Recovery Solution Counseling Informational Guide

If you're struggling with a condition that's affecting your mental health, hypnotherapy can be a useful tool for overcoming your challenges. A therapist who's thoroughly trained in hypnotherapy can use hypnosis to put your mind into a state with reduced peripheral awareness so that you'll be more responsive to suggestions from the therapist. These suggestions can help guide you toward greater mental clarity and help both your mind and body heal naturally. Hypnotherapy has been shown to be particularly effective in treating these five conditions.

Depression

Chronic depression can take the joy out of life, and hypnosis can be used in addition or as an alternative to depression medications. Hypnotherapy can help train your mind to focus naturally on more positive thoughts. Positive suggestions from the therapist will be able to enter your mind more effectively while you're in a state of hypnosis. Stored emotions and experiences in your mind that are likely contributing to your depression can also be uncovered and released better while you're undergoing hypnotherapy.

Anxiety

Your body and mind will feel naturally calmer as you're hypnotized by the therapist into a more relaxed state. Your therapist will help you adopt a better perspective of the thoughts and feelings that are triggering your anxiety to try to lessen their intensity. If your anxiety is affecting your sleep, hypnotherapy may improve your sleep habits, and this can help alleviate your anxiety even more. 

Phobias

If you have a crippling fear of something, hypnosis can help you overcome your phobia by retraining your brain to focus less on the fear and more on the positive aspects of a particular thing or situation. Many people turn to hypnotherapy to try to overcome phobias like:

• Social phobia
• Animal phobias
• Hypochondria
• Acrophobia
• Claustrophobia
• Agoraphobia 

Addiction

Addiction comes in many forms, and you may have an easier time beating your addiction if you try hypnotherapy. The areas of the brain that trigger addictive thoughts and behaviors can be targeted better during hypnosis, and this therapy could put an end to your addiction for good. Hypnotherapy is often recommended for people who struggle with addictions to:

• Drugs and alcohol
• Smoking
• Food
• Exercise
• Gambling 

Physical Symptoms

Pain and other unpleasant symptoms that are felt throughout the body could be related to a physical or mental condition, and hypnosis can often alleviate these physical problems. Many of these physical sensations may be worsened by anxiety and stress, and hypnosis can help put the body into a calmer, more peaceful state. Hypnotherapy can be especially good for managing chronic pain, and many people have been able to lead better lives while living with ongoing pain when they receive hypnotherapy. The power of hypnosis has even helped many people who have physical symptoms that are related to cancer treatments.

Hypnotherapy has been proven to be an effective tool in treating a variety of mental and physical conditions. A therapist who knows how to use hypnosis correctly to treat people can help you recover in a safe and healthy way.

For more information about hypnosis, contact a therapist who offers hypnotherapy.