Could we finally become what we want by realizing who we really are?

Hypnotherapy is a form of therapy that uses hypnosis to achieve a variety of objectives. Hypnosis can be used very successfully to uncover the roots and sources of emotional difficulties and personal obstacles. Hypnosis can be used successfully to resolve conflicts between individuals, even in instances when one of them is deceased, or between different aspects of an individual's nature.

Hypnosis can be used successfully to achieve a rapid change in behavior. Finally, hypnosis can be used successfully to bring an individual's conscious awareness in contact with one's Higher Self.

Can you really achieve so much?

Naturally, anyone familiar with the topics alluded to above would be doubtful that such varied and dramatic objectives can result from a single mode of therapy. This reservation is natural when one is not familiar with hypnosis.

Although forms of hypnosis were used in ancient Egypt, over 5000 years ago, in classical Greece, at the famous Oracles, and throughout the middle ages, many people remain unaware of this mode of therapy, and, most importantly, the changes and success it can generate for you and your loved ones.

An English physician named James Braid introduced the term “hypnosis” in the 1840’s. Dr. Braid chose this term because the hypnotic state can be somewhat similar to conventional sleep. Since the Greek term for 'sleep' is 'hypnos', hypnosis seemed like an adequate term to describe an induced sleep-like state. Today, however, we know that the hypnotic state is quite different from conventional sleep; nonetheless the term remains in use.

An understanding of hypnosis requires the understanding of a very basic aspect of the human mind: it can operate in the conscious and subconscious modes. The conscious is the rational, analytical portion of the mind. Therein lies temporary memory and will power. The subconscious mind is imaginative, emotional, protective of the individual, in a large sense, and it houses permanent memory and an archive containing all the information needed to assemble the emotional individual. This archive, known as self-image, is analogous to the physical DNA.

The self-image contains information on how successful the individual is, his tolerance for pain, his weight, or figure, the degree and extent to which the individual attracts love and affection, and just about everything else one would use to describe oneself.

The concept of image matching:

An immutable law of mental operation is the law of image matching. Simply stated, this law says that an individual's external image, who we are and are perceived to be, will always match who our self-image says we are. This law seems quite strong, especially to those who believe that a strong will power can overcome any obstacle. Will power, however, lies in the infinitely smaller conscious mind, thus never winning a match against the self-image found in the subconscious part of the mind.

This simple law explains why no amount of will power will make a person loose weight, for example, until a significant change in the self-image is effected. Hypnosis, by definition, is a state during which these two portions of the mind communicate, thus lending itself to the analysis of what the self-image is, and to its change.

Since just about every human ailment results from some type of emotional response or attitude, any condition can be alleviated with the proper use of hypnotherapy. When the ailment is of a physical or psychiatric nature, the therapy is conducted in harmony with the primary physician. When the disturbance is psychological in origin, conventional psychotherapy can be enhanced by the skillful use of hypnotherapy.

I will leave you with one question...

Could we finally become who we want by realizing who we really are?