Dispelling Myths About Hypnosis

 

When you think about hypnosis, what do you visualize? For many, it’s a clock-swinging magician or a comedy act that forces an unwitting volunteer to make embarrassing public admissions on stage. Every time we get absorbed in a movie or scroll on our phones for hours, we're actually activating a mild state of hypnosis. 

But hypnosis has a surprisingly robust scientific framework. Clinical research has shown that it can help relieve pain and anxiety and aid smoking cessation, weight loss, and sleep. It can help children and adolescents better regulate their feelings and behaviours. Some people can even use “self-hypnosis” to manage stress, cope with life’s challenges, and improve their physical and emotional health.

Like meditation practice, many people are capable of doing hypnosis on their own but it never hurts to have a session with a professional hypnotist first. Contact us for more details here.

Why Hypnotherapy is so Powerful

Unlike traditional therapy, hypnotherapy offers a unique and more rapid approach to healing by accessing the subconscious mind, where deep-seated beliefs and emotions reside. Through relaxation techniques, guided imagery and the use of metaphors, Ruby helps her clients to reach into their innermost thoughts and feelings, facilitating a process of self-discovery and resolution. Many practitioners believe that our health is a reflection of our subconscious mind.

In the safe sanctuary of hypnotherapy, clients find compassion and support as they confront their vulnerabilities without fear or judgment. Through this transformative journey, they emerge stronger and more resilient, equipped with the tools to navigate life’s challenges.

As we release the causes of attraction to negativity, we pave the way for a profound shift toward love, compassion and inner peace. With Ruby as your guide, the path toward healing and self-discovery becomes illuminated, offering hope and inspiration for a brighter tomorrow.

Ruby recommends her clients practice self-help activities to quiet the negative mind including, nurturing, positive self-talk, positive conversations in our relationships, decreasing negative news media, time outdoors in nature, enjoying uplifting music, spending time with animals, healthy nutrition, expressing gratitude daily and relaxing breathing with positive mental imagery. She teaches and advises all her clients to make self-hypnosis a daily habit.

Take the first step toward unlocking your inner peace today. Make an appointment with Ruby and embark on a journey towards a life filled with joy, purpose and profound transformation. Book here.

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Hypnotherapy Proven to be Effective

 Hypnotherapy, salmon and family – How Kyren Wilson was fuelled to World Championship glory

A unique combination of hypnotherapy and a salmon-rich diet has also contributed to his success. "I'm going to grow gills I think with how much salmon I've eaten," he joked after his semi-final win over David Gilbert. He continued, ''I've been working on the mental side. I've been working with a solution hypnotherapist. It's just about emptying your stress bucket. We all have things going on that can affect our day-to-day working lives. It's allowed me to go out there and be freer. Our minds are so clogged up with so many different things that don't need to be there. If you can eliminate them and focus only on your snooker it makes the game a hell of a lot easier. I've had some great sleep this tournament." 

Hypnosis occurs when someone enters a state of relaxed awareness, in which the subconscious is open and receptive to suggestion. The aim is to rewire a person’s mind, providing them with new ways of thinking and feeling. There is growing evidence that suggests hypnosis is effective for many people experiencing problems including pain, anxiety, PTSD, and phobias.

Practically any mental issue can be helped through hypnotherapy, as long as a person is open and wants to change. 

Hypnotism really does work - and it has an impact on the brain which can be measured scientifically, according to one of America's leading psychiatrists. David Spiegel, from Stanford University, told the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science that he had scanned the brains of volunteers who were told they were looking at coloured objects when, in fact, they were black and white.

A scan showing areas of the brain used to register colour highlighted increased blood flow, indicating that the volunteers genuinely 'saw' colours, as they had been told they would. ''This is scientific evidence that something happens in the brain when people are hypnotised that doesn't happen ordinarily,'' Mr Spiegel told delegates. He added that there were 'tremendous medical implications' and envisaged people being able to manage their own pain and anxiety.

I am delighted that this research confirms what professional hypnotists, such as myself, who have been successfully using the technique for medical purposes, have known all along - hypnotism has a genuine effect on the functioning of the mind, as well as the body.

Now I hope that the research conducted by David Spiegel and others will finally enable hypnotism to take its proper place as a serious part of medical science. It is high time.

What Can Hypnotherapy Help With?

 

What Can Hypnotherapy Help With?

A non-exhaustive list of health issues hypnotherapy may help, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), includes:

Obesity

Bedwetting

Side effects of cancer treatments

Irritable bowel syndrome

Skin conditions like warts and psoriasis

High blood pressure

Migraine headache

Pain

Insomnia

Depression

Eating disorders

Posttraumatic stress disorder

Unhealthy habits like smoking

While research is still ongoing around the benefits of hypnosis, a few recent studies do add credibility to the WHO’s list.

When it comes to anxiety, a 2019 abstract of a meta-analysis found that while a majority of individuals treated with hypnotherapy did seem to feel improvements around their anxiety, the method was more effective in reducing anxiety when used in combination with other psychological treatments than when used alone.

There is evidence that hypnotherapy may be useful in promoting weight reduction, improving eating habits and even increasing physical activity.

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The History of Hypnosis

 

Practices reminiscent of hypnosis have existed in many cultures around the world for centuries. From the trance in traditional southern African healing practices, to the shamanism of Siberia, Korea and Japan, to Native North American medicine, many practices tap into the body's ability to enter a hypnosis-like state.

Catching on a little later in Europe and North America, the origins of the Western world's version of hypnosis dates back to the late 18th Century. In 1775, the German physician Franz Mesmer popularised the theory of animal magnetism. Mesmer believed an invisible, magnetic fluid flowed throughout the human body, influencing our health and behaviour.

But with a growing body of literature on its clinical efficacy and new insights into its mechanism in the brain, researchers and clinicians are working hard to rehabilitate hypnosis.

The legacy of Mesmer's eccentric experiments is a kaleidoscopic array of research – from freewheeling mid-20th Century experiments mixing hypnotism, concentrated acid and snakes, to studies published in top medical journals on hypnosis as potent means of drug-free pain relief. 

Some of the most exciting findings have been in the realm of chronic pain, defined as pain lasting more than three months. In the UK, between 13-50% of people experience chronic pain, while in the US, around one-third of people do. Globally, nearly two billion people experience recurrent tension headaches, the most common type of chronic pain. By its nature, chronic pain is particularly difficult to treat with drugs, as opioid analgesics are addictive, come with a burden of side-effects and contribute to the opioid epidemic. 

Hypnosis has been shown to lower both pain intensity and its interference in daily life, one meta-analysis of nine randomised controlled trials found, with patients receiving eight or more sessions experiencing significant pain relief.

For many people, it's a regular occurrence to get lost in a good book, or become so absorbed in a film (perhaps even a Harry Potter film) it can become overwhelming. Or perhaps you find yourself oblivious to landmarks by the road as you drive along the motorway. If that's happened to you, then you've experienced something not so different from hypnosis. There are even parallels between becoming absorbed in your smartphone and hypnosis – both distort time perception, reduce awareness of your external environment, and bring a reduced sense of agency (that feeling you just can't stop scrolling). Hypnosis is not so distant from many experiences we have in everyday life.

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Our clients use hypnotherapy to cure their crippling public speaking phobia in just two sessions. Fear of public speaking, or to use its medical term, Glossophobia, is one of the most common fears in the UK; and a recent YouGov poll found that it was the third most common phobia for Brits, ahead of snakes, going to the dentist and needles. 23% of us reportedly suffer from it, affecting 57% of women compared to 39% of men.

Hypnotherapy is a viable treatment option that would help you overcome a long-standing fear head-on.

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Woman uses hypnosis to cope with Breast Cancer

The true power of hypnosis is astounding.

As one woman in Bristol recently reported, she has used hypnotherapy to help her cope with breast cancer, while she endured five months of chemotherapy. Faye Roberts, 46, found a lump under her right breast while she was in the shower in March 2023. Throughout her diagnosis and treatment, Faye said that she used hypnotherapy - visualising the chemo working and killing cancer - to get her through it and says it improved her mental health significantly.

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