Hypnosis is a method that permits individuals to explore, at their own rate, seemingly intractable problems. Under hypnosis, individuals are always both alert and relaxed, fully awake and directing their own treatment. The treatment has proven safe, collaborative, practical and profound, as well as amazingly effective, since the time it was first employed by in Paris, by Charcot, Mesmer and Sigmund Freud. (In fact, psychoanalysts’ use of the couch proves that Freud never abandoned hypnosis as a powerful therapeutic technique).
Hypnotherapy is an alternative form of therapy that is particularly helpful for individuals who have felt that they have reached an impasse when using more traditional forms of therapy, as it permits clients to go beneath the words, to discover unconscious, hidden, and contradictory motivations that can impede treatment or that lead to unwanted, compulsive behavior. As such, it is ideal for artists, individuals struggling with transitions of all kinds, as well as those who wish to go beyond ordinary, talk therapy to explore their own spiritual development.
While hypnotherapy tackles hard-to-treat and chronic problems, it is method one can potentially learn to employ at home, through self-hypnosis. Whether in the office working with a seasoned hypnotherapist or home alone, it proves to be a healthy means of relinquishing an attachment to old suffering, and to enhancing a sense of well-being. Moreover, it is a powerful means for identifying inner resources and magnetizing goals.
As a form of customized treatment, hypnotherapy provides individuals with a sense of newness and vitality as regards their change-process. As a transpersonal form of treatment, moreover, hypnotherapists work with the understanding that all individuals have a spiritual drive inspiring their own evolutionary journey. Hypnosis’ use of compelling imagery inspires those who are creative and who want to spur their psychological growth, for metaphor itself is the tool par excellence of the Higher mind.
Finally, hypnotherapy has been shown to be a successful method for overcoming unwanted habits. While affirmations can help empower clients during hypnotic inductions, more importantly, hypnosis promotes journeys into the unconscious—excursions that are rarely possible without clients experiencing heightened states of awareness. For example, when addressing addictions, clients might come to better understand why they continue to abuse substances even when they find the behaviour is too costly, self-defeating and even illogical. (For example, rituals associated with illicit drug abuse and withdrawal may be actually re-enacting patterns of attachment with parents who were both exciting and rejecting. Binge-eating may be associated with feelings of undeserving and neglect, feelings originating from childhood that can be altered. And some alcoholics may have entered a cycle in which they desire to punish both themselves and their loved ones for what they have suffered.)
Hypnotherapy inspires individuals to transform the difficult issues of their life, optimizing their human potential, increasing the quality of their lives, and maximizing the engagement with their life. In the process, clients easily relinquish unconscious patterns (for example, creating excruciating dramas of pain, disappointment, or loss merely to intensify their emotions or their sense of aliveness). In the process, clients discover powerful inner resources and are empowered to live a life of greater authenticity, one that resonates with their highest goals.
Hypnotherapy is an alternative form of therapy that is particularly helpful for individuals who have felt that they have reached an impasse when using more traditional forms of therapy, as it permits clients to go beneath the words, to discover unconscious, hidden, and contradictory motivations that can impede treatment or that lead to unwanted, compulsive behavior. As such, it is ideal for artists, individuals struggling with transitions of all kinds, as well as those who wish to go beyond ordinary, talk therapy to explore their own spiritual development.
While hypnotherapy tackles hard-to-treat and chronic problems, it is method one can potentially learn to employ at home, through self-hypnosis. Whether in the office working with a seasoned hypnotherapist or home alone, it proves to be a healthy means of relinquishing an attachment to old suffering, and to enhancing a sense of well-being. Moreover, it is a powerful means for identifying inner resources and magnetizing goals.
As a form of customized treatment, hypnotherapy provides individuals with a sense of newness and vitality as regards their change-process. As a transpersonal form of treatment, moreover, hypnotherapists work with the understanding that all individuals have a spiritual drive inspiring their own evolutionary journey. Hypnosis’ use of compelling imagery inspires those who are creative and who want to spur their psychological growth, for metaphor itself is the tool par excellence of the Higher mind.
Finally, hypnotherapy has been shown to be a successful method for overcoming unwanted habits. While affirmations can help empower clients during hypnotic inductions, more importantly, hypnosis promotes journeys into the unconscious—excursions that are rarely possible without clients experiencing heightened states of awareness. For example, when addressing addictions, clients might come to better understand why they continue to abuse substances even when they find the behaviour is too costly, self-defeating and even illogical. (For example, rituals associated with illicit drug abuse and withdrawal may be actually re-enacting patterns of attachment with parents who were both exciting and rejecting. Binge-eating may be associated with feelings of undeserving and neglect, feelings originating from childhood that can be altered. And some alcoholics may have entered a cycle in which they desire to punish both themselves and their loved ones for what they have suffered.)
Hypnotherapy inspires individuals to transform the difficult issues of their life, optimizing their human potential, increasing the quality of their lives, and maximizing the engagement with their life. In the process, clients easily relinquish unconscious patterns (for example, creating excruciating dramas of pain, disappointment, or loss merely to intensify their emotions or their sense of aliveness). In the process, clients discover powerful inner resources and are empowered to live a life of greater authenticity, one that resonates with their highest goals.