Healing with Hypnotherapy for Mind and Body

By Susanna Sweeney, MSc, MBACP, CHT

Like many people you probably feel drawn to the idea of healing with hypnotherapy but would like to find out more about what it entails and how the process works. You will find a lot of information in this article.

Furthermore, I have put together a series of articles that drill down further into the individual topics of issues you can heal with hypnosis. You can find links to these other articles in this series further below.

Healing With Hypnotherapy is Personal Work

Whether you are setting out to heal your mind or your body with hypnotherapy- you are putting yourself on a journey of personal work. On the info graphic below see my model of personal work through four stages or levels. Within that, most articles this page links to relate to levels one and two where you do most of the heavy lifting. Levels three and four deal with success programming and finding your mission and purpose. 

For most people however, this work does not happen in strictly chronological order. Even when you are working at levels three and four already, you may be dipping back into clearing level one and two issues every now and then. Hypnotherapy is a powerful tool you can use throughout all levels.

How Does Healing with Hypnotherapy Work?

Of course one could work on these issues using psychotherapy.

What I have found working with psychotherapy is that to really shift an issue, you have to invest a lot of time. You are talking about weekly psychotherapy sessions for probably around two years minimum before you can hope to see any substantial change in your life.

Think of the cost involved. When you are calculating the cost for weekly psychotherapy sessions over a period of two years you end up spending a tidy sum.

And then there are some issues that are extremely difficult to get to with psychotherapy. Fears and phobias, for example, in my experience, would be next to impossible to resolve using psychotherapy alone.

Healing with hypnotherapy works directly at the source of the problem- in the subconscious mind. Hypnotherapy uses two prime methods to literally help you change your mind.

1. Suggestion hypnosis is used to re-educate your subconscious mind to adopt healthy emotions and behaviors.
2. Using regression hypnosis, your hypnotherapist can guide you to revisit the source of your issue.  You can then re-evaluate it from an adult’s perspective and free the frozen emotions and beliefs around it.

With just a few hypnotherapy sessions you can get substantial relief from symptoms.

Healing with hypnotherapy is:

• fast
• very contained
• gentle
• extremely powerful
• and the changes you achieve are lasting

You really can can turn your life around using hypnotherapy for change!

Emotional Healing with Hypnotherapy

The most popular issues for emotional healing with hypnotherapy are:

• Fears and phobias
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Lack of confidence
• Lack of self esteem

Further down the page you will find links to articles on each of these topics. First however, I invite you to examine the topic of deep seated emotional issues with me...

How Do Deep Emotional Issues Arise?

Good question.

In my article on suggestion hypnosis I have written in detail about how powerful censors guard the subconscious mind preventing change in adult life.

These censors make sure that many crucial memories, especially those from very early childhood before the age of three, are locked away. Access to the subconscious mind becomes very much restricted after that. This causes a situation where the mind cannot update itself.

And that is how many deep personal issues will arise: depression, anxiety, fears and phobias, low self esteem and lack of self confidence all arise not because you are doing anything wrong, but because- without outside help, your mind is unable to ‘update’ itself.

Such deep personal issues are wide spread today. Many people reach for medication in an attempt to relieve their symptoms, but often medication doesn’t work, or produces disturbing side effects.

Let's look at working on these issues with coaching and psychotherapy before moving on to how hypnotherapy can help.

Coaching and Deep Personal Issues

Many success and life coaches would have you believe that all you have to do to overcome your deep internal blocks is to...well...essentially just 'snap' out of it. To simply start doing things differently.

Coaching works in the present moment. Most coaching approaches don't take into account what your history may have been. They don't look at trauma. They don't look at your conditioning. They aim at simply facilitating change in the here and now.

The coaching approach may work for many people. Those with deep personal issues however, will often feel left behind. In a coaching program, they may experience some changes initially, but eventually will revert back to the old, familiar self-destructive patterns.

Has this happened to you?

If so, please know that there is nothing 'wrong' with you. The issue is simply that the existing old wiring in your mind continues to determine your emotions and your actions- until...well until you finally upgrade it.

This is where hypnotherapy comes in. The lilac info graphic with this article describes how healing with hypnotherapy can help to remove and update deeply seated emotional issues.

The Perils of Working on Your Issues With Psychotherapy

I have written more about working on deep emotional issues with psychotherapy  in my article on regression hypnosis.

To cut a long story short, my professional opinion is that while both coaching and psychotherapy are excellent methods for holding clients in a supportive relationship, neither coaching nor psychotherapy are ideal methods for shifting (as in truly 'getting rid of') subconsciously held material.

I have formed this opinion gradually over a period of 25 years of working as a psychotherapist. Over the last few years I have come to see that hypnotherapy is a far superior tool when it comes to genuinely shifting deep issues.

Healing With Hypnotherapy Works

See an article in the Daily Mail here which mentions research that backs up that hypnotherapy works- not only for the issues I deal with in this article-but for many more.

In fact, hypnotherapy has been shown to be a highly effective method of healing for many issues.

My articles on Weight Loss Through Hypnosis, Stop Smoking Hypnosis , Self Esteem Hypnosis and Insomnia Hypnotherapy deal with scientific research on the use of hypnosis in these respective areas.

The graphic shows the results of a comparative study that compared the effectiveness of hypnotherapy to that of cognitive behavioral therapy and psychoanalysis- you can see that hypnotherapy had the best results.

The next section will guide you to articles on all the different issues you can heal with hypnotherapy. Please peruse and enjoy. In the comments at the bottom of this page, please let our community know what you have learned about healing with hypnotherapy!

Havening-The World's Safest Method for Dismantling Trauma

What is Havening and how Can it Help you Change Your Life?

Find out about a novel psychsensory treatment we combine with hypnosis which can help you clear trauma, fears, phobias, anxiety, low self esteem and more while also supporting you in building resilience and positive emotions.

Havening Techniques- Interviews with the Founding Fathers

Find out about the history of Havening and what sets it apart from other forms of psychosensory treatment and hypnosis.

Self Havening- How to use this Powerful Self help Tool for Best Benefit

Find out how Self Havening could help you change your life for the better , and learn how to use it the right way so that you can get maximum benefit.

Get Rid of Anxiety With Hypnosis

Self Help for Anxiety- 10 Steps for Changing your Life

This article is a must read if you have any anxiety issues. It will set you off to a good start with anxiety self care and getting the basics right.

Anxiety Hypnosis- 7 Massive Benefits for You

In praise of hypnosis as a superior tool for healing from deep emotional issues, I have compiled an article on the 7 most prominent benefits anxiety hypnosis could hold for you.

Hypnosis Therapy for Anxiety

In this article I go into detail- using an example from my client work- illustrating what anxiety is, how it develops and how you can heal from it using hypnotherapy.

Hypnosis for Anxiety- The Recovery Process

In this article, using an example from my client work I talk you through the recovery process from anxiety. Get an idea about what is involved in hypnosis for anxiety, how long the process is expected to take.

All About Social Anxiety Hypnosis

Do you think you may be suffering from social anxiety? In this article find out what social anxiety is, how it can arise, and how social anxiety hypnosis can help you.

Self Hypnosis for Anxiety- 8 Wonderful Benefits for You

Find out what major benefits self hypnosis for anxiety has to offer you over attending a hypnotherapist and over other forms of treatment so that you can decide if hypnosis may interest you.

Free Yourself From Depression With Hypnosis

Depression Self Help- The Ultimate Guide

This comprehensive guide introduces you to easy and effective concepts, tools and processes you can use at home to help improve your symptoms of depression.

Depression Hypnosis- 7 Major Benefits for You

Depression hypnosis is often the last option considered on a long list of depression interventions. In this article I will make the case for seven major benefits in store for you when you choose to work with depression hypnosis.

Hypnotherapy for Depression- Jason's Story 

In this article, meet Jason- a client who attended me for hypnotherapy for depression. His story is designed to give you a good, realistic feel for the 'before and after' snapshots, so that you know what you can expect from hypnotherapy for depression.

Hypnosis for Depression- Jason's Journey Towards Recovery

Find out what a typical journey of recovery from depression looks like when you use a thorough hypnotherapy program.

Self Hypnosis for Depression- 9 Major Benefits for You

Self hypnosis for depression is a much underrated self help tool. In this article I will make the case for nine major benefits for you if you decide to use this fantastic self help tool. 

Improve Your Self Esteem With Hypnotherapy

Self Esteem Self Help

Find out tools, tips and ten steps on how you can support yourself in building your self esteem.

Self Esteem Hypnosis- Does it Really Work?

In this article i discuss the available scientific evidence that backs self esteem hypnosis, present a client case study that demonstrates how hypnosis for self esteem can change your life, and finally outline five major benefits of self esteem hypnosis.

Hypnosis for Self Esteem- Why Most People Should Consider it

Here, I make the case for self esteem hypnosis to be used as a cornerstone of any hypnosis program. Find out why...

Self Hypnosis for Self Esteem

The Most prominent benefits of self esteem hypnosis which can help you change your life for the better.

Boost Your Confidence With Hypnosis

Hypnosis for Confidence- A Success Story

This article gives you an insight into client work and how confidence hypnosis helps people change their lives.

Confidence Hypnosis- Could it Benefit You?

In this comprehensive article, find out what confidence hypnosis is, how it works and what it could do for you.

Self Hypnosis for Confidence

Find out if self hypnosis is the right tool for you for building confidence.

Get Rid of Fears and Phobias With Hypnosis

Hypnosis for Fears and Phobias- How it Can Help You

Hypnosis for fears and phobias is a fast, efficient and safe way to help you become symptom free and regain your quality of life. In this article learn what causes fears and phobias, how they present, how hypnotherapy can help and what scientific findings exist.

Improve Your Sleep 

Self Help for Insomnia

Learn how to reset your life for regular, peaceful sleep in 10 easy steps.

Insomnia Self Hypnosis

Find out 7 tremendous benefits this work could hold for you.

Insomnia Hypnotherapy- Does it Really Work?

Find out the science behind hypnotherapy for sleep.

Hypnosis for Insomnia

7 Wonderful benefits sleep hypnosis has in store for you.

Overcome Stress and Achieve Relaxation With Hypnosis

Hypnosis for Stress- Get Your Equilibrium Back

This article is designed to introduce you to hypnosis for stress relief, to what it is, why it is a suitable tool for overcoming toxic stress and on what it can do for you.

Hypnotherapy for Stress- A Success Story

Follow my client Jeffrey from being totally stressed out to getting back in charge of his life. See what's involved with hypnotherapy for stress reduction so that you can decide if you might want to give it a go.

Self Hypnosis for Stress- 5 Major Gains for You

See how you could benefit from self hypnosis for stress.

Deep Relaxation Hypnosis

Find out how hypnosis for relaxation compares to other relaxation methods such as relaxation music and guided visualization.

How Relaxation Hypnosis Can Help You Change Your Life

This article is designed to introduce you to relaxation hypnosis, its benefits, how it works and why it may be help you to change your life.

How Relaxation Self Hypnosis Can Benefit You in 6 Ways

Find out how you could benefit from self hypnosis for relaxation so that you can decide if it is right for you.

Self Hypnosis Relaxation Techniques for You

Learn self hypnosis relaxation techniques that you can start to use at home today.

Pain Hypnosis

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New to Hypnosis?

These articles have been designed to help:

Does Hypnotherapy Work?

This is a question many people start out with when they first hear about hypnotherapy. Find my answer here, which may not be what you would expect...

How Does Hypnotherapy Work

Find out more about what hypnotherapy does to help you

16 Hypnosis Myths Exploded

Hypnosis myths are deeply embedded in our current thinking and you, too are likely subject to believing some of them. If you are toying with the idea of having some hypnotherapy sessions, my advice is to get rid of these myths as they will limit how much you will benefit from your treatment.

How Hypnosis Can Help You

Have a look at the ten most popular issues hypnosis can help you with

Hypnosis and Self Hypnosis Trance

Find out what to expect from working with hypnosis either with a practitioner or by yourself

Self Help Hypnosis

Don't fancy attending a hypnotist? Did you know that you can get very good results working with self help hypnosis?

Learn More About How Hypnotherapy Works

Suggestion Hypnosis- A Powerful Update for Your Mind
Find out about the most prominent way of working in hypnotherapy and see what it can do for you.

Regression Hypnosis
Find out how regression hypnosis can help you clear deep unconscious material that is blocking you in the here and now.

Life Regression Hypnosis- 5 Tips How to Get Maximum Benefit
This article gives you five tips for how to get maximum benefit from regression hypnosis which is a powerful form of hypnosis treatment used for healing deep personal issues such as depression, anxiety, low self esteem and more.

Past Life Hypnosis
Is it a good idea to offer specific past life hypnosis sessions? Find out my take on best practice for outstanding results.

I hope this article has helped you to understand more about how and why healing with hypnotherapy is so powerful.

Will you give it a go?

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