is actually in an enhanced state of awareness, concentrating entirely on the hypnotist's voice. In this state, the conscious mind is suppressed and the subconscious mind is revealed. The therapist is able to suggest ideas, concepts and lifestyle changes to the client, the seeds of which become firmly planted.
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The practice of promoting healing or positive development in any way is known as hypnotherapy. As such, hypnotherapy is a kind of psychotherapy...hypnotherapy aims to re-programme patterns of behaviour within the mind, enabling irrational fears, phobias, negative thoughts and suppressed emotions to be overcome. As the body is released from conscious control during the relaxed trance-like state of hypnosis, breathing becomes slower and deeper, the pulse rate drops and the metabolic rate falls. Similar changes along neural pathways and hormonal channels enable the sensation of pain to become less acute, and the awareness of unpleasant symptoms, such as pain, nausea or indigestion, to be alleviated.
Hypnosis is thought to work by altering our state of consciousness in such a way that the analytical left-hand side of the brain is turned off, while the non-analytical right-hand side is made more alert. The conscious control of the mind is inhibited, and the subconscious mind awoken. Since the subconscious mind is a deeper-seated, more instinctive force than the conscious mind, this is the part which has to change for the client's behaviour and physical state to alter.
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