What Is Hypnotherapy And How Does It Work?

Although the word “sleep” is often used in correlation with hypnosis and hypnotherapy, hypnosis is not a state of deep sleep. It does, however, induce a trance-like condition that actually increases the subject’s state of awareness in their own subconscious. Because the subconscious is under the mental surface and we are mostly unaware of it in our normal conscious state, the hypnotic state is necessary to gain access to it.

A hypnotherapist, after the subject is in their hypnotic state, is able to suggest ideas to them as a form of therapy. These ideas are implanted deep into the psyche and can help with any number of issues. For example, while under hypnosis, a therapist may be able to suggest to you that cigarettes taste and smell awful, they make you sick and you want nothing to do with them. This is only a suggestion and may not work 100% the first time. Instead, the next time the subject picks up a cigarette, they may smoke it but will gain less enjoyment from it, hopefully leading them to eventually quit.

Hypnosis is the act of hypnotizing a subject. The practice of healing or positive growth through hypnosis is known as hypnotherapy. This is the method most subjects seek out to help them stop smoking, lost weight, reduce anxiety, and so on. Hypnotherapy focuses on ‘reprogramming’ certain behavior patterns within the mind. This can enable you to conquer your fears, bad habits and negative thoughts toward yourself.

Hypnotherapy can treat physical symptoms as well as mental ones. As the subject is placed under hypnosis, they are much more relaxed. This is more than a mental state, as the blood pressure and breathing will slow, releasing pressure on the heart and other organs. This is effective for pain management and often to promote physical healing after an injury or major surgery. Hypnotherapy is practiced on the principle that the mind and the body are one connected thing and that one can control the other.

Hypnosis is effective as a treatment process chiefly because it allows the subject to shut down the “thinking” part of the brain. In other words, under hypnosis you do not think about the stresses of your everyday life or the logistics. The non-analytical side of the brain (our right hemisphere) is empowered and allowed to be affected and cause changes in the person. This may seem a little far-fetched for some, but millions of people around the world swear by these methods.

Hypnotherapy can treat any number of disorders from bad habits such as smoking and overeating, to suppressed memories that inhibit you from carrying on successful relationships. It has been endorsed by medical professionals as an effective pain management technique and is often chosen over epidural’s during childbirth. However, none of these conditions can be treated effectively if the subject does not believe that they will. Because hypnosis is a science of the mind, it cannot be entered into involuntarily and must have your full cooperation in order to be effective.

Terry Doherty works all over the UK working extensively with individual and business clients helping clients to stop smoking, manage weight, manage stress, become more confident and helping change many other behavioural issues. Terry uses the latest techniques of hypnosis, NLP and life coaching skills for profound change. He can be reached at http://www.mind-works.co.uk

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Hypnotherapy For Changing Habits

Hypnotherapists utilise hypnosis to help people solve personal problems. Hypnosis is a state of mind, typified by deep relaxation, a narrowed focus and heightened sensory awareness. This state of mind occurs naturally and people slide in and out of this state, known as ‘trance’, all the time, in everyday life.

Examples of trance states include fantasising about someone you are attracted to, becoming deeply absorbed in reading a book, being anxious about an event causing you to re-live what could go wrong over and over in your head and daydreaming. As you may see from the examples given, trance states can be positive or negative, depending on what is being focused on.

Hypnotherapy is based on the philosophy, that trance states can be helpful and utilised to bring about positive change. This is because, when a person is deeply relaxed, as they are during trance, access to the unconscious mind is enabled. Hypnotherapists believe that learning, behaviour and change, occur at an unconscious level.

Categorising the mind into unconscious and conscious is just a conceptual model, a way of describing different aspects of the mind. The concept of unconscious and conscious mind is generally accepted in the western world. These different aspects of the mind are believed to have different functions. For example, the conscious mind is logical, rational, and sequential in thinking. It is also analytical, it uses words and numbers and stores short-term memories. The unconscious mind is intuitive, non-sequential in thinking, more creative, uses symbols and feelings and stores long-term memories.

If you imagine your mind as operating on a sliding scale, at one end, you have highly alert states, towards the other end, you have more relaxed states such as daydreaming and further towards the this end still, deep trance and finally sleep.

Often when people present with problems at Hypnotherapy Herts, they have attempted to solve their problem through conscious effort and have struggled with this. For example, the insomniac, who finds that trying to consciously fall off to sleep, just seems to make things worse. At hypnotherapy Herts, the hypnotherapist will use hypnotherapy to gain access to the unconscious mind. This type of therapy can be very useful for treating habits. For example, there are often unconscious issues associated with smoking that are best dealt with through hypnotherapy. Most people do not consciously decide to continue poisoning and damaging themselves through smoking on a day to day basis.

The conscious mind, although strong at logical thinking and the other functions mentioned, tends to be much more rigid in thinking. The unconscious mind is much more flexible and as it stores all your life’s learnings, it is in the unconscious mind where habits are created and maintained. Through hypnotherapy Herts, the hypnotherapist is able to make habit changes much easier and more naturally, by working with the unconscious mind.

Karen Hastings is a NHS experienced mental health occupational therapist, Master NLP practitioner and hypnotherapist. Karen uses hypnotherapy in Hertfordshire, along with cognitive therapy approaches. For more information about Hypnotherapy, Herts visit http://www.karenhastings.co.uk

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Self Hypnotherapy

Self-hypnotherapy has proven to be a good method to reduce stress, pain management, help you lose weight, stop smoking and overall live a healthier and better life.

 

It’s a good idea to set aside a time and place where you can practice your self-hypnotherapy sessions. Some place where you won’t be disturbed for about 30 minutes. If you need a scrip to follow I have several posted on my website for free. You’re welcome to get one and try it out yourself.

 

A big part of Self-hypnotherapy is just relax and let it happen. If you try to hard or try to analyze every detail you are not going to be as successful. Do not worry if you think you didn’t do it right or didn’t go into a trance the first time. It takes practice and you will become better every time you do it.

 

Every one is different and no two people have the same experience. So do not worry that what you experienced is not the same as some one else’s that you have heard about. Just go at your own pace and do what is best for yourself. Soon with practice you will become an expert and be able to go under faster and deeper and with more success.

 

One thing is you will need to remain awake while you perform Self-hypnotherapy. Its OK if you go to sleep afterwards but you need to finish each session you start. Always bring yourself back out of your trance. You’ll feel so refreshed and energized you may not even want a nap afterwards.

 

Self-hypnotherapy can be an amazing tool that you can benefit from in you’re daily life. It can help you with so many of life’s little problems I can not even begin to name them all here. I have experienced this wonderful tool first hand and I urge you to give it a try.

The author has a website devoted to self hypnosis and its many benefits with scripts for you to use yourself so you can see how self hypnotherapy works.Better Living With Hypnosis

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EFT Works For Traumas

Emotional Freedom Techniques or EFT are particularly effective in emotion-related conditions or physical difficulties indirectly or directly linked to emotions like stress and anxiety. In fact, it is cited that the success rate of EFT when dealing with emotional conditions is not less than 80 percent or almost 100 percent. Thus, it is highly effective in treating various types of traumas.

Trauma relief is one of the earliest applications of EFT. In fact, EFT founder himself Gary Craig who developed the techniques in the early 1990s believe that when all else fails in trauma relief, EFT is the cure. Traumas can be a consequence of death of a loved one, post-traumatic stress disorder, accidents, abuse, violence, war, among many more.

Traumas are deep-seated emotions, thus EFT can address the root causes and provide relief. Traumatic events or situations can paralyzed a person’s whole being. These produce a high level of stress, anxiety and, fear that if not treated will dominate a person’s consciousness. Traumatized people do not function normally because traumatic events grip their minds, which play back the unfortunate events over and over again until their whole consciousness is occupied.

One of the things we appreciate most is EFT’s versatility. When you have mastered the skills, it is almost like having superpowers. You will have tools that you can use in just about any situation. For instance, if you are going into an important meeting or interview and feel anxious or afraid, you can just sit in your car or duck quickly into the restroom an do some EFT. It works wonders and doesn’t require any special equipment, so you can use it virtually anywhere.

In fact, that is where conventional or traditional methods of trauma therapies fail, since these relive the traumatic events or situations over and over again in the patient’s mind. Most of the time, this have counterproductive effects. EFT, on the other hand, zeroes in on the pain associated with the trauma itself rather than the events that caused it. This makes the process of recovery from the trauma speedier.

EFT teaches traumatized persons to detach themselves from their traumatic experiences. Thus, they start viewing the whole thing in a more impersonal manner. They become desensitized from the emotions or pain associated with the traumatic experiences or events. EFT provides people with techniques or tools that they can quickly turn to or utilize when traumatic thoughts creep in. These prevent panic attacks from setting in.

As a trauma relief, EFT is a faster route, as many people would testify. There are instances when only one EFT session is needed. People can immediately experience the benefits or relief. There are even techniques, which people can do on their own, without the need for an EFT expert.

As cited earlier, EFT provides lasting and permanent relief, even for traumas. So after a successful EFT therapy or sessions, traumatized people are delivered from symptoms of trauma such nightmares, insomnia, disturbed sleep, post-traumatic stress, panic attacks, among other negative manifestations.

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Taking Your Last Puff With Hypnotherapy

Smoking is one of the worst habits that a person can begin to practice. For many years, smoking was thought of as a safe pass time. Tobacco leaves were grown naturally and they were dried to make tobacco. There were tobacco ads in magazines and on television, women were seen smoking in nearly every movie on earth and the general public believed all was going to be just fine. Then, the scientific community researched the act of smoking and the effects on the body and the findings were a lot less than fine. Smoking can cause a huge list of health problems, but the worst part if not what it can do to the body, it is the fact that the nicotine present in smoke is addictive and it can be tremendously hard to quit smoking once you have begun.

Hypnotherapy for smoking is a great choice because of the nature of habitual smoking. Habits, simply put, are addictions and addictions are created in the mind. While many smokers try their best to stop smoking cold turkey or utilized one of the many prescription medications on the market for smoking cessation, these are truly not effective until the mind is convinced that the body no longer needs the nicotine. This is where hypnotherapy can come in.

Hypnosis for quitting smoking works uniquely in that it targets the reason we started smoking in the first place, something missing or a habitual action we were used to seeing in our earlier lives. This addiction can be hard to break and hypnosis works from a different angle that any other type of solution. Changing the way the mind thinks about cigarettes and cigarette smoking is the first step down the road to recovery and hypnosis can lead the way. Hypnosis for smoking:

• Starts lightly and ends lightly. At no point in time are you told to quit smoking during hypnotic treatment. Each session opens the mind more and allows for a greater understanding of why you started in the first place. Then the mind is retrained to lose the need for the nicotine. Over time, the patient will feel less and less like they want to smoke and eventually stop all together, on their own.

• No time lines. There are no time lines to follow. Hypnosis can work very quickly or take longer than one may expect. The key is to continue treatments and watch as you slowly need less and less smoking day by day.

• No step down or replacement addictions. Many smoking cessation programs are centred on pills or patches. These are simply replacement addictions for the cigarettes. Hypnosis does not offer a replacement, it offers a cure.

• No side effects. With the recent rash of harmful side effects related to smoking cessation products, hypnosis can be looked upon as a natural treatment for the mind and the body. Prescriptions are not needed and there are no chances of weaning the body from one addiction or habit only to replace it with another.

Stopping smoking with hypnosis is the most fantastic feeling on earth. The movement from smoker to non smoker is subtle. No one has to know about the treatments and there is no pressure to stop or replacement addictions to deal with. The treatments are truly a cost effective, side effect free way to stop the body and the mind from needing nicotine everyday. One day you will wake up and smoking will just not be the number on thing on the mind and you will now that the treatment was worth the time and effort.

Terry Doherty works all over the UK working extensively with individual and business clients helping them to stop smoking, manage weight, manage stress, become more confident and help create generative change. Terry uses the latest techniques of hypnosis, NLP and life coaching skills for profound change. Contact him at http://www.mind-works.co.uk

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EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique Your Fast Tool To Wellness

Scientific research has proven that everything in the universe, including us humans, is made up of energy. These findings are changing the way we view not only diseases but how we run our lives. In the last couple of decades we have been getting a much better understanding how healing occurs, as the findings of quantum physics are making their way into the practices of practitioners round the world. Energy therapies are becoming the favoured tool to deal with any kind of physical and emotional disease or trauma, because of their impressive success rate and speed of results.

EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique is one of the best techniques out there. It is easily applied across the entire spectrum of emotional and physical problems. Since it manipulates the body’s energy system, whilst using mind focus simultaneously, it can also be used by coaches to coach business people in goal setting, trouble shooting, focusing and much more.

How Emotional Freedom Technique heals emotional and physical problems

It is an irrefutable fact, that our thinking directly affects our well being. Negative thinking creates low energy levels and positive thinking produces higher energy levels. EFT works on the premise that, that persistent negative thinking causes a a lowering of general energy levels ultimately disrupting the flow of energy in the body. These disruptions of the body’s energy system show up as a general out of sorts feeling to begin with, gradually leading to emotional or physical problems.

EFT uses a form of needle free acupuncture together with mind focus to address any issue. You tap on a small number of meridian points on the body and face, whilst repeating aloud an “affirmation” phrase related to the issue you are addressing. Tapping on the meridian points opens up the energy channels in the body. The energy begins to flow more freely, clearing mind and body of stale, old energy, thus creating new awareness or insights and at the same time releasing the negativity that caused the energetic disruptions in the first place. Once you have tapped a few rounds of EFT you will soon notice, often within minutes, that you are beginning to feel calmer, more energetic and balanced.

Use EFT in your daily life

The beauty of EFT is that anyone can learn the basics easily and quickly. You can use it on anything and as you become more familiar with the process you will be able to get relief from anything, like stress, tiredness, anxiety, back pain, headaches, nervousness, fear, lack of focus, the list is endless. There are no limits to the issues to which you can apply EFT. In fact, I often tell my clients, that the only limits are their imagination. One caveat though, if you have severe problems please consult an experienced practitioner.

EFT also works brilliantly with children. Children have fewer inhibitions then us grown ups and they love the off beat approach and creativity of EFT and can often bring a humour to the therapy which facilitates the healing process. Actually humour is an important part of EFT. I use it a lot with my clients. Humour relaxes and relaxation aids healing, as the meridian channels expand, allowing more energy to flow freely. Therefore the use of humour in your affirmations really can accelerate positive change.

I encourage anyone with an interest in well being to check out EFT, it really can enhance your life beyond that which you thought possible.

Mercedes Oestermann van Essen is an Advanced EFT Practitioner and Energy Therapist who consults worldwide via the Internet. Solve problems quickly and easily.

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Become More Confident Using Hypnotherapy

Why is it that some people seem to be naturally more extroverted than others? Those who seem to relish the lime light and speak out with confidence and ease, tend to appear more comfortable with themselves, and radiate towards other much more easily. Some might say that it takes all sorts, that it’s important to have a variety of personality types, that the quiet introverts have their place. And whilst that’s true, if you’re an introvert who has been struggling with your low level of confidence, hypnotherapy may be able to help.

Whether you need to have the confidence to be more assertive at work, or the confidence to speak up and say the one thing that you should have said a long time ago, hypnotherapy could be the way forward for you. You may wish for more confidence in one specific area, or in all areas of your life.

Hypnotherapy is an application of hypnosis for therapeutic purposes. Anyone can be hypnotised if they are able to concentrate, use their imagination and have the will and want to do it. It’s a very simple and relaxing process. When you are in a trance state you focus so much on the hypnotherapist’s voice, that your mind can delete (if it wants to) all other sounds or distractions that are normally within your awareness.

Using hypnotherapy to improve confidence is especially effective as it allows the changes to be made whilst in a deep state of relaxation, something which those suffering from stress and worry, have little chance of achieving! Whilst you are in this wonderfully relaxed daydream, your hypnotherapist will fill your subconscious mind with positive messages of confidence, visualisation of scenarios in which you will act with confidence and certainty and powerful anchors to a confident state. This means that your hypnotherapist will ask you to remember a time in the past when you were feeling confident, and as you remember that time your hypnotherapist will instruct you to squeeze your right hand into a fist, or some other simple physical gesture. This act of remembering a confident time from the past whilst making the physical gesture will be repeated several times, until the simple act of squeezing your hand into a fist evokes the confident feeling. This means that you can set off your powerful feeling of confidence at any time you require them.

Hypnotherapy is also extremely effective at remove unwanted negative emotions from the past, which could be the one thing standing between you and your new found confidence.

Using hypnotherapy to improve your levels of confidence could have a very positive impact on your life. If you take a moment now to consider all of the things you could achieve if you were more confident what would your life be like? Perhaps having more confidence would have made you apply for that promotion at work. If you were more confident would you still work for someone else or look at setting up your own business? Maybe you’d travel to the places you’ve never been but always dreamed of going to, or perhaps you’d have the confidence to join a dating agency and meet your perfect partner. Now just consider this for a moment, do you really want to get to the end of your days and wish you’d achieved so much more? Take the time now to invest in yourself and create the changes in your confidence with hypnotherapy, and change your life.

Gemma Bailey is qualified hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner. She is based in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire and has helped many clients and patients throughout South East England. For more information on Hypnotherapy, NLP therapies and Life coaching, visit http://www.gemmabailey.co.uk

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Can Hypnotherapy Really Help You Quit Smoking?

Many people would love to give up smoking, what they don’t realise is that it could be easier than they first realised. More and more people are now turning to hypnotherapy as a form of treatment to help them kick the habit. With many therapists now offering one-off sessions to help you quit complete with free follow-up sessions, hypnotherapy is rapidly becoming the first stop people are making in their quest to stop smoking. A usual hypnosis consultation will generally involve gathering information to unearth your personal reasons for wishing to quit smoking.

If your mind is set that you feel you are missing out on something or that you feel like you are being deprived of something, then the truth of the matter is you will possibly end up going back to the cigarettes, right back where you started. This is where hypnotherapy comes into its own. Hypnosis can help you deal with aspects that are fundamental to helping you give up, be it psychological or even emotional.

But does it really work?

Tom Reed MSN news Editor stopped smoking after 1 hour session with Quitmasters in London. Arriving not holding hypnotherapy in very high regards after stumbling across one before on holiday in Tenerife who tried to convince me I was riding a horse when I knew full well that I was sitting in a chair on stage in front of 100 other tourists. Needless to say I was not impressed and consequently I have never held hypnotists in very high regards.

When the opportunity arouse to visit Quitmasters Diana Pedersson, who claimed 95% success rate in stopping people smoking, I was extremely dubious but having smoked half my life and reach a point where I was desperately waiting to quit I thought this hypnotherapy lark might be worth a whirl after all.

Having packed a day’s worth of cigarettes into one morning I arrived at their headquarters. After some questions about my smoking habits and having assured her I was committed to quitting I was asked to go into the adjoining room and lie down on the treatment table. The hypnotherapy session began and despite initial sceptical I remind myself that this was a great opportunity to give up.

The deep breathing exercise made me feel relaxed everything that was said seemed to make a lot of sense I was told I wanted to stop a smoking and that when I woke up not only would I be a non-smoker but a happy non-smoker and that it would be easy.

When I opened my eyes at the end of the session I felt excited by my new found confidence’ For the rest of the day I did not have any cravings for cigarettes I made it into work the next day without my normal two cigarettes and without thinking about them. There where points during the day I thought something was missing but the whole idea of smoking was completely alien and unappealing.

When I tried to quit in the past the future has seemed daunting since the hypnotherapy I can’t even if I try envisage myself smoking again.

Diana Pedersson of QuitMasters UK is certified by the American Board of Hypnotherapy and specialises in “Stop Smoking Hypnosis” and many other Hypnotherapy Services to help cure you of your fears and phobias.

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Letting Anger Subside With EFT

Some of us deal with upsetting situations with anger. It doesn’t seem to matter who or what we are angry with. We are angry and that is the only thing that matters. Most of the time, we are angry at the situation that leaves us in a bind and for a time renders us helpless. The bad thing is, while anger is bursting inside us, we inevitably take it out on the people around us – our spouse, children, friends, people we work with – and end up hurting them.

Anger and being occasionally angry is not the crux of the matter, though. After all, to be angry once in a while is only human. The real problem arises when we let anger get out of hand and start directing it towards other people in an attempt to give vent to negative feelings. When this happens, what usually comes out as a consequence requires double efforts on our part and even more stress in our life. We have to deal with the anger brewing inside us and start trying to repair relationships with people we have hurt at the height of our anger, both of which is not constructive as they take the mind away from resolving the difficult situation that gave rise to the anger in the first place.

But, as we have said, to be angry is natural and an inherently human thing. We can never hope to live a life that is devoid of anger as that is utterly impossible. What is of utmost importance, therefore, is to finally look for a way that will help us put a lid on our anger and help us manage it more efficiently. There are a handful of ways to help us do just that. One of the most popular, uncomplicated, and effectual way is Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT).

As its name suggest, EFT affords us freedom from emotions that may inhibit us from living life fully and pleasantly. EFT works with a series of points in the body that correspond to acupuncture points. In fact, EFT is very much like acupuncture, but without the needles and the resulting pain. EFT necessitates you to perform a habitual tapping on acupuncture points on our body while delivering a series of positive and reassuring statements that deal exclusively with the situation that brought on your anger. The acupuncture points include the karate chop point, the bony ridge on the outside of the eyes and under the eyes, the inside of the eyebrows, under the nose, in the middle of the chin, on the collarbone, and under the armpits.

EFT is a simple process. It is painless, and there is no need for a cocktail of medication or an exhausting set of exercises. EFT is very easy to learn and memorize. It is convenient as you can perform it anytime and anywhere with little or no cost at all. If done routinely and regularly, EFT will provide you with results that will last for a very long time, most times, forever. Its side effects, if any at all, are mostly positive that you will hardly feel anything at all.

With the correct performance of the process of EFT, you will soon find yourself calmer, more laidback, and better equipped to deal with stressful situations and control or manage the angry emotions that may arise.

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Getting Proper Hypnotherapy Training – The Key To Success

It is not possible to learn the techniques of hypnotherapy without the help of an expert who has deep knowledge in hypnotherapy. Many use hypnosis as a powerful tool to overcome their fears and to improve their quality of life by increasing their confidence level. Knowledge in hypnosis is a must for the persons who work as counselors at schools and at various other counseling centers.

Some learn hypnosis just to understand the techniques of self hypnosis. Self hypnosis can be practiced by individuals who want to strengthen their mind to attain some specific goals. This type of hypnotic therapy is widely used by the persons who participating in sports. In such cases the trainers also should be in a position to make use of the possibilities of hypnosis to get the best out of the persons practicing under him.

Whatever be the object of learning the techniques of hypnotherapy, it requires the assistance and proper guidance from the part of a hypnotist who has practical knowledge in applying various techniques of hypnotherapy. It will never be possible for you to learn it with out the help of such an expert in this field.

As many of us believe, it is not easy to learn it by reading a book or simply by watching some other doing this work. If you want to acquire scientific knowledge in this field, you should definitely undergo hypnotherapy training.

Finding a right institute is a must in learning hypnosis. Choose only the institutes that have good reputation and experienced and qualified faculties when you go for hypnotherapy training.

If you are a person who cannot find time to attend regular classes to learn hypnosis, you can go for the hypnotherapy training that provides distant education facility for their students. You will only be asked to attend a few practical sessions by these hypnotherapy institutes. With such hypnotherapy institutes you will be able to avoid the inconvenience of going to classes regularly.

Many institutes that provide hypnotherapy training now arrange online learning system for the people residing out side the country or in distant places. It is not difficult to find online institutes that offer expert training in hypnosis. A simple search in internet will take you to a world of such institutes. Be definite about the authenticity of the institution before you join or make payment for the program. Checking out the testimonials of the past students of these institutions will help you to understand the quality of the training of the hypnosis school.

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