Being in a state of Hypnosis is not the same as losing consciousness and hypnotism is has little in common with hypnotherapy.
Being hypnotised might feel like a daydream, an absorption or drifting awareness. Professionally hypnosis is often referred to as a state of trance and everyone of us will experience hypnotic trance levels in varying depths everyday. Being in trance is natural and normal for humans while awake or asleep. As we grow-up we do this without consciously deciding to do so. Furthermore, the capacity to drift in and out of hypnosis is essential for our survival and welfare.
Therapists have recognised long ago that hypnosis is a talent that can be directed for therapeutic ends in the service of psychotherapy and medical procedures. There are no agreed definitions of what hypnosis is or what it does, however people cannot be controlled with hypnosis. Hypnotherapists don’t possess extraordinary powers or the ability to put hypnosis into people. For a person to be hypnotised their full co-operation is absolutely essential.
It is generally accepted by professionals that light to moderate hypnotic levels are adequate for effective therapy results. Occasionally very deep hypnotic levels are needed for which skilful monitoring is required. But even the most deeply hypnotised person cannot remain in that state for very long otherwise they may just fall asleep which rarely advances treatment.
- Allergy treatment
- Amnesia
- Anger control
- Anxiety symptoms
- Arachnophobia
- Asthma attack
- Bad dreams
- Bereavement
- Blushing
- Choking
- Chronic pain
- Circulatory system
- Claustrophobia
- Compulsions
- Concentration
- Control of fear
- Creativity blocks
- Depression
- Digestive disorder
- Driving test nerves
- Eating disorders
- Exam nerves
- Fears and Phobias
- abduction
- animals
- authority
- being alone
- being right
- being stuck
- being with others
- being wrong
- birds
- cats
- caves
- closed spaces
- commitment
- death
- dentists
- disease
- doctors
- dogs
- driving
- drowning
- dying
- failure
- flying
- food
- heights
- hospitals
- illness
- infection
- injury
- insanity
- insects
- intimacy
- making mistakes
- medication
- money
- needles
- old/young age
- people
- reptiles
- responsibility
- success
- swallowing
- terminal illness
- throwing up
- violence
- water
- Frozen shoulder
- Grief and grieving
- Guilty feeling
- Hyperventilation
- I.B.S.
- Immune system
- Indecisiveness
- Inferiority complex
- Insomnia
- Interview nerves
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Jealousy
- Lacking concentration
- Lack of confidence
- Lack of motivation
- Losing weight
- Loss of memory
- Memory and recall
- Memory blocks
- Migraine headache
- Nail biting
- Natural childbirth
- Negative self-image
- Nervous headache
- Nightmares
- Obsessiveness
- Pain management
- Painful periods
- Panic attack
- Phobia cure
- Menopause
- Menstrual tension
- Procrastination
- Public speaking
- Relationship issues
- Self-confidence
- Self-defeating acts
- Self-image conflict
- Separation distress
- Shortness of breath
- Skin disorder
- Sleeping difficulty
- Sleeplessness
- Speech impediment
- Stage Fright
- Stammering/Stuttering
- Stopping smoking
- Tension headache
- Test, exam, interview nerves
- Weight loss
The American physician and psychiatrist Dr Milton H Erickson’s use of hypnosis in most of his work. He was as brilliantly simple as he was effective while assisting patients medically or psychologically through storytelling. He set the benchmark for hypnotherapy and his methods have been successfully integrated in: Therapy, Art, Sport, Education, Medicine (orthodox, complementary, alternative), Business, Law, Advertising, Commerce, Banking, Security, Criminology, Architecture, Spiritualism (or even Religion). Erickson didn’t invent anything new, he used hypnosis in Clinical, Curative, Dental, Obstetric and Stress management procedures both in hospital and private practice.
The helping professions recognised a long time ago that stress is the culprit of much of humanity’s discomforts and ill health. Listed above are challenges which I was able to help many clients with, using a combination of hypnotherapy, counselling and stress management techniques.
The beneficial applications of hypnosis are limited by imagination only for improving emotional, mental and physical well being !
Medical uses: Hypnosis is not in itself a cure for physical or mental ailments. In therapy hypnosis techniques can help boost the immune systems, general health and help relieve pain of skin disorders, rheumatism, arthritis, joint pains, irritable bowel syndrome, asthma, allergy, hay-fever symptoms.
Self-hypnosis: training will help to increase the effectiveness of hypnosis during surgery, natural child birth, medical and dental procedures.
Psychological uses: Can help resolve most phobias, fears, anxieties, depressions, tensions, obsessions and limiting habits; through personalised positive suggestions people can learn to break free from food, smoking, drug, alcohol and gambling disorders.
Creative uses: Can help improve and enhance performance in sports, athletics, education, arts, presentation, leadership, endurance and remove talent blocks.
Personal uses: Consciously a person can reach a remarkable 20% to 25% of their best. With hypnosis and self-hypnosis techniques however, the subconscious can access 95% of individual talents we may never imagined we posses.
