Hypnotherapy
What is Hypnosis?
Hypnosis is a state of mind that helps us to surpass our conscious mind and allows us to access the subconscious mind where we store all our memories, beliefs and habits. In Rapid Transformational Therapy this is where we want to get access to work with your past, in order to help you achieve overcoming obstacles and past traumas.
How Does Hypnosis Work?
Humans have four basic states of awareness corresponding to four identifiable brain-wave patterns:
Beta state (alertness, active thinking, and concentration)
Alpha state (relaxed alertness and light hypnosis)
Theta state (daydreaming, deep hypnosis, drowsiness, and light sleep)
Delta state (deep sleep).
We spend most of our waking hours in the beta state of alert awareness. In the beta state the mind analyses, evaluates, judges, and makes decisions. This is the state in which we attempt to overcome problems with “will power,” often unsuccessfully.
In hypnosis, the brain enters the alpha (light hypnosis) and theta (deep hypnosis) states, that makes us highly focused on hypnotic suggestions and imagery while suspending the ordinary thinking processes of the beta state. In the alpha and theta states, hypnotic suggestions are integrated into the mind more easily, and memories become more accessible.
During hypnosis, a trained hypnotist or hypnotherapist induces a state of intense concentration or focused attention. This is a guided process with verbal cues and repetition.The trance-like state you enter may appear similar to sleep in many ways, but you’re fully aware of what’s going on. While you’re in this trance-like state, your therapist will make guided suggestions designed to help you achieve your therapeutic goals. Because you’re in a heightened state of focus, you may be more open to proposals or advice that, in your normal mental state, you might ignore or brush off. When the session is complete, your therapist will wake you from the trance-like state, or you will exit it on your own.
Will I be under the therapist’s power during hypnosis?
No, you are awake and aware of everything that is happening throughout the session and cannot be made do or say anything against your will.
Hypnosis is a natural state of mind and is an important part of everyday life. Whenever our mind wanders, daydreams or is focused on something (e.g. reading a book, driving a familiar route, watching a film, meditating, before falling asleep), you are in a state of hypnosis.
What if I can’t be hypnotized?
Everyone can be hypnotized, because it’s a natural, normal state that each of us enters at least twice each day – upon waking and falling asleep. You enter a state similar to hypnosis when daydreaming, meditating, driving on the road and arriving at your destination “automatically,” or being so deeply engrossed in a project or conversation that time seems to fly. Most of my clients go into hypnosis easily once they understand that they remain conscious and do not surrender their will.
How does
it work
long-term?
After identifying that there will be a root cause of an issue – in this case why you want to be a published author but then doubt your ability to write your story or find the process of digging into the truth of your story very painful – we can address your beliefs at this deepest and powerful subconscious level. Communicating directly with your subconscious mind (with your conscious buy-in and full support for this change process) these recordings then give you specific, positive, powerful suggestions that your mind listens to in a receptive state. With repeat listening (as repetition at this deep subconscious level can change your neural pathways – the Grooves in your Mind – that keep you stuck in old patterns of behavior) you can create new, effective and permanent ways of thinking and behaving in the positive way that you desire.
What if I can’t be hypnotized?
Everyone can be hypnotized, because it’s a natural, normal state that each of us enters at least twice each day – upon waking and falling asleep. You enter a state similar to hypnosis when daydreaming, meditating, driving on the road and arriving at your destination “automatically,” or being so deeply engrossed in a project or conversation that time seems to fly. Most of my clients go into hypnosis easily once they understand that they remain conscious and do not surrender their will.