Why Hypnotherapy Works.

Ask yourself, how are you reading this? Are you aware of making your eyes move, piecing the letters together to make the word and then working out its meaning? The answer is likely not, at least not since you learned to read, instead it is all happening automatically, at a subconscious level. Your subconscious mind handles around 88% of who you are and what you do, everything from brushing your teeth to keeping your heart beating. Your subconscious mind also takes care of your emotions, if you’ve ever fallen in love, you’ll probably remember it as more of an impulsive ‘gut feel’ than a conscious consideration. The same applies to all our emotions, they just seem to happen.

The dominant and automatic function of your subconscious mind makes living possible, running in the background 24/7 to keep you safe and well. But it can also cause problems when it doesn’t operate as you want it to. This is where hypnosis and hypnotherapy come in. As anyone who has ever tried to consciously overcome a fear or break a habit knows, willpower alone is largely ineffective and often leads to nothing more than frustration and failure. And it’s easy to see why when knowing that your conscious mind is a comparatively small 12% against the mighty subconscious. It can feel like you’re not even in control of yourself. The good news is that hypnosis helps to put you back in control by opening the communication with your subconscious mind so that you can get it doing more of the things you want and less of what you don’t.

In simple terms, hypnosis is a natural state much like that we all go through as we drift off to sleep at night and wake-up into the morning. During these times you are in full control and if needed, could quickly awake, but instead your mind is able to drift deeper as your brainwave activity reduces, connecting you with your subconscious. It is in this window of hypnosis where changes can be made to how you think, how you feel and what you do. Changes that can happen surprisingly quickly to bring about profound and lasting progress that makes your life better.