First of all, allow me to define the word Hypnotherapy,
The word Hypno comes from a greek word Hypnos. It is related to the Greek God Hypnos, which means the God of Sleep.
However, hypnosis is not sleep. For lack of a better word, the word sleep is used as a short hand to mean go deeper into relaxation. Therapy means to move someone into health and wholeness. Thus Hypnotherapy means to move someone into health and wholeness using hypnosis.
Hypnosis is the bypass of the critical factor and the establishment of acceptable selective thinking (The United States Government, Department of Education, Human Services Division).
During normal consciousness, our critical factor decides what type of information goes into the subconscious mind. It's function is to protect the existing data in the subconscious mind, eventhough the data may be erroneous. Any data that does not match the existing data is rejected by the conscious mind. Hypnosis allows new information to be accepted by the subconscious mind as it bypass the critical factor.
The establishment of acceptable selective thinking refers to the client following instructions during the hypnotic induction.
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