Hypnotherapy

Hypnosis is an altered state. Using a combination of guided relaxation and focused concentration, you learn to relax your physical body and reach a deeper state of awareness, through which the potential of the subconscious is available.  

Whether it’s used to program your mind for success or achievement, to improve memory  (for example, to memorize the lines of a script or prepare for an exam), to improve your sports performance, to believe in achieving your career goals, or to reduce anxiety, hypnosis can reprogram the mind for change.

In addition to programming, there is also deprogramming, which in many ways is even more powerful. If you programme your mind consistently but hold equal and opposite thoughts, such as negative beliefs about yourself, life and its' possibilities, those negative thoughts act as a kind of “anchor” to your ship and the ship can’t move.  Deprogramming, i.e. visiting early memories to heal and bring peace to them, is a key aspect of what makes age regression work so effectively.
 
One of the key benefits of hypnosis lies in its stress-reducing capacity. It is always relaxing, no matter what your specific goal might be—whether it is weight loss, smoking cessation or sports enhancement, there is always the gift of relaxation as part of the experience. Many people find that patterns of insomnia reduce or even disappear after they become skilled at self hypnosis.

Hypnosis can be described as a form of focused selective attention. When Lorraine is working with a client who wants to quit smoking, they go, in the state of hypnosis, to the root of where the smoking started, not to the root of some other problem or issue. The process is very specific.

People frequently hypnotize themselves negatively without being aware that they’re doing it.
A woman working on weight loss, for instance, might say “I was really good until yesterday when I ate those three cookies.” The truth is, the woman was “good” before eating the cookies and is just as good after she ate them. “Goodness” has nothing to do with cookies, or body weight, for that matter. But by convincing herself that she’s “bad”, the woman will indeed cause herself to feel bad--so bad that she’s likely to eat three more cookies! One of the many valuable tools Lorraine shares with her clients is how to monitor and modify thoughts and self-talk into a more positive direction.

Hypnotherapy can help you to: