CURIOUS ABOUT HYPNOTHERAPY?

Hypnotherapy, in simple terms, is deep relaxation with a goal. It's about being guided to a deep place of relaxation and imagination, where the self-critical part of your brain can have a break. This state is actually a hyper-focused state allowing you to deal with issues on a much deeper and long-lasting level. 

Your subconscious makes up 90% of your thinking and your logical brain makes up the other 10%.  If you look at the picture above you will see that your beliefs, emotions, habits, values and long term-memory (and several other areas) reside in your subconscious.  Yet, we put so much emphasis on using will-power and logical thinking to overcome our challenges.  Most of your thoughts are controlled by your subconscious mind so it makes sense we would work in that area to change your longstanding thoughts and habits.

Let's cut to the chase and talk about the elephant in the room.  I used to think hypnotherapy was 'dodgy' until I had it myself and realised how powerful it was.  

Undertaking my studies with the Hypnotherapy Training College of Australia also showed me how mainstream hypnotherapy is becoming.  It is pretty much a standard form of therapy now.

Gone are the days when hypnotherapy was only associated with embarrassing stage show antics carried out on unsuspecting audience members.  That is hypnosis, not hypnotherapy.  

The big difference between stage shows and clinical hypnotherapy is the motivation or the "Why?"  A clinical hypnotherapist does hypnotherapy to assist you to achieve your goals; not to use you as a trivial form of entertainment.

Hypnotherapy can assist in many areas.  If you are ready to change the sky is the limit.  Here are just a few areas hypnotherapy works well for:

• smoking cessation
• anxiety
• public speaking
• grief and loss
• self-esteem
• trauma

I recommend 3-4 sessions.  You also need to continue the methods in your own time for lasting change to occur.  This proves the point that hypnotherapy is not like stage shows where something is done "to" you.   The power lies within you, within your subconscious mind.  It knows what you need better than anyone.