Basically, hypnosis is a condition when the person experiences a state of deep relaxation along with the focusing of his attention on certain suggestions made by the therapist, which are aimed to help people to manage their problems by making positive changes within themselves. During the hypnosis the person always stays in control and off course you are not made to do anything you don’t want to do. Although there is widely spread opinion that hypnotherapy involves such things as influencing the person by making him do anything, it is actually not right.
Many people have mistaken opinion that hypnosis is a state of deep sleep. But this is not true. In spite the fact that hypnosis induces a condition similar to trance, the patient is in a state of awareness and is concentrated entirely on the voice of the hypnotherapist. In fact, hypnotherapy makes the conscious mind suppressed and the subconscious mind active. Being in such a state, the person is perceptive to ideas, concepts and statements told by the therapist to the patient. That is used as an effective mechanism of promoting healing or positive development.
Hypnosis technic is a kind of psychotherapy that is used to alter certain patterns of behavior within the mind of a person such as fears, phobias, negative thinking and suppressed emotions so that they are finally can be managed.
Some physiological changes happen during hypnotherapy: breathing becomes slower and deeper, decreasing of pulse rate and some others processes.
Hypnosis works by influencing our state of consciousness by suppressing analytical left-hand side of the brain and promoting non-analytical right-hand side. It results in suppressing the conscious control of the mind and alertness of subconscious. The subconscious mind being a deeper-seated than the conscious mind, works more effectively in changing the patient’s behavior or physical state making it possible to manage his condition.
As it has been already mentioned, hypnotherapy doesn’t require the patient to be in a state of a deep sleep. Furthermore, the patient cannot be made to do anything they don’t want to do, as they remain aware of the situation and surroundings. One more important thing that one should understand about this technique is that the patient should want to change his behavioral habit or addiction, otherwise such treatment won’t be effective and won’t bring any results. In other words, the patient should be highly motivated.
In general, hypnotherapy requires several sessions to bring significant results. Patients can also learn the methods of self-hypnosis in order to reinforce the sessions with the hypnotherapist.
Hypnotherapy can be used as an effective treatment to manage a wide range of psychological, emotional and physical disorders. This technique helps to relieve pain in surgery and dental procedures and even in midwifery. It can also help to relieve the sufferings of the disabled and patients that have terminal illness. This method is widely used to overcome smoking and excessive alcohol consumption, and to deal with such eating problem as bulimia. This is an effective method to deal with different kinds of phobia, panic attacks or obsessional neurosis, or stress-related conditions such as insomnia. Such medical conditions as psoriasis, eczema, sweating, and irritable bowel syndrome are managed with this therapy well.
Typically, children are perceptive to hypnosis, so it can be used to treat nocturnal enuresis and chronic asthma.