Hypnotherapy is often used to enable people to get better fast if they have a health issue or if they need to improve their work, educational or sporting performance. Hypnosis starts with relaxation so that you move from your conscious mind to your sub conscious relaxed mind. The hypnotherapist will then provide positive guidance to you so that you can achieve your goals. Most hypnotherapy works on your alpha brain waves, but if deep relaxation is required (after prior discussion with you), this will involve your theta brain waves.
Commonly, progress can be made in 1-4 sessions. Hypnotherapy can be used to deal with issues like:
We also offer a personalised audio meditation or self hypnosis for these issues and many others - for example:
Please contact Shanti via email so I can get your details to personalise your audio self hypnosis. This is a more powerful healing method than buying a generic self hypnosis audio that has not been personalised for your needs and your situation.
What is hypnosis?
How does hypnosis work?
Here are a few of the many definitions of Hypnosis:
How the mind works in relation to hypnotherapy
Conscious Mind
There are four parts within the conscious mind – rational, analytical, will power,
and temporary memory.
The conscious mind is where we spend most of our time, but it is actually the
weakest part of our mind. The conscious mind is the rational, analytical part of the
mind. It’s the thinking, judging part of the mind. We humans must have a reason for
everything. For example, a smoker will rationalise his or her actions by saying
“smoking helps me relax and focus.” The truth is that cigarettes raise your heart
rate and blood pressure. So much for relaxing. So, our rational mind is not always
correct, but, as long as our rational mind can come up with some reasoning for
our actions, we will be at peace. Our analytical mind recognises problems, such
as a flat tyre, and it figures out how to fix it.
Also, will power is in our conscious mind. How many times have you tried changing
an old habit by using will power? Will power is only temporary. It gives us short
bursts of energy to help us get through a situation, but then it fades away.
Will power cannot effect internal change. Change has to come from within our subconscious mind.
Overall, the conscious mind is a weak mind compared to the subconscious mind.
Subconscious Mind
The subconscious mind is the most powerful part of our mind. This is the part of
our mind that is in control and that will help you to achieve your goals. The subconscious
mind is the part of the mind that we work with in hypnosis. Every piece of
data ever received, through any of our five senses, is stored in our subconscious
mind. Then we begin to build a database of information that develops into beliefs and
habits, and all of this develops into who we are today. We will think our next thought,
act our next action, and feel our next feeling, based upon everything that has happened
in our past.
Our subconscious mind is like our computer and sometimes we need to reprogram
our computers. Habits, feelings, beliefs and emotions are also stored in the subconscious mind.
The subconscious mind is the feeling mind. Hypnosis can help you become aware of
the feeling or emotion that is connected to your issue (for example: using smoking as a way to deal with underlying stress). When you allow this to happen, you are on your way to making permanent changes!
Uses for Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is a powerful tool for implementing positive change within a person’s life. Hypnotherapy can remove specific fears and issues and it can help you to achieve your biggest goals. It is commonly used to stop smoking, reduce drinking, reduce anxiety and depression, increase self confidence, manage weight, reduce chronic pain, overcome fears and phobias like the fear of public speaking, and to help you live your best life.
What will I experience in hypnosis?
We offer an obligation free telephone or online consultation to discuss your goals.
Smoking/vaping can often be dealt with in one hypnosis session - if the original reason for smoking no longer exists (for example: you are now 40 years old and you started smoking to be part of the cool group at school). If the original reason still exists (for example using cigarettes to manage ongoing stress) then more than one session may be needed as we need to help you build the tools to deal with the stress and to stop smoking. That way, when you have stopped smoking, you will have new, healthier ways to deal with stress, and this will lessen the risk of you relapsing to smoking. With most other issues, 3-4 sessions would usually be needed but the actual number can vary.
Why not stop smoking today?
In many cases, only one session is needed for you to become a non-smoker. If you are hooked on smoking, but you want to stop, we can help you. Depending on availability, you may be able to book in for a session today and go home a non-smoker. Won't that be a nice surprise for your family? Sessions usually last 60-90 minutes. You are not a helpless addict with no power over your smoking habit. You can break free right now from your smoking prison and stay stopped. Stopping smoking will save money, allow you to be more social, make you smell better, empower you, and take back control. It may also save your life. Research indicates that hypnotherapy is the most successful method of stopping smoking. It is also the fastest and easiest method.
Your body doesn't want to be poisoned. Why not make today the day that you have your final smoke? If you're ready please contact us.
Are you drinking too much?
Hypnotherapy can also help to reduce or eliminate drinking. To make a change in your relationship with alcohol, around three hypnosis sessions are the starting point. This may be enough for you to achieve the progress you need (abstinence or moderation), or it may be that you decide that more sessions would help. We will review your progress and needs, with you, on an ongoing basis.
Over drinking is an issue that can affect anyone, at any level in society. It can take a long time to realise that you are drinking more than you should, and by that time, the habit has become deeply ingrained making it difficult to change without help. Over drinking wastes money, can take 25 years off your life expectancy, affects your health and makes you tired, makes you put on weight, can put you in jail, destroys relationships, and makes you engage in behaviour that you know is not right.
Because drinking is so accepted, and actively encouraged, this makes it harder for people to realise that they may have a problem.
We support all models of recovery. You may prefer to aim for abstinence or moderation. You may change your mind many times with regard to your goal. You may slip and fall, but as long as you keep on going you'll make progress towards your destination. If you have a physical addiction to alcohol, your doctor or a treatment centre may need to detox you first. We are not doctors but this is something we can discuss in our initial free session. If you are not physically addicted, then we can schedule your sessions right away. If you have the urge to stop, it is important to act quickly while the motivation is high.
We are compassionate and non-judgemental. Our service is discreet and confidential. Please visit our recovery page for more information, however, if you are sick and tired of being sick and tired please make contact today to take the first step towards better health and self respect.
Hypnotherapy versus Yoga?
There is much overlap between hypnotherapy and yogic practices (especially meditation and Yoga Nidra). In hypnotherapy you will become deeply relaxed and have your awareness positively focused on something that you want to change in your life. In Yoga Nidra (yogic sleep) you will be asked to make a positive resolution and then you will be led through a deeply relaxing procedure which may put you to sleep, or if you stay awake, you will feel amazing, relaxed and energetic, at the end.
Hypnotherapy tends to be more directly focused on a specific issue, whereas, yogic practices focus on your overall well being. As a result of the regular use of yogic practices, your health and happiness are likely to improve, you will become less reactive, and more at peace. In some ways, hypnotherapy works from the specific to the general (you give up smoking after a session and this makes you feel better so you then make other positive changes in your life). Yoga tends to work from the general to the specific (for example: your overall mental and physical health improves from doing yoga so that continuing to smoke makes no sense anymore).
Yoga has 8 limbs (including physical yoga poses, meditation, and proper breathing) so it comes with a large tool belt to help you have the best possible life. It is not just the physical exercises. It is holistic and it promotes healing and balance. Hypnotherapy is solution focused.
Depending on you and your goals, one or other of these methods may be best. We always think that yoga is a good idea, but if you need to deal with something fast then hypnotherapy may be the best solution. There is at least one exception in my opinion. If the thing you need to deal with is sleep, lack of energy, or exhaustion, Yoga Nidra can be the best option. In some cases, it may be that the best solution for you is a mixture of the two practices. We often teach short practical relaxation techniques to our hypnotherapy clients.
We offer an obligation free telephone or online consultation to discuss your goals, to discuss where you are at and what you want to achieve, as a first step. If what we offer is a good fit for your needs, we will discuss costs, numbers of sessions, and availability. Our yoga studio and hypnotherapy clinic is located in the Manukau area and we are also available to teach through Zoom. Please email Shanti to discuss your needs.
Commonly, progress can be made in 1-4 sessions. Hypnotherapy can be used to deal with issues like:
- Weight loss.
- Body image issues.
- Stopping smoking.
- Stress management.
- Drinking problems.
- Emotional regulation (for example: anxiety, anger management).
- Developing better self esteem.
- Chronic pain.
- Addiction.
- Increasing confidence, in general, or in dealing with specific situations.
- Reaching goals.
- Deep relaxation.
We also offer a personalised audio meditation or self hypnosis for these issues and many others - for example:
- Insomnia
- Self healing
- Motivation
Please contact Shanti via email so I can get your details to personalise your audio self hypnosis. This is a more powerful healing method than buying a generic self hypnosis audio that has not been personalised for your needs and your situation.
What is hypnosis?
- Hypnosis was been accepted as a valid form of therapy since at least the 1950s.
- Hypnosis is a very natural state of mind and is safe.
- Hypnosis is not mind control.
- You cannot get stuck in hypnosis.
- The worst case scenario is that you fall asleep. This happened to one client last year. When she gently awoke we simply went through the session again.
- Hypnosis is focused consciousness and works through your sub-conscious mind.
How does hypnosis work?
Here are a few of the many definitions of Hypnosis:
- Focused consciousness
- Extreme relaxation
- Guided Meditation
- A series of instructions
- In therapy, hypnosis usually involves the person experiencing a sense of deep relaxation with their attention focused inward and with appropriate positive suggestions made by the therapist. These suggestions help people make positive changes within themselves. In a hypnotherapy session you are always in control and are not made to do anything. All hypnosis is self hypnosis and a hypnotherapist just facilitates the client’s experience.
How the mind works in relation to hypnotherapy
Conscious Mind
There are four parts within the conscious mind – rational, analytical, will power,
and temporary memory.
The conscious mind is where we spend most of our time, but it is actually the
weakest part of our mind. The conscious mind is the rational, analytical part of the
mind. It’s the thinking, judging part of the mind. We humans must have a reason for
everything. For example, a smoker will rationalise his or her actions by saying
“smoking helps me relax and focus.” The truth is that cigarettes raise your heart
rate and blood pressure. So much for relaxing. So, our rational mind is not always
correct, but, as long as our rational mind can come up with some reasoning for
our actions, we will be at peace. Our analytical mind recognises problems, such
as a flat tyre, and it figures out how to fix it.
Also, will power is in our conscious mind. How many times have you tried changing
an old habit by using will power? Will power is only temporary. It gives us short
bursts of energy to help us get through a situation, but then it fades away.
Will power cannot effect internal change. Change has to come from within our subconscious mind.
Overall, the conscious mind is a weak mind compared to the subconscious mind.
Subconscious Mind
The subconscious mind is the most powerful part of our mind. This is the part of
our mind that is in control and that will help you to achieve your goals. The subconscious
mind is the part of the mind that we work with in hypnosis. Every piece of
data ever received, through any of our five senses, is stored in our subconscious
mind. Then we begin to build a database of information that develops into beliefs and
habits, and all of this develops into who we are today. We will think our next thought,
act our next action, and feel our next feeling, based upon everything that has happened
in our past.
Our subconscious mind is like our computer and sometimes we need to reprogram
our computers. Habits, feelings, beliefs and emotions are also stored in the subconscious mind.
The subconscious mind is the feeling mind. Hypnosis can help you become aware of
the feeling or emotion that is connected to your issue (for example: using smoking as a way to deal with underlying stress). When you allow this to happen, you are on your way to making permanent changes!
Uses for Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is a powerful tool for implementing positive change within a person’s life. Hypnotherapy can remove specific fears and issues and it can help you to achieve your biggest goals. It is commonly used to stop smoking, reduce drinking, reduce anxiety and depression, increase self confidence, manage weight, reduce chronic pain, overcome fears and phobias like the fear of public speaking, and to help you live your best life.
What will I experience in hypnosis?
We offer an obligation free telephone or online consultation to discuss your goals.
Smoking/vaping can often be dealt with in one hypnosis session - if the original reason for smoking no longer exists (for example: you are now 40 years old and you started smoking to be part of the cool group at school). If the original reason still exists (for example using cigarettes to manage ongoing stress) then more than one session may be needed as we need to help you build the tools to deal with the stress and to stop smoking. That way, when you have stopped smoking, you will have new, healthier ways to deal with stress, and this will lessen the risk of you relapsing to smoking. With most other issues, 3-4 sessions would usually be needed but the actual number can vary.
Why not stop smoking today?
In many cases, only one session is needed for you to become a non-smoker. If you are hooked on smoking, but you want to stop, we can help you. Depending on availability, you may be able to book in for a session today and go home a non-smoker. Won't that be a nice surprise for your family? Sessions usually last 60-90 minutes. You are not a helpless addict with no power over your smoking habit. You can break free right now from your smoking prison and stay stopped. Stopping smoking will save money, allow you to be more social, make you smell better, empower you, and take back control. It may also save your life. Research indicates that hypnotherapy is the most successful method of stopping smoking. It is also the fastest and easiest method.
Your body doesn't want to be poisoned. Why not make today the day that you have your final smoke? If you're ready please contact us.
Are you drinking too much?
Hypnotherapy can also help to reduce or eliminate drinking. To make a change in your relationship with alcohol, around three hypnosis sessions are the starting point. This may be enough for you to achieve the progress you need (abstinence or moderation), or it may be that you decide that more sessions would help. We will review your progress and needs, with you, on an ongoing basis.
Over drinking is an issue that can affect anyone, at any level in society. It can take a long time to realise that you are drinking more than you should, and by that time, the habit has become deeply ingrained making it difficult to change without help. Over drinking wastes money, can take 25 years off your life expectancy, affects your health and makes you tired, makes you put on weight, can put you in jail, destroys relationships, and makes you engage in behaviour that you know is not right.
Because drinking is so accepted, and actively encouraged, this makes it harder for people to realise that they may have a problem.
We support all models of recovery. You may prefer to aim for abstinence or moderation. You may change your mind many times with regard to your goal. You may slip and fall, but as long as you keep on going you'll make progress towards your destination. If you have a physical addiction to alcohol, your doctor or a treatment centre may need to detox you first. We are not doctors but this is something we can discuss in our initial free session. If you are not physically addicted, then we can schedule your sessions right away. If you have the urge to stop, it is important to act quickly while the motivation is high.
We are compassionate and non-judgemental. Our service is discreet and confidential. Please visit our recovery page for more information, however, if you are sick and tired of being sick and tired please make contact today to take the first step towards better health and self respect.
Hypnotherapy versus Yoga?
There is much overlap between hypnotherapy and yogic practices (especially meditation and Yoga Nidra). In hypnotherapy you will become deeply relaxed and have your awareness positively focused on something that you want to change in your life. In Yoga Nidra (yogic sleep) you will be asked to make a positive resolution and then you will be led through a deeply relaxing procedure which may put you to sleep, or if you stay awake, you will feel amazing, relaxed and energetic, at the end.
Hypnotherapy tends to be more directly focused on a specific issue, whereas, yogic practices focus on your overall well being. As a result of the regular use of yogic practices, your health and happiness are likely to improve, you will become less reactive, and more at peace. In some ways, hypnotherapy works from the specific to the general (you give up smoking after a session and this makes you feel better so you then make other positive changes in your life). Yoga tends to work from the general to the specific (for example: your overall mental and physical health improves from doing yoga so that continuing to smoke makes no sense anymore).
Yoga has 8 limbs (including physical yoga poses, meditation, and proper breathing) so it comes with a large tool belt to help you have the best possible life. It is not just the physical exercises. It is holistic and it promotes healing and balance. Hypnotherapy is solution focused.
Depending on you and your goals, one or other of these methods may be best. We always think that yoga is a good idea, but if you need to deal with something fast then hypnotherapy may be the best solution. There is at least one exception in my opinion. If the thing you need to deal with is sleep, lack of energy, or exhaustion, Yoga Nidra can be the best option. In some cases, it may be that the best solution for you is a mixture of the two practices. We often teach short practical relaxation techniques to our hypnotherapy clients.
We offer an obligation free telephone or online consultation to discuss your goals, to discuss where you are at and what you want to achieve, as a first step. If what we offer is a good fit for your needs, we will discuss costs, numbers of sessions, and availability. Our yoga studio and hypnotherapy clinic is located in the Manukau area and we are also available to teach through Zoom. Please email Shanti to discuss your needs.