This was one of the earliest uses of hypnotherapy in Europe. Before chemical anaesthesia was developed some surgeons used hypnosis to help patients withstand pain during operations. Hypnotherapists use similar principles to help people in chronic pain today. Hypnosis does not eliminate pain, but helps you experience it differently, more easily. Read more about pain control
Confidence, or lack of it, is like many other habits and behaviours. The recurring thoughts and feelings we have about our self worth, competence or value to others are triggered by the subconscious. We learnt them years ago, maybe even when we were tiny children. Read more about confidence
If you are experiencing anxiety you might notice it effecting many areas of your life. Sometimes you might not know where the anxiety came from. It might seem very generalised. At other times it is more obvious that stress, from work, home, or some other situation, has spilled into other areas of your life and created anxiety.
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Hypnotherapy has helped many people stop smoking. It deals with the unconscious (or subconscious) - the part of you responsible for all your habits.
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Many people feel unhappy with the size or shape of their body. This can be for all sorts of reasons. Probably the most common is wanting to be slimmer, to have more control over your weight.
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Your subconscious maintains your habits of thinking and behaving, because at one time these habits seemed to benefit you. The subconscious does not distinguish between good and bad habits. It just does what it’s taught and then keeps doing it, again and again and again. These habits are almost like computer programmes running in the background, tucked away in your operating system. Hypnotherapy helps you delete those old programmes and write new helpful ones.
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There are all sorts of ways you might like to improve your performance. Perhaps you want to be more effective at work, to perform better at a sport or hobby, or to improve your skills in communication or relating to others.
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Sometimes we can be very well prepared for a test or exam but nervousness kicks in and we don't perform as well as we could. This is another situation in which hypnotherapy can be a significant difference.
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This is one of the most exciting applications for hypnotherapy. Maybe there is something you’ve always wanted to change in your life, but somehow you’ve always seemed to block it, another example of the subconscious following outdated instructions. It’s time for an update. Hypnotherapy helps you experience the liberation of breaking through old barriers and obstacles. During treatments you can find out what your subconscious has been doing, why it’s been doing it and you can have it do things differently. Who wants to sleep walk through life when they can live consciously.
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If you would like to find out more about how hypnosis, EFT and NLP can help you or if you would like to make an appointment contact me , Andy Lucas (hypnotherapist) at Spring to Mind in Bethnal Green and Central London.