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Hypnosis is simply focused attention. It is a natural state that we all experience many times throughout our lives, an internal place that we visit regularly for many different reasons. Daily routines become nearly unconscious activities, triggered memories move our minds both back and forward in time and new challenges evoke internal searches through our libraries of life experiences. Ultimately, hypnosis is a natural key to resolving issues and enhancing talents and abilities.

Simple routines such as making a cup of tea while carrying on a conversation and before you know it your drinking your tea or driving home and suddenly finding yourself at your front door are mild insights into hypnosis. The lack of conscious thought and active effort is a natural autopilot that takes control and allows our minds to wander. Our attention only moves back to the repetitive actions of daily life if we notice that there is some change in its normality. When the kettle is broken or there is a fox crossing the road on the corner of our street, we quickly and effortlessly snap back to attention. It is then that we realise that we were miles away in a comfortable thought somewhere else.

Outside stimulation like an image, scent or song can remind us of a time, a feeling or person, sending our minds racing to an imagined place in the future or a real time from the past. Our thoughts float into an interesting scenario or a memory, experiencing it to the exclusion of the outside world. Sounds and actions around us recede into the background as we totally immerse ourselves in our internal thoughts, so giving our always alert conscious a bit of a break. Instead of it gathering information, making us aware of the outside world and keeping us up to date with our present environment, the conscious mind relaxes. This allows internal qualities such as imagination, intuition and our determination to flourish freely, encouraging fresh insights and an up to date view of lifes many questions and situations. Yet, the conscious is always ready to spring back into action in the event of any unexplained distractions or a perceived threat from the environment surrounding us.

We see hear and feel hypnotic processes when we are faced with a puzzling or unexplored situation such as driving a new car or adjusting to the controls for a new television or phone. We look inside ourselves and search our history of life experiences, gauging the present situation against everything that we know within. We imaginatively try out different approaches and views, creating the most beneficial future possible. We delve into the mixture of our memories, emotions and intuitions, trawling the natural reservoirs of our instincts, inherited resources and insights that help us understand, adapt and grow to overcome all of life's situations.

Hypnotherapy reasserts the natural abilities that exist inside each one of us and in doing so presents to us a very unique and adaptive problem solving tool that resolves the challenges that life sends our way. Hypnotherapy also assists in facing up to our long term difficulties by giving us distance and objectivity, cleaning out negative associations and replacing them with our present understandings. Hypnosis gives a new context to past experiences by helping to uncover a variety of new choices surrounding both past and even future perceptions that influence how we feel and act today.
Through hypnosis we reinterpret life, bringing our thoughts up to date by putting older situations into a new strengthened and healing perspective. We observe and transform our life experiences and dreams into a positive springboard for a healthier and more adaptive future.