What is hypnosis?

Hypnosis is communication with your unconscious. Via hypnotic induction you come into contact with your unconscious mind. The unconscious mind is what guides you from within, what constitutes you. The picture of the iceberg illustrates that best.

On your bike, at work, exercising – whenever you are absorbed in your thoughts, respectively are highly focused, you are in a state of trance. Trance is inwardly oriented attentiveness.

Children are the masters of trance: deeply absorbed they will be playing in their own world for hours and hours.

85%

of our time we spend unconsciously

15%

of our time we spend consciously

What happens during hypnotherapy?

Provided the unconscious agrees and is willing to cooperate, we will have access to the knowledge, the expertise and the creativity of the subconsciousness.

The hypnotherapist acts as a door opener (to the unconscious), as a guide (by asking decisive questions and hinting at possible directions) as well as an architect (for possible transformations).

Hypnosis and human autonomy

In hypnotherapy, you cannot be forced to do or say something that would be hurtful for you or mean damage to your personality. This is because our unconscious functions as an inner protective shield that will never admit „betrayal “.

When can hypnotherapy be of use?

  • medicine / dental medicine

  • psychotherapy (mental hygiene / stress management, mental and behavioural disorders/psychosocial disorders, relationship problems, support during sickness/rehabilitation phase)

  • psychosomatic symptoms (for instance, after heart attacks, over the course of chronic disease, panic attacks)

  • inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn´s disease, ulcerative colitis, celiac disease)

  • allergies (asthma, hayfever, hypertension)

  • psychoneuroses (anxiety disorders, phobia, compulsion disorder, depression, PTBS, dissociations, sleep disorder, addiction, stage fright, concentration disorders)

  • behavioural disorders (nailbiting, bedwetting)

  • individuation (success management/goal orientation, way of life, personal development, sport/improved performance, dealing with inner blockades)

  • pain syndromes (acute/chronic pain, somatoform disorders)

  • revitalization of the immune system

  • preparation for birth/support during pregnancy

  • neurologic problems (amnesia, during rehabilitation after brain damage)

  • vasomotor disorders (blood flow, wound healing, Raynaud´s disease, erectile dysfunction)

  • immunology (warts, dermatoses, itching, side-effects of chemotherapy)

With the friendly assistance of: Wissenschaftlich gesicherte Wirkung von Hypnose (Revenstorf, 2001), (Prof.Dirk Revenstorf, Psychologe und Psychotherapeut, founder of Akademie der Milton-Erickson-Gesellschaft für klinische Hypnose in Tübingen)