Hypnotherapy, a scientifically based and intuitive healing method, is a powerful tool I often use with my clients.
Its scientific foundation, rooted in the understanding that our mind influences most aspects of our daily lives, allows it to be used as a therapeutic method to heal past traumas, subconscious blocks, and limited negative beliefs and to create a greater sense of self-awareness.
Discovering yourself in this new way gives you access to achieve inner strength, reach your goals, and improve yourself in many ways to help you live a fuller, richer, and happier life and create healthy relationships.
Clinical hypnotherapy, one of the oldest types of therapy in human history, has a rich and legitimate past. We find depictions of these ancient practices on the walls of Egyptian, Greek, and Hindu temples for thousands of years.
Today, almost 10,000 published studies discuss the benefits of hypnotherapy, underscoring its historical legitimacy and effectiveness.
In ancient times, hypnotherapy was a sacred practice used within Egyptian ‘sleep temples.’ Sleep temples were hospitals of sorts, healing various ailments, perhaps many of them psychological in nature.
The treatment involved:
Healers in ancient Greece and Rome have also used forms of hypnosis throughout history.
In 1843, a Scottish physician , James Braid, known as the “father of hypnosis,” tried to explain the trance state scientifically. He coined the terms “hypnotism” and “hypnosis” after the Greek word hypnos, which means sleep.
He later realized that hypnosis was not sleeping but rather the activation of a different frame of mind (which we now call the subconscious mind). But by then, the Hypnos name had already stuck.
Since then, many prominent and talented researchers, including Carl Jung, Milton Erickson, and others, have contributed to the development of the science of clinical hypnotherapy.
At the beginning of the 20th Century, hypnosis was used mainly by stage hypnotists for entertainment purposes, therefore creating a very distorted perception of this highly effective therapeutic tool.
A stage hypnotist is paid to entertain the audience, create a fun evening for them, and to meet their expectations. To make sure the volunteers give an entertaining performance, the hypnotist uses suggestibility tests and a few techniques to generate a desire for people to get on stage and, with it, a desire to meet the expectations of the audience.
They will pick the people with the highest suggestibility and the greatest desire to be at the center of attention on the stage. Stage hypnotists, unlike clinical hypnotherapists, have a focus on entertainment and not the well-being of those they hypnotize.
In clinical hypnotherapy, the client is the one who chooses the hypnotherapist, not the other way around.
Unlike stage hypnotists, the use of hypnosis is discussed with the client, the process is explained, and the treatment is unique to each client and based on a trusting and respectful relationship between the client and the hypnotherapist to achieve the best possible results in the client’s well-being.
In 1955, the British Medical Association accepted hypnosis as a legitimate form of medical treatment. The American Medical Association followed suit shortly after in 1958.
In 1955, the National Institute of Health reported that meditation and other relaxation techniques are often better treatments for various illnesses than medicine.
According to the American Psychological Association (APA) ‘s Division of Psychological Hypnosis, hypnosis is ”a procedure during which a health professional or researcher suggests that a client, patient, or subject experience changes in sensations, perceptions, thoughts, or behavior.”
Clinical hypnotherapy is often referred to as a New Age practice or Alternative Therapy, even though its roots and origins are ancient. Dr. Julia Richmond of the Harvard Medical School reported that current medical treatments used in Western society (drugs and surgery) are not nearly as effective for some illnesses as the Alternative Medicine Approach.
Today, we have a specific discipline of hypnotherapy called Transpersonal Hypnotherapy, which is the crossing of mind, body, and spirit. It embraces traditional hypnotherapy’s clinical and cultural aspects but adds to the client’s higher dimensional realities through therapeutic interventions.
People believe that hypnosis, or the state of activating the subconscious mind, is the bridge between the mind, body, and spirit.
Schedule an introductory session with me today for more information on how we can use clinical hypnotherapy as a therapeutic healing practice in your life.
I use therapeutic regression and various psychological tools to uncover what lies deep within your subconscious mind that holds you back from achieving all that you aspire to in life and relationships.
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