Hypnotherapy is one of the most promising branches of psycho-therapy. It can cure different illnesses that concern the mind such as insomnia, asthma, tension headaches, weight loss, eating disorders, addictions, and phobias. In hypnotherapy, the hypnotherapist put the patient in a trance-like state and asks him to open his mind and listen to suggestions. In this manner, some patients are cured of their illness because their mind are conditioned and refreshed.

There are two types of hypnotherapy that are commonly used in helping patients and these are the suggestive hypnotherapy and the analytical hypnotherapy. In suggestive hypnotherapy, the hypnotherapist can cure unhealthy habits of patients like nail-biting, eating disorders, and smoking. When the patient is put on a trance-like state, the hypnotherapist will make either direct or indirect suggestions to the patient in the form of metaphors or other figurative speech so that the patient will abruptly stop doing his habits. For example, if the person is keen on biting his or her nails, then the hypnotherapist will likened his nail into the patient’s mind into something awful like insects or worms. After the session, this will make the person automatically keep his fingers away from his mouth whenever he feels like biting them. The advantage of this method is that because of the suggestive statements the patient hears from the hypnotherapist, the patient begins to form images in his mind that are very unaccommodating. In this manner, the conditioned mind of the patient will be in his favor. This type of hypnotherapy can only take about 1 or 2 sessions. The only problem with this method is that there is a great probability that the habit may return after some time if the patient see other people do the same habit.

The analytical technique, on the other hand, is the method wherein the treatment goes directly to the mental issues of the client. This is the method wherein the hypnotherapist will be asking the patient while in trance to uncover the issues he is keeping from his subconscious mind. The hypnotherapist understands that anxieties, depression, nervous breakdown and other mental anomalies that cannot be cured by drugs emanate from past experiences and therefore must be uncovered for analysis. After few sessions and the causes have been determined, the hypnotherapist will then replace all the negative emotions and replace them with positive feelings so that a renewed mental state can be reached.

Analytical hypnotherapy is also used on people who are suffering from physical pains and other mental related issues like eczema, hay fever, and insomnia. These disorders sometimes occur and recur once stress and depression sets in. With more sessions, the hypnotherapist can resolve the issues of the patient one by one until all negative feelings are replaced with positive emotions. This makes the treatment more solid and reliable and the effect can be long lasting.

This is where analytical hypnotherapy gain advantage over suggestive hypnotherapy because with analytical hypnotherapy the probability of the recurrence of illness is lesser or not at all. However, the disadvantage of this therapy is it can take many sessions before the patient can fully get over his or her problem and some patients do not come back after few sessions because probably they think they are already cured. That is why hypnotherapists always advise to their patients that they should be willing to undergo many sessions because it takes a lot of time to go back to the life history of the patient and find the root cause of his problems.

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