WHAT IS HYPNOTHERAPY?

Hypnotherapy relaxes the conscious mind allowing access to the sub-conscious mind safely so that you can access your natural resources and issue new instructions.

You can literally reprogramme your mind to create seemingly effortless changes in you, your behaviour and your body.

Hypnosis employs a naturally occurring state of mind that we all experience several times a day. For example, when driving down a familiar road, you may suddenly realise that you have travelled several miles without being able to remember details of that part of the journey. However whilst driving you were perfectly competent, adjusting to road conditions, stopping at red lights and so on, and reached your destination safely. Yet you realise that you have no memory at all of the last few miles and cannot remember what you were thinking about during that period. This is very similar to hypnosis.

THE SUB–CONSCIOUS MIND

The sub-conscious mind is where we store all our beliefs, values and memories. It is similar to a library of all that we have experienced in our lives.

It also controls our bodily functions i.e. breathing, blood circulation, cell renewal, healing etc and automatic behaviour (habits and learnt skills) without us being aware that we are doing it.

The sub-conscious is also the source of our emotions and therefore directs nearly all of our behaviour. This part of our mind is the most powerful part of the human being, containing all our wisdom and intelligence, our intuition, instincts and perceptions. It is our untapped resource for creativity and imagination.

The sub-conscious can be your master or your greatest ally in your quest for success and self-improvement.

HYPNOTHERAPY IS VERY EFFECTIVE FOR:

• Smoking Cessation
• Weight Control
• Build Confidence & Self Esteem
• Exam Nerves/Performance Anxiety
• Phobias & Fears
• Pain Control
• Stress/IBS
• Pain Management for Childbirth

HYPNOTHERAPY and PHOBIAS

A phobia is an irrational, excessive and persistent fear of some thing or situation. Regardless of what the logical or conscious mind knows and says, these fears persist in the sub-conscious mind where they are lodged. Since hypnosis is the most direct way into the subconscious, it stands to reason that it can become the instrument of disarming the irrational fear.

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HYPNOTHERAPY and HABITS

Habits by definition are those repetitive behaviours that you do "without thinking". Thinking is a function of the conscious mind; everything else is in the sub-conscious. A habit is usually eliminated by replacing it with another.

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HYPNOTHERAPY and CHILDBIRTH

Hypnosis is increasingly being used to help women give birth with the minimum of pain, medical interventions and pain medication.

While no one should claim that hypnotherapy can create pain free childbirth, several landmark studies show significant improvement for women who learn self-hypnosis before giving birth.

Mothers who learn how to activate the calming side of their nervous system have the best chance of a safer, more relaxed, shorter, and enjoyable natural childbirth with less pain.

WHAT SHOULD I EXPECT?

A hypnotic trance provides a profound sense of physical and mental relaxation, as respiration, heart and metabolic rates slow down. You are not unconscious, you are aware of your surroundings and able to hear what is going on around you, and will most likely remember everything that happens.

Prior to hypnotising the client, Laura discusses the goal the client wants to achieve or the problem s/he wants to resolve in detail. Laura also prepares the client to enter hypnosis by explaining just what hypnosis is, how it works and what s/he will experience.

SOME COMMON CONCERNS

People are sometimes concerned that they will "lose control" in hypnosis. Regardless of how deeply people may go in hypnosis and however passive they may appear to be, they actually remain in full control of the situation. They are fully able to talk if they wish to (or not, as the case may be) and can stand up and leave the room at any time. Neither can a hypnotised person be made to do anything against their usual ethical or moral judgement or religious belief.