Hypnosis / Hypnotherapy Treatments
What is Clinical Hypnosis / Hypnotherapy?
An easy introduction to Hypnotherapy / Clinical Hypnosis
Hypnotherapy was first accepted by the BMA (British Medical Association) in 1952, providing it was explained and delivered as part of a therapeutic tool. Unfortunately, many unscrupulous and or poorly trained Stage Hypnotists presented short periods of hypnotic trances only for entertainment, comedy and amusement. Unlike Clinical Hypnosis / Stage Hypnosis is not voluntary regulated. Films and other dramatic movies have connected Stage Hypnosis with everyday work, leisure, conflict, appearing to suggest that non Clinical Hypnosis has the ability to work against someone’s morals or sense of right and wrong, e.g. to murder someone.
In a clinical setting all an experienced / qualified Hypnotherapist or Psychotherapist can do is what the client gives full permission for, e.g. Clinical Therapeutic Change. Clinical Hypnosis is a state of highly focused attention or memory and concentration, often associated with relaxation and heightened suggestibility. While under hypnosis (e.g. in a hypnotic trance), it seems many people are much more open to helpful suggestions than they usually are. Clinical Hypnosis is a state of highly focused attention or memory and concentration, often associated with relaxation and heightened. While under hypnosis (e.g. in a hypnotic trance), it seems many people are much more open to helpful suggestions than they usually are.
The suggestions given to people under hypnosis appear to be an important part of the mechanism through which the procedure works. While many people won’t accept or respond to an up-front, direct suggestion, under hypnosis, suggestions seem to get into the mind—perhaps through the “back door” of consciousness where they often germinate and take root as important behavioural or psychological changes.
The positive metaphors and suggestions that clients are given while hypnotised are referred to as “PHS - Post-Hypnotic Suggestions” because they take effect after the person emerges from the Clinical Hypnotic trance.
Clients under Clinical Hypnosis / Hypnotherapy are in full control and would never do anything they would normally find they would never normally do.
Not everyone is fully susceptible to Clinical Hypnosis. To be successfully hypnotised, a person must want to undergo the process voluntarily and also possess at least a moderate degree of hypnotisability.
Even highly hypnotisable people may not benefit from hypnotherapy, and a single session of Clinical Hypnosis is normally not sufficient for lasting results. Usually clients will undergo a program of hypnotic procedures to reinforce whatever constructive positive suggestions or metaphors may be given.
Common uses of Clinical Hypnosis include: insomnia, regression to process and unhook past traumas, Habit Reversal, Fears and Phobias, Pain Management, Confidence / Self-Esteem, Positive Thinking, Memory and Concentration, Communication Skills, Performance, etc.