How Hypnosis Changes Lives
We’ve talked a lot about how you can become a hypnotherapist and how this career path can change your life, but what about the lives of your clients? According to several recent studies, around 93% of hypnotherapy clients see success within the first six sessions. We see a lot of false narratives about hypnosis in media (swinging pocket watches, people clucking on stage, etc.), but the realities of this field are much more scientific and effective than most people realize. How exactly does hypnosis help those clients? What kinds of things are they seeking help with in the first place? Keep reading to see how your hypnotherapy practice will help your clients live happier, more fulfilling lives.
-Sleep issues
Many clients will come to you because they’re experiencing trouble with their sleep. This can include insomnia, trouble falling asleep or staying asleep, and sleep walking. As a certified hypnotherapist, you’ll be able to help your clients reset their sleep habits and triggers so they can get full, restful nights of sleep. You’ll also be able to help them learn how to hypnotize themselves so they can more effectively fall asleep and stay asleep through the night.
-Anxiety
You’ll also be able to help your clients with anxiety, including that surrounding phobias. Hypnosis can be very effective when it comes to helping clients lower heart rates, slowing breathing, and soothing the physical symptoms of anxiety responses to triggers. Especially when used as an addition to other forms of therapy, hypnosis can sometimes help erase trigger responses altogether, allowing clients to reclaim control over their traumas.
-Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Hypnosis has been consistently proven and supported as a valid method of treatment for bowel disorders, most prominently IBS. By leading clients through the stages of relaxation, helping them settle on comforting imagery, and guiding them into a hypnotic state, you’ll be able to help clients improve the symptoms that come with digestive issues. This includes constipation, diarrhea, and bloating, but also secondary symptoms like nausea, urinary problems, backaches, and fatigue.
“According to several recent studies, around 93% of hypnotherapy clients see success within the first six sessions.”
-Chronic pain
In a world more racked by pain and treatments for pain than ever, it’s estimated that between 18% and 35% of the population suffers from chronic pain. As a certified hypnotherapist, you’ll be able to help your clients who fall in those percentages find relief from pain related to arthritis, fibromyalgia, cancer pain, sickle cell disease, lower back pain, post-surgery pain, and migraines. Hypnosis helps pain patients gain more control over their pain and offers them a healthy way to cope with it. It can also be an effective, healthy, long-term tool for pain management, which is an advantage pharmaceutical treatments can’t offer.
-Quitting smoking
Some clients might come to you for help to break their smoking habit, and you’ll be able to help with that too. First, you’ll be able to help them replace the smoking habit with a healthy and effective action (swapping cigarettes for a healthy snack, going for a walk, etc.) and to guide their subconscious toward that rather than smoking. Second, you’ll be able to help them reprogram their mind’s association with smoking to negative feelings over positive ones, like how bad cigarettes taste or smell. Hypnosis works best for smoking cessation when the client truly wants to quit and when there’s an opportunity for them to work one-on-one with the hypnotherapist.
-Weight loss
Hypnosis helps to focus our attention with an effectiveness we don’t achieve in a day-to-day consciousness. This focus offers the opportunity for reshaping behaviors, like altering dietary habits and reprogramming feelings around exercise, which can help clients lose weight. The goal with weight loss clients should always be a generally more healthy lifestyle that may lead to losing weight and is most effective when the client can implement healthy diet changes and exercise. In a world racked with toxic societal pressures surrounding body image and beauty standards, hypnosis can help clients reprogram their unhealthy habits and beliefs and finally see success in their health journeys.
Becoming a certified hypnotherapist can change your life, whether you experience it as a client or a student or a therapist. You can find more information about both options by visiting our website or giving us a call. We can’t wait to help you start your hypnotherapy journey!