If you experience problems in one of these areas you may benefit from hypnotherapy:

• Anxiety
• Phobia
• Panic Attacks
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Depression
• Low Self-esteem,
• Low Self-confidence
• Eating Disorders and Obesity
• Sexual or Relationship Problems Addictions
• Concentration and Performance Problems
• Chronic Pain as Migraine Headaches, Lower Back Pain, etc.

In hypnosis a heart/body-and-mind connection is invited between you and your therapist, you and yourself, and you and your problem. Most people experience hypnosis as deeply relaxing.

Hypnotherapy deals with how you can experience freedom in relation to your problem, which you are trying to control or get rid off.

Therapeutic Change happens when you no longer try to control or get rid of a troublesome thought, painful feeling or disturbing bodily sensation, and instead allow the thought, feeling or sensation to express itself. A curious investigation gives the problem the freedom to go its own way. Efforts to control the problem heighten its significance and keep the problem disturbingly close. On the other hand, to meet the problem means that it no longer has power over you to control you, as you are not trying to control it. The idea is to move towards the problem, getting real close, so to speak, in a curious, investigative sort of way. The interesting questions are: what's happening now, and what is going to happen next? By expecting change, and seeing how it will change, you are meeting the problem head on. Therapeutic change is happening when you connect with your problem. What naturally follows is that the problem losses its significance and cease to stand out as different, scary and mysterious.

In Hypnotherapy your therapist help you meet your problem when you are deeply relaxed
First you may notice some small changes. But in what direction it will change we do not know beforehand. We only know that it will change and that you can become aware of this change by noticing and expecting change. Second, you may notice that the problem has lost its urgency and importance—it doesn't matter as much. Perhaps you find yourself forgetting about it for a time, being busy with other more important things. Finally your problem goes away all together, or a small not so bothersome part of your anxiety is left, popping up when you try new things or things happen in your life that reminds you of your old pro blem. This remaining part of your problem can be reframed—given another name. I will suggest excitement as the new name for your anxiety associated with naturally anxiety provoking events in your life.

Shifts in the way you experience your problem open up for the possibility of the problem cease standing out as problematic. These differences in your relationship with the problem mark the beginning of change, and although these differences may seem small in the beginning, they are significant because they are changes.

An example of the work we will be doing together if your specific problem is fear of flying.

In your effort to control your fear you naturally avoid taking airplane trips. At first you feel relief and congratulate yourself for protecting yourself. Then perhaps you realize that your fear has spread to car rides, and you think about ways to avoid driving. If you can get others to drive for you so you can stay home, it seems that you have solved the problem, which of course you have for the time being. But let say that you really want to get out of the house if you didn't have this fear hindering you, and now you also have trouble driving. Perhaps you wonder what else it could spread too. I will suggest that we look at the problem in another way: if fear can spread and increase, fear is certainly capable of changing and can therefore also decrease. What if together we could change how you experience your fear and change its significance when you experienced it.

Meeting your problem
Observe the specifics of you fear by watching sensations in your body. Observe how they change and develop. Also note when you are relaxed and comfortable. What is the first sign of tension, and would it be okay for you to stay with this feeling and to notice how it manages to diminish after a little while. Is it okay for you to allow your body to go through its reactions and handle it by itself—to accept what the body is doing? Know that whatever is happening, it will pass. When you are ready, go ahead and flow with the rising and falling of your body's sensations. Move with them and note how they change, while you remember how your lungs are able to breathe and take in air, insuring that you heart is beating, pumping blood to all parts of the body.

Allow your body to do its thing and move through this. There is no need for you to do anything. Go ahead and notice the first sign of change. Allow time for your body to do its thing. Know that whatever is happening, it is time limited (usually no more than minutes) and not dangerous is any way. Allow it to be uncomfortable for a time while you wait for it to pass all by itself. Notice how relief always follows the peak of fear. Go ahead now and look for that first sign of feeling relaxed.

In hypnosis the body and mind are connected as one
This special experience of being "of one mind" gives you the possibility to work more fully meeting your problem and allowing for a connected letting go.

In hypnotherapy we use the knowledge of the "one mind" and effortlessly (without trying to control or avoid) make separated connections to the problem.

A Relaxed Letting Go
Is how you experience
Real Control

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