About Hypnotherapy
The hypnotic trance is a naturally-occurring state of mind. Everyone experiences this state each day. When you daydream, read a riveting book, lose yourself in artistic expression or drift off to sleep at night, you're experiencing a natural, yet altered state of mind.
When used therapeutically, this altered state of mind features profound relaxation of body and mind with a highly productive, laser-like focus of attention. The hypnotherapist then acts as a sort of dream guide to help you direct your body and mind to make the appropriate changes. Hypnosis during birth can provide natural anesthesia, and it helps you control your progress through labor and delivery. Clinical hypnotherapy, as an adjunct to your physician's care, can help you accelerate healing and eliminate pain.
Hypnotic trance is achieved when the client follows the hypnotherapist's instructions. Some people find it most effective to repeat the instructions in their minds with a "yes" mindset, wanting to experience hypnotic relaxation and knowing that it will happen. In this sense, it is self-hypnosis.
Each person's experience of hypnosis is unique and it can change from one session to the next. The potential of the subconscious mind unfolds more with each session. The client is always in control of his or her experience and results.
Hypnotherapy is not the practice of medicine, psychology or psychiatry, and is not in any way intended to be a replacement for diagnosis or treatment of any complaint or ailment. Persons with an ailment or physical complaint should first see a medical doctor for treatment, and then get the doctor's consent to use hypnotherapy, and next contract with a nationally-certified hypnotherapist, as an adjunct to medical treatment. Persons with mental disabilities or mental illnesses should seek psychiatric care. Hypnosis and hypnotherapy employ and teach skills for self-improvement; therefore their effectiveness depends on the client and no guarantee can be made regarding the results of their use. The contents of this website are for educational purposes only.
Why Hypnotherapy?
Because it works! Have you ever wondered what part of you controls your dreams when you sleep? What controls that bad mood you can't explain? When exercising or during stress, what kicks in to raise your heart rate? What decides how much energy your body gives to its immune system, and how it stores fat?
All of this happens below the level of your consciousness, in what is know as the subconscious mind.
Hypnotherapy helps you achieve a safe and natural, yet altered state in which you experience deep relaxation of the body and conscious mind, creating a highly-focused attention that allows you to know your own subconscious mind. In the altered state, you gain access to a deeper understanding of your habits behaviors, and emotions, as well as your physical well-being.
Your subconscious mind controls so much of your life . . . wouldn't it be nice to be more in control.