Hypnotherapy
Harmony Family Wellness offers hypnotherapy which can be used to address the emotional component of disease, increase your ability to relax, reinforce positive changes in lifestyle you may like to make, reduce pain and the side effects of stress and promote a healthier functioning body overall.
Definition of Hypnosis
Hypnosis is a state of inner absorption, concentration and focused attention. Everyone can get into a hypnotic state naturally. If you have ever gotten lost in a movie or a book and not heard someone calling your name, or while driving you have found yourself pulling up to your house and realize that you hadnít consciously been aware of driving those last few blocks, than you have been in a hypnotic state.
Purpose of Hypnosis
Why would you want to put yourself into that state? In that state, your conscious mind is relaxed and that critical voice in your head turns off. You become more relaxed and serene and therefore more receptive to suggestions. You still retain your will and your values. Hypnosis makes it easier for people to have the suggested experiences, but it does not force them to. You will only do what you truly want to do. You will make the changes you want to make.
Have you ever known that you wanted to make a change but felt blocked from making the change? The little critical voice in your head comes up and starts to explain all the reasons that you couldnít possibly succeed. That critical voice is just programming and fear and it isnít really us. It is learned and usually in childhood. We begin to embody these voices that surround us that tell us what we canít do. In your heart, you still do know what you want. You know what is right and feels good to you. You know deep down what health feels like. That is why you want to make that change, whether that, be smoking cessation, or weight management or goal setting or better health, you know what is right for you.
The Experience of Hypnosis
Hypnosis puts you into that relaxed and receptive state that allows you to connect directly with your subconscious mind, the part of you that works for you. It receives the suggestions and immediately begins implementing them. It allows you to use your mind effectively to affect your body in a positive way. The purpose of hypnosis is so you may easily find yourself in greater control over your mind, emotions, and physical body. The state of hypnosis is a relaxed and serene state like the feeling of drifting off for a nap in the warm sun or in a cozy blanket or lying on a float and feeling the waves rocking you gently into relaxation.
What is hypnosis used for?
Hypnosis is used for a great many conditions and in a number of different situations.
Hypnosis can be used to stop smoking or as part of a weight management program. It can help you deal with and lessen pain and other symptoms of disease as well. Therefore, hypnosis is used to treat many conditions such as IBS and other gastrointestinal disorders, promote a faster recovery from surgical procedures, and reduce nausea associated with childbirth and with chemotherapy treatments for cancer. It has been shown to reduce depression and increase immune system functioning in patients with cancer.
It can allow you to imagine what you truly want….such as a perfect golf game or going to your parents and remaining calm and collected, giving that perfect speech, remaining calm during that exam, surgery, or interview, or having the healthy body that you desire.
Hypnosis helps stimulate your ability to visualize the outcome you want and to imagine yourself moving towards it.
How does it work?
There are many theories about how hypnosis works but none yet are proven. We are starting to understand more and more about the incredible links between the body and the mind and the positive role that mind can play in stimulating healing , wellness and healthy change in the body. There is a growing body of evidence of the efficacy of using hypnosis to treat illness and to encourage healthy and successful behaviours.
Choosing a hypnotherapist?
Hypnotherapy is not regulated in most provinces and states. There are certified lay hypnotherapists who have extensive training in hypnosis but no other additional professional training. Other professionals, such as doctors, naturopathic doctors, nurses, dentists and psychologists may learn hypnosis in addition to their university education. These professionals may use hypnosis to augment other treatments and to promote easier healing and more successful compliance to healthier routines.