HISTORY OF HYPNOSIS
Hypnosis is the oldest of
all healing techniques and has been
practised for thousands of years.
There is evidence in ancient
Sanskrit writings of the use of healing
trances and healing temples in India.
From the Sleep Temples of Egypt,
through the histories of Ancient Greece
and Rome some form of hypnosis has been
an intimate part of all cultures.
Unfortunately, at the
beginning of the 20th
century, hypnosis was used almost
exclusively by stage hypnotists,
projecting a hopelessly distorted view
of this very powerful, safe, therapeutic
tool.
However, in 1955 the
British Medical Association endorsed the
practising of hypnosis in Medical School
education, since when it has become a
valuable addition to conventional
medical treatment.
WHAT IS HYPNOSIS – how does it feel?
Hypnosis is definitely
NOT LIKE SLEEP and definitely
NOT LIKE STAGE HYPNOSIS.
It is a feeling of neither being
awake nor being asleep, a little like
day-dreaming.
I would describe it as a very
pleasant feeling of relaxation.
It is an altered state of
consciousness/awareness, into which
individuals allow themselves to enter.
The subject always remains
in complete control and is aware of and
hears everything that is going on
around.
You cannot be hypnotised against your
will.
Trance is a natural state,
NOTHING MAGICAL, that occurs when your
attention is fixed on one thing,
absorbing you to the exclusion of all
else.
We all experience WAKING
HYPNOSIS, sometimes several times a day.
For
example, many people have had the
experience of driving along a familiar
road and suddenly realising that several
miles have gone by, of which they have
been completely unaware.
Approximatlely 90% of people can achieve
a light trance, and we all experience
trance differently.
Some people may feel gentle
tingling sensations, some, feelings of
lightness or heaviness of limbs, while
others may experience feelings of
drifting and floating but whatever you
feel it is a very
pleasant feeling of relaxation.
SELF-HYPNOSIS
With permission, I teach
all my patients
self-hypnosis, allowing the patient
to become an active participant in the
change process.
Self-hypnosis is taught to
reinforce gains achieved in therapy and
to focus on and reinforce goals and
positive achievement.
There is in fact no need to have
an issue to possibly reap the benefits of
self-hypnosis.
Self-hypnosis aids relaxation,
and can help to deal with stress and tensions
caused by modern day living.
It charges up the batteries,
and can help
BLOOD PRESSURE. The unconscious controls
automatic functions like blood flow,
breathing and heart rate and in this
wonderfully relaxed state everything
naturally slows down.
CLINICAL HYPNOTHERAPY
Clinical Hypnotherapy is
the term for using hypnosis for the
treatment and possible relief of many medical
conditions and also where emotional and
psychological factors are involved, and
is often successful where other more
conventional methods of treatment have
failed.
The hypnotic trance state
is when the body is relaxed but the mind
is focused and alert.
The conscious mind can drift
away, leaving an opening clear, allowing
the therapist to communicate with the
patient’s highly suggestible unconscious
mind.
Previously discussed positive
beneficial suggestions may then be given
directly to the receptive unconscious
mind, possibly helping the patient to remember or
find inner resources that may help them
effect desired change.
The unconscious contains
our attitudes, habits and beliefs and
constantly influences our thoughts and
behaviours.
Trance
may allow a patient to gain a
more objective view of their issue and
from this position the patient is
possibly able
to change their perception of that
issue.
Once perception is changed there
is a far greater chance that a solution
can be found.
TREATMENT SESSIONS
I offer a
FREE INITIAL
CONSULTATION for half hour.
The first session lasts
two - two and a half hours
and subsequent sessions last
approximatley one hour.
The number of sessions depends on
the presenting symptom, how suggestible
the patient is and how quickly the
patient responds.
STOP SMOKING is a 1 session technique,
lasting approximately
2.5 hours.
