What is Hypnotherapy?
What is hypnotherapy?
Hypnotherapy is a mutual therapeutic relationship between the therapist and client to help aid the client into a state of relaxation and gain access to their subconscious mind. Our Subconscious mind holds our beliefs, memories, emotions, and past traumas. The therapist is the guide to help the individual to go deep within their unconscious mind to discovery answers or change some of the negative programming that one has accumulated over the course of their life. It is a way of healing and forgiving themselves and others who might have caused us pain in the past.
The therapist and client work as a team
Hypnotherapy is not magic, and it takes great skill and creativity to construct different routines to aid the client to enter into trace. Psychotherapy and cognitive hypnotherapy demand patience, skill, insight, and intuition. One critical predictor of psychotherapy to produce a positive outcome is the therapeutic relationship between the therapists and client. Hypnotherapy aids many essential elements of therapeutic relationships as trust, warmth, comfort, and security (Clark, J. 2015).
Hypnosis is a state of trance that is naturally occurring in our everyday's lives. Have you ever driven home on the same route and after arriving you don't remember how you got there or got so focused on a book that you lost track of time and your surroundings? It's a way of allowing your mind to relax but remain conscious at the same time. It is a state of focused attention that will enable you to have access to your conscious and unconscious mind.
One of the most effective ways to change an experience is to create a new experience. Hypnosis is one method for inducing syncretic cognition which is a combination of somatic, cognitive, perceptual, physiological, kinesthetic and visceral changes. Hypnosis can amplify the syncretic perception providing the client's with a sense of calm, feelings of relaxation, sense of warmth, comfort which offers proof to depressed individuals that they can alter their depressive effects and experience. The emotions that are experienced by an individual who is depressed are due to the constant rumination on their symptoms with the consequences of their symptoms, but this does not mean there are not are emotions associated with their depression it is just they might not be aware of the majority of them (Alladin. 2009).
Recent results indicate that stressful and traumatic memories play a crucial role in human development. The consolidation of these types of memories lies in the amygdaloid memory system which represents the implicit memory system. The explicit memory system is developed by the hippocampal system, and both of these systems serve different functions as the brain develops. The amygdaloid system (subconscious) is responsible for our emotionally focused patterns of behaviour, and the hippocampal system (conscious) organizes language from visual images and narrative (Clark, J. 2015).
Hypnosis is used for expanding awareness and magnifying experience. This can be useful with it comes to dealing with depressed patients to bring underlying emotions to their knowledge, to create awareness of other feelings associated, to intensify the positive effect and to discover and enhance this effect. The ultimate objective is to assist clients to develop, magnify and express negative and positive feelings (Alladin. 2009).