Hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy can be used to treat a wide range of disorders, emotional, physical, psychological, behavioral and to bring about desired change in the patient.

When patients allow themselves to be hypnotized, they enter an hypnotic state, an advanced state of relaxation where body chemistry changes and the subconscious can be accessed.

Numerous methods of hypnotic induction exist, but regardless of the particular procedure used, the primary concern is to quiet the patient's conscious mind and make the unconscious mind more accessible. As the unconscious mind is basically non-critical, it is during the period of deep hypnosis that posthypnotic suggestions (those that take effect after the patient awakens from the trance) are most effective.

Hypnotherapy, while powerful, is not a cure-all. However, it has become widely used to control pain, chronic pain, sciatica, reduce stress, treat arthritis, asthma, digestive troubles, eczema, insomnia, migraine and assist in healing. Hypnotherapy is often associated with Neurolinguistic Programming, (NLP) .

Neurolinguistic Programming seeks to move the patients from their present state of discomfort to a desired state of health and well-being through reprogramming their beliefs about healing. Usually, the practitioner will ask questions to distinguish unconscious emotional patterns that affect the patient's emotional state.

These questions usually regard the patient's life or condition and report how the patient relates to his or her present condition in both conscious and unconscious ways. Once the unconscious patterns have been discovered, the patient can be assisted in adopting new, positive patterns.

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