How Does Hypnosis Work?

When you hear the question, “how does hypnosis work,” what immediately comes to mind?

Quite often, people play into the stereotypes of what hypnosis is portrayed as in movies and on television: a man waving a pocket watch in front of another person, putting him or her into a deep trance and having the ability to control his or her every movement. This could not be further from the truth of what hypnosis actually is. Rather than trying to control you through hypnosis, hypnotherapists let you take control while they help you overcome, change or resolve different situations that you are dealing with in your life.

You may be wondering, exactly how does hypnosis work then, if it is different than it is normally portrayed? A hypnotherapist does put you in a trance, but you are aware of everything go

ing on around you in the room. If there is ever a point you want to stop the hypnosis process, all you need to do is open your eyes.

When you are going through the process of hypnosis, the focus is on your subconscious mind. Your subconscious mind is what controls all of the things you do naturally, such as breathing or moving out of the way when something is coming toward you. It controls thoughts, experiences, memories, emotions and habits. The part of the mind that stands in front of the subconscious mind is called the conscious mind.

How does hypnosis work to overcome the conscious mind?

The conscious mind has conscious defense mechanisms which allow us to repress memories, feelings and other emotions about certain aspects of our lives. It helps to almost bury the past from our memory. Our conscious mind is what our mind is in when we are doing things in the present. If you are reading this aloud in your head, you are using your conscious mind.

Overcoming the barrier of the conscious mind is possible through hypnosis. With hypnosis, a hypnotherapist can access your subconscious mind and help you resolve issues that may be affecting your behavior today, change the associations you may have with certain things, alter habits you may have developed over the years or change your actions and thoughts in certain situations. Hypnosis can be remarkably effective in essentially reshaping the subconscious mind to improve your lifestyle.

The great part about hypnosis is that you have complete free will during the entire process. Hypnosis is all about accepting or rejecting suggestions to help you change your life and make yourself better. In addition, hypnosis can also be used for age regression, which will allow you to return to different places in your past. This can help you resolve issues that have long been forgotten but could still be affecting you today. You can also use hypnosis as a relaxation technique or as an anger release process.

Roy Spiegel MSW is a professional who performs hypnotherapy to help his clients get past their conscious mind and to the direct root of the issues they are having. With your permission, in addition to helping you uncover repressed memories and occurrences in your subconscious mind, he can also provide you with suggestions that can help you change any unwanted behaviors you may have or the way you feel about certain things.

If you are still curious about the question, “how does hypnosis work?,” you can contact Roy Spiegel MSW for more information about hypnosis and hypnotherapy at 201-894-0071 today.