A BRIEF ARTICLE ABOUT HYPNOTHERAPY

Introduction

In recent times, medical practitioners have been complaining about the increase in sickness, disease and addiction. This has led to increase in premature death.

Worry has been the major factor - people worry about what to eat, what to wear, how to pay bills and how to survive with the present economic meltdown. Worry leads to stress.

Stress has been a major cause of illness such as migraine, obesity, stroke, cancer and so on. Many people now seek alternative medicine to help cope and reduce stress level- this is where hypnotherapy comes in to place.

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What Is Hypnotherapy

This can easily be broken down as:

hpyno - hypnosis and therapy - treatment.

It can simply be defined as a form of treatment using "hypnosis". It can also be defined as a form of alternate and complementary medicine in which the mind of a patient is worked on to provide treatment when in a subconscious or trance-like state. The use of hypnosis allows the easy passage of the patients into this particular state.

Hypnotherapists use several techniques to keep patients in a relaxed mode. When they are in this mode, they tend to talk about what they are feeling without raising their stress levels. They are subconscious - which means they are truly aware of what is happening around them.

Hypnotherapy is quite useful in the treatment of behavioral conditions, addictions or to entirely remove symptoms caused by psychological issues. Medical experts believe that most health problems have their root in the emotions of human and the root has to be identified before full treatment.

Hypnotherapy, through the use of hypnosis, helps the therapist to connect with the mind of the patients to find the root of the problem or condition so treatment can commence for healing to take place.

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There are two major types of hypnotherapy:

1. Analytical Hypnotherapy: Analytical Hypnotherapy focuses only on the root cause of the problem and deal with it to produce life changing problems.

2. Suggestive Hypnotherapy: Suggestive Hypnotherapy involves a therapist making suggestions to patients about themselves. These suggestions are what they want the patients to do or what they don't want them to do. It should be noted that these suggestions are basically in line with the patients. It is considered to be for a short time because it does not deal with the root cause of the problem.

Hypnotherapy is considered to be safe. It has been successful in the treatment of the following conditions and behaviors:

• Anxiety.

• Migraine.

• Smoking addiction.

• Phobia.

• IBM (Irritable Bowel Movement).

• Weight loss.

• PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Order).

• Grief.

In conclusion, hypnotherapy can be recommended to patients as it has been declared safe and also because it tends to deal with the root of the problem the patient is facing. Another angle to look at this, most people dread tablets and syringes, this should provide an alternative medicine for them.

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REFERENCE

• Inquiries Journal.