Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy

Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy may be used to treat smoking, problem gambling and certain food and eating issues. This therapeutic modality allows clients to travel deeper into the unconscious or subconscious to look at and work with issues and ideas perhaps inaccessible otherwise. It’s like guided daydreaming: a form of relaxed concentration. Insight's hypnotherapists in Edmonton are trained to induce a trance-like, altered state of consciousness in individuals by making suggestions and describing pleasant images on which to focus.

 

This procedure works on most people (very few are not able to be hypnotized) by removing their attention away from the body and placing it solely on what is happening in the mind. As a result, when a professional hypnotherapist instructs a hypnotized person to do something specific–such as stop smoking because they intensely dislike the smell of smoke–this suggestion is mentally absorbed by this person while he or she is in this extremely responsive condition. The patient is then indirectly but deeply influenced by this suggestion after returning to a normal state of consciousness.

 

Hypnotherapists are capable of improving mental and physical issues through hypnosis techniques. Although the exact mechanisms through which hypnotism works is not yet fully understood, hypnotherapy seems to allow therapists to reach the unconscious mind by generating such a tranquil state in clients that the patient, while aware of what is occurring, allows this hidden area of the mind to be approached and professionally treated.