The human mind is an undeveloped stream of surprising knowledge, energy and power. To change your mind means changing your life. A really effective way of achieving this goal is through your subconscious mind. Your personality has both conscious and subconscious components of mind. Hypnosis has become recognised as the most direct and most astute way of changing your subconscious mind, through the power of suggestion.

Hypnotherapy can help people dramatically improve the quality of their lives, through the ability to respond to hypno-therapeutic techniques and utilise highly effective sequenced scripts through suggestion. The mind is connected to, and influences, and is influenced by, the brain and the body.

These programmes have been scientifically tested and actually work. A recent study at Cornell University used brain scans to watch the braiin work under hypnotherapy, as it went along quite successfully, with suggestions made during hypnosis. (see, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Peter Stroud has practiced and taught counselling and psychology in Australia for many years, and is qualified to offer personal hypnotherapy. Peter is a member of the Australian Society of Clinical Hypnotherapists and the Australian Counselling Association, as well as the Australian Psychological Society. Peter is a member of the Board of the Australian Society of Clinical Hypnotherapists.

As a psychologist, coach and counsellor, Peter has been privileged to assist many people. He understands the nature of physical, emotional and mental states and their interaction over the human life span. Peter will use this expertise to strengthen your life, power, personality, knowledge and the spirit and wisdom of your creativity.

Peter can help transform your life in these areas:

• Help you control your weight
• Help you quit smoking
• Help you overcome the results of too little sleep
• Help you manage stress and experience the benefits of being calm
• Help you control your feelings and grow in self esteem and confidence
• Help bring your body into harmony with your unconscious mind and empower healing of mind and body
• Help you become more motivated
• Help you create and develop better relationships
• Help you develp the 5 R's
• Help you to imagine, believe, reflect and transcend current circumstances - begin personal change in your mind

The aim of hypnotherapy is to enhance individual ability for taking responsibility.

Techniques specifically excluded:

• Direct coercive instructions and messages that limit the freedom of the individual and those which are unethical.
• Subliminal messages set below the level of awareness.
• Hypnotherapy is a powerful tool, and must be used by qualified professionals, in a responsible manner, and must never be used other than with the best interests of clients in mind.
• Hypnotherapy is not concerned with hypnosis where people are persuaded or suggested to act in ways which degrade or misrepresent themselves.

Hypnotherapy has many recorded examples of use over many centuries.  It has been described in terms of suggestion and altered states of consciousness, and researchers point to differences in brain wave patterns between hypnotised and non-hypnotised people.  Research indicates, that no matter what it is, it really works!

The effects of hypnotherapy are alluring for people who want to change, or who are experiencing emotional and physical distress.  Hypnotherapy has been used for many years to assist people with:

• Physical self management
• Compulsive habits
• Addictions
• Pain management
• Overcoming dysfunctional self-perceptions
• Combating phobic responses

Hypnotherapy has been known for many centuries and probably occurred routinely before recorded history.  Common specific techniques were utilized by oracles, shamans and priests to focus attention intensively and the early humans could experience themselves differently.  This may have been labeled mystical or divine.

In modern times, the first clinical hypnotherapist was a French doctor called Franz Mesmer, who in the 17th century postulated that a force existed, called animal magnetism, which he discovered could heal people.

In the 1800’s doctors began using hypnotic anaesthesia to help them perform operations, and clinical hypnotherapists found applications for people who could enter deep sleep and could yet communicate and act on instructions.  Jean Marie Charcot, a neurologist at the mental asylum, the Saltpetriere and John Braid an English physician developed the term hypnosis, and noted the suggestibility of patients undergoing hypnotherapy.  Leboule and Bernheim in France in the late 1800’s and Sigmund Freud further developed the characteristics of hypnotherapy. 

In the 1950’s Milton Erickson performed more pioneering work in mapping out the tools and methods of establishing hypnotic phenomena and developing post-hypnotic suggestion.  After this time, hypnotherapy emerged as the accepted tool of psychotherapy it is today.

Hypnotherapy is not separable as an entity from a person’s normal functioning, it is just a variation on that behaviour, and this slight behaviour variation creates the nature and experience of hypnotherapy for that person.  It is non-confronting and non-threatening – a gentle flow of safe images.

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