Is Hypnotherapy Just Woo-Woo?

Many people think that hypnotherapy is just woo-woo and are reluctant to take it seriously, but there is a scientific element to it.

I recently created a 6-week workshop called Develop Your Intuition and Psychic Ability.

I use spiritual practices in my own life daily and I have been developing intuition and mediumship for some years. In addition, I know many who work in the field of coaching, therapy and healing who also use intuitive skills.

But I was nervous as I had been doing a lot of thinking about being taken seriously as a hypnotherapist. My thinking has been, if you knew, you would think I was bat s–t crazy.

Well, some people already think that (including my husband and children), and others are on the same page.

But is hypnotherapy just woo-woo?

The True Meaning of Psychic

Psychic comes from the greek name Psyche which means soul or breath of life.

There is a myth about Psyche being more beautiful than Aphrodite herself. Because Aphrodite was jealous of Psyche, she sent her son Eros (Cupid) to ensure that no man would ever wed Psyche; instead, he fell desperately in love with her.

Psychic is connected to the soul or the life force, which is breath, the essence of the energy that came with you into this your human body. Some say soul, and others call it spirit. Einstein’s theory was that the universe has more space than matter, which is made of atoms, photons, protons, etc. This is accepted by most people and supported by scientific findings. 

Intuition goes hand-in-hand with this. The definition of intuition is the ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning.

“We shall allow our intuition to guide us.”

So why are we afraid of something that we all have?

Back in the Middle Ages, wise women and men were called witches and wizards. It was okay for Merlin as he had King Arthur to protect him, but others weren’t as lucky. Merlin was also known as an alchemist; however, if he were around today, he would be known as a scientist.

A Different Way of Communicating 

Over the last ten years or more, science has become open to the possibility that scientists studying metaphysics have validity in their hypotheses. There is evidence that we are more than the total sum of matter.

Trees communicate with each other along with other plants and life forms. Mushrooms or mycelium have a whole underground communication network, supporting the trees with their communication. To find out more about this fascinating topic, I recommend the documentary Fantastic Funghi.

If science tells us that plants and animals can communicate between themselves without the spoken word, then what about us humans?

How many times you have had a thought about someone, and then suddenly, out of the blue, they contacted you?

Or perhaps you had a thought or a strong feeling about something, maybe a journey. You ignored the feeling and the idea as silly, inconsequential, and unimportant. But later on, had you listened to the noise in your mind and that feeling, the thing that went wrong may not have happened.

I know this has happened to you as it has to me. 

Thousands of years ago, the only way to communicate was by being in touch with how we felt. There was no thinking part of the brain, only the part that we call the reptilian or brainstem, the survival part of us which asks, “Am I safe?” 

Then came the mid-brain, where our emotions and memories are stored, which asks, “Am I loved?”

Lastly, the executive brain came on board and asks, “What can I learn from this?”

In today’s Westernised culture, the majority of us are required to use the thinking brain most of the time. We pay much less attention to the survival part of our brains.

Back to the Original Question, Is Hypnotherapy Just Woo-Woo or Is It Science? 

I sit here typing this blog on a laptop, which I will then post in several places in the ether. For me, this is magic because I have no idea how all this internet and computer stuff works from information typed into a tiny microchip. But somebody out there knows precisely how it works.

I trust that it works, and most of the time, it does.

You could learn to trust that you, too, know more than you realise.

Is hypnotherapy just woo-woo? I don’t think so; I know that you and I were born with this knowledge. Yet, at some stage, in our early years, we put it to bed, relying on others to support all our emotional and physical needs.

What could you achieve from this day forward if you used the telephone line to your own mind and wisdom? What if you could hear and feel the answers to the questions you ask yourself or those of you visiting tarot readers, intuitives, psychics and mediums?