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Hypnotherapy: What it is and How it Works

4th July, 2013 - Posted by health news - No Comments

What is hypnotherapy?

Contrary to common notions, hypnosis is not the state of deep sleep. It’s not actually about inducing half-conscious state, but when hypnotized, the patient is in fact in an enhanced state of awareness, giving full attention to the voice of the hypnotist.

In this condition, the patient’s conscious mind is concealed and the subconscious mind is unraveled. The hypnotherapist could suggest insights and style of living to the patient. The fashion of stimulating healing or positive development is known as hypnotherapy, which is a type of psychotherapy.

The aim of hypnotherapy is to recondition patterns of behaviour within the mind, allowing suppressed emotions, phobias, negative thoughts, and irrational fears to be overcome.

As the body is released from conscious control during the relaxed half-conscious state, breathing would be deeper and slower, the pulse and metabolic rates will drop. The awareness of undesirable feelings such as indigestion or nausea is alleviated, and the sensation of the human body for pain becomes less intense.

How does hypnotherapy work?

Hypnosis is known to work by altering a patient’s state of consciousness in a way that brain’s left side is sort of turned off, while the right side is made more attentive. The conscious mind is held back, while the subconscious mind is become alert.

Since the subconscious mind is deeply seated, has more natural force than the conscious mind, this is the part that needs changes in order to change the patient’s physical state and behaviour.

For instance, a person who desires to overcome the fear of snakes may try everything he consciously is able to do, but will tend to fail as long as his subconscious mind retains the terror. Improvement can only happen by reprogramming the patient’s subconscious mind, allowing deep-seated instincts and beliefs to be modified or removed.

What problems can be treated by hypnotherapy?

Hypnotherapy can be applied to several psychological, emotional, and physical issues. It’s used to relieve surgery and dentistry pains. It has proved to shorten labour period in pregnant women and minimise the need for painkillers. Hypnotherapy in melbourne can ease the pain experienced by the disabled and people who has fatal illness. It was also proved to help people overcome addictions, like smoking, alcoholism, and illegal drugs. Those suffering from bulimia also found relief in hypnotherapy.

Hypnotherapy can also benefit children with conditions such as stuttering, bedwetting, blushing, chronic asthma, panic attacks, and insomnia, and obsessive compulsive behaviour. Phobias of any kinds can also be overcome through hypnotherapy.

Visit the website of VCPS at www.VCPS.com.au to learn how hypnotherapy can help you improve or change behaviour, way of thinking, and even life as a whole.