WHAT IS HYPNOSIS?

Hypnosis is a natural trance state that we all experience to some extent every day. It’s quite like being so absorbed in a good book, or film, that we don’t notice when someone calls our name. Or we could just be ‘lost deep in thought’ or just day dreaming, either way our focus of attention is narrowed and we have a reduced awareness of our immediate surroundings.

When hypnosis is used for therapeutic purposes it is called hypnotherapy.

WHAT IS THE TRANCE STATE?

The hypnotic trance is a state of ‘focused concentration’ in which you are neither fully awake, or fully asleep.

The trance is achieved when the hypnotherapist guides you the client into a very peaceful almost sleep like state of complete body relaxation. Deeply relaxed people are open to suggestion, and can be desensitised to fears, phobias and pain. Visualisation is used as a means to empower the client to achieve whatever goal they may want to work towards.

HOW DO I GET INTO THE TRANCE STATE?

You will be in a comfortable position, either sitting or lying down, feeling safe, secure, warm and at ease. All you have to do is sit back, close your eyes and allow the therapist to take you into a deep state of relaxation with words specially chosen for their facilitation of relaxation.

HOW WILL THE TRANCE STATE MAKE ME FEEL?

Although your body will be relaxed, your mind will actually be very attentive. You will then be guided by the therapist to relax down beneath the flow of habitual patterns of thinking, to a narrowed focus of attention on the particular issues and goals you bring to therapy.

While in the altered awareness of the trance state there is an enhanced capacity to absorb at a deep level the suggestions that are made by the hypnotherapist. Here, the suggestions can be accepted and embedded without the critical analysis we so often engage in.

The suggestions are based on your goals for treatment. What you want to achieve from the session, the changes you want to make, and your visions for the future. This is all agreed beforehand and discussed at length before the actual therapy begins.

BUT DOES IT ACTUALLY WORK?

It is thought that hypnosis involves the left side of the brain (the conscious mind)

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