What sort of issues can hypnotherapy help with?
Hypnotherapy can help to treat a wide range of different issues. It can be used to reduce the emotional stacks within an individual that have been built upon over months, or even years, and help to restore their confidence. Depression, which often involves feelings of low self-esteem, can be treated, although it would be necessary to ensure that the client was receiving the necessary medication before beginning therapy. This works two-fold: it can tell the therapist whether he or she is dealing with lethargic depression, rather than bi-polar disorder which is classed as psychosis, and also reduce the risk of suicide if the therapy on its own was to motivate the client enough to begin making future plans. One of the huge benefits in using hypnosis is the fact that there are no unwanted side-effects.
Bolstering Self-Esteem
Develop unconditional positive regard towards yourself. Gain a sense of self-worth that supports your success with feelings and beliefs that you deserve it. When you regard yourself as worthy, you treat yourself with respect and require others to do the same. You expect things to work out in your favor. You attract more opportunities, both professionally and personally, and then fully capitalize on them through constructive action.
Creating a Positive Self-Image
Successful people project a positive image that radiates outwardly from the self-image they hold within their own minds. They expect success and manifest it because they regard themselves as successful and prepared to do whatever it takes. By systematically implanting deep within your subconscious mind positive ideas, expectations, imagery, feelings, and beliefs that represent self-love.
Defeating Negative Self-Talk
Negative self-talk is one of the most common and most destructive forms of self-sabotage. Many people fail to recognize that their inner dialogue is consumed with negative messages that undermine their well-being. Others are aware of this negativity, but feel victimized by it. They hear the voices of their parents, teachers, or bosses, whose criticism they have internalized and replay in their minds, often obsessively. By learning to stop negative self-talk and replace it with positive, encouraging thoughts, you can literally change your relationship with yourself, build healthy self-esteem, and become your own personal coach.
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Healing Your Inner Child
Wounds from childhood held deep within your subconscious mind can continue throughout adulthood to cause psychic pain that interferes with your personal growth, happiness in relationships, career success, and a zest for life. Learn how to nurture and support your inner child to free yourself from this deep emotional pain and achieve resolution and peace.
Instilling Self-Confidence
Without belief in yourself and your ability to accomplish what you desire, too often the conscious effort you exert is met with unconscious resistance that says I can’t do that or I don't have what it takes. Because this resistance sabotages your good intentions, you fall short of achieving your goals. True self-confidence comes from an attitude held within subconscious mind that is never contingent on external circumstances, outcomes, or events. It stems from an inner sense of power and efficacy that can be acquired using hypnotherapeutic techniques.
Turbocharging Motivation
Have you lost that fire in your belly, that passion that catapults you over the finish line? Do you lack the mental energy to complete your projects, prepare sufficiently for the exam, broaden your skill set, or train for a more fulfilling career? The seat of motivation lies within the subconscious mind. Learn how to access your subconscious and feed that fire with the fuel that drives you onward to accomplish your goals.
Overcoming Bad Habits
Habits are behaviors repeated often enough that you do them automatically, without deciding first. Making your bed, brushing your teeth when you wake up, and checking your voice mail are all behaviors that were once done with conscious intention, but later became habitual.
Bad habits are those that result in negative consequences relative to the goals you hold. They are often very difficult to overcome permanently because they are so well established in the subconscious mind, which believes that these behaviors serve a positive purpose. For example, biting your nails may relieve stress, procrastinating on your term paper may distract you from the fear of getting a bad grade, or eating junk food may numb feelings of loneliness.
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By using hypnosis to relieve the stress, instill confidence in your ability to get good grades, or motivate you to cultivate friends or find a life partner, you can replace these bad habits with constructive action that achieves what you want without negative consequences.
Stop Smoking Permanently
If you are a smoker, ask yourself: How many times have I tried to quit, or quit successfully for weeks or months or even years, only to start again, feeling ashamed, defeated, and fearful of the consequences?
In your conscious mind, you still have all the same reasons why you wanted to quit -- to regain health and stamina, to avoid social stigma, to dramatically decrease the risk of catastrophic illness, to set a good example for your children, to save money, to become more physically attractive, and the list goes on -- so why don't you?
Stop Smoking
Lurking deep within your subconscious mind dwells the belief that smoking satisfies one or more important needs you have. Your subconscious mind goes back to smoking because those needs were not being met when you quit. Was it to relax and manage stress, to pep up, to satisfy a craving for nicotine, to have something to do with your hands, to increase your concentration, to keep the acceptance of your buddies who smoke, or to gain oral pleasure? When you discover what the reasons are and use hypnosis to reprogram your subconscious mind with healthy replacements for the smoking behavior that satisfy those needs, you can quit once and for all.
Dissolving Fears & Phobias
What is the distinction between a fear and a phobia? A fear tends to be rooted in memories of actual events that would generate a fearful response in any rational being. For example, a child who was severely burned roasting marshmallows at a campfire would naturally develop a fear of fire. An adult male with a family to support would tend to develop a fear of losing his job if he has a track record of job losses.
In contrast, a phobia is a specific, persistent, irrational, and intense fear that does not result from any actual experiences that were threatening or harmful. Often, the person suffering from the phobia is preoccupied with thoughts of the object of the phobia and will go out of their way to avoid coming into contact with
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that object, even if it means disrupting their lives to do so. Phobias are common and include fearful reactions to heights, open spaces, loss of control, public speaking, snakes, spiders, thunder, fear of flying etc. When a fear or phobia interferes with the performance of your job, your relationships with friends, co-workers, and family, or your enjoyment of activities, so that you start avoiding situations where the fear might arise, hypnotherapy can help. Left untreated, fears and phobias can become more and more debilitating and generalize to other situations, causing more fears and phobias. Through hypnotic techniques involving desensitization and extinction, you can learn to overcome these obstacles and gain a sense of security, confidence, and enjoyment of life.
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