Hypnosis is both a relaxing process and a powerful tool to help achieve personal goals and create positive changes in your life. Hypnotherapists utilize hypnosis to help clients achieve success in weight reduction, smoking cessation, stress reduction, relaxation, increasing self-confidence & self-esteem, overcoming insomnia, eliminating nail biting, and creating change in other areas. Hypnotherapy may even be used as part of a program for reducing anxiety, panic attacks, or depression.
Hypnosis helps to access the Subconscious Mind, which stores our memories, habits and beliefs. Many habits are rooted in memories or perceptions that may be forgotten by the conscious mind but retained in the subconscious. These habits and beliefs are the cause of most of our behaviors. The subconscious mind will strive to uphold and achieve our beliefs. So, for instance, if you hold the belief, "I am clumsy," the
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or walk into a chair. In this case, during hypnotherapy, you might want to change that belief to "I am graceful" or "I am naturally careful." What hypnosis does, in essence, is to distract the conscious mind so that positive suggestions can go right to the subconscious mind, making it more open to receive suggestions that may assist you in re-programming old attitudes and beliefs. These are replaced with new, positive attitudes and beliefs that promote healthier behaviors. The positive suggestions received during hypnosis, then, become a part of those messages in the back of your mind that nudge you toward new behaviors, and thus help to change old habits more quickly and easily. Repetition of these types of hypnotic suggestions can boost your determination and enhance your conscious willpower. Hypnosis is an ideal way to turn negative thoughts into positive self-talk. |
