Hypnotherapy is fantastic way of changing certain things about yourself, like phobias, bad habits, performance in certain things, pain relief, the list is endless. 

The Hypnotherapist relaxes you and by putting you in a ‘trance like state’. this allows them to bypass your conscious mind and speak directly to your subconscious mind and ask the subconscious to change things, like cravings for weight loss, stopping smoking, and as the subconscious is responsible for your habits, it can change those as well, and it can replace these habits with something healthier and more satisfying so you don’t feel that your missing out on things.

Hypnotherapy can ‘reframe’ the way you think of things that make you feel unhappy, guilty, anxious etc. Your subconscious mind knows and controls pretty much everything about you, and it will know how to do this, the Hypnotherapist just bypasses the conscious mind so they can talk to it directly.

In short, very relaxed and a bit ‘zoned out’. If you have ever driven somewhere, and when you arrive, you can’t remember parts or even all the journey, that is a very similar thing. If during that journey something had happened that needed your immediate attention, you would have been instantly alert and hopefully able to deal with it  (please understand, I am not saying this is a good state to be in when you are driving, please always make sure you are wide awake and alert when you drive) Or have you drifted off into a daydream while watching the television? If there was a crash in the next room, you would be instantly alert and able to check on what happened, well that is like hypnosis, you know what is happening when in hypnosis but may not remember afterwards, so any suggestion the Hypnotherapist makes while you are being hypnotised, at the time its being suggested, if you didn’t agree with it, it wouldn’t happen, you would either ignore it or it may even bring you out of the trance, its YOUR subconscious, it may lead you astray at times but it would never knowingly let any harm come to you.