Clinical hypnosis, hypnotherapy Hampstead NW3

hypnosis

What is hypnosis?

Hypnosis is a state of focused attention that you already go in and out of many times in the day. Anytime that you focus on an experience to the complete exclusion of any other ( for instance, with a favourite song, or with a good book or film, or simply daydreaming and being lost in your thoughts) you are in a trance state.

Hypnosis is the art of utilising a focused state of awareness to achieve specific goals rather than just letting our minds wander randomly and aimlessly.

In a hypnotherapy session we have a specific goal in mind and when we apply ourselves to the acquisition of the goal, all the abilities of the conscious and unconscious mind are activated towards that goal without the usual distractions.

Why use hypnosis for therapy?

Quite simply hypnosis is the best medium known to science for accessing the programming state of our mind and body. It is used by doctors, surgeons, dentists, psychologists, hypnotherapists and other health practitioners for an infinite variety of benefits.

During hypnosis the brain begins to operate at frequency called an alpha wavelength. In this “alpha state”, an individual basically enters into a state of focused rapport with their unconscious mind.

Your unconscious mind is the controlling intelligence in your body. It is the connection between the mind and the immune system; the source of creativity and making links between discrete chunks of information; and it runs the ‘strategies’ we have learnt to get our emotional needs met. Hypnosis is the medium which allows you to enter into deep rapport with your unconscious mind, and your unconscious mind is the gateway to powerful and effective change in your mind and body.

Most practitioners of hypnosis tend to focus its application to alleviating physical conditions. Most commonly it is used for boosting one’s immune system response for overcoming disease, eliminating pain to allow operations to be undertaken without anaesthetic; and for eliminating phobias and cravings, such as smoking or comfort eating.

Hypnosis can also be used for changing our emotional state with regards to how we feel about ourselves, others in our lives and the world around us in general. Many successful sportsmen, authors, managers and entrepreneurs attribute their success to the level of rapport they have cultivated with their ‘intuition’ (or unconscious mind). The greater the rapport, the greater the level of access to one’s creativity and intuition.

If you had access to the programming state of your mind, what changes would you make? 

Is it dangerous in any way or will I lose control?

All hypnosis is actually self-hypnosis It's not power over another person, but rather a complex interaction between hypnotherapist and client. It's a cooperative act toward a mutual end, which is to establish better communication with the unconscious mind. You can only accept the suggestions that are consistent with your values and beliefs. You cannot be made to do something in hypnosis that you would not normally do, and you will not follow a post-hypnotic suggestion to do something in conflict with your values and beliefs.

You cannot be trapped into a hypnotic state because its a naturally occurring state (anymore than one can be trapped in sleep) and you are fully aware of what’s happening. It’s a myth that in hypnosis one receives the equivalent of a general anaesthetic. In fact in hypnosis you would be even more acutely aware than you would normally be, but now your attention is focused on specific subject matters.

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Therapists trained in hypnosis practicing at The Heath:

Felix Economakis (lecturer in hypnosis)

Fabien DeCotds

 

 

 

Clinical Hypnosis NW3 and hypnotherapy at The Heath Mind Body Therapies hypnosis Hampstead, Hypnotherapy Camden, hypnotherapy London NW3,