Hypnotherapy is grounded in neuroscience.
Our thought processes are so important for our day to day happiness and how we envisage our life. However, our brains are designed to register change as a threat which is why we can cling to habits and mindsets even if they do nothing to enrich and make our life better.
When faced with change there can be a discomfort in the brain.
Our prefrontal cortex, our intellectual mind, engages when we encounter something new. This part of our brain works very well with no attention focused on it and without conscious thought. When the pre frontal cortex is engaged it uses so much energy to keep the focus. We have an inbuilt preference to go with the comfortable known and to take the ‘low road’ of the comfortable ‘known’ which requires less energy and effort. We have a very well developed capacity to generate ‘error codes’ in our brains when we have a perceived difference between expectation and reality. These error codes are generated in the primitive brain, our guard brain. The one that is there to keep us safe.
In order to make the changes we want to make, there are some things we need to understand:
Change requires effort and when people are faced with new information our primitive brain may well notice this change as an ‘error’ which causes us to go into defence, anxious mode. Change can be made without ‘error’, anxiety based, messages being sent from your primitive brain. This requires you to access your powers of thinking, your subconscious without any threat present. This is where hypnosis comes in and why it is important in our work. SFH is all about shifting your thought patterns to come from your intellectual mind and not your primitive mind and that gives you the ability to take control of these thoughts.
You are always in control. I guide you into a trance state with the sound of my voice. It is not sleep and with children they do not go into trance like adults do. This can also be done at home by listening to the audio I send you after the initial consultation.
