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Inner Potential Hypnotherapy and NLP offers specialised Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy services for emotional/mental issues such as Depression, Anxiety, Panic Attack, low self-esteem, anger/Stress management, Sexual Abuse/Problems, Phobias/Fears. Inner Potential Hypnotherapy chooses Hypnotherapists who specialise in these areas and also work with Adults as well as Children and Adolescents.
On this Hypnosis site you can find your local Hypnotherapist in your local Town or county. These are Therapists with a difference which gives you the confidence to trust and work with them regarding your issues. You can search for your local Hypnotherapist now and read about them on the contact page or read on first…
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Five Reasons for choosing Inner Potential Hypnotherapy UK & EIRE and the Hypnotherapists
What is Hypnosis and how does Hypnotherapy work?
How does a Hypnotherapist hypnotize you?
FAQ(s)
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Five reasons to work with Inner Potential Hypnotherapy
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Your local Hypnotherapist has already been in practice for many years and has experience in dealing with the above mentioned emotional and mental areas both with adults and children including the symptoms that often accompany them e.g. insomnias, Unwanted Habits like nail biting or binge drinking/eating, Couples’ issues, blushing, overweight problems or symptoms with children e.g. stammering, blushing, shyness or bedwetting.
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These Therapists who use Hypnosis techniques in their daily practice are trained in some other therapeutic background other that Hypnosis as well e.g. NLP, EFT, EMDR or Counselling, CBT, Psychotherapy, Life Coaching. They are Therapists in the true sense for along with their two or three years of expertise in Hypnosis they have trained themselves in becoming professional complementary therapists to give the best service they can for their clients.
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All the Hypnotherapists on Inner Potential Hypnotherapy site are registered and professional Hypno-therapists belonging to recognised professional bodies such as BSCH, GHR, BACP, APHP, HA, as well as they are on the NHS Directory.
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Your local Hypnotherapist is committed to CPD (Continual Professional Development) and has regular Hypnosis or Therapy/Counselling supervision. This helps him or her to keep the level of therapy they provide fresh and dynamic as they see on average 8-10 clients every single week!
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The Hypnotherapy specialists on this site have experience and integrity to help you achieve your goals within 4-6 sessions on average. These Hypnotherapists have chosen to work with sensitive and deeply rooted issues which are common in their hypnosis practice such as depression, sexual abuse survivors, trauma, child abuse survivors, anger/aggression in couples, and/or anorexia/bulimia in children/adolescents. These cases of course can demand a few extra sessions but most issues are helped within 4-6 sessions!
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Inner Potential Hypnotherapy and NLP answers your questions on the FAQ pages as to the common concerns people have regarding Hypnosis. Although we all go into hypnosis every day e.g. when we are lying under the sun, just before we fall asleep, or listening to some lovely music, we just do not know how we do go into hypnotic trance and what happens to the brain in that hypnosis state. So we have questions especially after watching stage Hypnosis which is radically different from using Hypnosis in therapy. |
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What is Hypnosis and how does Hypnotherapy work?
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Under a hypnotic trance state, did you know that the right brain commonly called the unconscious brain in Hypnosis language becomes more alert, absorbent and concentrated with the effect that whatever is programmed in there tends to stay and thereafter affects our physical, mental and emotional reactions?
Think about it: have you ever found yourself achieving more work in a relaxed state? Have you found yourself waking up remembering things you told yourself you’ll remember just before you fell asleep? Have you found yourself driving for miles without really being aware of the surroundings and yet you drove safely, doing the right move at the right time?
These are beautiful examples of when the unconscious brain, the right brain in human beings work at its best; the unconscious brain has the function of absorbing from the conscious brain information that keeps coming constantly or comes very intensively and is loaded emotionally e.g. a sudden excitement or trauma or learning dancing consistently every week. Once that information goes into the unconscious mind it turns onto an automatic response….implying that the unconscious brain will trigger the response appropriately when needed without bothering you to focus…which is why now you drive or dance or walk without thinking!
But the same mechanism work with destructive or unhealthy habits or emotions/thoughts. If I grow up worrying about my parents’ constant fights, years later when I am happily settled in my own adult life I find myself still worrying for no reason as if worrying has become a second skin with me! Obviously my unconscious brain has absorbed “worrying” as a coping mechanism under tension as a way to protect me. Even if I do not want this habit anymore it keeps working in the background and waste a lot of my energy, physical and mental energy that takes its toil then on my concentration level, sleep patterns or work efficiency.
If I have been criticised or judged at my mistakes rather than my good work over the years I grow an inner critical or inner child’s voice that overrides my adult voice; thus I find myself standing in front of an audience and I know my technical stuff very well because I am the specialist delivering a public speech about it. But either my inner critical voice will say “you are looking stupid! You will freak out!” or my inner child voice is saying “get out of here; they are not going to like you!” and I go into panic even though logically I am shouting to myself “calm down; its okay!”
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Your Hypnotherapist aims to help you achieve your goals as you define them!
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He/She will use tools of Hypnosis that he/she has been trained to use to help you access your unconscious brain and change those unhealthy triggers that you have absorbed almost unconsciously over the years into healthier and more constructive triggers. Because with a healthy trigger we face the world, society or even our personal life with confidence, trust and relaxation and with the same trigger turned unhealthy, our unconscious brain gets alarmed and wishing to protect us it will use symptoms to protect us.
For example if I love driving my unconscious brain will absorb the learning as pleasurable and thereafter trigger all I know unconsciously as soon as I put the ignition on. But if for reasons like fear of losing control or anxiety I find driving worrying, my unconscious brain absorbs the learning as threatening and thereafter even if I have learnt the techniques and passed the test I find that I am very rigid with the driving or I panic at the mere thought of driving or I am losing sleep thinking of driving in the morning!
Every client has different goals and every client is unique in his/her capacity to respond to Hypnosis. Once we establish that Hypnosis is a very natural phenomenon it is clear that everyone is hypnotizable; but the key here is that the client will hypnotize himself without knowing it under the guidance of the Hypnotherapist. It is very much like driving a car as a learner and not feeling as if we are driving but rather following the directions of the instructor; but gradually it occurs that we are actually constantly driving even while listening to the instructions!
Once your goals are sorted out in your sessions your hypnotherapist will have a treatment plan and a plan for every session to get you at your goals within a few sessions. Often the number of sessions are dependent on the ease with which some clients respond to and adopt hypnosis as well as on the intensity of the issue/symptom e.g. someone depressed over the last few months only but with a happy and solid emotional background is bound to respond more resourcefully as compared to someone who has a history of anxiety since childhood and has a background of child abuse!
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How does a Hypnotherapist hypnotize you?
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By using techniques of hypnosis that a stage hypnotist uses for fun or freak but in a more therapeutic style your hypnotherapist takes you into a trance state (similar to how you feel when you are just about to fall asleep but you are half asleep and half awake!) and uses the tools that the unconscious brain understands to work with it.
Usually we cannot stop or change the unconscious brain by ourselves which is why despite several attempts to stop smoking, or quit binge eating or keep exercising we find that we go back to square one. This happens because we have the problem and we are tensed and frustrated about it. In a frustrated and tensed state the unconscious brain becomes even more alarmed and sends the brain into the “flight or fight” tendency which is why we feel as if we are wanting to run away or we are very aggressive as if under threat even if it is just a remark form the partner! In such a state of alarm the unconscious mind will not be listening but rather be like a car rushing at 200 miles an hour, misusing your energy unnecessarily.
We need a Therapist to gain our trust and create professional rapport and then guide us firmly and gently into our unconscious brain and identify the unhealthy triggers; then help us change these unhealthy triggers e.g. binge eating, fears, phobias, anxious thoughts, OCD, etc…. into healthier habits. Basically the client is doing everything under the guidance of the Hypnotherapist but the client feels as if he/she is just blissfully resting and dozing off.
Once the unconscious mind has been trained in seeing, sensing, understanding and reacting to the same situations in a different, healthier way e.g. public speaking, social situations, authority or reacting to the same things in a different way e.g. driving, food issues, alcohol, work etc… it starts affecting instinctively our behaviours. Often clients will comment that they are calmer and in control in those same situations; they sleep better, think more rationally because the unconscious brain is so safe it allows the logic to kick in!
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For further information contact your Local Hypnotherapist or read on your Issues be it: Depression, Anxiety, Panic attacks, Phobia/fears, Low self-esteem, Anger/stress, Sexual abuse, Sexual problems or if you have a concern regarding your Child/adolescent’s issues.
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1. What happens in hypnosis? I have heard (seen) about people doing stupid things “under” the power of a hypnotist. Will I do or say silly things as well?
2. What is trance state? Why does it work in Hypnosis?
3. How many sessions will I need to achieve my goals?
4. Are Hypnotherapy sessions costly?
5. Will I remember everything that happens once my eyes are closed?
6. Can Hypnosis be harmful in any way?
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What happens in hypnosis? I have heard (seen) about people doing stupid things “under” the power of a hypnotist. Will I do or say silly things as well?
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In Hypnosis the brain goes into an inner world of imagination where that imaginary world is ruling the thoughts, feelings and even actions of the person. The thing to remember is that NOONE can hypnotize you and get “into” your mind without your permission.
With stage Hypnosis what happens usually is that the subject has already given full permission to the hypnotist to make a fool of him by firstly raising his/her hand up eagerly wanting to be chosen to go on stage and secondly by knowing very well what’s going to happen on that stage. (If you knew there was a hypnotist coming in your local pub don’t you already imagine and have a secret giggle about the crazy things he/she might say or do to people?)
Thus by the time the person reaches that stage the permission is already subconsciously granted and the body and mind is already geared to respond; if someone goes up there deciding “you can’t hypnotize me” and keeps a serious analysis of every suggestion being given to him/her under hypnotic trance, he/she will not be hypnotized at all.
In therapy, in hypnotherapy to be correct the person is coming with certain expectations and goals e.g. feeling more relaxed, getting good sleep, overcoming weight issues etc… and thereby they will respond only to suggestions and words pertaining to those subjects…
So no to the question: no one can make a fool of you under trance without you giving permission directly or indirectly even if it is in your imagination.
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What is trance state? Why does it work in Hypnosis?
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Trance is a state of deep relaxation very similar to what we all experience when we’re going to sleep and we reach that stage of floating-ness, where we are not yet dead asleep but we are also only remotely aware of our surroundings; this happens for a few seconds just before we go completely into sleep state! We also experience trance when we are lying under the sun, or in nature or on a beach, listening to music, or a loved person’s voice, or playing with a child and getting completely into his/her world of imagination.
So trance is a normal phenomenon that we all experience but we just do not know what happens in the brain in that state of hypnotic trance: the right brain also known as unconscious brain in hypnosis becomes more alert, concentrated, focused; the left brainwaves slow down and are quiet so the logic is not interfering and thus the right brain is absorbing on a sensory level the world and responding as well via senses and imagination. ;which is why great discoveries have been made by people sitting in a relaxed/reflective state because in relaxation the right, creative brain is more absorbing of new information than the left brain.
But trance state also happen in a destructive mode; I often say to clients who come for anxiety, or worry, or insomnia because they are always thinking and not “switching off” that they are the best hypnotherapists around! Because in an alarm stage the right brain again is more focused and concentrated but more like an animal under danger and it is ready to either run or fight for its life. Which is why in a presentation even though the logic is saying “you are safe; you are fine” the right brain has received the message of danger from the brain and has already fired an alarm state which then blanks the logic and get the body ready to run. This is called a destructive trance state.
Often clients will come in because their issues is being controlled by that destructive trance state and they wish to be able to see the same situation(social situations, meetings, authority figures, exams, spiders, needles), those same people (husband, wife, colleague, lover, parents, teachers, job etc…) in a much more constructive and healthy mode and state.
Hypnosis simply helps to re-create that trance state and keep the person in that state for thirty-forty-five minutes and then use the tools that the right brain understands to help change the destructive triggers into healthier, constructive triggers.
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How many sessions will I need to achieve my goals?
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Usually most issues e.g. weight loss, nail biting, insomnias, low self-confidence, anger, stress and phobias will require on average 4-5 sessions. The factors that most determine the number of sessions are:
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Having a good rapport with your therapist (which then make sit easier to be ready for change),
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How much support system the client has (working a sexual abuse when the wife is already going through a messy divorce may require more sessions as compared when the same wife has the full support and safety of a family), and
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How much resources are already present in the client ( fear of presentation is more likely to go away in a client who has a very high self-esteem and good self-belief as compared to someone with the same symptoms but coming from a child abuse background with a damaged and “not good-enough” self-esteem.
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Whether the symptom is the only issue or whether it is just the tip of the iceberg e.g. someone coming for insomnia just because of stress over the last few years will respond quicker than someone who has insomnia since adolescence because parents were always fighting; in this case the symptom , staying awake is more of a surviving strategy that the right brain has adopted and now is finding difficult to let go of; work may also involve looking into helping the unconscious brain feel more safe and finding healthier ways of responding to danger than losing sleep.
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For cases where these factors are very low or negative sessions can go up to six or even eight.
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Are Hypnotherapy sessions costly?
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Hypnotherapy sessions can cost between £50-80 per session depending on the region you are in, the experience and qualifications of your therapist. But the thing to remember with hypnotherapy is that you will usually work with your hypnotherapist for mostly 6 sessions on average and if you think of it as parallel to counselling (requiring on average 10-12 sessions at £35-45 per session) we are talking about the same cost in total.
What should help you decide to go for hypnotherapy or some other form of therapy is the kind of help you are looking for. Hypnotherapy is solution focused, short term and requires you to put a lot of focus or even have homework/self-hypnosis practice that your therapists will expect from you. This suits some people but your therapist will be bale to refer you on if he/she believes Hypnotherapy is not for you; just as hypnotherapists get referral from counsellors and psychotherapists and G.P who believe that their clients will benefit more from hypnotherapy than any other form of therapy. It is only after talking to your local hypnotherapist that you can decide.
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Will I remember everything that happens once my eyes are closed?
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Some clients remember every thing but they cannot be bothered by it all because they come out of trance so relaxed and at ease; others do not remember too much because they have chosen to give in completely. It all depends on individual characters really; some of us we relax very much even though we can still hear the sounds of traffic whereas others needs to screen it out completely to be bale to relax. Just like some clients will say yes to music in the background and others will say “no need”. In the same way some clients will remember things more in detail and other will not. It is not because they cannot remember but because they cannot be bothered being so relaxed and trusting that they give in completely and enjoy their inner world completely.
The unconscious brain is always absorbing of information even if we feel we cannot hear or remember anything; remember that we often drive without remembering our journey, or we listen to music without hearing every single word, but if we are relaxed we will journey safely and we will remember words of that song the next day! That is because the unconscious is always programming itself based on the sensory information it is getting. SO even if you do not remember much your senses will let you know by becoming more relaxed and at ease that something has been working well for you.
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Can Hypnosis be harmful in any way?
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Hypnosis is harmful only in cases of mental illness like schizophrenia or other sort of severe mental illness. But with the rest of us it is as safe as daydreaming or going to sleep. The reason a Hypnotherapist will not work with very severe depression or even severe autism without medical check-up and advice is simply that these are people who can go into an altered state of mind, an imaginative world very quickly but they do not have the inner observer who knows they are daydreaming or it is their imagination.
When we are under trance we know there is a real world out there but we the inner observer are choosing to stay there and enjoy working with that imaginative brain of ours; we know we can come out of it and resume our logical world. But in cases where that self-control is lost either due to lack of functionality in very severe depression or due to mental illness Hypnosis will not be safe, as there is no such differentiation between reality, logical world and the imaginative world.
As far as the rest of us are concerned we go in and out of trance every day when we are driving, sleeping, daydreaming or even worrying, so hypnosis is just re-creating that state but then using it to work with the unconscious brain that most Professional Hypnotherapists know and master the skills of hypnosis for therapeutic purposes.
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Can some people just NOT be hypnotized? Is every one Hypnotizable?
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Each one us has been, does go and will keep going into hypnotic trance daily or when we are on holidays or when we are doing something we enjoy e.g. gardening, cooking, listening to music, dancing or surfing on the net; you can feel how you go into an inner world where the hovering next door or the cars outside feel very far away and you can’t be bothered about anything else apart from that inner state of exploration, fascination and curiosity you have accessed; most of us will agree that we come out of that state feeling very relaxed, safe and in control as if recharged.
So we can all be hypnotized but the trick here is that we hypnotize ourselves under the guidance of a Hypnotherapist, who knows the art of hypnosis for therapeutic proposes. With stage hypnosis as well it is the person who is hypnotizing him/her self but the hypnotist will not tell you how you are doing it and will play the game of power.(refer to Answer 1)
If someone is suffering from a symptom that is not physical and has no basis in reality e.g. phobia of needle, fear of dogs, fear of speaking in a meeting as if their life is under threat that means they are already under a hypnotic, destructive hypnotic state they have put themselves under, because logically they know they are not in danger, their behaviour makes no sense but they are still responding with fear and anxiety to neutral factors. SO hypnosis with most people who come for depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, anger , stress, sexual abuse or phobias even panic attacks, they are already under a destructive, unhealthy state of hypnosis and they respond very well to it after the initial resistance that we all have in front of change!
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For more information or enquiries about treatment or talks Contact Details
LINKS:
www.innerpotential.info: local Hypnotherapist for Reading, Wokingham, Windsor and Maidenhead, Berkshire
BSCH: British Society of Clinical Hypnosis
GHR: General Hypnotherapy register
Hypnotherapy/Hypnosis in southend-on-sea, Essex, www.southendhypnotherapist.co.uk
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Hypnotherapy/Hypnosis in Chestfield, Whitstable, Kent, ukguild.com/therapists/petercorrigan |
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Hypnotherapy/Hypnosis in Crowthorne, Wokingham, Berkshire, www.focus-point.co.uk
Hypnotherapy/Hypnobirthing in Reading, Windsor, Bracknell, www.crowthornehypnotherapy.co.uk
Hypnotherapy Windsor, Bracknell, Slough, maidenhead, www.innerpotential.info
Hypnotherapy/Hypnosis in Camberley, Surrey, www.positive-change.net
Hypnotherapy/Hypnosis in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, www.innerpotentialtherapy.co.uk
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