About Hypnosis...

Hypnosis as a human phenomenon, has been with us since the first humans walked the earth. If you’ve ever sat and simply stared for a while into the fire, with your thoughts focused on one specific topic, that’s self hypnosis. Our distant ancestors spent a lot of their time, just staring into the fire!

Hypnosis has been used for therapeutic treatment, across multiple cultures and generations, by the recognised practitioners of those times, for the last 250 years or more.

Clinical Hypnosis or Hypnotherapy in today’s terms, simply refers to the use of the hypnosis (a guided state of relaxation), by a fully trained and qualified therapist, typically in a formal consulting room environment, who then uses suggestion or analysis procedures, to assist a client with specific aspects of their subconscious thought process. A current thought process that is otherwise holding them back from functioning at a level, to that which the client might consider normal, beneficial and healthy.

I don’t want you to confuse Clinical Hypnosis/Hypnotherapy with the more familiar Stage Hypnosis. Stage Hypnosis is a bit like a Magic show. It’s very entertaining and in the case of Stage Hypnosis, very humorous. Yet like Magic, all is not as it appears and never is. The humour element for us the audience, is that the subject is under the control of the Stage Hypnotist and doing things that he would not normally do. However, as any honest hypnotist will tell you, under hypnosis you can ALWAYS hear everything around you and you know EXACTLY what you have consented to do. Some of us just want our five minutes of fame in front of an audience……..and that’s ok.

There are many other complimentary therapies you might consider, when looking at Hypnotherapy for help in addressing psychologically based issues. These might include:-

Talking Counselling, Counseling Psychology, Occupational Psychology, Educational Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) therapy.

All of which, have their unique approaches and potential to assist clients in addressing the more difficult aspects of life’s challenges. And given time, some of them to a greater or lesser extent, may assist you.

Hypnotherapy has a unique ability. A Hypnotherapist is able to guide you into a very pleasant state of relaxation, in other words, hypnosis. This allows the conscious mind to quieten down from its constant chitter-chatter and so enabling the therapist, direct access to the subconscious mind. It is within the subconscious mind, that all of our real inner beliefs about ourselves and the outside world, are stored. But our subconscious mind is not able to differentiate between a true or false belief. It simply believes what it has been conditioned to believe, by either outside influences or events, or by an erroneous need for self preservation. And the subconscious mind protects those negative beliefs, or even represses damaging traumatic memories, in order to protect the person and allow them to function. However, these negative beliefs or repressed damaging memories can be triggered and eventually manifest themselves. And it is often only through hypnosis and the skill of a well trained hypnotherapist, that you the client, can modify those negative beliefs, or provide insight to those repressed memories and so free yourself of your unwanted, often significantly debilitating symptoms and issues.