If it seems unusual that you can relax your way to making positive changes in your life, then you might not realize the power behind hypnotherapy. Having been practiced for hundreds of years, hypnosis helps people overcome both physical and emotional problems through deep concentration.
To discover more about hypnotherapy, read the questions and answers from Dr. Kathleen Rick, MA, ACHt., EFT-Cert, CECP, DD. Along with her host of degrees, Dr. Rick has been an intuitive counselor, therapist, author, educator, holistic practitioner and expert in the fields of energy psychology and energy medicine in San Diego, California, for more than 30 years.
What is hypnotherapy?
Hypnosis, meaning sleep in Greek, was erroneously named by James Braid in the mid-1800s. By the time it was discovered that sleep had nothing to do with the state in hypnosis, the name had already taken hold and stuck. It may look or feel like sleep, but it is actually a heightened sense of awareness. Ironically, one of the benefits of hypnotherapy is feeling like you have had a great nap. Just 15 minutes of hypnotherapy is equal to about 3 hours of sleep because of the deep relaxation and release of stress.
How does hypnotherapy benefit people?
Hypnotherapy has the power to quickly transform many physical illnesses and conditions. It calls upon the power of the mind to positively heal and transform the challenges of the body, facilitating a true mind and body healing connection. People can shift the experience of their negative physical conditions and can even eliminate the problem completely through hypnotherapy – often in just one session.
What can hypnotherapy help with?
Hypnotherapy is widely recognized as a major healing force. The hypnotherapy process helps with the symptoms of physical ailments, pain, fatigue, and getting through the fear and worry that accompanies a physical issue. Hypnotherapy also greatly improves one’s mental and emotional state providing the confidence and positive frame of mind to accomplish and achieve great things.
What are some health conditions that hypnotherapy helps with?
Many recipients of hypnotherapy overcome emotional problems such as depression, anxiety, fears, phobias, stress, addictions, bad habits, learning disabilities and procrastination. Just releasing stress through hypnosis can prevent mental and physical health issues. By relaxing and letting go of the fears and tension from a stressful situation, we can actually make our immune systems stronger and become healthier.
How does hypnosis actually work?
The hypnotherapist guides the client into a highly relaxed and highly focused mental state of awareness and suggestibility bypassing many of the negative mental responses he or she has built up over the years. This allows access to the subconscious mind to receive positive suggestions resulting in positive changes and healing. Because hypnotherapy accesses the subconscious mind to make a permanent change, it helps a person to become more whole or sound physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. It also frees them from undesirable habits, behaviors or negative emotions in a very short time.
What is happening in the brain during hypnosis?
Knowing how the brain works can help us understand how hypnosis works. The left part of the brain is the analytical, critical and conscious mind. The right part of the brain is the creative, emotional and subconscious mind. In hypnosis, the left brain analytical part of the mind is put aside through the relaxation process and kept busy in order to gain direct access to the right brain or subconscious. This right side subconscious mind opens up to the positive suggestions in hypnosis in order to make a permanent change. Hypnotherapy is extremely effective because it bypasses the critical mind and reaches the emotionally receptive mind much faster than through usual therapies.
How effective is hypnotherapy?
The effectiveness of hypnotherapy has been well known for hundreds of years, but not been well understood. Recent advances in neuro-science, along with studies using technologies such as MRIs and PET scans, show that with the applied use of focused attention achieved in hypnosis, the human mind can literally rewire itself.
How can one cause their mind to change?
The mind alters its own very structure in hypnosis. Scientific studies have proven that the human mind can use this highly focused state to reverse deeply ingrained behaviors, install improved reactions to the level of instinct and create thousands of new neuro pathways. These are dedicated to a positive emotional, physical, or mental state of being, and even the learning of a new skill or behavior. The level of concentration required to effect significant change can be difficult to do in our normal states of awareness. The hypnosis brings a desirable state of focused attention and concentration making way for heightened receptivity to positive input.
What are some misconceptions of hypnotherapy?
Hypnotherapy is a very safe, pleasant and relaxing experience. All hypnosis is essentially self-hypnosis. The person being hypnotized is always in control and will never be made to say or do anything against their will, consent, morals or ethics. In hypnotherapy, one is always the master of one’s own will. Hypnotherapy also allows empowerment to be one’s true authentic self.
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