Hypnotherapy for Enhanced Performance
What is Hypnotherapy?
Hypnosis is a comfortable and relaxed state that focuses attention and concentration, bypasses the conscious mind filter, and allows the subconscious mind to be open and receptive to positive suggestions, tapping into the power of the body-mind connection.
The definition of Hypnosis: An artificially induced altered state of consciousness, characterized by heightened suggestibility and receptivity to direction. Hypnosis - Definitions from Dictionary.com
Hypnosis is a process during which an individual allows themselves to become more open to suggestions with the aid of a Hypnotherapist. The hypnotized person is not sleeping or unconscious-quite the contrary. Hypnosis is induced by a Hypnotherapist using verbal guidance, and involves visualization, and guided imagery.
How does it work?
Hypnosis creates a hyper-attentive and hyper-responsive mental state, in which the subject's subconscious mind is highly open to suggestion. While it's true that the subconscious mind is more open to suggestion during hypnosis, that doesn't mean that the subject's free will or moral judgment is turned off. Hypnotherapy is used to allow the individual to restore well being and reach maximum potential. Hypnosis allows the subconscious mind to move into agreement with conscious desires and goals so you can live a life of freedom and success.
Hypnosis is generally established by an induction procedure. Although there are different hypnotic inductions, they are based on imaginative involvement with focused attention and concentration. While many people think of it as “deep sleep”, hypnosis is a comfortable and relaxed state that focuses attention and concentration, bypasses the conscious mind filter, and allows the subconscious mind to be open and receptive to positive suggestions, tapping into the power of the body-mind connection. Most people experience a heightened state of awareness when they are hypnotized, and a restored well being. Hypnosis speeds up healing when dealing with the subconscious mind. Hypnosis allows for quick release of blocks, fears, or beliefs that are holding us back from where we wish to be.
Is Hypnotherapy Safe?
Induction into hypnosis is never dangerous. The experience of being hypnotized is an enjoyable, easy and effective way to change our bad habits into good ones and our negative feelings into positive ones. Hypnosis creates a feeling of great calm and relaxation. All of our emotions, beliefs, and habits reside in the subconscious mind and hypnosis provides direct access to the subconscious mind to replace any negatives with powerful, positive beliefs. Those who have experienced hypnosis do not loose control over their actions or moral compass. People experience this natural, normal state at least twice each day - before they go to sleep and when they wake up. Natural hypnosis may also occur when you become so involved in an activity, reading a book, or watching a movie that everything else seems to be blocked out, even to the point of not hearing people who talk to you. Whenever concentration is intense, it's easy to slip into a natural hypnotic state. In truth, hypnosis is something most of us experience in our everyday lives.
The American Medical Association approved hypnosis as an effective treatment for many medical and psychological issues and in 1958 and recommended that training in hypnosis be included in medical school curriculum. Hypnosis and guided imagery continue to be integrated into modern medical and health care systems.
Research results have shown dramatic results in a variety of areas, particularly as an adjunct to conventional cancer treatments and for pain management. Moving even more into the traditional arenas of medical care, hypnosis remains as one of the most powerful healing modalities by utilizing the power of the subconscious mind in motivating the mind-body connection for balance and health.
