It’s no secret that our minds are complex little buggers!

There’s the conscious mind that sits in the driver’s seat and directs all our thoughts and actions. And then there’s the unconscious mind who lurks quietly in the background.

It doesn’t say much, but it’s the engine that’s actually driving the car. The conscious mind THINK’S it’s the driver, but really, it’s the unconscious mind that’s giving all the directions.

That unconscious mind has a memory like a steel trap. When things happen to us throughout our lives, those memories get locked up tight in our unconscious mind. Everything from major traumatic life events, right through to seemingly harmless comments thrown about in the school yard. All those bits of information get stored in the unconscious mind and start to shape our beliefs.

Now, the whole goal of the unconscious mind is to keep you safe. So it uses all that information it’s received over the years to decide what’s NOT safe about the world. It becomes the over- protective helicopter parent saying “don’t touch that, you’ll hurt yourself, that’s scary, don’t doooo iiiiiiit”.

The unconscious mind is working in overdrive in the background, but what YOU see, is how that tension and angst actually shows up in your body.

It can show up as stress, anxiety, depression, PTSD, and other symptoms of emotional distress such as agoraphobia, addictions, and compulsive behaviour. And the longer the body holds onto that unresolved stress, physical ailments such as chronic fatigue, chronic pain, digestive problems, and other health issues, are more likely to rear their ugly head.

And if we’re just treating those surface-level symptoms, that bandaid will only mask the problem; not fix it. In order to fix the problem, we need to look beneath the surface to find out what’s really going on. And that’s what hypnotherapy can do for you.