Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is a natural, heightened state of awareness and concentration that works directly with your subconscious mind, allowing you to make positive changes in your life.
What is Advanced Conversational Hypnosis (ACH)?
In traditional hypnosis, a hypnotherapist directly guides you into a trance. Then you receive hypnotic suggestions that speak directly to your unconscious mind. They tell your mind how to make changes in your life, often by altering habits, beliefs, and other mental patterns that are holding you back.
Everyone who seeks out hypnotherapy wants to change their lives. A hypnotherapist will use the techniques at their disposal that best help their client achieve the change they desire. While trance-based protocols are often utilized, sometimes a more indirect approach is required.
This is where Advanced Conversational (ACH) hypnosis comes in. This technique typically uses questions and the language of your subconscious mind instead of direct hypnotic suggestions. These questions help the unconscious mind deliver solutions on its own.
One of the main differences between Advanced Conversational Hypnosis and other hypnotic techniques is that it can bring you to trance with your eyes open. Many believe that to be in hypnosis, you have to have your eyes closed. This simply isn’t the case. Hypnosis takes the natural trance states your mind already creates and helps you use them to make amazing life changes. We’ve all had times where we’ve zoned out with our eyes open: when we’re driving on the highway, watching a TV show, or just daydreaming at work.
This is what Advanced Conversational Hypnosis feels like. Your eyes may be open, but your mind is drifting somewhere else.
Advanced Conversational Hypnosis is also a relaxing and free-flowing type of hypnosis. The hypnotist may guide the hypnosis session over multiple topics, their words flowing just like a conversation might.
Advanced Conversational Hypnosis isn’t exactly like a normal conversation you’d have on the street. It’s filled with language patterns, metaphors and emotions coming directly from your subconscious mind that would sound out of place elsewhere. However, in a hypnotist’s office, this is a great way to induce trance or a state of hypnosis to get to the root of the problem.
Therapeutic Imagery
Since the brain, the mind, learns in images, imagery is the natural way to communicate with the subconscious mind. Because imagery and the subconscious speak the same language – imagery becomes a powerful tool to use for positive change!
According to research, Therapeutic Imagery can help with a variety of issues, including:
● Stress
● Anxiety
● Depression
● Grief
● Post Traumatic Stress
● Relationship issues
● Diminished self-care
● Family and parenting issues
Medical experts frequently use Therapeutic Imagery to treat pain management, high blood pressure, and the decrease of undesired behaviors such as smoking, in addition to emotional and behavioral disorders. This technique is also often utilized by athletes to improve their performance. Generally, guided imagery techniques are employed to target specific issues. For example, a cancer patient might employ guided imagery to imagine healthy cells and powerful organs.
Therapeutic Imagery may help:
● Increase control
● Reduce depression
● Decrease stress and anxiety
● Enhance sleep
● Enhance the quality of life
● Avoid nausea
● Decrease blood pressure
● Enhance healing
● Improve immune system
● Lower respiratory difficulties
● Decrease hospital length of stay
● Enhance self-confidence
Relaxation, insight, and wisdom can all be gained through Therapeutic Imagery. It can
help you relieve both physical and psychological stress by diverting your attention away from whatever is bothering you and putting you in a more positive frame of mind.
What is neuro-linguistic programming?
Created by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in the 1970s, neuro-linguistic
programming studies the ways our thoughts affect our behavior. It looks at the ways our brains interpret the signals they receive and how these interpretations affect what we do. It does this through language – the linguistic part of neuro-linguistic programming techniques. By examining how our brains process information, NLP techniques help us to look at our thoughts, feelings and emotions as things we can control, rather than things that passively happen to us.
What is neuro-linguistic programming used for?
Because NLP techniques focus on making behavioral changes, they can be used for a
variety of different goals. Mental health professionals use NLP by itself or with other
types of therapy, like talk therapy or psychoanalysis, to help treat depression and
anxiety. It can be used to treat phobias in particular, as well as other expressions of
anxiety such as panic attacks. The therapist will work to reveal the person’s “map,” the
unproductive patterns that make us feel stuck, and then write a new map that replaces those with empowering habits and effective strategies.
Neuro-linguistic programming can also benefit those who do not have a serious mental health issue, but are interested in personal growth – a powerful human need that can bring fulfillment to our lives. NLP techniques are particularly useful for building skills like public speaking, sales and negotiation, team building and leadership.
Its action-oriented nature and focus on growth mean that neuro-linguistic programming and coaching go hand in hand. Many coaches use NLP techniques to help their clients reprogram their brains and achieve their goals.
Benefits of NLP
● Communication excellence
● Remaining calm during difficult times and challenging situations
● Resolving intrapersonal and interpersonal conflicts
● Creative problem solving
● Modeling excellence
● Eliminating unwanted habits
● Being empowered
● Developing peak performance
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
EFT is a mind-body-spirit approach which involves tapping on acupuncture points while repeating emotionally-charged statements that relate to specific health issues, often referred to as acupressure for the emotions. It is an evidence-based method that has been shown in several dozen randomized controlled trials to be effective for a variety of conditions including anxiety, weight loss and food cravings, depression, PTSD, phobias, pain and other physical symptoms. As a form of energy psychology, EFT addresses the root energetic imbalances that result from trauma and other emotional stressors.
Tammy Dow
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