The Science behind Hypnotherapy: Its Benefits and Uses

However, usually, hypnosis is said to be a state of heightened or altered awareness, also colloquially known as being in a “trance”. Contrary to popular belief, it does not mean the use of supernatural techniques or questionable methods to reach an aware state of unconsciousness.

For example, when you are at your most relaxed state of mind, or even when you day-dream, certain ideas and realizations may “pop” in your mind. Sound familiar? This happens when the subconscious part of your mind is at work more than the conscious one.

To understand the benefits of hypnotherapy Adelaide, you must have a basic knowledge and working of the two parts:

The Working of the Conscious Mind

It is your conscious mind that ensures that you are aware and receptive of present happenings. This part of your mind is the one that helps you to reason, review options and makes choices and informed decisions.

When your conscious mind is at play, there is an effective filter to your thoughts and you can consciously decide what to bring to the forefront, what to keep on hold and what to discard altogether. Psychologists say that when a thought is put on hold to be delved into later, it goes straight to the subconscious. Sometimes dismissed notions may also be sent there.

The Subconscious Mind

The subconscious part of your mind can be seen as the container for all your thoughts. Along with other things, it harbors information that it receives from your consciousness. These are mainly memories and things that the conscious mind cannot deal with when they appear.

Hypnotherapy specialists use techniques of hypnosis to get access to your subconscious mind in order to devise solutions to the problems that the conscious mind could not deal with immediately.

How Does Hypnotherapy Help?

It is often seen that an irrational fear or phobia or even anxiety has stemmed from an experience during your childhood. It might be so that the experience itself was nothing negative but the way your innocent childhood mind perceived it continues to affect your adult life. Some benefits of hypnotherapy have been advocated by science and research. Some of them are mentioned below:

• Hypnosis may be helpful in treating addictions by regaining complete control of your thoughts and actions, and ensure that you make the right choice. With properly used techniques, therapists have been known to cure addictions without the threat of relapse.

• It is no secret that hypnosis can help in relieving stress by putting you in a deep state of relaxation and by assisting you to understand the cause of your constant high alert state.

• Hypnotherapy promotes relaxation and helps your body in getting adequate REM sleep i.e. the most relaxed state of rest. It can also cure sleep disorders like insomnia, sleepwalking, night terrors, and inability to achieve REM sleep.

• One of the main reasons that people employ the services of hypnotherapists is to uncover memories buried in the hidden recesses of the unconscious mind. Hypnotherapy Adelaide helps people in remembering childhood distresses in order to understand behavioral patterns. 

Hypnotherapy can be experienced even without the help of a professional as it is just an active stimulation of a part of your mind.