How does hypnosis work?

Article by Paul and Denise Douglass

How hypnosis and hypnotherapy are used as a treatment.

The subconscious mind.

Hypnosis works by recognising, and making use of the unconscious (or subconscious) parts of the mind.

Your unconscious mind stores an enormous amount of information and emotion, something over which you will probably have no conscious knowledge. 

However, although you have no conscious knowledge of it, it still causes your conscious mind to think and react in the way it does.Sometimes, there are conflicts between the way these parts of the mind see the world, and this can give rise to problems.

To give an example: phobias.

The conscious mind knows that there is no logical reason to be afraid of spiders (for example), but the subconscious mind has attached a fear to the spider, and the subconscious fear overrides it. 

Suggestion Hypnotherapy.

With Suggestion Hypnotherapy, as it's name suggests, the hypnotherapist sets out to give the subconscious mind beneficial 'suggestions', which aim to change the way it looks at events or situations. 

This can be particularly helpful where a situation is just about to present itself, for example, to help someone stop that smoking habit or biting their nails, or with a fear of flying.

Hypnoanalysis.

Hypnoanalysis (Analytical Hypnotherapy), on the other hand, is a combination of psychotherapy / psychoanalysis used with hypnosis and is the method that is used to seek out the root cause of the problem, often stored in the subconscious mind. 

When the cause of a problem is exposed and the resulting issues are dealt with (i.e. cause and effect), the symptoms it produces can progressively start to disappear.

So, treatment for the anxiety, which is rather akin to emptying out a 'cup of anxiety', will often leave the originating fear powerless, and thus it becomes easy to understand that lasting change can be brought about.

Hypnoanalysis is considered a very cathartic therapy and if the client is truly committed to bringing about beneficial change, the benefits gained from it can be immense.

Hypnotherapy can also be thought of as an interesting journey into personal development and self-discovery. 

Of course, we never know for sure what 'discoveries', or 'hidden' influences, might appear, but the one thing that can become obvious, is the progress that can be made with this sort of talking therapy. 

This is why hypnosis combined with analysis (to make hypnoanalysis), can be so effective in helping the more deep-seated problems, such as: anxiety, phobias, low self-esteem, and social phobia / social anxiety.

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Article by Paul and Denise Douglass

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