What is Hypnotherapy?

Hypnotherapy works by allowing communication with your subconscious mind
By offering suggestions and alternative behaviours to this part of you and provided they fit with you (i.e. they do not disagree with your personal beliefs and you want to make the changes) these changes can take place very rapidly.

Hypnotherapy is about harnessing the power within your own mind to create the positive changes you desire.

“The Power to Move the World is in the Subconscious Mind” (William James)

Our mind works on 2 levels – consciously and subconsciously. We make decisions, think and act with our conscious mind. Our subconscious mind controls our habits, emotions and instincts and ultimately our behaviour.

It is for this reason that Hypnotherapy is one of the most effective ways to Stop smoking and invoke other positive changes in your life. See below…

Hypnotherapy can help with a multitude of difficulties and can help you to live your life the way you want to such as -

Anxiety
Gaining Confidence
Moving Forward in Life
Being Less Stressed
Coping with Change
Coping with Life
Phobias
Panic Attacks
Insomnia
Weight Loss
Performance Enhancement
High Blood Pressure
Please go to the Applications page for more informationAdditionally, many people use Hypnotherapy to take time out for themselves – time to truly relax and give yourself that mental rest from the world – In our busy lives, how often do we take time out to relax and reflect on what we want to do.

Why is Hypnotherapy so Effective?
The power of the human mind should not be under-estimated. It is this power that can create our problems in the first place – it is this same power which is utilised by hypnosis to work for us rather than against us. The subconscious mind is a very real part of us and anything that the brain is doing right now without consulting you is being done subconsciously. For example, your subconscious adjusts your blood pressure and makes little changes to your body temperature all day long. These physical things are done autonomously but it also has a considerable say over our feelings, habits and emotions. Like a computer, the subconscious mind decides the degree of fear we may feel when confronted like when seeing a spider, our reaction is influenced by the input of your past experiences. If you are a smoker, it’s your subconscious mind that decides to make you crave nicotine regardless of what you (’the conscious mind’) may think about smoking.

Unfortunately the conscious mind normally has little control over this deeper part of the mind. This is an essential survival function rather than nature’s flaw as it intervenes in ways to stop us consciously controlling our heart beating or appetite for example. As far as your inner subconscious mind is concerned, it sees that all of our anxieties, cravings or habits are in our best interests. When it gets things wrong, it is unaware that this is the case and like a real computer it cannot reason things out – it is programmed in a certain way. This is where hypnotherapy can help as it is the most direct way of communicating with and ‘re-programming’ the inner (subconscious) mind.