this is not the hypnotism used in stage shows. Hypnotherapy is a trance like state similar to deep relaxation, which can only be induced with the acceptance of the client. While the client is in this deeply relaxed state the practitioner can work on phobias, fears, pain, weight problems or any other symptoms the client may be suffering from. Dentists and surgeons can also use hypnotherapy for pain relief; it can be especially helpful during childbirth. It can make people less aware of pain so is particularly helpful to people who are terminally ill. Children can also benefit from this therapy by reducing their fears.

Hypnosis applied to psychological problems.

This form of therapy uses hypnotism to relax the conscious mind and induce a hypnotic trance. It can be used to bring the subconscious mind into alignment with conscious mind to make positive suggestions. Some dentists and doctors use it as a form of pain relief.

the use of hypnosis for self-improvement or the treatment of physical and psychological disorders within a therapeutic structure. See hypnosis.

The use of hypnosis as a therapeutic tool.

Practitioners put patients into a deep state of relaxation or daydreaming. In this state patients are open to suggestions that will help them quit unhealthy habits or put to rest fear and anxiety. Hypnotherapy has been used to treat depression, insomnia, digestive disorders, skin conditions and addictions.

Although being under hypnosis resembles normal sleep, scientists have found that the brain wave patterns of hypnotized subjects are much closer to the patterns of deep relaxation. Hypnosis is now generally viewed as a form of attentive, receptive, highly focused concentration in which external or peripheral events are omitted or disregarded. Today hypnosis is widely used by such medical practitioners as surgeons, dentists, and psychotherapists to relieve anxiety or as an anesthetic. It is also used to relax the patient, reduce resistance to therapy, facilitate memory, and to address stopping smoking, eating less, or fighting fears.

the use of hypnosis in psychotherapy

Hypnotherapy is used to manage numerous medical and psychological problems. Hypnotic techniques can help a person stop smoking, overcome alcohol and substance abuse, and reduce overeating. Hypnotherapy is also effective in treating stress, sleep disorders, and mental health problems such as anxiety, fear, phobias, and depressions.

The term describes a range of techniques that allow practitioners to bypass the conscious mind and access the subconscious, where suppressed memories, repressed emotions, and forgotten events may remain recorded. Hypnosis may facilitate behavioral, emotional, or attitudinal change. Iridology: This diagnostic system is based on the premise that every organ has a corresponding location within the iris of the eye, which can serve as an indicator of the individual health or disease of an organ. Iridology is used by naturopaths and other practitioners, particularly when diagnosis achieved through standard methods is unclear.

Hypnotherapy processes interact directly with inner consciousness to find core issue causes of problems in a client's life. Clients can examine beliefs and thought processes that are giving rise to emotional, physical, mental and spiritual problems and make changes at the core level from which the outer manifestation originates. With changes at the inner levels of consciousness the outer projection changes.

The clinical use of hypnosis used for a variety of psychological purposes, such as working with addictions, bad habits, phobias, chronic pain, and emotional trauma, as well as preparing for competitions, improving confidence, and instilling positive thoughts and feelings.^ to top

the clinical use of hypnosis, in which the subject’s powers of consciousness are mobilized and subconscious memories and perceptions are brought into consciousness. Heightened responsiveness to suggestions and commands, suspension of disbelief with lowering of critical judgments, the potential of alteration in perceptions, motor control, or memory in response to suggestions and the subjective experience of responding involuntarily are induced through hypnotherapy.

First developed by Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), hypnotic techniques can induce everything from a light to a heavy hypnotic state to help a client overcome psychological or physical problems. From helping people to overcome a craving for cigarettes to managing chronic pain from an illness or accident, trained hypnotherapists work with a wide variety of problems.

Generally, the use of hypnotism (induction of a sleeplike state) to treat chronic pain or to facilitate changes in behavior or disposition.

Therapy using hypnotism to treat bed-wetting.

Hypnosis. Cognitive approach to create changes in perception, memory, mood, and physiology for the purpose of healing and reaching higher level of consciousness.

An accepted technique in which hypnosis is used as a tool to treat a wide variety of psychological, behavioral and medically related problems. From helping people to overcome a craving for cigarettes to managing chronic pain from an illness or accident, trained hypnotherapists work with a wide variety of problems. ntegrated Awareness ® (IA) - IA is founded on the principle that movement at each level of consciousness - the mental, physical, energetic and emotional - affects movement of another. By exploring our habitual movement patterns, we become aware of limiting rules and inhibitions that prevent us from healing or manifesting what we most desire. Through touch, the IA processes guide us to find new choices that give us more freedom. When we feel increased freedom of movement, we experience life differently - feel less pain, enjoy a greater sense of fulfillment, and give ourselves permission to change.

Hypnosis. Method of pain relief inducing a mental state of passivity, with a marked susceptibility to suggestion.

Hypnotherapy uses hypnotic techniques to bring about beneficial changes. Utilizing states of deep relaxation, the therapist assists in uncovering and exploring memories, emotions and past events which may affect a person's conscious mind and activating the client's inner resources in order to achieve the desired goals. It is used to treat numerous medical and psychological problems. Hypnotic techniques are useful to stop smoking, overcome alcohol and substance abuse, treating stress, sleep disorders and mental health problems such as anxiety, fear, phobias and depression.

This is not just hypnosis but a partnership between practitioner and patient which aims at defining the cause of the problem thereby helping the patient to overcome it in their own way and a time scale of their choice.

Hypnotherapy is the application of hypnotic techniques in such a way as to bring about therapeutic changes. An external influence, the therapist, assists in activating the inner resources of a person in order to achieve realistic goals. It can be used to help with phobias, thoughts and feelings and habits. It involves two main elements. Trance – an altered state of consciousness, where the conscious mind is less active and the subconscious mind is more dominant. This state of mind is distinguishably different from alertness or ordinary sleep and is brought on by repetitive verbal rituals, known as the induction procedure. Suggestion --- the implanting of selective thinking to change beliefs, practices and conditions in the mind at the unconscious level. Use the Natural Health Directory to find a Hypnotherapy Practioner

A form of therapy in which the therapist induces altered state of consciousness in the client, characterized by heightened suggestibility and receptivity to direction in order to make positive changes in behaviors, emotions, thought patterns or relationship to sensations.

Therapy which employs hypnosis, often used for the treatment of illnesses and emotional problems.

A therapy that utilizes states of deep relaxation and heightened focus during which a professional hypnotherapist facilitates desired physical, mental and emotional health changes in individuals through the use of properly worded hypnotherapy suggestions.

a relaxed meditative state that allows the subconscious mind to remain awake and receptive to suggestion. When given a new suggestion, the subconscious mind accepts it and acts upon it. Hypnosis is designed to lessen anxiety, enhance relaxation, reduce pain, and strengthen the immune system. It is an effective way to make lifestyle changes for health and well-being. This therapy is used for weight loss, smoking cessation, anxiety, fears, phobias, self-improvement, and personal motivation.

A range of techniques that allow practitioners to bypass the conscious mind and access the subconscious, where suppressed memories, repressed emotions, and forgotten events may remain recorded. Hypnosis may facilitate behavioral, emotional or attitudinal change. Often used to help people lose weight or stop smoking, it's also used in the treatment of phobias, stress and as an adjunct in the treatment of illnesses.

The use of hypnosis in the treatment of disease.

Hypnotherapy is a method whereby a hypnotherapist speaks directly to a subject's subconcious mind and can therefore communicate with that part of the mind that stores and controls everything from perceptions to memory, as well as the monitoring of all physical functions of the body. Hypnotherapy can be effective in implementing desired changes such as weight reduction and smoking cessation, as well as treating a wide range of conditions that include depression, pain control and a variety of phobias.

Hypnotherapy is therapy that is undertaken with a subject in hypnosis.