HYPNOTHERAPY- is a type of alternative medicine in which hypnosis is used to create a state of focused attention and increased suggestibility during which positive suggestions and guided imagery are used to help individuals deal with a variety of concerns and issues.

2. HYPNOTHERAPY
NEHA RIZWAN
BHMS-2ND PROF

3. Contents:
• Definition
• How to hypnotize?
• Characteristics of hypnotic state
• Application of hypnosis
• What is hypnotherapy?
• Uses of hypnotherapy
• Benefits of hypnotherapy

4. HYPNOTHERAPY:
•WHAT IS HYPNOSIS?
• Altered state of consiousness in which people become
deeply relaxed and highly suggestible to changes in
experiences and behaviors

5. Hypnotic-induction
methods are used to
induce hypnosis:
1. Close eyes and
concentrate on
breathing
2. Fix attention on
object or voice
3. Instant induction
How to hypnotize?

6. Characteristics of hypnotic state:
• Suggestibility:
• Do think, say things as told
• Dissosiation
• Separate self from external reality
• Hypnotic analgesia (medication that acts to relieve medicine)
• Problems that are enhanced by memory or hypermnesia(unusual power of memory)
• Recall remote events in great detail
• Age regression
• False recollections
• Post hypnotic suggestion
• Perform particular behavior to specific cues outside of hypnotic state
• Memory is temporary fix but fades with time posthypnotic amnesia
• Subject can't recall events that took place during hypnosis.

7. Application for
hypnosis:
• Postsynaptic suggestine-control undesired
symptoms/behavior
• Pain control-birth,chemortherapy,dental
• Treatment therapy-
headaches,asthama,warts,acne,smoking,weigh
t control,nail bitting

8. What is hypnotherapy?
• Hypnotherapy is used of hypnosis in a therapeutic context with
hypnotherapy
• There will be no swinging pocket watches
• No clucking chickens
• No jedi mind tricks
• You do not go unconscious or into an oblivious state where anything could be
said or done unknown to you.
• You remain completely in control and aware of what is happening around
you all the times.
• You may know someone who had hypnotherapy and said "I didn’t go under, I
could hear everything, that was being said"
• Hearing everything that is being said is exactly how it should be when you
are in hypnotic state and undergoing hypnotherapy

9. Uses of hypnotherapy:
• Behavioral problems
• Irritable bowel syndrome
• Enuresis
• Smoking
• Weight loss
• Eating disorders
• Physiological disorders
• Psychomatic disorders
• Pain control

10. Hypnotic session:
• Introduction(explanation of hypnosis, removal
of fears,amnesia,reassurance)
• Induction(permessive,hand fixation,eye closure,candle
flame,thumbnail,hand leviation,eye to eye contact,mind body
dissociation)
• Deepening(early learning set,countdown,limb catalepsy, hand
levaiation,minds eye,eye rotation)
• Posthypnotic suggestion(establish report,create expectancy-
will not maybe ever try,law of conc. Attention-repition of
result,law of reversed effect-try and bend your arm,law of
dominant effect-strong emotions replace makeover)
• awakening

11. Benefits of hypnotherapy:
Less anxiety
Trauma
resolution
Stress relief
Ability to set
boundaries
Stress relief
Increase
assertiveness
Regional
emotional
balance
Better
relationships
Great self
confidence