What is Hypnotherapy?
Hypnotherapy has two component parts – hypnosis and therapy.
Hypnosis is a relaxed mental state- known as a “trance” - where your mind is focused and your body is deeply relaxed. The feelings you experience are similar to the ones you have when you daydreaming. While in a trance the barriers between your conscious and subconscious mind are relaxed, allowing access to your deep inner resources. Hypnotherapy uses this state to help you to achieve your goals and overcome longstanding problems.
You have been in a trance many times - even without the help of a qualified hypnotherapist. It happens when your mind becomes so deeply focussed on something that you ignore other things happening around you. For example, when you are driving and you can't remember the last few minutes of your journey and forget the last direction sign you saw or you “drifted off” while listening to a boring lecture or a poor sales presentation.
We often experience trance when we find ourselves deeply absorbed in a book or TV programme or when we daydream and someone has to speak to us loudly to redirect our attention.
These are all natural trance states. Using hypnosis this pleasant, relaxed state is induced quite deliberately to help you focus on your problems and, more importantly, the solutions to them.
The hypnosis part is not a treatment in itself but an efficient way to access the unconscious part of our mind which controls our deeper thoughts and actions.
Therapy is a form of treatment in which unwanted forms of behaviour – phobias, addictions, bad habits, unpleasant memories – can be dealt with and treated through verbal communication and suggestions to help you.
During the time you are in a trance you will not be asleep but awake and able to hear everything that is said to you. Your conscious mind still remains in control of your thought process and you can disregard unwanted suggestions or even “wake yourself” out of your trance whenever you want to.
At the end of the session you will feel pleasantly relaxed but alert and active and ready to act on the unconscious suggestions made to you during the therapy session.
Who Can Benefit From Hypnotherapy For Fertility?
Hypnotherapy - using the Fertile Body Method - may be a good option for you if you have any of the following feelings, thoughts or concerns:
For Support During Treatment Suggestions made alongside treatment can provide help and support during this difficult period. Hypnosis can help you deal with any emotional concerns you may have, worries over aspects of the therapy and, most importantly, help you visualise a successful outcome which we believe can boost your chances of success.
Confused About Becoming A Mother You may be worried about what motherhood might mean for you in terms of your relationship with your partner, your career or others close to you. Your own model of motherhood might be different from the way that you were brought up.
Worries About Your Age We now live longer, take better care of ourselves and are often much "younger" than our parents. But some doctors, and those close to you, may be making age an issue.
Guilt Or Worries About The Past If you have had an abortion or a miscarriage you may be concerned about your chances of concieving or carrying a child for the full term.
You Fear Giving Birth Many women are concerned about the possibility of a painful birth or have phobias about hospitals or hypodermic needles.
Your Personal Health Causes You Concern If you have conditions such as unexplained infertility, recurrent miscarriages, endometriosis or if your partner has a low sperm count.
