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Hypnotherapy can reduce pain and anxiety, neutralize the effects of trauma, change harmful habits into healthy ones, eliminate phobias and fears, and transform beliefs and self-talk.  It functions on a state of physical and mental relaxation which allows the subconscious mind to solely concentrate on and perceive messages provided by a therapist.

Over the years, our conscious mind may develop irrational reactions to particular situations causing stress as an outcome.  Hypnotherapy effectively targets the source of our decision making process and reprograms it to become more efficient.  The deeply relaxed state renders the subconscious mind highly focused and ready to accept suggestions.  This enables the mind to reconfigure how it tells the body to behave; therefore restructuring a client’s thought process and eliminating adverse reactions that may cause stress.

A person who does not want to be hypnotized cannot be hypnotized or induced to do or say anything which violates personal standards of behavior or integrity.  Hypnosis can only succeed in helping people make changes they desire.  Therefore, the power of hypnosis actually resides in the patient them self.

Hypnotherapy has long been used in relation to childbirth. It is sometimes used during pregnancy to prepare a mother for birth, and during childbirth to reduce anxiety, discomfort and pain.

However, there is agreement that the origin of modern hypnosis is with the methods employed in Mesmerism. Whilst Braid differed in offering an explanation of hypnotic effects that did not rely on supernatural forces, he credited the methods used in hypnosis to the practice of Mesmerism.

Hypnotism might therefore not inaptly be designated, Rational Mesmerism, in contra-distinction to the Transcendental Mesmerism of the Mesmerists

The growing application of cognitive and behavioral psychological theories and concepts to the explanation of hypnosis paved the way for a closer integration of hypnotherapy with various cognitive and behavioral therapies.

"Induces hypnotic state in client to increase motivation or alter behavior patterns: Consults with client to determine nature of problem. Prepares client to enter hypnotic state by explaining how hypnosis works and what client will experience. Tests subject to determine degree of physical and emotional suggestibility. Induces hypnotic state in client, using individualized methods and techniques of hypnosis based on interpretation of test results and analysis of client's problem. May train client in self-hypnosis conditioning.

A hypnotherapist often differs from other therapists because they focus on the role of subconscious behaviors and influences on the client's life.