What a journey.

Are you excited by the thought of travelling into your own mind? You know, that gem, lying between your ears and way beyond. Does the thought of diving into your depths fill you with a tingling anticipation? Or are you worried about what lurks in those dark corners.

Are you ready to engage and communicate with yourself, even those questionable parts of you, bent on destruction?

Hypnosis is a fascinating process that manifests differently for each individual, enabling release of adverse ways of thinking and behaving … if you find yourself ready, willing and able.

The unconscious mind usually likes to be prepared for every eventuality and when something happens which disrupts this expectation, it can create ways of reacting and behaving, or develop a habit, which at the time seems appropriate and valid.

For instance, imagine you were happily playing with a spider at the age of three, letting it run up your arm and around your hands until a parent or a sibling came in and screamed the house down, (an unexpected event the unconscious wasn’t prepared for) alerting your mind to an evidently, catastrophic event, which included spiders.

According to research, we are only born with two ‘natural’ fears: loud noises and falling. The rest of our fears are learnt.

Possibly, from that day forth the connection with spiders and fear (even though it wasn’t yours) is firmly entwined. Is that reaction still valid, in the present, at age thirty? You know that spiders in our country are harmless; you can put a vessel over them, slide a piece of paper under it and cart them out of the bath or your front door, yet, there remains an inextricable link between now and your three year old mind. Inform the unconscious that the link and behaviour is no longer needed and is now in fact, inappropriate and invalid and the former reaction can be replaced with something realistic.

That is as long as you haven’t built up your personality and identity around such behaviour and have a lot to lose and little to gain without it.

Then there are those habits, which allow the individual to avoid ‘feeling and dealing’, distractions that may be used to suppress emotions the owner doesn’t know how to handle or what to do with them. After all, when were they taught to ‘feel and deal’? In many cases, they weren’t.

Hypnosis assists all kinds of people to work through their own personal situations. It is also especially useful for those people who haven’t yet discovered the liberating sensation of saying ‘NO’!

Contrary to popular belief, Hypnosis, especially Indirect Hypnosis, is a sincerely respectful practise, which honours the privacy of a persons thought.

Clients do not have to divulge any information they want to keep private and they may maintain awareness for the entire session; a Hypnotherapist will be very sensitive and considerate, whilst still being able to assist the person through their transition, using a very wide range of techniques which suit each individual.

You do not need to be ‘put under’ for hypnosis to work efficiently.

All you need is a willingness to take responsibility for your actions, the ability to trust and engage with the Hypnotherapist and yourself and a personal commitment to change for the better.