What will hypnotherapy feel like?
The most regularly asked questions about hypnotherapy answered...
One size of therapy and hypnotherapy does NOT fit all – I act on the principle that your problems arise for various reasons unique to you. This is why I use a variety of therapies in order to help you along with emotional support. Therapy is bespoke just for you.
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The science of hypnotherapy is simple – under hypnosis, your brainwaves go from alert Beta state to Alpha or Theta brainwaves which are slower, and higher in amplitude. This produces a good flow of ideas and creative thoughts and solutions which occurs without censorship or guilt. It is typically a very positive mental state.
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You may know from experience that driving, walking or running after 10 minutes, your critical faculty (which provides that protective and often, negative monologue in your head), is paused allowing you to problem solve, allowing movement of thoughts which have been stuck on a track of anxiety or sadness or negativity.
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What happens in a hypnotherapy session?
​A therapy session will start with a thorough talk through of your symptoms and feelings and what you would like help with. Hypnotherapy might not be used in the first session until a therapy plan of how best to help you has been discussed and agreed with you. The benefit of this therapy is time - time for you to unpack and air things that perhaps had not been processed or had been "pushed down" whilst life takes over, as it often does! This is your time for you to start acknowledging and recognising patterns in your life, behaviour, your reactions, your feelings and emotions. Mapping out a time line of your life is often very healing and starts a positive chain of events towards the changes you seek. A therapy plan will make sense and be something you will look forward to. A feeling of self control and undertanding is a powerful tool to commence healing and moving ahead with plans. An idea of how many sessions to complete the changes will be discussed too and agreed with you. There may be "homework" after the first session.
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​A typical hypnotherapy session begins with something called an induction procedure to allow you to change down to Alpha or Theta brainwave. I will speak slowly and softly and make suggestions that help you to focus your attention and relax. Some people find it hard to visualise or imagine things, so I can make changes to this process for them. I will begin to make suggestions that are for your benefit in line with what we have discussed and you have outlined as your desired changes. Your brain will only take on suggestions that are for your benefit. I cannot tell you to do something that is against your moral code. When you are in a hypnosis, your mind is open and receptive to new ideas, thoughts and resolutions and able to problem solve with my guidance and your critical brain is otherwise occupied. You will be able to talk and respond to me in hypnosis and I will be your guide. I will ask you questions in hypnosis regularly. You will not lose control or cluck like a chicken! You will be able to respond to anything externally that requires your immediate attention.
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My expectation from you is that you are open, honest, fully desire the outcome and don't knowingly have a greater reason to keep the issue than to let go of it. Your willing involvement and desire for the outcome is key to the removal of the problem.
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Hypnosis - Will I lose control?
Stage hypnotists have built up a myth about mind control.
The opposite is actually true: you need to be in control in order to let go. You can choose to accept the suggestions, but you can also choose not to. Should you feel uncomfortable with the process, you can stop it at any time. You cannot be made to do anything that is against your own personal code of ethics.
Hypnsosis - Will I say things I will regret?
You won’t be giving away any secrets. You are in control of what you say at all times. And you won’t be doing anything you don’t remember. Hypnosis is a special state so remembering the things that were talked about in trance is sometimes difficult once you are outside it. Like forgetting what you were day dreaming about. However, if you think it might be an issue for you then ask for special suggestions to be given to remember everything that went on in the session.
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Hypnotherapy - Will I fall asleep?
Hypnosis is not sleep. Natural sleep is measurably different from hypnotic trance. However, trance usually involves deep relaxation, so people don’t move much. I will be interacting with you and you with me.
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Hypnotherapy - What if I can’t be hypnotised?
Everyone can be hypnotised. Its a change in brainwave that we naturally drift in and out of regularly all day. Modern induction methods are fast and reliable – no swinging watches, no staring eyes, just my gentle voice guiding you into a natural lower brainwave state.
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Hypnotherapy - What if I don’t do it right?
I will be monitoring you all time and constantly changing the words to fit your particular needs. All you have to do is to enjoy the experience of relaxation. You will find your mind drifting away as if in a dream. Nothing else is required from you. You don’t have to think, you don’t have to do anything except enjoy it.
​And so with a clear plan of what you want to change, a limiting beliefs are left behind, the past can be reconciled, limiting beliefs let go of rapid results for the positive changes you seek can occur.
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Our unconscious mind seeks to protect us at all costs. It creates protective programmes for us, to keep us "safe". You either, were born with these programmes, your unconscious installed them through repetition, or others imposed them on you, or the unconscious made one for you in an emergency situation (resulting in a fear, phobia, anxiety, fear etc.) Hypnotherapy allows the mind to quieten into a day dream state, allowing changes and clarity to take place with my guidance. I guide and you make the changes you seek with a combination of hypnotherapy, psycotherapy, Neuro Linguistic Progamming, coaching, counselling and emotional support.
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