Coventry Hypnotherapy Centre

What is hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy is the practice of promoting positive development and healing. Hypnosis, or an altered state of awareness, enables patterns of behaviour to be reprogrammed in our subconscious.

Reprogramming the mind helps to overcome negative thoughts, replace phobic responses; overcome suppressed emotions as well as irrational fears.
The trained hypnotherapist uses a wide range of techniques to facilitate this change including direct suggestions, ambiguity and metaphor.
Regardless of the techniques used, one of the most important aspects of the client/therapist relationship is empathy and rapport. Without either, the client may resist change.
Our therapists focuses on empathy and rapport building before ever considering any hypnosis, as this is paramount to successfully treating clients.
Many clients experience time distortion and express that the perceived time is much shorter than the real time, not dissimilar to our experience outside of hypnosis. When one is waiting for a pleasant experience to come about the perceived time seems to drag, while on the other hand when experiencing a pleasant experience time seems to rush by.
Hypnosis is a naturally occurring state, one in which you remain relaxed whilst your mind becomes highly focused.
For most people they seem to feel very relaxed, internally there is a change in brain wave activity which is very similar to that time just before sleep (hypnogogic state) or just before full awakening (hypnopompic state) occurs in brain wave activity which is very similar to that time just before sleep (hypnogogic state) or just before full awakening (hypnopompic state) occurs.
Hypnosis is a normal state that we go into many times a day and the client who is hypnotized can break away from the hypnotic state at any time and open their eyes and leave the room, for example, if a fire alarm was to go off.
However, it remains a highly focused state where you are more alert and very safe.
The biggest myth surrounding hypnosis is that in the hypnotic state the hypnotized person can be made to do things against their will. Stage hypnotists help to encourage this myth, when in fact the participants in a stage hypnotist show are chosen very carefully and the hypnotist will use techniques to extract people from the audience who wish to comply and who have a desire to be extrovert and outrageous, usually using a tried and tested filtering system to sieve the audience for willing participants.
One example of this is the handclasp technique often used in Victorian music halls of the past and still used today.
The hypnotist will ask the audience to stand up and stretch out their arms clasping their hands at the same time and imagine that they are glued or welded together. The hypnotist then suggests they can't separate them. It is the compliant members of the audience who can't separate them, thereby giving unconscious permission to the hypnotist to bring them on to the stage and perform more entertaining feats for his guests.
Please note, this is not a technique used in hypnotherapy.