Hypnotherapists provide therapy to individuals as well as groups of people. They may also offer self-hypnosis classes and some make books and cassette tapes available to guide self hypnosis. Hypnotherapists often specialize in one or more key topics such as the following: Emotional and mental health. Physical health, pain management, and addiction Spiritual development. Enhancing [...]
Within self-hypnosis teachings, I tell budding self-hypnotists the value of putting an end to some suggestions that they give themselves. An ending that is. A time whereby the suggestion itself becomes null and void. Hypnotherapists often demonstrate hypnotic anaesthesia and analgesia within those seminars and it is important that the period of anaesthesia has an [...]
James Braid often referred to the subject of hypnosis as mono-ideisim, that term is defined as the following: A mental condition marked by the domination of a single idea; persistent and thorough preoccupation with one idea, but seldom an idea that is complete. James Braid’s favoured induction method was the eye fixation hypnosis induction, which [...]
One of the things I notice the most when observing newly qualified hypnotherapists or hypnotherapy students practice their skills with hypnotising others, is an initial (perhaps sometimes nervously induced) need to fill every second with words and sound. They seem to want to talk and talk, and they struggle to think of what’s coming next [...]