A guide to Hypnotherapy in Edinburgh
This site has been created to provide free advice to people in the Edinburgh area who are interested in changing their lives with the help of hypnotherapy.
What is Hypnotherapy?
Hypnotherapy is the use of hypnosis (plus related techniques such as NLP) to cure or control problems such as smoking, stress, overeating, phobias and compulsive behaviour.
The reason effective hypnotherapy works so well for these problems is that they are all problems which are controlled by unconscious learned behaviour. Hypnosis allows the therapist to work directly with the unconscious mind to create quick, painless and lasting change in the client's life.
Why does it sometimes fail?
There are a number of reasons why hypnotherapy can fail.
Firstly - and this tends to happen most with people who try to stop smoking - if the client doesn't actually want to change the behaviour, then the behaviour is unlikely to change. So, while a good hypnotherapist can often help the client find reasons why he should change, unless this motivation is there, success is unlikely.
Secondly, there are both good and bad hypnotherapists out there, so it's important to pick a good therapist if you are going to try hypnotherapy.
However, if your are highly motivated and are working with a competent hypnotherapist, you should expect to see the changes you want.