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How does Hypnosis work?

April 24, 2021

What do you know about hypnosis? Have you seen a stage show and think it is all about dancing like chickens and someone 'making' you do all sorts of crazy funny stuff? Are you worried that the hypnotherapist will find out all of your secrets? If that is your only experience of hypnotherapy then read on to find out how it actually works.

Conscious or Subconscious? 

Our minds are made up of two separate parts, the conscious mind and the subconscious mind, both of them control different aspects of our thoughts and our actions


The conscious mind is responsible for the thoughts, feelings and desires that we are thinking about at any given moment as well as our short term memory, It can apply logic and humour as well as analyse and criticise.


The subconscious mind is where you will find the thoughts, feelings and desires that are not within our conscious awareness. It controls actions that happen without us having to put any thought to them such as your heart beating, breathing and body temperature. It also houses the long term memory. The subconscious mind is very literal and has no sense of time or logic, it is also very protective of it’s owner - it always tries to do it's bet for you..
Remember that?
The subconscious mind remembers every experience and stores them all away in it’s mental warehouse, although you might not know it, everything that has ever happened to you is stored in the subconscious.

This means that our actions and reactions are often driven by things that have happened to us that we may no longer be aware of. The subconscious remembers and tells us what to do without us even realising it. Often based on information that is no longer relevant or is not beneficial to us any more as the subconscious has never been informed that it is out of date. This can lead to patterns of behaviour that do not serve us and can actually be bad for us.  

Update your thinking
Hypnotherapy can be used to update your subconscious so it realises that these behaviours are no longer helpful. In order to do this the hypnotherapist can help you achieve a state of trance where the subconscious becomes more active and through methods such as visualisation, suggestion and metaphor is shown a different more beneficial way of behaving 

It is a bit like updating the software on your computer because the old software is out of date. The computer didn’t know it was out of date until you installed the new program. 

I've never experienced hypnosis.....what's it like?

You might not think you have ever been hypnotised before, but……..
Have you ever got in your car and driven to the wrong place as you were on auto pilot? Have you ever lost track of time as you lost yourself in a good book or a film? Have you ever Had a conversation with someone just as you are dropping off to sleep and then not remembered it the next day?

All of these situations are similar to hypnosis as the subconscious is more active and taking control of your responses, you are perfectly safe as the subconscious is protective of it’s owner but you might not always be completely aware of time passing or other things going on around you.
We go into a hypnotic state like this without realising it many times a day. 

Myth busting!
It’s time to bust a couple of myths about hypnotherapy that you might have heard. Firstly although Hypnos is the Greek God of sleep, you will not actually be asleep during hypnosis. In fact you will be aware of everything happening around you. Your senses are around 30% more efficient than normal so you are actually in a state of hyper awareness. If you do fall asleep during a hypnotherapy session it is unlikely to be as successful as you wish

Secondly, hypnosis is not a form of mind control, the hypnotherapist cannot make you do anything you do not choose to do. The suggestions made to you during a session will be assessed by your subconscious mind and either accepted or rejected based on whether it thinks they are of benefit to you or not.

This is why, for hypnosis to be successful you must want to the change and be fully bought into the process.

Ready to change?

Hypnotherapy can be used to help with a growing number of conditions and habits and is becoming more and more accepted in the medical world as a treatment option. It's not as scary or mystical as you might have originally thought so what have you got to lose?


If you are ready to make some beautiful changes in your life then get in touch to see how I can hep you update your thinking. 

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