Powerful Mind

What is Hypnosis?

Hypnosis is that natural dream like state between waking and sleep. You can learn very quickly in this special state which is why you can experience such benefits from hypnotherapy.

This state is referred to as a trance state. It is not like sleep, you are alert the whole time. In this form of consciousness that many people enter every day, such as driving, losing yourself in a book or movie and mowing the lawn. You are fully conscious, but you tune out most of the stimuli around you and you focus on the subject in hand.

In the everyday trance of a daydream or movie an imaginary world seems some what real to you. It fully engages your emotions.

Some researches catergorise all trance; as forms of self-hypnosis.

It can be amazing effective and is often directly responsible for major changes in life.

The hypnotic state involves Alpha and Theta brain waves. These brain waves are most commonly associated with relaxation, excellence, with creative visualisation and lateral thinking states.

The benefits of the state of hypnosis are, increased levels of relaxation and decreased levels of anxiety and stress.

Within the hypnotic state one can by-pass the barriers to inner thoughts and feelings, and suggestions are acted upon much more powerfully than is possible in a normal state of mind.

There is scientific knowledge that psychoneuroimmunology which shows that the mind is directly linked to the immune systems. This means that techniques used in hypnotherapy can also affect our physical, spiritual and psychological well-being.

Other Uses of Hypnotherapy

Sports Performance

Hypnosis is often used in sport psychology to bring the best out of athletes. people who expect to excel usually do. Mentally rehearsing a successful game can fire neurons in the brain in exactly the same patterns they would follow when actually performing the activity. It is believed that these movements, along with contractions in the muscles, are responsible for improved neuromuscular co-ordination.

Creativity

Hypnosis is the ideal state for enhancing creativity and imaginative pursuits. Many artists, writers, musicians and inventors have produced their best work during trance states when ideas flow more easily and abundantly.