What is hypnotherapy?
Hypnotherapy is therapy that is undertaken with a subject in hypnosis.
The word "hypnosis" (from the Greek hypnos, "sleep") is an abbreviation of James Braid's (1843) term "neuro-hypnotism", meaning "sleep of the nervous system".
Hypnosis is a powerful tool for promoting healing, growth, and transformation. It works by activating a creative state of mind and body where new learning can occur effectively. Once awakened this creative space can help provide you with the knowledge and energy you need to succeed in life, helping to building new beliefs and to focus action.
Through regular hypnotherapy sessions you will find a richer life unfolding naturally, with deeper friendships, faster healing, increased income, improved concentration and learning, enhanced sports performance, whatever you seek. You can begin making progress, feeling more in control of your life, feeling empowered to move toward your goals more confidently and more powerfully.
Hypnotherapy involves achieving a psychological state of awareness that is different from the ordinary state of consciousness. While in a hypnotic state, a variety of phenomena can occur. These phenomena include alterations in memory, heightened susceptibility to suggestion, paralysis, sweating, and blushing. All of these changes can be produced or removed in the hypnotic state. Many studies have shown that roughly 90% of the population is capable of being hypnotized.
This state of awareness can be achieved by relaxing the body, focusing on breathing, and shifting attention away from the external environment. In this state, the patient has a heightened receptivity to suggestion. The usual procedure for inducing a hypnotic trance in another person is by direct command repeated in a soothing, monotonous tone of voice.
Hypnotherapy or Hypnosis has seen a huge growth in popularity over recent years. Gone are the days of many of the old myths, misunderstandings and prejudices.
Hypnotherapy or Hypnosis in clinical uses is seen as a most powerful tool to use for personal development and towards positive mind set change. The reasons is simple, it utilizes the most powerful part of our creative potential – our imagination.
Hypnotherapy is often applied in order to modify a subject's behavior, emotional content, and attitudes, as well as a wide range of conditions including dysfunctional habits, anxiety, stress-related illness, pain management, and personal development.

How will you benefit from hypnotherapy?
Hypnotherapy goes to the root level of our perceptions about life providing the requisite nourishment and vital energy necessary for deep change to occur. It is a tool that gives us a way to become the person we were born to be.
Hypnotherapy can be used for working on relationship issues, body and health concerns, addictions, athletic performance, self-image, anxiety, public speaking, earning more money, experiencing greater courage, getting better grades, passing exams, finding a career, and more.
Hypnotherapy will make it possible for you to establish a fresh outlook and a positive approach to problems, and it will provide you with the new skills necessary to alter old habits.
What Are the Benefits of Hypnotherapy? The hypnotic state allows a person to be more open to discussion and suggestion. It can improve the success of other treatments for many conditions, including:
• Utilise the power of your own mind • Take control of your life • Learn to relax deeply • Achieve your goals • Eliminate unwanted behaviour • Deal with problems in your life • Phobias, fears and anxiety • Sleep disorders • Depression • Stress • Post-trauma anxiety • Grief and loss

What are the uses of hypnotherapy?
Hypnotherapy uses guided relaxation, intense concentration and focused attention to achieve a heightened state of awareness that is sometimes called a trance. The person's attention is so focused while in this state that anything going on around the person is temporarily blocked out or ignored. In this naturally occurring state, a person may focus his or her attention -- with the help of a trained therapist -- on specific thoughts or tasks.
Hypnosis in Childbirth - Hypnotherapy has long been used in relation to childbirth. It is used during pregnancy to prepare a mother for birth, and during childbirth to reduce anxiety, discomfort and pain
Hypnosis in Surgery - In the middle of the 19th century, Mesmerists used hypnosis to alleviate pain and distress during surgery. Most notably, James Esdaile in India and John Elliotson in England were renowned for their work in this area. The founder of hypnotherapy, James Braid was a surgeon himself, specialising in muscular conditions, and reported many cases of minor surgery using hypnotism
Psychotherapy - Hypnotherapy was originally used to treat the condition known in the Victorian era as hysteria. Modern hypnotherapy is widely used in the treatment of anxiety, subclinical depression, and certain habit disorders, as well as in the treatment of conditions such as insomnia.
Subsequent research on hypnotherapy has tended to highlight three main areas in which its efficacy as a treatment has been demonstrated, 1. Anxiety 2. Insomnia 3. Pain management 4. Psycho-somatic disorder, i.e., stress-related illness
Hypnotherapy has many other applications but research into its effectiveness has tended to focus upon these issues. More mixed results have been obtained for its efficacy in relation to the treatment of addictions, an area where high relapse is common with most treatments.