Hypnotherapy to unlock the brain’s feel good hormones

Hypnotherapy to unlock the brain’s feel good hormones is all about the mind body connection.

The main "feel-good" hormones—dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphins—are neurotransmitters that regulate mood, reduce stress, and promote happiness.

A neurotransmitter is simply a chemical messenger that carries signals that control your mood.

To send ‘good signals’ you need a healthy lifestyle like exercise, social connection, sunlight exposure, and a sense you’re achieving your goals.

It’s a mindset and hypnotherapy makes it easier for you to do this.

Understanding your brain’s four “Feel-Good” hormones

Hypnotherapy to unlock your brain’s feel good hormones is all about releasing the following:

Dopamine (reward and motivation). This "feel-good" neurotransmitter, is released when your brain expects a reward, creating feelings of pleasure, focus, and accomplishment. Examples would be completing tasks, celebrating small wins, eating good food, and self-care.

Serotonin (the mood stabiliser). A regulator of mood, sleep, and appetite. It is crucial for your feelings of well-being, calm, and happiness, and is often targeted by antidepressants. Your sources are sunlight, exercise, meditation, and healthy eating.

Oxytocin (love & bonding). Known as the "love hormone," it promotes trust, bonding, and social connection, and is released through physical affection like hugging. You get a hit of this when you socialise, through physical touch (hugging), playing with your pets, and acts of kindness.

Endorphins (pain relief). The body's natural painkillers, released in response to pain or stress to promote euphoria, often nicknamed "runner's high”. You typically release endorphins when you exercise, laugh, dance, and listen to music.

How hypnotherapy works your the brain.

To understand how hypnotherapy unlock your brain’s feel good hormones I’ll take some time to say how hypnotherapy itself works.

Hypnotherapy changes your brainwaves from Beta (your normal waking state) to Alpha (that’s relaxed awareness: you’re calm but awake) to Theta (this is where you’re deeply relaxed in a hypnotic state) and are inward-focused with heightened imagination and creativity, and an increased access to your memories and emotions.

In effect when you’re hypnotised I’m ‘talking’ to your subconscious, this is sometimes called rewiring your neural pathways.

I’m using repetition to strengthen new positive, more helpful, thought patterns to break the cycle of automatic negative thinking that you’ve fallen into. Sometimes people refer to this as neuroplasticity: your brain’s ability to change.

The role of the subconscious mind

Your subconscious mind is powerful, it’s a 24/7 automatic system operating without your conscious awareness. It runs your bodily functions, stores memories, emotions, and ingrained habits. Primarily, it functions to ensure safety, guiding behaviours, intuition, and reactions based on your past experiences and belief systems. It’s thought that 90–95% of your behaviour comes from here.

And it’s not all helpful. It’s full of your stored memories, emotional patterns and outdated beliefs.

This is what hypnotherapy is targeting to change for the better.

Emotional Regulation through hypnotherapy to unlock the brain’s feel good hormones.

With out being too sciency, hypnotherapy calms the amygdala, the brain’s alarm system.

And when there’s a ‘calm version of you’ in place you make better decisions and are less stressed.

In effect I’m lowering your cortisol by creating a deep state of relaxation.

Hypnotherapy and dopamine: boosting motivation naturally

What I’m doing here is ‘installing’ healthier self talk.

For example, breaking negative reward cycles like over eating, drinking too much, or taking drugs. You start to realise that your own naturally created highs are a better way to go.

We can also replace your self-sabotage with empowering beliefs.

Hypnotherapy and serotonin and emotional balance

We can work on calming your anxiety through hypnotherapy. Sometimes it’s known as guided suggestion.

What does this do? It builds and inner stability and confidence. You find it easier to simply put on your running shoes and do a 5k, walk past Greggs or McDonald’s, or simply stand still and enjoy a sunset. Simply slow things down and be in the moment.

Stimulating endorphins: the body’s natural pain relief

Hypnotherapy to unlock the brain’s feel good hormones couldn’t be more appropriate for endorphins. These are your body’s natural painkillers. You get endorphins when you exercise, laugh dance or listen to music that emotionally moves you.

With hypnotherapy we can create relaxation that heals. So when you’re calm you can see the funny side of things, dance like no one’s watching, let yourself go and enjoy music at a deeper level.

Oxytocin and connection

We’re talking about love and affection both outwardly and inwardly. Hypnotherapy to unlock your brain’s feel good hormones means you want to be with friends and family - you don’t want to lock yourself away. You want to belong. We’re improving your relationships by releasing emotional blocks.

And you can also fall in love: with yourself. Strengthen your self-trust. Be kind to yourself.

In all these cases you’re lowering your cortisol to let the happiness chemicals rise - the brain’s feel good hormones.