Lawrence Edwards, Ph.D.

Hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy or therapeutic trance work is a method of using the mind's innate abilities to

go into trance, to let go of the ordinary ways of thinking and processing, and shift focus,

allowing access of inner resources that may have been unknown or unintegrated for the

ordinary waking state conscious mind. Hypnotherapy is used for changing habits,

addictions, coping with chronic pain, overcoming emotional obstacles, anxiety, past

traumas, enhancing healing and recovery from surgery and numerous other applications

including personal growth, enhanced performance training and regression training. It is

also used for working with chronic illness, terminal illness and preparation for dying.

Therapeutic trance includes the use of visualization techniques, guided imagery, deep

relaxation, breathing, movement and self-hypnosis. Milton Erickson, the father of modern

hypnosis said all hypnosis is self-hypnosis. Your psyche is always the one in control and

makes use of the hypnotherapist's suggestions and guidance to heal old wounds, to let go

of what you need to be free of, to heal in ways that are beyond the ordinary conscious

mind's abilities but well within the extraordinary powers of your own deeper mind and the

body's own deep wisdom for healing.

Transform Your Mind, Transform Your Life