What is Hypnosis?
Hypnosis is a natural state everyone experiences at least twice a day when waking up and just before falling asleep. We may also enter natural hypnosis when deeply engrossed in a television show or a good book; when daydreaming; or during meditation or prayer. Your subconscious can be thought of as a computer program. Your conscious mind carries out this program. Hypnosis is helpful because, when you are deeply relaxed as you are in hypnosis the subconscious can be reprogrammed to eliminate habits or behaviors you may have had from childhood which are destructive or unwanted.
Hypnosis is a natural state of mind characterized by an extraordinary state of relaxation (physically, mentally, and emotionally), by a heightened awareness and focus, and by an open responsiveness to suggestion. Hypnosis is a perfectly normal, natural state of mind that everyone is in every day of their lives. When you become engrossed in a novel or a daydream (or even a television show), you are in this same state of mind. Your awareness is highly focused to the exclusion of all else. This relaxed, highly focused state of mind generates alpha brainwaves. When you fall asleep at night, alpha is the dominant brainwave state you are in right before you fall asleep. Alpha is also the state of mind most associated with hypnosis. When you relax into an alpha state of mind, the subconscious mind comes more to the forefront and the conscious mind takes a backseat. This is what makes hypnosis so successful. For the subconscious mind is open to suggestion. Where the conscious mind is the criti
Whenever you do anything automatic, your conscious mind is diverted from your subconscious and you are more likely to go into a hypnotic state. Some automatic activities are more apt than others to allow or provide daydreaming. For example, your mind might drift when you are dining alone, taking a shower, mowing the lawn or jogging. These activities are stored in the subconscious. While you are functioning in this automatic mode, it is quite easy to drift from an alert state into a different level of consciousness. Daydreaming is the first of the levels in a trance state. Hypnosis is a natural state of mind. You are not asleep while in hypnosis. Sleep is a state of rest. Waking is a state of accomplishment. Hypnosis is a state given to us for self-improvement. During hypnosis, the body and conscious mind are in a relaxed, natural state, while the subconscious mind remains awake and receptive to suggestion.
Hypnosis has been used in one form or another since early Egyptian times. Our understanding of it and how the brain works has developed to this day giving us the modern hypnotherapist. A much underused resource with a comprehensive set of powerful methods for helping people with their issues. Hypnosis is magnified concentration. We can only be in one in one state of mind at a time and we are either in conscious thought or we are in a trance, a daydream or sleep. How often have you watched TV or been in a car and found that time flew past? This is a trance. Everyone enters a light trance for a proportion of every day. When daydreaming or staring out the window thinking about all the possibilities then we are in a light trance already, so they are completely natural. In fact one way of looking at hypnotherapy is that we are stopping bad or inappropriate trances. Almost everyone can be hypnotised to a depth where therapy can work for you. A comforting thing perhaps, to anyone who is new t
Hypnosis, also called Hypnotherapy, releases the super concentrated power of your mind. It is a state of physical and mental relaxation (not sleep) which allows the subconscious mind to be more open to useful suggestions. It is guided concentration using the power of the subconscious. It is particularly useful in the areas of smoking cessation, weight loss, stress management, phobias, sleep deprivation and self esteem issues such as public speaking and shyness. It also works well for concentration, goal setting, and motivation. Hypnosis is a scientific, natural, relaxing and proven way for you to allow your subconscious mind to do the job it was intended to do. There is no surrender of mind or control. A person who does not want to be hypnotized cannot be hypnotized or induced to do or say anything that violates personal standards of behaviour or integrity. Hypnosis was accepted by the American Medical Association in 1958 as a viable form of treatment.
