The reasons and why and how hypnosis works, has been a mystery for centuries. Recently, since the availability of better scan equipment to monitor Brain activity, we have learned that the state of hypnotic trance is similar to the state between being awake and asleep, during which the brain produces alpha waves.

The input of the hypnotherapist only partly determines the success of the therapy. There should be a determination and willingness to allow hypnotherapy to do its job. It is therefore absolutely vital that you have complete faith in the hypnotherapy concept, the delivery of it and also in the practitioner. Now that sounds a fair bit like “alternative therapy”, but it isn’t. It is the same concept of believing what somebody with authority tells you, or wants you to believe, and you do believe it, because you have no reason to query it. It is what advertising does every day, making you believe that a product is exceptional, and you believe the advertisers and buy the product. You believe what news broadcasts tell you and what newspapers want you to believe and also why the concept of placebos was invented and are usually applied in clinical trials.
Hypnotherapy works at its very best if you want it to work!