Tracy Pagiatis Bsc Psy DHyp CMH
Pelekas Corfu Greece tel: +30 26610 94851 mob: 6948627789 e-mail: info@hypnotherapyforhealth.net
What is Hypnosis?
In recent years hypnosis and hypnotherapy has gained acceptance and credibility as a therapeutic technique beneficial in a wide variety of situations. Smoking cessation, weight control, stress and anxiety disorders, pain control, self esteem issues, confidence building, phobias and partial life regression are just a few of the concerns in which clinical hypnosis can be employed effectively.
Healthcare professionals from dentists to anesthesiologists and midwives are using hypnosis to help their patients to relax and control pain. Psychologists, psychiatrists and hypnotherapists enable the trance state in their clients, helping them to effect major changes in their lives.
The hypnotic trance is neither magical or supernatural, in fact it's a completely natural state of mind that we've all found ourselves in thousands of times.
Learning to drive a car or bike takes all our conscious effort at first but these activities soon become automatic and are stored in our subconscious. Afterward we probably have all had the experience of snapping out of a daydream whilst driving to find ourselves already arrived at our destination without remembering a lot of the journey.
Daydreaming like this is a very light trance state, and as driving is an automatic activity, this allows our conscious mind to drift free full of other thoughts.
Similarly, many people say they do their best thinking in bed as they are drifting off to sleep. That the answer to some previously insurmountable problem (like the answer to the crossword puzzle 23 across or the name of the '80's band you've spent all day trying to remember!) suddenly pops into their conscious thoughts. This is because as we drift off to sleep we are entering a trance state and our subconscious mind is more in control.
Everything we have ever known is stored in our subconscious and hypnosis is a gentle and effective way of allowing clients access to the immensely creative warehouse far beyond the limited mind-set of the conscious.
Hypnotic suggestions are not and cannot be forced onto a client. Just like the driving in a daydream scenario, if the car in front were to suddenly brake, the conscious mind would immediately click into action and take measures to avoid a collision. During hypnotherapy sessions any suggestion that goes against the belief or moral judgment of a client would immediately snap them out of trance and would be ineffective.
Hypnotic suggestions simply act as a guide allowing clients to effect the changes they wish to make themselves; as a wise man said "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it for himself."