HYPNOSIS & HEART-CENTERED HYPNOTHERAPY™

Hypnotic trance is the simple shifting back and forth between the conscious and sub-conscious mind, a natural process that occurs in people 80% of every day. It is most powerful when integrated with psychotherapy.

Hypnosis
The National Institutes of Health endorses Hypnosis as an effective intervention for alleviating pain and other chronic conditions, as do experts in fields of Holistic body-mind-spirit integrative approaches, behavioral medicine, dentistry and psychiatry. As an adjunct to psychotherapy, hypnosis is a skillful intervention. Hypnosis can help clients enter a calm, relaxed, comfortable state for obtaining specific therapeutic outcomes.

Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is a powerful way to access the “source” of problems. When facilitated by a skilled professional, hypnotherapy is a calming and relaxing intervention process that gently guides the individual to access levels of their subconscious mind, locating repressed feelings and useful information. Hypnosis, when used in conjunction with psychotherapy, facilitates an altered state of consciousness, to access old negative patterns of thinking and behaviors. Once identified, the “negative” attitudes and patterns can be replaced with “positive” ones and in doing so, it is often possible to modify or change behaviors.

Why use Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy and how can it help me?
Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy™ is a holistic approach to healing and offers a profound road to self-discovery and increased consciousness.

There are core beliefs that all human beings share that look like this: I am not safe, I do not deserve love, I am stupid, I am not enough, I do not have enough (time, money, love), I do not belong, I deserve to hurt, if you knew who I really was on the inside you would leave me, etc. These beliefs block us and cause us to be caught in suffering and limitation.

These negative (shadow) beliefs operate beneath the surface of our conscious mind; they are stored in our subconscious mind. Yet, daily we are triggered by our old core beliefs. When we react negatively to them we can experience: depression, anxiety, abusive relationships, obsessive thoughts, addictive compulsive behaviors, lack and limitation and other negative behavior patterns.

The Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy™ process assists in gently accessing the emotions and core beliefs from the subconscious mind that cause us to react. Learning about ourselves at the deepest level, the goal of therapy is to consistently respond (not react) from a place of healthy mental well-being, healthy interactive relationships and from a healthy centered balance connection with one’s self.

Heart Centered Hypnotherapy offers yet another invaluable part of the healing process: a reconnection with the individual’s upper range of the unconscious, often referred to as the “super conscious” – the transpersonal dimensions of the psyche. It is this dimension that enables the greatest measure of wholeness, well-being and fulfillment. The goal of living is not simply “normal behavior,” but abundant well-being.

Organizations that provide helpful information about the use, process and a guide to choosing a professional hypnotherapist:
National Board of Certified Clinical Hypnotherapy: www.natboard.com
Wellness Institute, Issaquah, Washington: www.wellness-institute.org

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