Hypnotherapist & NLP Practitioner

 

 

 

 

Broadly speaking hypnosis is a naturally occurring phenomenon used widely throughout the world by many Doctors, Dentists, Psychologists and Psychotherapists.  Often referred to as “Trance” it is simply a mind skill, a way to communicate with the problem solving part of the human mind.  If you think of trance as a mystical control state, where the recipient is unconscious, asleep or has had their mind  “taken over”, you would be absolutely wrong – there is no truth in this whatsoever.

Hypnosis can be a very effective form of treatment in the management of many disorders both physical and psychological.

 

Although it is difficult to precisely define the nature of hypnosis, it can best be described as a state of profound physical and mental relaxation, during which we become inwardly focused, aware of our immediate reality but with a comfortable sense of detachment from it.

Without realizing it you already experience everyday trance states, for example – daydreaming.  When we daydream we become inwardly focused, completely involved in some memory or imaginary experience, even to the point of not being aware of someone talking to us – we become detached from the external world.  Another example is having driven a car on a journey which you have covered many times before to find, when you arrive at your destination, that you have no memory of a part or parts of the journey. 

 

There are of course many similarities between these familiar trances and formal trance.  In formal trance though, I will assist you to, as it were, “tune in” to this unique ability and help you use it in a far more focused and structured way.  With the correct therapeutic approach it is possible to directly influence the unconscious mind, gaining access to part of our vast learning experience, searching for resources that we seldom believe we have and discovering change sometimes in a dramatic way.