Hypnosis according to Milton Erickson
Milton Erickson’s hypnosis is an invitation to get to know yourself better and to trust your own unconscious abilities and intuitions.
It represents a goal-oriented process that allows you to access your own partly unused abilities or resources so that you can better support yourself. Hypnosis is a focusing and directing of concentration; in this state the body is quite relaxed, but at the same time the mind is wide awake. Although most people don’t realize it, we experience hypnotic states every day (e.g., while reading a book, immersing ourselves in engaging conversation, watching sports, riding the train, …). These spontaneous hypnotic phenomena can be applied therapeutically in clinical psychological treatment with hypnosis so that positive changes can take place.
You yourself decide in hypnosis what is important and good for you and you keep control over what happens. In hypnosis you will be connected with your inner resources, abilities, experiences and memories.
Any person who is willing to allow a change in their unconscious patterns, symptoms and behavior can benefit from hypnosis. To name just a few examples where changes have been achieved by means of hypnosis: Fears, phobias, sleep disorders, eating disorders, trauma processing, dealing with pain, stress, feelings of inferiority, psychosomatic disorders, depression and much more …