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About
Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy
It
has been said that "If waking is white, and sleep is black,
then hypnosis is gray." Hypnosis is a natural state of consciousness,
that we move into and out of, nearly every day. Do you recall making
your way home and not recalling the last few blocks you drove? How
about losing track of time and place while caught up in a great
novel? And what about, on a day off, that feeling when you wake
at the normal work time, and realizing that you haven't got to be
anywhere, you fall back in the bedclothes and just feel a wonderful,
dreamy feeling....not completely awake, but not asleep either. That
state, also known as the 'hypnagogic' state, is hypnosis.
The
subconscious mind has been called 'the other 90% of the mind.' It
is the seat of our emotions, of imagination and dreaming; it's where
the involuntary functions of the body are regulated, such as circulation,
digestion and elimination. It is also a vast memory bank or computer
that stores and catalogues every single one of our experiences,
life long. In addition to this, the subconscious also carries out
our habitual conduct, and is the dynamo that directs our energy.
It
is during hypnosis that we have the best ability to access our very
powerful subconscious mind. Using hypnosis, we can easily reach
parts of our mind that are not normally accessible to us and make
positive changes in how we live our lives.
The
length of time for an issue's resolve will vary. Some take a single
session's work to shift, and some need several. Hypnosis is called
a 'Brief Therapy', as it often does not take more than half a dozen
sessions to resolve issues. Most issues are worked through in 3
or 4 sessions.
Please
note:
Hypnotherapists do not diagnose, prescribe or treat illness.
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