Brisbane Hypnosis Centre

But still, if everyone is doing their job properly, something special occurs between the hypnotherapist and their subject. This beautiful quote from a blog post on Psychology Today describes this ‘something special’ :

Non-volitional responses (“I don’t know what happened but I just don’t feel like eating chocolate anymore”) are lovely signs that the work has been effective, and that the change is meaningful. The magic is that the change arises, regardless of the source of that change. The hypnotherapists’ job is to help elicit that response. And sometimes it really does feel magical – even with seemingly mundane things like a craving for chocolate.

For some people, the source of the hypnotic “magic” can have a spiritual basis. Other people see the creation of the trance state as a series of exercises designed to focus your mind, that in turn lead to a change in brain wave function, leading to suggestibility … and there the hypnotist may exert “beneficial social influence”. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter how you make sense of it. If a hypnotherapist is doing their job well, the transaction will be what it needs to be to create the opportunity for change you seek.

Hypnotherapy can create the opportunity for greater possibilities, and some of those possibilities may be truly magical.