When one hears the word "hypnosis", images of movie magicians with mesmerizing looks and voices that cannot be contradicted may flash before one's eyes. Images of pendulums, cataleptic bridges and suddenly falling into a state of being completely at the hypnotist's will. Hypnosis really only looks like this in fantasy literature and in various psychothrillers. Clinical hypnosis, which is used to treat a variety of disorders, actually takes a quite different course and form. Its success is verified by numerous professional studies.

Hypnotherapy can be extremely effective in dealing with psychosomatic symptoms for which the cause has not been identified at the physiological and somatic level. Our patients use hypnotherapy most often as a supportive therapy in the treatment of insomnia. It has been our experience that after only two therapy blocks, the sufferers experience significant relief.

However, hypnotherapy is also highly effective in treating certain types of headaches, allergies, skin diseases, asthma, and chronic pain. It also helps with problems with concentration, memory, learning, habits, stress, fear, stage fright, and compulsive thoughts. It makes sense to work hypnotically not only supportively, but it can be used as the main therapeutic intervention of an entire therapeutic program.

Hypnosis allows for regression, connecting with inaccessible parts of the self, and creative reflection on solutions to specific problems.

However, trans appears in many different forms in everyday life. It can be recognised and used in a targeted way, as in hypnotherapy, the altered states of consciousness that accompany targeted breath work. Trans also appears in rituals, dance or extreme sports performance.

Much more often, however, the trance comes and goes unnoticed (daydreaming, loss of time, forgetting an uncomfortable seat while watching a suspenseful movie, a "window" during an exam, irrational fears ). Sometimes people live most of their lives in one trance or another, and the hypnotherapist's job is not so much to hypnotize them as to "unhypnotize" them.

The strongest suggestions are those that one accepts as one's own and then tends to give them to oneself on an unconscious level. Because autosuggestion takes place at an unconscious level, it is sometimes challenging to figure out which autosuggestions we are subject to and especially which ones are dysfunctional and damage our psychological well-being in the long run. It can also be challenging to learn to develop our own trances to our own benefit, but under the guidance of an experienced hypnotherapist very significant progress can be made.

Hypnotic trance as such is described by people in different ways, some as total concentration, some as a state of inner "disconnection from oneself". Some people describe it as a relaxation, some as a strongly pleasant feeling, some as a void, some don't remember it at all. However, the common element of professionally guided clinical hypnosis should always be an easier access to one's emotions, creativity and harmonization of one's mental life.

Hypnotherapy is an intense experience that can shift our lives in a profound way, allowing us to become aware of crucial issues that have remained hidden from us. We strongly recommend that anyone interested in hypnotherapy should only undergo it under the guidance of an experienced psychologist or psychiatrist who has appropriate hypnotherapy training.