We all naturally go into a hypnotic trance several times a day - when we are falling asleep
and waking up, when we get engrossed in a TV programme or arrive home without remembering the drive!
Hypnosis can be used to bypass the ‘critical faculty’ of the human mind and then
to embed more positive suggestions in the subconscious that will better serve the hypnotic subject in life.
Our
critical factor comes into play with our very earliest thoughts and our self-image is formed by the age of four. Our conscious minds cannot remember or retain every memory or piece of information that we are presented
with on a daily basis, so the 'critical faculty' in our conscious mind rejects things that the unconscious
mind is not prepared to accept. These include all the things that do not fit
in with our belief systems, so that if we hold a belief, for example, that we are stupid, any comments on our intelligence
or clever things that we have done will be filtered out. It is very difficult to get a person to change their view
of themselves purely through addressing the conscious mind, so this is where hypnotherapy really helps by directly addressing
the unconscious mind.
