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Hypnotherapy:
Common Questions
Common Questions
What is hypnotherapy?
Simply put, hypnotherapy is therapy carried out while you are in “hypnosis”.
What is hypnosis?
While there is much debate about exactly what hypnosis is, it is often described as an altered state of awareness which can be utilised for self help. In hypnotherapy, this state is often coupled with a feeling of deep relaxation. Most importantly, hypnosis is a perfectly natural state and one that we all enter into every day.
What does hypnosis feel like?
Clients are often surprised because their experience of hypnosis is not at all how they’d expected it to be. Everyone experiences hypnosis differently, but some common descriptions include: feeling no different at all from a normal waking state; like daydreaming; similar to becoming completely absorbed in a book or TV programme to the exclusion of everything around you.
Can I be made to do things against my will?
Definitely not. You may have this idea from seeing stage hypnotists, but the way the participants act in such shows can easily be explained and I will happily discuss this with you during your free consultation. All hypnosis is self-hypnosis and you are in control.
Will I definitely be able to come out of hypnosis?
Yes, without a doubt. If anything happened to me while you were in hypnosis, you would simply bring yourself out of hypnosis.
How does hypnotherapy work?
Our minds can be thought of as functioning on two basic levels: “conscious” (things we are aware of) and “subconscious” (things we are not aware of). With so much of our everyday lives being controlled by our subconscious minds, it is perhaps not surprising that we find it so difficult to introduce change at a conscious level.
For example, we consciously know that fear of the British house spider makes no sense. But this does not stop some of us from reacting with absolute terror because, at some time and on a subconscious level, a strong link has been made between spiders and danger.