| Confidence can be hard to pin down at times! Most | | | | given, trance states can be positive or negative, |
| people have had the experience of observing | | | | depending on what is being focused on. |
| someone they know at a party or in a work | | | | Hypnotherapists induce deeply relaxing trance states |
| situation, communicating with ease and naturally, | | | | because when a person is deeply relaxed, access to |
| without a hint of self-consciousness and have | | | | the unconscious mind is enabled. The hypnotic |
| thought, "Why cant that be me?" | | | | process is wonderfully pleasant and relaxing, which in |
| People look to hypnotherapy, Herts for all types of | | | | itself is beneficial for people who lack confidence and |
| confidence problems. It may be that you lack | | | | experience stress and worry on a regular basis. Being |
| confidence within specific relationships or situations, | | | | free of stress and worry, during the hypnotic |
| you may want to be more assertive or to become a | | | | process, allows the therapists to pack your |
| better public speaker. Perhaps you want to be able | | | | unconscious mind with positive suggestions of |
| to share some of the knowledge and ideas that you | | | | confidence. Whilst in this state you also get to |
| hold back because of lack of confidence, or you find | | | | practice situations in which you will act with |
| it difficult to speak up in front of groups of people. | | | | confidence and conviction, through a process known |
| Some people feel they lack confidence in all areas of | | | | as visualisation. |
| their lives. All these experiences are common and can | | | | Hypnotherapy can also be effective in removing |
| be helped by hypnotherapy, Herts. | | | | negative associations that you have developed |
| Of course, in life there will always be natural | | | | between situations and feeling unconfident and it can |
| differences among people. Some people just seem to | | | | also be used to remove and free you from negative |
| be more introverted, whilst others seem to enjoy | | | | emotions from the past. Sometimes self-esteem can |
| the limelight and draw others towards them with | | | | be related to childhood experiences and these can be |
| ease. Whether confidence is a problem is self-defined | | | | dealt with through at Hypnotherapy, Herts. |
| by the individual. If it impacts on your life in subtle or | | | | During your hypnotherapy treatment, the |
| more obvious ways and you feel frustrated or held | | | | hypnotherapist will also work with you to achieve |
| back by lack of confidence, then hypnotherapy may | | | | confidence through a technique called anchoring, |
| benefit you. | | | | which involves learning to develop an association |
| Hypnotherapists use hypnosis to bring about positive | | | | between an external trigger, and a emotional |
| therapeutic changes in order to help people solve | | | | response. Anchors develop all the time in everyday |
| problems, such as lack of confidence. Hypnosis is an | | | | life as the human mind attempts to understand your |
| experience characterised by deep relaxation, a | | | | environment by looking for patterns between things. |
| concentrated focus and increased sensory alertness. | | | | Not all anchors are positive. People learn to make |
| This state of mind occurs spontaneously and people | | | | negative associations between things, such as feeling |
| slip in and out of this state, known as 'trance', all the | | | | anxious or worried when they are required to give a |
| time, in everyday life. Examples of trance states | | | | presentation to colleagues. Your hypnotherapist can |
| include fantasising about someone you are attracted | | | | work with you to remove negative anchors. |
| to, becoming deeply immersed in a book, being | | | | If you are fed up with being held back or not being |
| anxious about an event causing you to re-live what | | | | able to do what you dream of doing because of lack |
| could go wrong over and over in your head and | | | | of confidence, book your appointment with a |
| daydreaming. As you may see from the examples | | | | hypnotherapist now! |