Why is hypnotherapy an effective form of therapy?
Hypnotherapy is about working with your sub-conscious or unconscious mind. This is the mind that runs your body, beats your heart, controls all your emotion and behaviour. In other words, it is an extremely important part of how you live your life - how motivated you are, how unhappy or happy you are, how confident your are.... and the list goes on and on! If there is a behaviour or state of mind that you are unable to control consciously (e.g. telling it to stop and it still continues) then that state or behaviour is probably being generated at the unconscious level of your mind, and no matter what you do consciously, it will not have much of an effect.
It is for this reason that analytical hypnotherapy is so powerful - it works with the unconscious mind, and through a process of something called free association, gets to understand what is driving that behaviour and allow you to let it go.
On the www.successfulhypnotherapy.com website, it states
"Pure Hypnoanalysis (sometimes called 'hypnoanalysis' or 'analytical hypnotherapy')
Pure Hypnoanalysis is the single most effective form of therapy available in the world today, for the resolution of anxiety, depression, phobias, fears, eating disorders and other psychological and emotional problems/symptoms." Click here to read the amazing results and feedback from clients who have undergone the Pure Analytical Hypnotherapy route - this is a research project conducted by the IAPH.
And my experience has led me to believe that statement to be true, which is the reason that it forms an extremely important part of the therapy that I offer.
In the world of hypnotherapy, there are many types of hypnotherapy, with suggestion or clinical hypnotherapy being mot widely known and perhaps less known, analytical hypnotherapy.
Analytical Hypnotherapy
Analytical hypnotherapy works with one's unconscious mind through a process of something called "Free association" where the client makes certain links in the unconscious mind that leads to the root cause of issues such as anxieties, phobias, depression, sleep disorders and many more. This root cause is a big bottled up emotion - a significant emotional event from the past which has been bottled up and that the person has absolutely no conscious awareness of. The energy of that bottled up emotion needs to be released, and if it is not released naturally when it occurred, it can then manifests itself in the form of anxieties, panic attack, depression etc.
Analytical hypnotherapy uses that minds natural process to deal with issues and a gentle and empowering way, with the ultimate objective of making your life better!
Any unresourceful behaviour or emotion that we don’t have conscious control over, must be coming from the unconscious mind – that’s why the greatest and most empowering changes occur when we work with the unconscious mind and get rid of “stuff” that can makes life stressful and uncomfortable.
Suggestion or clinical hypnotherapy
During a suggestion hypnotherapy session, the hypnotherapist offers very positive and resourceful alternatives to some negative behaviour patterns that may be running in your life - whatever it is that you want to change. The hypnotherapy session can be compared to a computer programme that has a bug running which is causing problems. For whatever reason, your unconscious mind may be running that bug - and this can be for many different reasons, but its highest intention is always to protect you, so there will be a positive reason at the root cause. The hypnotherapist suggests that your unconscious mind remove the bug and replace it with something that will make the programme run more efficiently and effectively. Generally suggestion or clinical hypnotherapy will be suitable for issues such as nail biting, weight loss in some instances, exam nerves.
Is hypnotherapy safe?
Absolutely! There are a lots of myths around hypnosis. The state of being hypnotised or in trance (both mean the same) is a completely natural state to be in. It is just a more formalised session between hypnotherapist and client.
Have you ever watched anyone completely engrossed in a TV programme or reading a book? That is a state of hypnosis that that person is in at that particular moment. The difference when you go into a trance working with a hypnotherapist, is that the hypnotherapist knows and understands how the unconscious mind works, and as such will offer suggestions and positive changes in a way that allows the unconscious mind to be receptive to them and allow you to work effectively with your unconscious mind.
I have my hypnotherapy offices in East Central London, Barbican, which is close to Mooregate, London South Bank, Old Street as well as South West London in Balham, close to Clapham Common, Clapham South and Clapham North and Newbury, Berkshire.
