About hypnotherapy
In essence, hypnotherapy is defined as a state of awareness in which you experience increased attention, concentration, and suggestibility, which can bring health and wholeness mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually, and financially.
Hypnotherapy provides support and guidance through full body relaxation and guided imagery to engage your subconscious mind to recognize and release unsupportive perceptions, thoughts, feelings, beliefs, habits, and behaviors. This allows you to embrace new thoughts, perceptions, and beliefs, which positively influence your journey forward to achieve your goals. Utilizing the power of your subconscious mind, you can create life changes with grace and ease, while living authentically aligned with your best self.
Myths about hypnotherapy
Myths abound when it comes to hypnosis. We’ve all seen the hypnotist who makes someone quack like a duck. But hypnotherapy is not entertainment. It is a therapy modality to help one discover truths for him- or herself. It is a highly-effective means to dive into one’s subconscious in order to gain insight into their beliefs, core values, and purpose, bringing clarity and alignment for a better lived life.
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In actuality, the higher your intelligence the stronger your self control, and the easier it is for you to be hypnotized. However, studies have shown approximately 30% of the population tends to resist hypnosis. If you are part of the 30% his doesn’t mean anything is wrong with you, it just means that with a bit more effort you too can achieve a hypnotized state with practice.
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While in a hypnotic state people will honor their morals, core values and standards of behavior. Yet, you are in a heightened state of suggestibility, which allows space for improvements you seek in behavior modifications, limiting beliefs, creative enhancement, weight release, pain control, grief, anxiety, phobias, stress reduction, smoking cessation, accelerated healing, painless dentistry, natural childbirth, improved study habits and test taking skills, sports improvement, goal setting and achievement, and overcoming emotional blockages. If you can imagine it, hypnosis can most likely help.
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While in a hypnotic state EEG research shows the brain’s alpha waves are heighten and that the hypnotized person is awake, alert, very responsive and in a heightened state of concentration. However, one may appear to be asleep because their eyes are closed and their body is relaxed.
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Hypnotherapy is often used as an adjunct to other forms of treatment and can be a stand-alone therapy. Typically, it can take any where from 1-20 sessions to experience a long lasting notable shift, and its important to know that hypnotherapy is not a “cure”. It is however, an excellent modality to help you make significant personal improvements.
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This myth typically relates to stage hypnosis, which is literally meant to entertain. Part of the entertainment is the presentation of the stage hypnotist. In a clinical setting you are more likely to find a professional, casually dressed hypnotherapist.
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This is a long-standing belief of the general public, psychologists and many hypnotherapists. People in the know, think that hypnosis isn’t much good for accurately retrieving memories, because of the distortion. However, it is that distortion that can help empower clients to access resources and change perceptions to a more useful state.
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If you can lie consciously, you can lie unconsciously. This ties back into the previous myth that you are not helpless, you are always are in control and have a choice.
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In reality we unwittingly go in and out of hypnosis all the time. For example, recall a time when you drove from point A to point B, but don’t recall exactly how you got there. This is a common experience of our subconscious mind taking over the driving, while our conscious mind is allowed to wander.
