Trance is a normal state that your mind can go into. Indeed, our minds drift in and out of trance everyday. Imagine yourself sitting down reading a good book, or watching a film perhaps – something that totally absorbs you.
In trance you are totally absorbed about something, not consciously making an effort to do anything, just allowing your subconscious to get on with doing whatever it is you are doing. Do you recognise any of these experiences?:
- Most drivers will have experienced a time when they drive a familiar route – to work perhaps – and when they arrive, they cannot remember anything that happened on the way. This is because they allowed their subconscious to get on with the driving while their mind was dreaming about something else.
- Football fans will experience watching their favourite team play an important game, and be so absorbed with every pass of the ball that they are unaware of anything else going on around them.
- When going to a dance, people can find themselves so absorbed in the music and the movement of their bodies that everything else disappears from their mind.
- Throughout the day, we all experience moments when our minds start daydreaming about something.
There are many other examples of trance that I’m sure you can think of – times when you are so absorbed in something or times when you are doing something so familiar to you that you do it without thinking and you can go into a day-dream. It is at these times of everyday trance when our minds become creative as they are free to do whatever they want to do.
During these times our subconscious minds can get on with processing unwanted emotions or working on a solution to a problem without us being consciously aware of it.
And this is why trance is so useful in hypnotherapy. After discussing a problem and what could be done to alleviate it, the hypnotherapist puts the client into trance. The subconscious mind can then start to work on a solution to the problem without the client being aware of what is going on. The brain will continue to work on find a solution beyond the session and so it may be a while later that changes start to happen.
Trance is a natural state that everyone goes into – every single day – even if it is just for a few moments. Through skilled use of questioning and inducing a trance, the hypnotherapist can use the healing power of trance to help the client discover their own solutions to their own particular problems.
If you would like help with a problem, such as anxiety or high stress, I can help. I provide hypnotherapy services from my clinic in Fleet, Hampshire as well as online. Just contact me for a confidential chat to start with.
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