Hypnotherapy

 Hypnotherapy is a form of focused relaxation that helps to bypass the conscious mind and get at the unconscious is where the power lies. When you are hypnotized, you are put into a trance, or an altered state of consciousness, but don’t let this scare you! It only means that you have shifted your focus away from your conscious everyday world, and that you’ve focused your thinking inward as to let your mind drift off to an idea or thought. That’s what being in a trance is about.

Have you ever watched a movie or read a book and been so concentrated on it that you’ve forgotten the world around you for a moment? No one was controlling your mind, but rather you were just using your mind in a different way. Your mind was in a different state of being awake. The amazing part is that you can communicate with your unconscious mind and reprogram it to remove false beliefs that are not serving you well and replace them with healthier ones. Entering into your subconscious mind removes resistance from your conscious mind. Your conscious mind is what tends to over analyze everything and keeps you on the move, so as to not give you any time to “smell the roses.”

Countless research findings have shown that there is a biological aspect of hypnosis and this data also supports the American Psychological Association’s claim that it is not a sleep-like state, but rather a state of heightened concentration. Our brain cells communicate using electrical impulses, currents that flow from one brain cell to the next. The cells don’t fire these impulses in isolation, but in groups and in synchrony. They also fire at different frequencies in different states of awareness, which are called brain wave rhythms. Think of electrical impulses as a language that your brain speaks and the brain wave rhythms as the speed at which the language is spoken…some speak too fast, while others speak too slow The frequency of brain waves is very slow in deep sleep state ( Delta frequency waves ), while a relative high frequency characterizes wakefulness ( beta frequencies ). Research shows that the frequency of brain waves during hypnosis is the same as that observe during deep relaxation or focus concentration, which is the theta frequency, thus lending support to the idea that hypnosis is different than the alternate sleep state and is actually related to the subconscious.

The frequency of brain waves is very slow in deep sleep state ( Delta frequency waves ), while a relative high frequency characterizes wakefulness ( beta frequencies ). Research shows that the frequency of brain waves during hypnosis is the same as that observe during deep relaxation or focus concentration, which is the theta frequency, thus lending support to the idea that hypnosis is different than the alternate sleep state and is actually related to the subconscious.