Can Hypnotherapy Treat Bad Habits?

Feb. 27, 2012 - PRLog -- Hypnotherapy is thought to date back to the times of the ancient Egyptians, where it was considered a healing art. The ancient Greeks and Romans built sleep temples where those who sought healing powers would be placed in a trance and their dreams interpreted, their motto “mens sana in corpore sano” health mind healthy body.

The use of hypnotherapy today is widespread and can be used to treat of a range of behavioural patterns, ailments and even for the reduction of pain in cancer patients or during childbirth. Based on the belief that the mind and body exert influences upon one another, hypnotherapy can even be used in applications such as the Hypnotic Gastric Band, tricking the body into feeling full without the need for medical intervention.

Dolphin Hypnotherapy offers a growing number of Bournemouth hypnotherapy treatments. The practice’s senior consultant Mr Roberts explains that hypnotherapy can be successfully used to treat bad habits. He says “Many of our behavioural patterns and habits such as smoking and deep routed fears and feelings are linked to our sub conscious. You may have heard these referred to as ‘bad habits’, ‘obsessions’ or even ‘paranoia’”.

“Our behavioural patterns are caused by strong associations often formed from past experiences, how we perceive these experiences and what emotions we have attached to them. The same way in which a toddler can quickly learn what the word ‘hot’ means by touching a candle, at any stage in life we can equally learn to associate powerful feelings and strong associative pattern of thought to objects, situations, people and even develop damaging images of our own self.”

Understanding what our own perception means to us can be key in treating bad habits. What may be scary or provoke fear in one person and develop a deeply routed and painful memory, may simply seem totally unrealistic to another. Likewise, triggers that cause you to reach for a cigarette each time you have a glass of wine or finish a meal can also be down to deep-routed associations which are dictating behavioural patterns. These associations can be so deeply linked to our emotions that they possess a certain control over our conscious mind and simply learning to overcome these memories to break the habit can be hard to do on your own as anyone who has tried to quit smoking will attest to.

The Bournemouth Hypnotherapy treatments offered at Dolphin Hypnotherapy help patients to reach into the sub conscious and re-establish positive thought connections. This could range from positive changes in someone’s self-esteem to re-establishing how they perceive a certain situation or deal with phobias and fears. By adjusting our belief system we can therefore change the way in which we think about something and even the way we see ourselves.

While not everyone suffers from low self-esteem or depression, hypnotherapy does more than just treat.  Hypnotherapy can improve areas of people’s lives where they may be lacking in motivation such as the willpower needed to stop smoking or lose weight.

Hypnotherapy works on the basis of giving small but powerful suggestions to the sub conscious mind. The sub conscious is not something we are normally aware of but at the same time dictates what we do, how we do it and how we feel. Our memories and our experience make up our sub conscious in both positive and negative ways. It is when the negative thoughts and feeling become so strong as to be limiting to our own potential is when they are damaging. Readjusting these thoughts and establishing more positive connections can help a patient discard their limitations and reach new heights both personally and even professionally.

Hypnotherapy treats people as individual as their experiences have made them, this is why it can work for everyone. Hypnotherapy is merely a way tapping into our own sub conscious mind and helping to make those small changes in our thought process.

For more information about Hypnosis treatments in Bournemouth or to book a free initial consultation visit http://www.bournemouthhypnotherapy.co.uk/ or call 07790 333431.