Kevan Owen Hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy makes use of a natural facet of the human mind, namely the ability to narrow one's focus of attention, to create a new pattern of learning and to enhance functions or abilities.

It is a safe and gentle process that fully utilises a persons own innate abilities to make beneficial changes for health and well being. All forms of effective therapy utilise this to some extent, either knowingly or unknowingly. 

Research shows that there is more scientific evidence for hypnotherapy than any other complementary therapy... by using hypnosis people can perform prodigious feats of willpower and self healing. (Health Education Authority).

By harnessing the power of the sub-conscious mind in this way we can change our instinctive response to things. Whenever we day-dream we enter a kind of hypnotic "trance" state. This is akin to night time dreaming, which happens during the Rapid Eye Movement phase of the sleep cycle, otherwise known as REM. Just as our brain goes through natural cycles of during the night time, this also occurs during the day, though we are often too busy going about our affairs to notice it.

During the day time we will periodically go into a more "dreamy" state of mind. We may temporarily detach our awareness from the here and now. We may reminisce about the past or fantasize about the future. We may conjure up images of how life would be like if we won the lottery or lived on a tropical island. Or we may worry about what would happen if misfortune were to come our way. These mind games are what sets the human race apart from all other animals on the planet. Sometimes they serve us well. At other times they keep us trapped in limiting or problematic modes of thought and behaviour.

Effective hypnotherapy is really as much to do with helping people to come out of "symptomatic trance states" as it is in inducing positive modes of thought. The kind of hypnotherapy that I offer to clients at the Bell Surgery takes this important insight into account.

Read a fascinating article by psychologist Joe Griffin about the link between hypnosis, dreaming and the REM state here.  The expectation fulfilment theory of dreaming.

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For Hypnotherapy and Brief Solution Focused Therapy in the Manchester area

Telephone: 0845 838 2284 or 07963 974969

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Kevan Owen DHypPsych(UK), GQHP, HGdip, GHGI

The Bell Surgery, 453 Barlow Moor Road, Chorlton, Manchester, M21 8AU. Tel/Fax 0161 881 2128.

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