Confidence Hypnotherapy

1. Initial Consultation and Assessment:
   A qualified hypnotherapist will begin with a thorough consultation to understand your history with your condition, its triggers, and its impact on your life. This includes exploring past experiences, current stressors, and your overall emotional well-being.
   This assessment helps the therapist tailor a personalized treatment plan specifically designed to address your individual needs and challenges.
2. Relaxation and Induction:
   Hypnotherapy sessions typically begin with relaxation techniques, such as deep breathing exercises or guided imagery, to help you enter a state of deep relaxation and focus.
   The therapist then guides you into a hypnotic trance, which is not a state of sleep but rather a heightened state of suggestibility and focus. You remain fully aware and in control throughout the process.
3. Suggestive Techniques:
   Once in a hypnotic state, the therapist uses various suggestive techniques to address the root causes of your condition. This might involve:
   Identifying and reframing negative thought patterns: The therapist helps you identify the automatic negative thoughts and beliefs that contribute to your condition and replace them with more positive and rational ones.
   Developing coping mechanisms: Hypnotherapy can help you develop effective coping mechanisms to manage triggers and reduce impulsive reactions. This could involve visualization techniques, self-soothing strategies, or affirmations.
   Accessing and processing past trauma: If past trauma or negative experiences contribute to your condition, hypnotherapy can help you access and process these memories in a safe and supportive environment.
   Strengthening self-esteem and self-compassion: Hypnotherapy can help improve self-esteem and self-compassion, which are crucial for managing your condition effectively. This involves positive affirmations and visualizations to enhance self-worth.
4. Post-Hypnotic Suggestions:
   The therapist may provide post-hypnotic suggestions, which are positive suggestions designed to reinforce the changes made during the session and support your ongoing condition management efforts. These suggestions are embedded in your subconscious mind to help you manage your condition effectively in everyday situations.
5. Integration and Follow-up:
   After the session, you'll gradually return to your normal waking state. The therapist will guide you through this process and discuss any insights or experiences you had during the session.
   Follow-up sessions are crucial to reinforce the changes made and address any challenges that may arise. The therapist will monitor your progress and make adjustments to the treatment plan as needed.

Example 1- Confidence Hypnotherapy: 

Belief in self is central to good health. Hesitancy holds the energy in the body up therefore making you feel ill. I utilise the persons past successful experiences and show you how to capitalise on this learning in situations that you find difficult, so that you achieve your goal in a way that is exclusive to your requirements. As ever, as well as hypnotherapy, we will also use the most statistically effective therapy of all time; Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.

Demands detract from Confidence:

Demands

If you have a perception that you dislike, you can be fairly confident that you will compensate for this by demanding that you must not have it.  So the person falls into the trap of pouring petrol onto the “fire”, then demanding that they must put it out.  This concept may be glaringly simple, yet many of us fall into this trap and it causes emotional problems.  Our natural predisposition to think irrationally can be exacerbated by sociological factors, such as adults and inanimate objects being bigger than us, upbringing and how we relate to other siblings within the family constellation.

In order to compensate and ignore the fact that we are and probably always will be highly inefficient mistake-making animals, we create fiction, myths and then become even more insecure when the goal is not attained thus demanding even more that we must achieve it.

To comprehend the way demands work, this may be a useful exercise do.  Imagine that I have approached you and in a polite, relaxed manner asking you to recall your telephone number.  I would presume that you would be able to easily and effortlessly remember it.  That is what we all wish in our life, effortless effectiveness.  Functioning this way, we can remember, be creative and to the best of our ability, enjoy our life.  Our memory will improve, our immune system will function better and we will reduce the excessive adrenaline, which is one of the stress hormones, in our bodies.  It therefore follows that we will be less stressed.  Need convincing?

Ok.  Now imagine a different scenario.  Visualise that I have just walked up to you in an aggressive manner, and then suddenly produced a gun.  I have pointed it at your head and shouted “You must recall your telephone number in five seconds and if not I will shoot you.”

Can you remember your telephone number now?  I would presume that you would blanch, your heart rate would increase and your ability to communicate would be impaired.  Does this remind you of any other situations in your life where you feel stressed?  Check out the demands.  They will always start with a SHOULD, an OUGHT, or a MUST.  They, in my view, come from the conscience, the moral arbitrator of the psyche.  They are society’s rules and introjected parental demands passed down to you.  So what can we do to reduce this stress?  Easy, shift the SHOULDS, the OUGHTS, and the MUST to preferences, wishes and hopes.  There is very little value in just parroting or intellectually believing them.  Preferences have to be worked at after the demands have been vigorously disputed so that they can be emotionally felt and enjoyed.

Try the same exercise again only this time see me wearing yellow Wellington boots, kilt, string vest, tattoos on my arms saying “I love mum” and “Scotland forever”, ginger wig and tartan hat saying “I prefer you to tell me your telephone number, and if not it’s ok.  ”

You will notice the good effect humour has.  It has been proved to assist in better immune system functioning.  Psycho neuro immunology; it is hard to be stressed when happy.

Confidence Hypnotherapy can help you:

• Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy from my Chilvern Cottage practice in Edinburgh

The consultation and first session which is inclusive and combines Hypnotherapy Edinburgh & Cognitive Therapy (see: www.ellisrebt.com) & a generic Hypnotherapy download.

Remember, hypnotherapy is a powerful tool, but it's always best to work with a qualified professional.

Cancellation policy: require 48 hours notice otherwise full fee is payable.