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HYPNOTHERAPY
Hypnosis is a safe, effective way to make positive changes in your life at a very deep level of being. In hypnosis, you are guided to a deep state of relaxation where your mind is open to suggestion and change. You are fully aware of all that is happening, and you are completely in control. In fact, it is you who is doing the healing – I am just the guide. Hypnotherapy is essentially another term for guided imagery (although not all people "see" during hypnosis).
During hypnotherapy we
are in dialogue as I guide you through healing of emotional wounds,
letting go of old patterns of behavior, resolving trauma or phobia, or
improving an existing skill.
Most people are amazed at how quickly
healing occurs compared to traditional talk therapy. Hypnotherapy
is effective for the following:
When we feel anxious or
scared, as well as when we feel strong anger, the fight-or-flight
response is activated. Fight-or-flight is a powerful
reaction involving rapid breathing, racing heartbeat, cold and clammy
hands, and narrowing of focus. In
addition, rational thinking is impaired as the more primitive parts
of the brain take over to prepare us to flee or defend ourselves from
the threat of death or injury (this is why it is so difficult to
take a test while anxious). The fight-or-flight response is usually a
false alarm -- we are rarely in immediate danger of death! Phobias and panic attacks are examples
of when the fight-or-flight response is highly
activated. Why is the
fight-or-flight response triggered when there is actually no real threat
of death? The limbic system
of the primitive part of the brain is always scanning the environment
(including our thoughts), looking for a match to traumatic memories --
times when we perceived we were in danger. If there is anything
even similar to the memory, or even a part of the memory, fight-or-flight
is activated. This process occurs without our awareness, which is
why we sometimes don't know why we are anxious or
angry. Traumatic memories can be
readily changed to normal memories with hypnotherapy (the rewind
technique) and with Meridian Tapping
Therapy. It is easy to
see the change -- when you tune into the memory (or are exposed to the
stimulus that was once scary) you remain calm and relaxed. You
retain the content of the memory, but it doesn't trigger the
fight-or-flight response. Similarly, for phobias you remain calm
when exposed to what was once
fearful. Hypnotherapy and Health The key to changing
addictive behaviors is to address the underlying driver, which is usually
stress. This involves
addressing the triggers for the stress and neutralizing them with
hypnotherapy or Meridian Tapping Therapy so that
you remain calm and relaxed.
Skill Enhancement Enhancement of any skill,
from sports to public speaking, is greatly facilitated by mental practice
during hypnosis. This
practice not only reduces stress during the actual performance, research
shows that it actually improves muscle strength and coordination! Virtually all of the best athletes
use hypnotherapy (often called “guided imagery”) to enhance their skill
level. Past-life Regression
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