There are endless definitions of hypnosis recorded over time. The ones shared here are from people who are leaders in the field.

Hypnosis Defined:

• A question of your willingness to be receptive and responsive to ideas, and allow these ideas to act upon you without interference. These ideas are called suggestions (Weitzenhoffer and Hilgard)
• A state of intensified attention and receptiveness to an idea or a set of ideas (Erikson)
• An altered state within which suggestions have a particularly potent effect (Bowers)
• Where the subconscious, having no power to reason, accepts and acts upon any fact or suggestion given to it by the conscious mind (Caprio and Berger)
• Hypnosis = Belief + Expectation (Krasner)

Hypnotherapy is a simple and relaxing tool that can be used to enhance performance and treat a wide range of conditions that may arise in the therapy environment. You, the client are always in control (as no one has the power to control anybody else's mind but their own!). Also, a person will not do anything that goes against their values, those important things that guide all behaviour (e.g. integrity). The process simply allows an individual to make their own needed change at the unconscious level.

You will all recognise what a trance state is, as we all experience examples of it on a regular basis. Like times when you find yourself daydreaming, when you may drift off while watching TV, or in a lecture at Uni, or perhaps even when your partner is talking to you!

Trance is commonly reported to be a highly relaxing state to be in. What's so fantastic about hypnotherapy is it is one key to unlock the gateway to the unconscious mind, and it allows an individual to understand things that are not normally obvious.

Hypnotherapy is a wonderful tool to add to your already varied toolbox of skills for your’s and others’ personal, professional and health development.