Why choose hypnotherapy?

 

With Sylvie Davys

Hypnotherapy is the therapeutic use of the natural state we all pass through every day, that mid-zone between sleeping and awake, where you are drifting pleasantly.

Hypnotherapy is recognised as a powerful psychological tool for creating positive change. It has been used as a tool for healing and positive transformation for thousands of years. The ancient Egyptians had ‘temples of sleep’ and the Greeks had shrines of healing where patients were given curative suggestion while in an induced hypnotic state.

An approved therapy for over 50 years, the use of hypnosis as a therapeutic tool has become widespread, and it has been subjected to intense scientific research. Hundreds of studies show just how powerful therapeutic hypnosis can be.

In the hypnosis state, a natural deeply relaxed state, we can access levels of the subconscious where patterns are stored, which create habits and behaviours we may no longer want, re-programming in a sense, removing old data. In this way we can change old patterns of negative thinking, and emotional blocks or difficulties, and replace them with new positive perspectives.

Hypnotherapy can be helpful with many diverse issues such as fear, anxiety, phobias, addictions, and unwanted habits. Situations that previously have been regarded with fear or anxious feelings can now be approached with calm and confidence. It is safe and highly effective and it can be used alongside more traditional treatments.

Because it is a deep state of relaxation, hypnotherapy is excellent for stress. It is a very restorative process allowing the client to feel calm and peaceful within a very short time.

Counselling is an integral part of hypnotherapy as the problem, issue or situation wanting to be changed is discussed in depth in order to work at the deeper level in the most appropriate way.

n Sylvie Davys is a hypnotherapist and counsellor based at Waipu Natural Health, 3 Cove Road, Waipu. Contact 0211493916, 09 432 1325, hypnotherapynow.co.nz, waipunaturalhealth.co.nz