Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy (Hypno-CBT) combines the evidence-based approaches of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) with the focused awareness of hypnosis to create powerful, lasting change.
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We might have already tried to do things differently, help ourselves to make positive changes in our lives, but it felt too much effort and created resistance. In other cases it may be that getting out of our comfort zone can feel too overwhelming and we may avoid the situation all together, making the fear grow stronger. This is where hypnotherapy can make a huge difference to your life:
What hypnosis really does is influence our decision-making and makes positive change a lot easier. This is because our decision-making process is dependent upon old habits: all through our lives, events and emotions create an imprint on our brain – this pattern is like a shortcut activated every time we face a similar situation. Through hypnosis, we can consciously override old unhelpful patterns, allowing you to emerge with a new perspective on past experiences and deeply rooted patterns of behaviour.
Using hypnosis, alongside visualisation, will enhance your ability to respond to positive therapeutic imagery and suggestions when entering the situation or event in real life.
There are a lot of preconceptions about what is involved in hypnosis and this can mainly be attributed to stage hypnotists and the depiction of hypnosis on TV. We might have seen a demonstration where a stage hypnotist can seemingly induce funny and embarrassing tasks and behaviours in their subjects. Stage hypnotherapy is vastly different from clinical hypnotherapy, in that the former is to elicit entertainment, highly susceptible subjects are pre-selected from the crowd, there may even be stooges (paid actors) and the subjects would normally feel strong social pressure to perform in the moment.
Essentially, hypnosis is not something that is done to you, it is something that is induced by you. Your belief and imagination are critical in creating positive change and outcome and this is why it is important to be actively engaged during hypnotherapy. Likewise, you must want to accept suggested ideas and actively imagine responding to actually experience their effects. Modern-day hypnotherapy is a collaborative effort, where client and therapist work together. You will need to actively participate during our sessions i.e. allowing yourself to actively engage your imagination, evoke positive emotions and rehearsing behaviour change. Moreover, this may involve in-between session tasks to be completed.
You should notice a big transformation after each session and after treatment completion. However, regular self-hypnosis, self-hypnosis prior to an anxiety-provoking event or carried out ad-hoc will be an essential part of managing your anxiety. I am not promising a permanent cure for anxiety as I believe that many factors can affect us, such as how our brain circuitry has been wired from young, different events that come up during life and daily-differences to our moods and emotions; however, having been empowered with the powerful tool of self-hypnosis, you can ensure your gains are maintained and continue to feel confident and liberated in those previously almost debilitating situations.
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