What is hypnosis?

Hypnosis is used to heighten your response to positive suggestions which will benefit our day to day activities now and well into the future.  You may be aware of the role of the conscious mind and the unconscious mind.  The conscious mind is responsible for reason and judgment, but decisions are also based on unconscious influences due to past experiences and belief systems.  Hypnosis works on both levels of the mind and helps you tap into the greater resources of the unconscious mind. 
Many people may not know that the hypnotic trance state is an extension of many states which occur naturally.  In fact, everyday just before waking up in the morning and before going to sleep at night, you go into a hypnotic state.  You may know what I mean, that state between sleep and wakefulness or wakefulness and sleep.  Also do you know the feeling when you are driving along the road and you have arrived at your destination, having no recollection of the journey you have undertaken, yet you know you must have been in control during that journey to yield at the right places in the road, or to stop at traffic lights and so on?  Sometimes we go into a day dream state whilst watching the television, half aware of what is going on around us, knowing that we can tune back in when we want.  In hypnotherapy, the hypnotherapist works in partnership with the client to take them into a trance state where the client’s brilliant, untapped unconscious mind will make sense of the positive suggestions formulated by the client and the hypnotherapist and enable these positive suggestions to be reinforced in the mind to bring about beneficial life changes.  People use hypnosis to help them with all kinds of problems, i.e., improving study skills, self confidence, memory, weight loss, fears and phobias, smoking and so on.
 

Misconceptions about Hypnosis

I will lose control of myself or surrender control to the hypnotist. NO!! You have your own powerful inbuilt safety mechanism.  Any suggestions which would be harmful to you would be automatically rejected by your powerful  subconscious mind.  Hypnosis is a process whereby the hypnotist and the client work together to bring about useful and beneficial change for the client.  All NGH certified hypnotists operate to a Code of Ethics which ensures that the integrity of the client is respected at all times.

I will reveal secrets.  No!! Again your inbuilt sense of safety will protect you from doing this.

I will not come out of trance.  No!! Even if the hypnotist were to leave the room, you would either fall asleep for a short period of time or come out of trance.

Only weak willed people can be hypnotised.  This is not true. Intelligent people have a strong ability to use their imaginations. Hypnosis employs this skill to bring about useful resourceful states for the client.

I can't relax so I won't be hypnotisable.  Whereas being able to relax easily is an advantage, Hypnosis is not about being able to relax.  


Self Hypnosis Routine

I recommend that you prepare your subconscious mind in advance of meeting with me by using:

the Pre Sleep Self Hypnosis Routine

When you go to bed, starting tonight and continuing for the next 7 days, just before you are ready to fall asleep - give yourself the following suggestion 10 times: 

"Every day, in every respect, I get better and better." 

While you are saying the suggestion, imagine yourself in any way you can, getting better and better. (See, hear and feel what it is like.)  If you can't imagine it, don't worry, let your sub conscious mind do the work for you.
In order not to fall asleep and not to lose count, every time you say the suggestion press down with each finger of your right hand. Then, continue with each finger of your left hand until you've completed the suggestion 10 times.
This may be your first attempt at learning to effectively program yourself through suggestion. It is of the utmost importance to do this exercise every night without falling asleep until you've completed the 10 repetitions.
You are beginning to establish a habit pattern of properly programming yourself by giving yourself positive suggestions before going to sleep. The next day, you'll find yourself reacting very positively to that suggestion. 
 

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