How Does Hypnosis Therapy Work?
The human brain operates in four general states of consciousness. The four states include Full Conscious Awareness, the Hypnotic State, the Dream State, and the Sleep State. Your level of consciousness is determined by the electrical activity in your brain and the frequency of the electricity generated by the exchange of chemicals in the neural pathways.
- Full Conscious Awareness is the highest range of brain activity and occurs when the brain is in the beta range (14-35 Hz).
- The Hypnotic State is just between being fully conscious and dreaming. It occurs when brain activity is in the alpha range (8-13 Hz).
- The Dream State occurs when brain activity is in the theta range (4-7 Hz).
- The lowest state of brain activity is the Sleep State. This occurs when brain activity is in the delta range (.5-3 Hz).
In the state of Full Conscious Awareness is where our mind is most attentive and uses logic to reason, evaluate, assess, judge, and make decisions.
The Hypnotic State is the most useful for learning new information and changing old habits. In this state, the doorway between the conscious and the subconscious is opened, making memories more accessible, and new information can more easily be stored.
In this state of lower brain activity, you are not really "thinking" in the traditional sense. Instead your brain is experiencing what happens without questioning, without critical judgment and without analysis.
Because your brain is very impressionable in this state, your hypno-therapist can make suggestions that are more likely to "stick".
You will be completely aware of what is going on and remember what happened during your hypnosis experience. In order to be hypnotized, you must be a willing participant. No one can hypnotize you against your will.
|
