Hypnosis is a powerful tool for change. By providing deep relaxation of body, conscious mind and emotions, it allows the neuroplasticity of your brain to easily create new connections so that your subconscious mind absorbs new ideas and intentions. Most people find the experience of hypnotic trance simultaneously calming and invigorating. After a hypnotherapy session, your thoughts and behaviors may change immediately or, more likely, over the following days and weeks.
Mild hypnotic trance is a naturally occurring state. You are familiar with it if you have ever lost track of time while immersed in a good book or working on a creative project, if you have driven a familiar route while lost in thought about something else, if you daydream. In terms of brainwaves, it is similar to meditation, but with focus on an intention.
Hypnotherapy is safe and gentle. In a hypnotic trance, you are deeply relaxed physically, but mentally aware and highly focused. You hear and respond to everything said by your therapist. You are open to the transformative suggestions that make sense for you and align with your values. You have access to the deepest parts of your subconscious mind. You are always in control.
Contrary to common myths about hypnosis:
- You are aware and in control at all times;
- You will do nothing in hypnotic trance that is contrary to your values;
- You need not (and will not) reveal anything you want to keep private;
- Your subconscious mind will take in only information and suggestions that it considers useful to you.