Hypnotherapy: what it consists of and what are its benefits

Clinical hypnosis, also known as hypnotherapy, is a powerful and effective tool to improve people's health and well-being.

Although some individuals are apprehensive about considering hypnotherapy as a psychological treatment, usually due to misconceptions that have been seen on television or in the movies, there are many studies that have shown its effectiveness in addressing a multitude of problematic.

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How Hypnotherapy Works

As a psychological therapy, hypnosis is called "clinical hypnosis" and allows the patient to experience a feeling of deep relaxation, as your attention is focused inward (her emotions and internal sensations) and towards the appropriate suggestions made by the therapist, which help her to make positive changes.

Contrary to popular belief, hypnosis it is not a state of deep sleep in which the person loses will, control and consciousness, but is characterized by inducing the patient to a condition called trance, in which she is actually in an enhanced state of consciousness, concentrating fully on what the therapist is doing saying. It is about the patient letting himself be carried away, because if he does not let himself be carried away there is no hypnosis.

Trance is used as an emotional disinhibitor, and suggestion is used to provoke changes in cognitive, physiological, emotional and behavior of the patient, who will allow himself to be influenced by the hypnotic suggestions to the limit that he considers timely. If the patient wants, she can end the process at any time. The role of the therapist is simply that of facilitator of the experience.

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Benefits of clinical hypnosis

Hypnosis it is a very useful therapeutic method and there are many scientific tests that have shown this, but obviously you have to know how to distinguish between clinical hypnosis and the version of hypnosis offered by movies or television. The numerous investigations carried out indicate that this method can produce a real and powerful effect on the body and the mind.

In summary, hypnotherapy:

• He empowers in the face of life and helps to overcome obstacles and reach goals in a natural and relaxing way.
• Promotes self-knowledge and helps a person to get to know each other better.
• It gives the possibility of finding creative solutions to the problems that arise favoring active thinking.
• It makes it possible to change limiting beliefs for empowering beliefs thanks to suggestion.
• Helps improve sleep and fight insomnia.
• Helps reduce pain of fibromyalgia, arthritis and cancer.
• Allows you to reduce and control anxiety and stress.
• It favors the activation of resources and mechanisms of self-healing and self-regulation.
• It positively influences the improvement of self-esteem, self-confidence and motivation.
• It favors self-awareness and improves the relationship with ourselves. She helps resolve internal conflicts.
• Promotes personal development and the change of negative habits.
• Improves concentration and focus.

What is hypnotherapy used for?

Hypnotherapy can be applied to many psychological, emotional, and physical disorders. It is used to relieve chronic pain, repetitive acute pain, pain from psychosomatic problems (for example, headaches, migraines, fibromyalgia, cancer pain, etc.), to prepare for childbirth and to reduce the need for analgesics.

In psychotherapy, has been shown to be effective in treating mood disorders (including depression) and for the different anxiety disorders: panic attacks, specific phobia and social phobia, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). etc.

Also, hypnotherapy it is especially indicated to reduce stress and overcome addictions such as smoking and alcoholism, sleep disorders, sexual problems, and eating disorders (anorexia and bulimia). Children are often easy to hypnotize, and hypnotherapy can help with nocturnal enuresis and chronic asthma.

Hypnotherapy is one of the safest, fastest, and most effective forms of treatment for most psychological and emotional problems. It promotes an attitude of independence and empowerment in dealing with problems and can also speed up the healing process of many physiological problems.

Where to find psychologists specialized in hypnosis

Now, hypnosis is a psychotherapeutic tool and therefore should not be used in isolation, but integrated into psychotherapy. If you are interested in benefiting from this treatment, you need to be clear that you are not anyone who has studied this technique is trained to be able to treat problems psychological.

To be able to offer clinical hypnosis with the maximum guarantees Hypnotherapists need to be, in addition to hypnosis experts, health professionals specialized in psychological therapy. One of the clinics that is at the forefront in terms of this form of therapy is the Center for Psychology The Prado Psychologists of Madrid, which has some of the best psychologists specialized in hypnosis.

The Prado Psychologists is a psychology clinic that is authorized as a Health Center by the Community of Madrid. It has a team of hypnotherapists with extensive training and experience in clinical hypnosis, who apply this technique to treat different problems. The Prado Psychologists can offer you solutions and can help you overcome the difficulties you are facing happening, so that you can regain emotional balance and can live a full life and satisfactory.

Other effective therapeutic methods

Even if we often associate psychological therapy with a serious problem, there are many people who go to the psychologist for the most varied reasons: to improve skills social, learn to know each other better, maximize personal development or improve communication with the partner... This clinic does not exclude any psychotherapeutic model, since its objective is to better adapt to the needs of each patient and thus be able to carry out individualized psychological treatment.

Her intervention method stands out for offering brief treatments, and as a reference center, she is at the forefront of psychology, applying the latest advances in research and incorporating brain change tools into psychotherapy, such as brain integration techniques (ICT) or mindfulness.