How can it help you?

The important thing is that the individual wants to change and is highly motivated to do so.  You have to want the treatment to work and be receptive to learning the technique of self-hypnosis which can be practiced at home, to reinforce the usefulness of formal sessions with the therapist.

Hypnotherapy can help in many different ways, here are just a few

• achieve your goals
• management your fears and phobias
• change your experiences relating anxiety, panic attacks and manage stress
• build self confidence and self esteem
• remove unwanted habits such as smoking and overeating
• help with insomnia
• enhance performance such as presentations
• improve concentration for interviews, exams and driving tests
• increase ability to enjoy relaxation
• increase motivation

What are the benefits of hypnosis?

• it regenerates and rejuvenates all the cells in your body, increasing energy and vitality
• it helps to release emotional blockages and calms the mind
• it makes problem solving easier by decluttering the mind
• it bypasses conscious resistance, helping the mind to accept suggestions and visualisation more easily
• it allows our inherent creativity to come to the forefront

Goals
Most people have dreams of success, wealth, love, career advancement, resolution of problems etc, yet few carry them through planning to achievement. Learning the special techniques used in hypnosis can help in the achievement of dreams.

Effective goal setting requires both a sense of completion and a reward. Setting achievable goals form the foundations of success. Small milestones are steppng stones to success. An example of setting a goal is: a student sets his first goal as achieving a creditable grade on his first test. Another goal might be passing a mid-term examination. Still another could be preparation of a final term paper that is outstanding - steps in earning entrance into medical school, from which, after completing numerous other activity goals, the accomplishment goal of Doctor may be realised.

Whatever the dream, each short-term activity goal, once accomplished, provides the essential sense of completion, and motivation to undertake the next step. Each such completion should be accompanied by a self-reward, self-recognition of the successful step. The step-by-step process of sequential short term activity goals completed and rewarded forms the pathway to achievement.

A model for successful smart goal setting might be as follows:

Setting a realistic, achievable goal
Motivational - consider your emotional motivational factors; determine its benefits when creating the goal
Affirmative - determine the knowledge and skills required to achieve the goal; is it about what you want, rather than what you don't want?
Resources - determine sources of help, what resources will you need? Have you got them? If not, how can you get them?
Time scale - have you clearly defined a time scale when you want to achieve your goal by? Is the time scale realistic and achievable?

Goal setting can provide the template for your future success. Hypnotherapy can provide motivation, confidence, energy and insight.

Fears and Phobias
One of the most common reasons for people to seek hypnotherapy is for help overcoming a phobia. The most common phobias are those such as fear of spiders and fear of flying, which can be easily cured using hypnotherapy techniques to help learn new behaviour patterns i.e. a calm reaction rather than a panic reaction.

Sometimes, if a phobia is deeper and more disruptive such as with severe agoraphobia or social phobia, then it may be necessary to look at some of the issues surrounding the onset of the phobia and work to resolve them. Phobias are often rooted in childhood misunderstanding. A child doesn't necessarily have the logical tools and information to understand the meaning of a parent standing on a stool screaming at a small insect, possibility making a deep unconscious decision that the insect is dangerous.

Hypnotherapy can help to teach relaxation and visualisation techniques for systematic desensitisation and assist with learning new habits such as being more relaxed and calm. Hypnosis accelerates the internal ability we have to get over irrational fears.

Stress Anxiety and Panic Attacks
Stress and anxiety are medical conditions.  Many of us function under a certain amount of pressure most or all of the time, but if you find that you are suffering from regular or chronic stress, then it is important you see a doctor. 

Stress and anxiety are everywhere in our society and if not dealt with can cause real health problems. Relaxation exercises and other stress management techniques will help you not only to combat stress and cope with it but ultimately and far more importantly, to prevent it in the first place.

Hypnosis can incorporate lots of different therapeutic tools to help deal with stress and can also help to avoid developing stress.. It can also help with positive thinking and assertiveness. Understanding stress and our body's reaction to it, you can start to create new positive reactions which become a self-fulfilling prophesy.

The better you feel about your ability to cope with stressful situations, the better you will cope with them.  Hypnotherapy is an effective treatment for stress symptoms such as insomnia, muscle tension, rushing, worrying etc

Confidence and Self Esteem
Self confidence is a natural and basic resource, lack of self confidence is often one of the reasons for lots of other problems and difficulties. In hypnotherapy you will be encouraged to consider questions such as: When you become more confident how do you expect to feel?  What will you do with your new found self confidence? These types of questions will start to help you to imagine and prepare yourself for a more confident future where other goals become much easier to achieve everyday.

Hypnosis helps to remove unhelpful beliefs and confusing interference in the way you talk to yourself so that you can focus on what you want.  Hypnotherapy can help to re-learn how to be confident, positive and start to develop new and exciting beliefs.  Your self confidence will improve because it was always there.  You were born with confidence and generally it's just life experiences and "knocks" that lower our levels of confidence and self belief.

Unwanted Habits such as Smoking or Overeating

Stop Smoking
The secret of hypnotherapy is that it gets people to use their imagination to create a non-smoking future.  This often feels very positive and empowering.  Stopping smoking becomes the positive and definite choice. Hypnotherapists help many smokers achieve their goal of quitting on a regular basis.  It is a well-known area of work, and the results are quite astounding. Deciding to become a smoker is not a decision that most people take logically.  It is an emotional decision taken at a subconscious level.  Therefore, any decision to stop needs to be taken at that same level; this is why hypnosis is such a successful way to give up smoking cigarettes. 

Weight Management
Hypnosis can help you to lose weight naturally and easily.  You can learn powerful self-hypnosis techniques to losing weight.  These techniques and ideas will help in many areas of your life.  Tackling weight loss with diets and willpower can just become a battlefield. Hypnosis helps you to let go of all the bad habits and false beliefs that have stopped you losing weight before and helps you to move forward by developing new positive habits and new beliefs.

It can help you to develop a new self-image, happier, healthier and slimmer and feeling much more relaxed about yourself.  Overcoming stress will naturally help you to stop comfort eating and to adopt a much healthier attitude.

Re-educating your unconscious mind and learning to feel positive about healthy choices make weight loss and weight management more automatic and natural.

Insomnia
Insomnia and sleep problems tend to start in isolation but can soon develop into bad habits. If you think you won't be able to sleep, it's almost certain that you won't. Hypnotherapy involves hypnosis, combined with relaxation a key element in falling asleep easily; you will learn to relax physically and mentally with self-hypnosis.

Hypnosis will help you take control and re-educate your mind into relaxing easily into sleep. You can learn new and natural ways to fall a sleep using relaxation exercises and techniques. Hypnosis can also help you to learn how to just slow things down. Modern life is especially rushed. When you're ready to fall a sleep a racing mind doesn't help!

Presentations and Public Speaking
Public speaking, making presentations, giving a talk, making a speech - can be a terrifying experience for many people. The fear of public speaking is irrational but is all too real to those who suffer from it.  The good news is that hypnotherapy can help you to get over public speaking anxiety by using the power of your own subconscious mind.

Hypnosis can help build confidence, help you to remain calm and relaxed.  You can learn how to recognise your body's reaction to stress and anxiety and to develop new healthy and positive ways of thinking and feeling.  Deep relaxation techniques used in hypnosis helps you to focus inwards and start to build feelings of confidence, calm and self belief.

With the use of visualisation techniques to imagine the rehearsal or practice a speech or presentation in your mind, you will have already experienced the feeling of delivering a great performance, and your mind has been pre-programmed for success. With your feelings of confidence and control restored, public speaking can be approached with a new level of calmness and assurance.

Examination, Interview and Driving Test Nerves
For many people, the nerves that build up in the anticipation of an exam, interview or driving test can feel just as bad as the test, interview or exam itself. The feelings of fear or loss of control that people experience when faced test or interview are to do with a lack of confidence.

Thoughts of what might happen, or what might go wrong, or the type of questions you might get asked, can build anxiety and stress. Stress builds and builds, and as the time of the test or interview draws closer, anxiety builds to such an extent, that you can feel that all you learned skills and knowledge will just disappear as soon as the test, exam or interview begins.

The stresses and strains can bring untold pressures, this fear gets compounded by the importance of doing well in the test and there may also be a pressure from family and friends to do well.

Hypnotherapy can help significantly from excessive levels of stress and anxiety, by introducing deep relaxation techniques, self hypnosis, ego boosting and self confidence enhancement, it can certainly make the difference on the day and help to achieve better results.

Relaxation
Stressful living today is taking its toll on many people and many of those people are seeking natural relief in hypnosis, relaxation can offer a simple means of relief. Relaxation is for anyone looking to calm down and slow down their life's pace. It is successfully used for stress management at work, aids falling asleep faster. It can also boost your energy and improves concentration and increase motivation.

Hypnosis focuses on deep relaxation and is all about tuning in to your body and completely letting go. Relaxation exercises involve using the mind to release the tension from the body. As part of the relaxation exercise, guided positive affirmations are suggested to change negative thoughts and to build self confidence. Affirmations are simply positive statements that we say to ourselves that allows us to counter negative thoughts.

The guided imagery used in hypnosis for relaxation is unlimited. It can focus on the benefits to the mind and body through deep relaxation. The use of imagery for journeys such as seasons, tropical beaches are soothing and provide immeasurable health benefits.

Self hypnosis is extremely beneficial utilizing the body's relaxation response, all that is needed is a quiet place with a comfortable seat, close your eyes gently, tuning in to your breathing, noticing its pace and rhythm. Allowing yourself to feel completely calm, tuning in to each body part and to feel each individual muscle part of your body relax and completely letting go.

Motivation
Hypnosis is great for motivation is assists in creating clear goals and to increase your focus and direction. Goal setting can be an important part of building motivation and energy. You can start to believe in yourself and believe in your ability to do anything. Being motivated is all about knowing what you want and believing in your ability to achieve it.

Learning to relax and use visual imagery can be a huge step in the right direction. Motivation works well in conjunction with health, confidence, fitness and relaxation. It almost needs to be part of a bigger picture, so as your goals become more real and achievable, you can start to feel the motivation energising you. You can imagine clearly and with all your internal senses, what it will be like to have it.

Hypnotherapy can help you to start to develop an inner energy and self-belief. It can also help you to understand and highlight your goals according to your own individual strengths.