10 Myths And Facts About Hypnotherapy

1)  Myth: You need a certain mindset for a hypnosis session to be effective. Only strong-willed people cannot go for a hypnosis session.

Fact: All you need is genuine willingness, clear intent, openness, and trust in the process as well as in your therapist to go for a hypnotherapy session.

 

2) Myth: You lose control in a hypnotherapy session and are unaware of what is happening.

Fact: You are in a deep state of relaxation like that of a meditative trance so that the mind’s inner chatter is much reduced. You are aware of what is going around. You are in a heightened state of awareness, completely relaxed and more focused inwards despite being aware of the surroundings. Being in this state also allows having easy access to the emotions as well as experiences in your subconscious mind.

 

3) Myth: Hypnotic suggestions can be harmful to you. 

Fact: Clinical hypnosis in any Hypnotherapy session is done only with the client’s well-informed consent and willingness. Your hypnotherapist can take you as deep in your subconscious mind as you allow for the sake of healing.

 

4) Myth: Someone can control your mind and take secrets out of you.

Fact: A trained Hypnotherapist does not t force clients under hypnosis sessions to share their secrets. Clients have a certain degree of control over their inner experience.

Besides, overall mutual trust is the underlying foundation of hypnotherapy sessions; this enables clients to be comfortable enough so they can express their experience uninhibitedly.

 

5) Myth: One can get memories wiped out and get past information under hypnosis.

Fact: Hypnotherapists cannot wipe out memories. Hypnotherapists can enable and empower the client to free themselves from the trauma of the memory, release its influence on the client’s present reality, and bring a perceptive shift towards the situation and its impact on the client’s life.

 

6)Myth: You will get stuck in the hypnosis session.

Fact: A skilled and well-trained hypnotherapist is equipped to bring you out of hypnotic trance effectively.

 

7) Myth: You will remember everything in the trance.

Fact: You will be able to retrieve those experiences that implicitly or explicitly influence the present reality; they show up in visual, auditory, or kinaesthetic format depending on how it was stored in your subconscious.

 

8)Myth: You can see everything under hypnosis.

Fact: You may not just see but also feel or sense in your body the issues that affect you in the current reality. Many may not see initially, but may get feeling emotions and sensations in a trance state; seeing may follow in some or most of the cases.

 

9) Myth: Every past experience discovered under hypnotherapy is the ultimate truth.

Fact: A hypnotherapy session brings up a client’s truth, which is based on their perception of the experience. It may not necessarily be the fact of the matter.

 

10) Myth: You can only experience hypnosis through a hypnotherapist.

Fact: Are you aware you are naturally accessing a hypnotic state every day, especially before going to sleep and immediately on waking up? Moreover, when we are in an impressionable state of mind during the formative years, a hypnotic state can often be accessed.

A visit to a hypnotherapist for therapy is for problem resolution of those situations where you feel stuck in the past or future. The truth is you are visiting hypnotherapists to desensitize and dehypnotize from the impact of past traumas and overpowering influences in your life.