Tim Maude Hypnotherapy

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  • So What Exactly Is Hypnosis?

    So What Exactly Is Hypnosis?

    I use hypnosis in my job as a hypnotherapist, helping people with anxiety and other issues get back to be in control of their lives. Hypnotherapy is the main positive use for hypnosis. However, hypnosis can be used for other reasons such as hypnosis stage shows.

    Trance

    The first thing to understand about hypnosis is the idea of Trance. A simple online search for the definition of trance will produce a wide variety of answers – a state between sleeping and waking – a state in which you can hear but appear to be asleep – a state in which you are not self-aware – a state in which you are unresponsive to external stimuli.

    All these definitions have some truth in them, but do not describe the complete picture. Someone dancing in a club, just letting themselves go without any thought, can be in a trance. An athlete who is able to get “in the zone” is in a trance. When someone gets lost in a good book, so that they are unaware of what is going on around them and loose track of time, is in a trance.

    When you are in a trance, you are very focused on something so that everything else that is going on around you, sometimes even your sense of the passing of time, is ignored. It is as if you create a bubble around you protecting your mind from thinking of anything else.

    Hypnosis

    Hypnosis is all about leading someone else into a state of trance. When in that state, they do not dismiss ideas that are suggested to them by the hypnotist. They allow those ideas to be processed and unconsciously evaluated. Being in this state makes it easier for suggestions to be accepted, although they will not do anything that they really do not want to do.

    Stage Hypnosis

    Stage hypnotists have clever ways of gathering people who would really like to show off on stage, putting them in a trance and then suggesting to them that they act in a stupid way, so that the audience can laugh at them. What many people do not realise is that the stage hypnotist cannot make them do anything that they don’t want to do – it is just their inhibitions seem to disappear.

    Hypnotherapy

    A hypnotherapist will lead their clients into a trance in order to suggest that they make changes. Clients usually have some sort of behaviour or feeling that they do not seem to be able to change. However, when they are in a trance, their sub-conscious mind finds it easier to make the changes it needs to in order to dismiss the issues that they are experiencing.

    And Finally …

    If you have an issue that you don’t seem to be able to handle on your own, you might like to Contact Me. I run my hypnotherapy clinic in Fleet in Hampshire, as well as working online.

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  • What is Trance and is it safe in Hypnotherapy?

    What is Trance and is it safe in Hypnotherapy?

    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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