FAQs

My voice will guide you through an experience navigating the sensations, visuals and insights of your inner world. You'll direct the course, and we'll redirect where appropriate and necessary.

 

 In terms of your involvement and attention — practicing softly focused attention on what is emerging within you and in your minds-eye is what we're doing in sessions and hypnosis recordings. Practicing listening, sensing, feeling, experiencing, seeing, understanding and releasing held energy.

For details about the science of hypnosis, see our approach and/or read some articles on the blog.

 

As an overview — using visualisation and somatic experiencing, hypnosis activates the limbic brain — the gateway to the subconscious. This processing centre of the brain is an entirely different processing centre to the language/logical areas of the brain. It processes data as feelings, imagery, sensation and symbols — here is where we can make suggestions that can impede on regularly running programming that is no longer working for you.

 

The intention of hypnosis to provide relief and induce a state of mind/body repair. This occurs on a subconscious level by tapping into this different part of your awareness.

The hypnosis is experiential, not logical. As such, there's no need to try to figure it out, or try to make sense of what happens during and/or after the experience. The more you can settle in and allow your imagination the time to ignite, the better the reverberating effects.​​​​​​​  

 

Sometimes it's an in-the-moment response, sometimes your experience will unfold in the days and weeks following a session or recording. The subconscious is non-linear. Read more about it here.

While the essence of hypnosis is suggestion (of the ideal), you needn't worry about being controlled or unduly influenced — the force in which the subconscious rejects ideas it doesn't agree with is quite absolute in hypnosis. ​It will bypass and dismiss irrelevant details quickly and absolutely. Also, I would never suggest anything out of scope of what you've asked for — that would be unethical! 

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This isn't stage hypnosis — that's a different skill set. This is hypnotherapy — hypnosis + therapeutic intent and intervention. 

It happens a lot, especially if you're overworked or your body is overloaded with stress. Your best approach is to be open to the idea of absorbing the benefits of the experience regardless of whether you remain totally present or not — the subconscious remains aware even if you do fall asleep. You'll likely drift in and out if you've got a lot on your mind, or feel exhausted and that's okay. You won't miss anything. The subconscious gets what it needs. 

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I still fall asleep quite often.

Look, what you put in is what you get out. Sometimes it can take more than one session to feel trusting enough to be open to the experience — which is why I start with a discovery call so we can be somewhat acquainted before the session.

 

If you come in with a lot of resistance — let's talk your worries through, because resistance to the process will limit the openness you feel in hypnosis, and that will impede relaxation and imagination and receiving.

 

The more you approach the session / experience with curiosity about what might emerge — knowing you're in control the whole time — the better the chances of absorbing what it is you need to get you closer to your desired result. 

 

You'll know after an experience how hypnosis affects you — it's not possible to predict before. It's best not to assume one way or another. How hypnotherapy may affect you could be a startling in the moment realisation, or a softer gentler shift unfolding over time. 

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See if you get any of the following from a hypnosis recording / hypnotherapy session:

 

If you felt relief for a moment — it worked.

If you received one insight to help with next steps — it worked.

If you feel a little more at peace or a little more spacious — it worked.

If your perspective has shifted slightly — it worked!

 

Then you just let it play and experience the results.