Hypnotherapy can help you to stop smoking, lose weight and overcome fears or anxieties that are affecting your everyday life.
Hypnotherapy relaxes your body and mind, allowing you to make the changes you want to make, breaking bad habits and changing unwanted emotional responses. By using visualisation and suggestion techniques, hypnotherapy helps you to break bad habits and negative thought patterns, so you can be in control or your choices and your behaviours.
The mind is separated into the conscious and the subconscious. Learnt behaviours and habits are subconsciously controlled, so even though you know you want to make changes to your behaviour or emotional responses, the subconscious mind needs to be taught the new way of thinking.
By becoming really relaxed and letting your conscious mind wander it is possible for a hypnotherapist to provide suggestions directly to the subconscious mind, so the subconscious and the conscious mind are not struggling against each other. You consciously know that you want to stop smoking or feeling anxious, or over eating, but your subconscious mind just encourages you to keep on practising these bad habits as it has learnt this behaviour. Just knowing that you want to change a behaviour is often not enough to be able to bring about therapeutic change; you need to learn new behaviours and strategies to override the old, bad habits. It’s possible to retrain the subconscious mind to think that you do not want or need to continue smoking cigarettes or experiencing phobic reactions, whatever it is you want to make changes to.
As being under hypnosis is a just a state of deep relaxation, very similar to the relaxed and calm feeling you have just before you go to sleep, you are able to hear the hypnotherapists voice at all times, you can speak and move as you wish. Some people are often concerned that they will not be in control, but this is not the case, hypnotherapy is merely a state of deep relaxation which leaves you feeling refreshed and calm.
My Hypnotherapy practise is based in Purley, Surrey, and I offer home visits through out Surrey and London.
