London Hypnotherapist
We've all heard the statistics that we only use around 10% of our minds. What if you could harness some of the other 90% and use its power to make changes that will enhance your life?
Deep within you are the feelings, beliefs, habits and patterns that are keeping you where you are. Hypnotherapy is the use of hypnosis to access the subconscious in order to release old patterns, heal, and reprogram for success and well-being. When you begin to intervene on the level of the deeper mind, real change can take place.
Most of us go in and out of light states of self-hypnosis many times a day - when we 'drift off' into a world of our own. All we do in hypnotherapy is focus and deepen this natural state and help you use it constructively. Everyone can experience hypnosis if they want to. Since 'all hypnosis is self-hypnosis,' you are simply being guided to use a natural ability you already have.
Our conscious mind, or logical mind, is located in the left hemisphere of the brain and performs analytical duties, rationalizes, uses willpower in attempts to change personal habits, and serves as our short-term memory.
Our conscious mind finds it difficult to change bad habits. The use of willpower alone will generally only initiate a desire to change, but we will generally be unsuccessful at eliminating the presenting problem.
The conscious mind also contains what is known as the critical factor, which operates automatically when you are using your conscious mind. The critical factor can be thought of as protecting the status quo of your beliefs and must be bypassed in order for you to accept any suggestion that conflicts with your existing beliefs.
Our subconscious mind is located in the right hemisphere of the brain and deals with habits, emotions, long-term memory, and self-preservation. It is this part of the mind that the hypnotherapist focuses on, and the part through which it is possible to bypass the critical factor in order to bring about positive change.
The subconscious mind is far better at changing bad habits by readily accepting positive suggestions. Through positive suggestion, hypnosis is able to change an individual’s beliefs, attitudes, or behaviours for that person’s benefit.
Perhaps this can be easier understood if we consider the following metaphor:
For instance, we can consider the parts of the mind in terms of a computer. Our subconscious mind could be referred to as the hard-drive. A hypnotherapist could be seen as a computer programmer. It is well known that computers are complex pieces of equipment that hold masses of information. In the same way, our subconscious mind contains everything we have ever done in our lives. We have picked up certain behaviours and habits alone the way since birth and these have become an integral part of us.
Habits and behaviours are extremely difficult to change at a conscious level. However, a hypnotherapist is able to retrieve the ‘old files’ and re-write these before replacing them in our hard-drive. In this way it is possible to reprogram your subconscious mind with positive suggestions to replace to negative ones.
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