Hypnotherapy by Dr. Janet Hall

Hypnotherapy by Dr. Janet Hall

Hypnosis is a state of altered consciousness that happens to everyone! It can occur naturally when a person has become totally absorbed in what they are doing. So, like day-dreaming, hypnotic-like states can occur regularly in normal people.

Hypnosis is not the same as sleep. And it's certainly not like an anaesthetic. You don't pass out and you are not unconscious when you are hypnotised. Nor do you lose control over your mind or your feelings. You don't give up your willpower or surrender to another person in hypnosis. In fact, hypnosis can strengthen your willpower.

In hypnosis, it is usual to feel relaxed, at ease, and you may well enjoy a special peace of mind. Many people comment on their feeling of comfort or security or the sensation of lightness of floating.
What is particularly wonderful about the use of hypnosis is the fact that it is natural and safe when used by trained professional hypnotherapists. Also almost everyone can learn to use it on themselves and be helped by it. It can be learned to be used by adults, adolescents and children.

There are two ways that hypnosis can be used to help people change for the best:

 1. Hypnotherapy
This is where a hypnotherapist induces an altered state of attention or degree of awareness in another person. The process may result in a variety of phenomena, which occur spontaneously or in response to verbal suggestions. These phenomena include changes in memory and an increased openness to, and sometimes even surprising acceptance of, changes in thoughts, feelings and behaviours due to suggestions made by the hypnotherapist.

2. Self-hypnosis
This is where a person puts themselves in a state of deep relaxation and altered state. They can do this by listening to a prerecorded audio tape or CD which has suggestions which they chose to make to themselves and recorded in their own voice.

The suggestions help them move rapidly into hypnosis and further suggestions help them to focus on positive changes that they have decided that they want to have happen in their life. If they do not wish to use a tape, they may simply allow themselves to be suspended in the changed state of consciousness and trust that positive changes occur as a result.

So what are the Benefits of Hypnosis for Depression?
Hypnosis is a natural antidepressant for mild depression. You are the initiator of change and it proceeds at your own pace. It is gradual and boosts your self-esteem from the inside. Hypnosis helps enhance the positive expectations of the future. You can use self-hypnosis in the privacy of your own home and in your own time.

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