Hypnotherapy St Albans

Hypnosis is a natural phenomenon and is best described as a state of relaxation and concentration combined with heightened awareness .

So hypnosis is  just a deep natural state of physical relaxation combined with a relaxed yet focused mind. Hypnosis is a state that everyone can enter if they want to. You cannot be forced into hypnosis, despite what some stage performers might want you to believe. It has to be voluntary, i.e. you have to permit the therapist, for you to enter the state of hypnosis in safe and secure private environment.

And In fact, if you think about it, all hypnosis is, is self hypnosis. The so-called hypnotist is really just a normal person who has learned how to assist a person enter the state of hypnosis using certain vocal or other techniques. The hypnotist is just the catalyst that enables a person to enter the state by relaxing their body, and focusing their mind - usually on the voice of the hypnotist, the rest is suggestion.

As a more basic term of hypnosis, we are the bus driver of your mind, if you allow us to be, you simply climb aboard the bus and we take you from stop to stop if you desire.

Smoking cessation or stop smoking therapy using suggestive therapy (not generally used for phobias/fears and other problem anxieties and stress related illnesses) has been proved to be more effective than many other quit smoking aids available, e.g. Nicotine patches, nicarette gum and pure will power.

The main reason that will power alone will not enable a smoker to successfully stop is that will power is a process which requires constant conscious effort to maintain and generally when this amount of conscious effort is given, you create deprivation and this in turn creates cravings.

The unconscious part of the mind controls 95% of all our actions, thoughts, emotions and bodily functions without any effort at all, this leave 5% of our psyche as the conscious part. Hypnotherapy hertfordshire could help you with an issue that has been distressingly unresponsive to other therapies.

Suggestion therapy, also known as clinical hypnotherapy, communicates with the unconscious mind, reprogramming it and enabling you to connect the process of not smoking with pleasurable feelings of confidence and pride, instead of the negative feelings usually associated with stopping smoking like irritability and cravings, this type of therapy is also very effective within weight control/loss and slimming and for other problems such as phobias i.e. emetophobia (fear of being sick), coprophobia (fear of faeces), and anxieties such as shy bladder, stammering and stuttering, sexual problems.