Hypnotherapy: what is it and what are its benefits?

Clinical hypnosis has proven to be effective and useful as a psychological therapy tool.

Clinical hypnosis, also known as hypnotherapy, is a powerful and effective tool for improving people's health and well-being.is a powerful and effective tool for improving people's health and well-being.

Although some individuals are apprehensive about considering hypnotherapy as a psychological treatment, usually due to misconceptions they may have seen on television or in movies, many studies have demonstrated its effectiveness in addressing a multitude of problems.

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How hypnotherapy works

As a psychological therapy, hypnosis is called "clinical hypnosis", and allows the patient to experience a feeling of deep relaxation, while their attention is focused inward (your internal emotions and sensations) and to the appropriate suggestions made by the therapist, which help you make positive changes.

Contrary to popular belief, hypnosis is not a state of deep sleep in which the person loses will is not a state of deep sleep in which the person loses willpower, control and consciousness, but is and consciousness, but is characterized by inducing the patient into a condition called trance, in which he or she is actually in an enhanced state of consciousness, concentrating totally on what the therapist is telling him or her. It is about the patient letting himself go, because if he does not let himself go, there is no hypnosis.

Trance is used as an emotional disinhibitor.and suggestion is used to provoke changes in the cognitive, physiological, emotional and behavioral processes of the patient, who will allow himself to be influenced by the hypnotic suggestions up to the limit he considers appropriate. If the patient wishes, the process can be terminated at any time. The therapist's role is simply that of facilitator of the experience.

Benefits of clinical hypnosis

Hypnosis is a very useful therapeutic method and there are many scientific tests that have demonstrated it, but obviously it is necessary to know how to distinguish between the clinical hypnosis and the version that the cinema or the television offer of the hypnosis. The numerous investigations carried out indicate that this method can produce a real and powerful effect on the body and the mind.

In short, hypnotherapy:

• Empowers in the face of life and helps to overcome obstacles and reach goals in a natural and relaxing way.
• Promotes self-knowledge and helps a person to know himself/herself better.
• It gives the possibility to find creative solutions to the problems that arise, favoring an active thinking.
• It makes it possible to change limiting beliefs for empowering beliefs thanks to suggestion.
• Helps improve sleep and fights insomnia.
• Helps to reduce pain of fibromyalgia, Arthritis and cancer.
• Helps to reduce and control anxiety and stress.
• Promotes the activation of resources and mechanisms of self-healing and self-regulation.
• Positively influences the improvement of self-esteem, self-confidence and motivation.
• It favors self-awareness and improves the relationship with ourselves. Helps to resolve internal conflicts.
• It favors personal development and the change of negative habits.
• Improves concentration and focus.

What is hypnotherapy used for?

Hypnotherapy can be applied to many psychological, emotional and physical disorders. It is used to relieve chronic pain, repetitive acute pain, pain from psychosomatic problems (e.g. headaches, migraines, fibromyalgia, cancer pain, etc.), for preparation for childbirth and to reduce the need for analgesics.

In psychotherapy, it has been shown to be effective for the treatment of mood disorders (including depression) and for the (including depression) and for various anxiety disorders: panic attacks, specific phobia and social phobia, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). etc.

In addition, hypnotherapy is especially indicated for reducing stress and overcoming addictions such as smoking and such as smoking and alcoholism, sleep disorders, sexual problems and eating disorders (anorexia and bulimia). Children are often easy to hypnotize and hypnotherapy can help with bedwetting and chronic asthma.

Hypnotherapy is one of the safest, fastest and most effective forms of treatment for most psychological and emotional problems. It promotes an attitude of independence and empowerment to cope with problems and can also accelerate the healing process of many physiological problems.

Where to find psychologists specializing in hypnosis

Hypnosis is a psychotherapeutic tool and therefore should not be used in isolation. should not be used in isolation, but integrated into psychotherapy.. If you are interested in benefiting from this treatment, it is necessary that you have clear that not any person who has studied this technique is qualified to be able to treat psychological problems.

In order to be able to offer clinical hypnosis with the maximum guarantees it is necessary that the hypnotherapists are, besides experts in hypnosis, professionals of the health specialized in psychological therapy. One of the clinics that is at the forefront in terms of this form of therapy is the Centro de Psicología El Prado Psicólogos de Madrid, which has some of the best psychologists specialized in hypnosis.

El Prado Psicólogos is a psychology clinic that is qualified as a Health Center by the Community of Madrid. It has a team of hipnoterapéutas with wide formation and experience in clinical hypnosis, which apply this technique to treat different problematic. El Prado Psicólogos can offer you solutions and can help you to overcome the difficulties for those that you are happening, so that you manage to recover the emotional balance and you can live a full and satisfactory life.

Other effective therapeutic methods

Although it is frequent that we associate psychological therapy with a serious problemMany people come to the psychologist for a wide variety of reasons: to improve social skills, to learn to know oneself better, to maximize personal development or to improve communication with their partner... This clinic does not exclude any psychotherapeutic model, since its objective is to better adapt to the needs of each patient and thus be able to perform an individualized psychological treatment.

Its method of intervention stands out for offering brief treatments, and as a reference center, it is at the forefront of psychology, applying the latest advances in research and incorporating brain change tools into psychotherapy, such as brain integration techniques (ICT) or mindfulness.