Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy

Hypnosis is a state of trance you constantly enter in and out of during our waking life. Experiences such as daydreaming, light sleeping or when you are on the verge of sleeping are a few to name.

Hypnotherapy is using this powerful state of mind to change your thoughts and behaviour quicker and more effectively. We only use a very small percentage of our true potential and the human brain is the most complex thing known to man. When you are in this state you have greater access to the hidden powers within you, aiding you to harness the enormous power of your mind.

 

Conscious/Subconscious Mind
Between Two Minds

How do we safely drive our car but not remember the journey? It seems we have two parts to our mind. We call them the conscious and the subconscious mind. Our conscious mind is the rational mind in charge of attention, analytical thinking, forward planning and time-management etc. Our subconscious mind is the irrational mind and is in charge of our more automatic movements, emotions, memories, beliefs, attitudes and intuition etc. Or in this case driving a car.

Q. What happens when our two minds disagree?
A. The subconscious mind wins!

The rational mind is highly effective in critically analysing information, but it is our subconscious mind that is the real one in control.

Why is it people who are afraid of spiders, intellectually know they are harmless, but still panic? How many times have we heard the line, “I know I shouldn’t be doing this, but I just can’t help myself.” It is because our emotional subconscious mind is in control – not the intellectual conscious mind.

 

Re-educating the Subconscious

Imagine what would happen if you believed everything you heard! Not only would life be very confusing but it would also be dangerous. There must be a filter to sift through what information to keep and what to ignore. It is like a king; the subconscious is the one in control, but it is like having guards outside the palace to protect the king from strangers wandering in.

Imagine you live in a kingdom where the government policy is destroying the lives of the common people. The king is a good-hearted king but he is totally unaware of the pain he is causing with his policies. You are a common person and you must convince to the king to change his policy. The king actually happens to be a very easy person to convince and is only too happy to listen to you, however those guards standing outside refuse to let just anybody in. If only we could get past the guards, we could speak to the king.

This is where hypnosis comes in. During trance these guards are too distracted by other things like staring at the road or washing dishes, allowing us to speak to the king, the subconscious, directly, giving it positive helpful suggestions that make effective, powerful and lasting change.

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