Hypnotherapy can be very helpful to many people, but is does not suit everyone. This is established during the Initial Consultation.
Your mind creates your beliefs and it can learn to believe different things
Stress and Anxiety...
Many people experience high levels of stress and anxiety every day. A Panic Attack would be an extreme expression of anxiety.Hypnotherapy can be used to help reduce these levels and enhance you general state of mind, enabling you to function more effectively. Sleep can also be improved. This can have a positive effect on your general level of health.
Phobias...
For some, fear and anxiety can cause a phobia. There are many phobias, the more common involving spiders, lifts, needles, flying, snakes ..... but there are also some very individual and unusual phobias. Hypnotherapy can help to reduce or remove phobias.
Pain Management...
The impact of recurrent or permanent pain can be reduced using Hypnosis.
'Pain is a warning signal; when everything that CAN be done and should be done has been done, there is no reason for it to continue...' Kay F. Thompson DDS
'(Hypnosis and) Self-Hypnosis is one of the best non-drug tools we have for coping with persistent pain........
...Most pharmaceutical medicines have side-effects because they work by modifying one or more biochemical reactions or systems in the body...When a drug modifies one system, it also has effects on other related systems. So, a drug may be effective in stopping or modifying one biochemical reaction, which may then result in another symptom or group of symptoms (side-effects).
In addition, with many chronic conditions such as chronic pain, most medicines are only effective up to a point in alleviating or controlling the symptoms of the underlying disease. In prescribing any medication, most physicians weigh the medication's potential benefits against the risks of side-effects and the magnitude of the medication's most common side-effects.
One of the benefits of using hypnosis to control pain is that there is no risk of negative side-effects.....(Hypnosis and) Self-Hypnosis is an internal or inner method for communicating with the unconscious or subconscious mind, which is the part of the mind that controls all of the biochemical and physiological processes that keep us alive.
...it is safe: the unconscious mind will simply not accept suggestions that are consciously or subconsciously deemed harmful or unacceptable to you. So, there is only a potential upside and no downside to using (Hypnosis and)Self-Hypnosis to control and relieve persistent pain and discomfort'. Bruce N. Eimer PhD,ABPP
Other conditions, like Eczema, can also be eased. (Hypnosis can be used as an anaesthetic technique and for assisting in childbirth but requires specifically qualified Hypnotherapists.)
Habits...including eating and smoking...
Many habits can be removed through the use of Hypnotherapy. These could include nail-biting, hair-twiddling, smoking and eating amongst others.
Emotional Loss and Grief...
Hypnotherapy can provide a way of dealing with loss and emotional issues.
Regression and Past Lives...
Hypnosis, using Regression, can be used to retrieve buried memories which can help in releasing emotional issues, particularly those involving distressing or traumatic experiences. It is not limited to uncovering distressing memories, but can also be used to discover many different memories, whether those belonging to the current life, or for those who believe in reincarnation, memories from more distant times. It is also possible to discover the experience of Life between Lives.
All of your experience is stored in your subconscious.
Hypnosis can provide the key to access this information.