Altos NLP

Why is hypnotherapy so effective ?

The reason it’s so effective lies in the extreme power of our unconscious mind, which stores all the memories, beliefs, habits and behaviours we’ve developed since birth. Prior to us responding to any external stimuli, we automatically access our unconscious and use its stored data to analyse how best to respond. And given our unconscious is primarily concerned with keeping us safe, well and happy, it usually provides us with good information to help us respond in the most helpful and resourceful manner.

However, as a result of the way we learn, from time to time it also stores and provides us with poor information, which results in many of life’s problems. You see from birth we learn by modelling other peoples behaviours and beliefs (many of which can be unhelpful), and we also place significant prominence on our own emotional experiences (again a lot of which can be negative) and both these conditioned and learned responses stay with us over time

Consider a phobia of spiders?

We are not born with an inherent fear of spiders. We are born with a naturally positive curiosity for all things within our immediate environment. A fear of spiders can only be developed in one of two ways;we see other people’s fear and model our response accordingly (a conditioned response); or we have a scary experience ourselves that becomes the prominent information stored in our unconscious (a learned response)
So fear becomes our response to spiders. As we develop these unhelpful beliefs (e.g. spiders are dangerous), or unwanted behaviours (e.g. freaking out at the mere sight of a spider), we simply end up re-accessing and replaying them time and time again They become our habitual response.

 We cannot consciously control our unconscious. Consider driving a car… this is a learnt behaviour which we access as and when we need to. Could you consciously decide to unlearn how to drive or any other type of learnt behaviour? You couldn’t ! Consider the same principle for an addiction, phobia or anxiety response….If you want to change unhelpful responses for the better, we first need to change the information stored in our unconscious, or to provide the unconscious with newer and more helpful information.

This can be achieved through hypnosis. Hypnosis is so effective because it bypasses the conscious mind and creates an alternative state of consciousness during which attention is focused away from the present reality. If you can day dream you can access your unconscious mind. Your attention can then be focussed towards particular images, thoughts, feelings, perspectives and behaviours which will help you to change or update the information stored in your unconscious, thus changing unhelpful habitual responses

........ this is what hypnotherapy IS ALL about