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On this page you can find out more about hypnosis and hypnotherapy in general, which will help you decide if hypnotherapy is right for you. On the Altered Images Hypnotherapy Clinic page you can find out more about our services and specialised hypnotherapy programmes.
The subconscious mind can be likened to an iceberg, and we only have conscious access to the one tenth above water. However, all our habits, beliefs, behaviour and thought patterns are stored in the nine tenths below, to which we can gain access using hypnosis. |
Why Hypnosis? Hypnosis is a perfectly normal state that just about everyone has experienced. What we call "highway hypnosis" is a natural hypnotic state. You drive somewhere and don't remember driving or even remember seeing the usual landmarks - you are on automatic pilot. The natural hypnotic state also exists when you become so involved in a book, TV show or some other activity that everything else is blocked out. Someone can talk to you and you don't even see or hear them, or you are vaguely aware of them in the background but prefer to stay focused on the TV. Whenever you concentrate that strongly, you automatically slip into the natural hypnotic state. Similarly, we often become so drawn into the emotion of a sad film in the cinema that we cry, although we know rationally that the people in the film are only actors. This is just another example of everyday hypnosis. So we are all very familiar with hypnotic process and hypnotic feelings, we just don’t usually call it hypnosis. The hypnotic state, by itself, is only useful for the physical and mental relaxation it produces. The real importance of hypnosis to the healing and emotional change process is that while you are in the hypnotic state, your mind is open and receptive to suggestions. Positive and healing suggestions are able to sink deeply into your mind much more quickly and strongly than when you are in a hypnotic state. |
All of our habitual and behavior controlling thoughts reside in what is called our subconscious mind. It's called that because it is deeper than our conscious mind, below our level of consciousness and we are unaware of many of the thoughts and feelings that reside there, although we experience their effect.
Anybody who has ever told themselves "I'll never repeat that behaviour again (smoke, eat too much, over-react etc) but has then gone on to do that very thing, has experienced just how powerful our subconscious mind can be. Our conscious minds can use willpower for a while, but the subconscious will always win out in the end (which is why diets don't work in the long run).
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If you have a long standing problem you have no doubt tried every avenue to solve it through using the conscious mind to no avail. In addition to the root cause of the problem, life has added various stresses and strains to which we are all subject and eventually the mind can hold no more and produces a symptom e.g panic attacks or negative reactions to certain people or places. Using hypnotherapy you can find and remove the root cause and also relieve the symptom or symptoms which are distressing you. Hypno-analysis is the ideal method of releasing negative beliefs, thoughts and habits, it can be likened to a spring-clean for the mind! |
When the subconscious mind fills up with stresses, hypnotherapy can provide a spring clean. |
There are basically two types of hypnotherapy - suggestion therapy and analytical therapy, and they are often used together. Suggestion therapy is used for simpler problems such as smoking, exam worries, stress, simple phobias and for increasing motivation. Analytical therapy is needed where the problem is more complex, deep rooted or long standing and this type of therapy finds and removes the root cause of the problem.
Some of the common types of problems which can be helped with hypnotherapy include:
*Releasing fears, phobias and anxieties- examples
include letting go of fear of flying, fear of animals or insects, fear
of the dentist.
*Releasing excess weight and maintaining your desired weight permanently.
*Stopping smoking easily without cravings or gaining weight.
*Improving self confidence, reducing stress, feeling
better about yourself generally.
*Alleviating problems such as IBS (irritable bowel
syndrome), high blood pressure, migraines, some skin disorders, asthma
and allergies.
*Improving concentration and motivation for study, exams and sports.
*Children's issues such as bed-wetting, hair-pulling, lack of confidence.
This is just a brief list, any problem which is psychosomatic (caused by the mind) can be helped with hypnotherapy.
Dip Hyp (adv)
MICHP
Clinical
Hypnotherapist,
Psychotherapist,
Hypno-analyst
Member of the
Institute of
Clinical
Hypnotherapy
& Psychotherapy
Tel: 086 269 1616 ~ (outside Ireland) +353 8626 91616..............