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Several studies show hypnosis can help you lose weight, give up smoking, achieve other goals and suffer less pain.

To sceptics, hypnosis is mumbo-​​jumbo, but sci­entific evidence now shows that hypnosis and self-​​hypnosis can help people to overcome problems. It has can help people:

* Stop over-​​eating and reduce weight

* Stop smoking

* Reduce excessive drinking

* Stop gambling

Of course, you must want to end these problems. During your normal mental state you may not be prepared to take the trouble needed to overcome the addiction — and may not admit it is an addiction — but if you ever think “I want to stop smoking” or drinking, etc, then there is a good chance that hypnosis will help.

How does it do so? Hyp­notism — that is the act of being hyp­notised — has been shown to alter the mental state. Dif­ferent elec­trical signals are produced, and this has also been show with magnetic res­onance imaging. However, it is not know exactly what occurs.

All that is known is that the state appears to be closer to sleeping with one exception — you remain com­pletely alert. There are various theories. For example, it is known that there are two aspects of the brain: con­scious and sub-​​conscious.

The con­scious is used to work things out logically, and to take decisions about what to do next. The sub-​​conscious keeps us breathing, keeps our heart beating reg­ularly, and sends out signals to our body to carry out all the routine oper­ations needed to keep us alive.

But it is more than that: the sub-​​conscious also stores memories and information, and has ready access to these things — even when we have for­gotten them. In some cases, the events just happened a long time ago, or were insig­ni­ficant. In others, they were so uncom­fortable that we don’t allow our con­scious mind to remember them.

Theses for­gotten memories can also result in repression, so that we don’t achieve what we want, or may make us do things we don’t really want to. The hypnotic state can make your sub­con­scious see things dif­ferently, and overcome problems.

What happens with hypnosis? Some hyp­no­ther­apists induce a feeling of nausea that is asso­ciated with smoking or over­eating, so that the next time we get a cigarette out, we don’t feel good. Another approach is to help the person have more determ­ination to stop smoking.

Increased determ­ination also helps us achieve our goals — goals that we thought were com­pletely out of reach.

Personal problems such as phobias can be overcome with hypnosis, and pain in illness can be reduced — this has been demon­strated in various studies including one involving 80 children suf­fering from cancer. Over­coming the pain of childbirth is another example.

A group of people who suffered from hay-​​fever in Switzerland also found reduced symptoms fol­lowing hypnosis. Half the group were treated this way in the first season, and compared with the others, and the other half of the group were treated prior to the second season. Afterwards, they reported that they needed less med­ication than before being hypnotised.

EEGs (electro-​​encephalographs) showed that the right-​​brain was more active and the left-​​brain less active during hypnosis. The left-​​brain is asso­ciated with analysis and cri­ticism and the right-​​brain with creativity.

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This article was ori­ginally pub­lished on www.HypnotherapyClinic.info by Con­sultant Clinical Hyp­no­therapist & Pys­cho­therapist Noel Bradford –

As a pro­fes­sional therapist Noel help people with everything that you would expect including giving up smoking, con­trolling their weight, dealing with fears and phobias. However his services go far beyond this and encompass things that affect everyone at some time in their life, such as depression, anxiety, panic attacks, stress, and low self esteem.

He  also has detailed spe­cialist training in several areas including but not limitted to Irrittable Bowel Syndrome and Pyscho­sexual matters that affect men such as Errectile Dys­function and Pre­mature Ejac­u­lation as well as those affecting women such as Hyper Desire Disorder, Vaginisums, and Dys­pareunia.

Ori­ginally posted 2009-​​03-​​15 18:26:18.