Contrary to popular belief, hypnotherapy isn’t about jumping up on a stage and clucking like a chicken. Instead, it offers a broad spread of therapeutic benefits to help you heal and boost your health. In this article we look at the role of a hypnotherapist and why you might consider consulting one.
What is Hypnotherapy?
The term ‘hypnotherapy’ is derived from the Greek word ‘hypnos’, which means sleep. In hypnotherapy, you’re guided through a changed state of consciousness. This state, which is also known as a trance, allows you to become more aware of your habits and replace them with healthier behaviours.
During the session, you’ll find your mind relaxes and you’re able to slip into a dream-like state. You’ll still be aware of what’s going on around you, but your subconscious mind will step in and play a central role during the session.
To achieve this state, the hypnotherapist will use various relaxation techniques to help you tune in to your body. You’ll then be gently prompted to release old habits (such as smoking) and visualise yourself adopting new habits (such as being a non-smoker).
How a Hypnotherapist May Help You
Hypnotherapists help their clients overcome many ailments and issues, including:
- Addiction: if you are battling an addiction, hypnotherapy may help by reinforcing positive behaviour that you wish to adopt. In this way, your behaviours are modified and replaced with healthier habits.
- Allergies: hypnotherapy can’t cure allergies, but it may help sufferers manage their response to allergies by removing negative emotions, strengthening the immune system and keeping calm.
- Insomnia: if you’re finding it hard to sleep, it could be that your mind is struggling to switch off. Hypnotherapy can help you still your mind and find relaxation, so that you can slip into sleep.
- Introversion and insecurities: since insecurities stem from self-perception, it’s no surprise hypnotherapy can help overcome them. The hypnotherapist can help you become more confident and able to cope with difficult situations. It’s been said that many celebrities and sportspeople have tapped into hypnotherapy to overcome insecurities.
- Habits: including nail biting, hair twisting and smoking.
- Stress and anxiety: hypnotherapy can help bring about a relaxed state and equip stressed souls with handy relaxation techniques.
- ADD: many people with ADD find it difficult to focus. Hypnotherapy may be beneficial by helping sufferers reduce their anxieties, resolve negative behaviour and find focus.
- Eating disorders: anorexia nervosa is a serious psychological illness that may be helped with hypnotherapy, alongside other treatments. As a form of therapy, hypnotherapy may help people with anorexia and other eating disorders by altering their destructive patterns of behaviour and thoughts.
- Angina: several recent studies have suggested that hypnotherapy can help reduce chest pain associated with angina.
- Hair loss: the client is encouraged to visualise their hair growing and becoming full and healthy.
- Decision making: sometimes it can be hard to make a decision, with the fear that we might make the wrong one. In a hypnotherapy session, you’ll achieve an awareness of the things you want to achieve in life and the steps to making it happen.
- Weight gain: gastric band hypnotherapy appears to be particularly helpful with aiding weight loss. The client is guided through a simulated gastric band procedure, so their mind is trained to believe it has a smaller stomach capacity.
There are many other ways you might benefit from a hypnotherapy session. To get started, find a hypnotherapist in your area.
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