Can Hypnotherapy heal the problems that traditional treatments cannot resolve? Is it our attitudes towards bad habits and illness, that encourages us treat the symptoms and not the causes?
Hypnosis may conjure up images of swinging pendulums and stage trickery, but its a technique thats recently undergone something of a change in attitudes towards its use as a healing tool. It is also enjoying a renewed interest from the scientific and medical community as more and more academic studies show significant positive results. Its also apparent that some people are more able to progress into a hypnotic state than others, some people respond and some dont.
Theres now some pretty conclusive evidence that Hypnosis is effective in pain management and very successful in the treatment of stress, anxiety, fears and phobias. Its widely used in dealing with habitual problems, especially smoking and other forms of addiction. Its also used to control certain psychosomatic problems like seizures and irritable bowel syndrome.
So, whats hypnotherapy all about? Hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness, which is a little bit like day-dreaming. Have you ever driven somewhere...