Hypnosis

What is Hypnosis?

Hypnosis, translated from Greek (Hypnos) means 'to sleep', although this can be slightly misleading as when in hypnosis you are not asleep but very relaxed and in an heightened state of awarenes.

Hypnosis is a naturally occurring state that we each enter into several times a day without being aware of it. Examples of this are when we are driving a car along a well known route and arrive at our destination seemingly unaware of most of our journey (commonly known as 'highway-hypnosis') or when we become engrossed in a good book, are watching a TV programme or film, and become so focused we fail to hear someone talking to us.

This state of relaxation and heightened concentration and awareness, known as hypnosis, can be induced by a clinical hypnotherapist using suggestion.

What is Hypnotherapy?

Hypnotherapy is the utilization of the hypnotic state to unlock the capacity of the unconcious mind to bring about a therapeutic change that you desire and have previously discussed with your hypnotherapist.

Hypnosis has been in use for thousand of years. There is a great deal of evidence to support the belief that hypnosis was being used by the Ancient Greeks and Romans, for therapeutic benefit, as far back as the 4^th Century BC.

Egyptians had very popular 'sleep temples' in which people were asked to lie down and listen to someone chanting to help cure illness and problems as far back as 1550 BC.

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become."
Buddha 563-483 BC