Hypnotherapy in Zurich
Today, hypnotherapy or hypnosis psychotherapy are forms of therapy which, among other things, make therapeutic use of the existing knowledge about the effects of trance and suggestion. In order to promote healing, searching and learning processes, either hypnosis is practiced in a more formal sense or everyday trance processes are used for therapeutic work. In addition, hypnotherapy can also be designed as self-hypnosis training or learning (deep) relaxation exercises.
Hypnosis (or hypnotherapy) is a technique by which people put themselves or others into a different state of consciousness - a hypnotic trance. In this way, buried experiences can be worked through, anxiety disorders can be treated and positive forces can be activated. Operations have also been performed under hypnosis and without anesthesia.
Hypnosis and hypnotherapy are scientifically recognized and long-tested psychotherapeutic methods that are used successfully with children, adolescents and adults in various areas of psychotherapy, medicine and dentistry.
The methods are oriented towards the resources of each person; these are abilities, knowledge, experiences, talents, inclinations and strengths that are often not even conscious.
Hypnotherapy in Zurich
In hypnosis, the person is guided into an altered state of consciousness, the hypnotic trance, by specific formulations of the hypnotherapist. It has been proven that, with very few exceptions, the vast majority of people are able to enter a trance state through hypnosis. Prerequisites for this are certain abilities to concentrate, to activate a pictorial imagination and to engage in a trusting relationship with the treating hypnotherapist. In trance, people retain control over themselves and can, if they wish, interrupt or end the hypnotic process at any time.
Many patients compare the experience of a trance to the pleasant state just before falling asleep, when one thinks more in images and the body comes to rest.
During a trance, there are typically mental and physiological changes (such as muscle relaxation and blood pressure regulation). Mentally, the patient in trance experiences intense serenity, balance, courage to face life, strength, security or reassurance. Critical-rational thinking recedes into the background, while pictorial information processing sets in and ideas are activated on all sensory channels. Attention is focused on the inner experience, while the perception of the outside world tends to fade into the background.
Through all these phenomena, it is possible to activate access to important personal resources such as abilities, strengths, sources of power and also unconscious body knowledge through beneficial imaginings. This enables the person to mobilize the body's own self-regulatory abilities and forces, to positively influence pain experience, mood and well-being, to train coping strategies and to mentally prepare for challenging situations. In trance, access to past experiences and their hypnotherapeutic processing can open up. Unconscious processes can also be stimulated and used to enable further progress in treatment and to reveal creative solutions.
Usually, after the hypnosis, one can remember the experience during the trance.
When to do hypnosis therapy?
Hypnotherapy has proven itself in the treatment of a wide variety of ailments. In psychology, hypnotherapy is used to treat anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and eating disorders. It can also be used to treat addictions (such as smoking) and chronic pain. In addition, hypnosis can be effective for sleep disorders and sexual dysfunction.
In addition, hypnosis is a popular procedure for pain management and support during medical procedures.
Hypnosis/Hypnotherapy ... what is that actually?
The term "hypnosis" comes from the Greek "hypnos" and means as much as sleep. But even if it looks to the outsider as if the hypnotized person is asleep, the opposite is actually the case: In the state of hypnosis (trance) there is an increase in concentration and also an activation of the so-called alpha rhythms in the brain.
The right hemisphere of the brain with its pictorial, imaginative and creative thinking is activated, while the left hemisphere of the brain with its logical-analytical thinking only slightly decreases in activity; conscious control is thus largely maintained. In this state, an increase in problem-solving ability as well as more creativity is possible. By the way, the ability to develop a trance is innate.
What happens in Ericksonian hypnotherapy?
Psychotherapists who work with hypnotherapy have usually learned another form of therapy first, such as depth psychology-oriented therapy or behavioral therapy. A therapist will use hypnotherapy on the basis of and in addition to his therapeutic school. He will use hypnotherapy to create conditions that enable the client to creatively solve problems.
Central to this is the trance. For Hypnosetherapie Zürich you need to get into trance, a therapist can use a classical induction method such as the eye fixation method. In trance, physical reactions can be changed such as muscle tone or blood flow. At the same time, the ability to imagine increases. Traumatic experiences can be weakened in trance by dissociation (=separation, splitting). On the other hand, missing experiences can be associated (=linked) in the processing of stressful experiences.
The therapist will not prescribe any fixed solutions but will trigger search processes in the trance. This is much easier due to the activation of the right hemisphere of the brain. It can be useful to imagine oneself in the future, e.g. to cope with a difficult upcoming situation in the imagination or to imagine having already coped with it.
The hypnotherapist will also apply Ericksonian principles of utilization outside of trance. He may, for example, give tasks that break habitual patterns of thought, perception, and behavior (for example, the habitual reaching for a bottle of beer). He will also work outside the trance to orient the client to his resources. In doing so, he may also apply techniques from hypnotherapy-related methods such as family therapy or NLP.
If you are looking for hypnotherapy in Zurich you should check out Mion Hypnose
Mion Hypnosis Zurich Enge
Breitingerstrasse 21
8002 Zürich
0445209379