How does hypnosis work?

When something happens to us, we remember it and learn a particular behavior in response to what happened. Each time something similar happens, our physical and emotional reactions attached to the memory are repeated. In some cases these reactions are unhealthy. In some forms of hypnotherapy, a trained therapist guides you to remember the event that led to the first reaction, separate the memory from the learned behavior, and replace unhealthy behaviors with new, healthier ones.

During hypnosis, your body relaxes and your thoughts become more focused. Like other relaxation techniques, hypnosis lowers blood pressure and heart rate, and changes certain types of brain wave activity. In this relaxed state, you will feel at ease physically yet fully awake mentally and may be highly responsive to suggestion. If you are trying to quit smoking, for example, a therapist's suggestion may help convince you that you will not like the taste of cigarettes in the future. Some people respond better to hypnotic suggestion than others.

 

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"Hypnosis is increasingly being used for helping people lose weight, stop smoking, or even perform better in athletics or academic tests." -Wall Street Journal

 

When you hear the word hypnosis, you may picture the mysterious hypnotist figure popularized in movies, comic books and television. This ominous, goateed man waves a pocket watch back and forth, guiding his subject into a semi-sleep, zombie-like state. Once hypnotized, the subject is compelled to obey, no matter how strange or immoral the request. Muttering "Yes, master," the subject does the hypnotist's evil bidding.

 

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Hypnosis Can Help You To....

 

  • Break bad habits and construct useful routines

  • Become a better husband, wife, parent or friend

  • To change one's negative patterns and ineffective beliefs

  • Learn to have more self-control, use choice and to facilitate personal and cultural evolution

  •  Answer life-path questions and give meaning to life

  • Increase motivation toward completing projects and accomplishing goals

  • Develop a deeper connection to your true self and expand your spiritual awareness

  • Acquire the ability to relax completely in any situation

  • Feel worthwhile, self-confident and enthusiastic

  • Discover your negative mental patterns and how they affect you

  • Free yourself from hostility, resentment and fear

  • Reduce conflict and stress

  • Forgive ANYONE

 

 

Areas of Application

1. Mental & Emotional Health

*Relieve Post Traumatic Stress Disorder symptoms and effects    *Overcome depression    *Alleviate anxiety and panic attacks    *End fears and phobias forever    *Heal and complete the past    *Free yourself from hostility, resentment, and any fear of rejection    *Heal your relationships    *Increase self-esteem    *End guilt and anger patterns.

2. Physical Health

Accelerate healing and manage pain    *Relieve stress and anxiety    *Discover your subconscious negative mental patterns, and their effect on you health    *Develop healthier eating and exercising habits    *Lower our blood pressure    *Regain natural ability to sleep easily    *Overcome impotency and sexual unresponsiveness  
 
  *Hypnotherapy is never intended to replace traditional medical intervention.

3. Psychic & Spiritual Development

*Find you life purpose    *Contact your spirit guide    *Express higher levels of awareness and intuition    *Learn about you earned karma and liberate your soul    *Learn of hidden talents and forgotten knowledge    *Explore past lives and the intra-life.
 

4. Creative & Educational Endeavors

*Experience speaking in public with comfort and ease    *Improve memory and accessibility to stored information    *Discover hidden talents and abilities    *Master exam preparation and test anxiety

5. Athletics & Sports Motivation

*Enhance you sports performance    *Achieve muscle memory through visualization while in trance    *Improve you concentration and focus

6. Business Interests

*Program you mind with positive mental concepts and success attitudes    *Let go of core negative ideas and beliefs around money and replace them with thoughts and beliefs of monetary abundance, success and motivation    *Sell you ideas and your service with more confidence and enthusiasm

7. Personal

*Let go of hostility and learn to forgive anyone    *Learn to love and be loved    *Attract and maintain worthwhile friendships    *Resolve inner conflicts that interfere with goal attainment    *Achieve emotional clearing and attitude restructuring    *Gain a happier home life    *Enrich you personal relationships and become a better husband, wife, parent, partner and/or friend    *Learn kindness and compassion skills    *Recognize and analyze any self-defeating behavior and reverse it    *Pick out your life goals and chart the course for your achievement for them
 
 
 
 
Hypnotism and hypnotherapy have been recognized as beneficial for hundreds of years. In the last few decades, there have been hundreds of clinical and medical studies. Millions of people now reap the benefits.
 
 

 

Hypnosis Is Not a Secret Anymore

"I should have done it years ago. It's amazing – I didn't even want cigarettes any more."
Matt Damon, describing his hypnosis experience to Jay Leno
The Tonight Show, December 2004

"Hypnosis can help adult patients control other forms of pain, relieve gastrointestinal problems, stimulate weight loss, clear up skin problems, and accelerate the healing of bone fractures and surgical wounds."
Consumer Reports, January 2005

 
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What is the history of hypnosis?

Throughout history, trance states have been used by shamans and ancient peoples in rituals and religious ceremonies. But hypnosis as we know it today was first associated with the work of an Austrian physician named Franz Anton Mesmer. In the 1700s, Mesmer believed that illnesses were caused by magnetic fluids in the body getting out of balance. He used magnets and other hypnotic techniques (the word “mesmerized” comes from his name) to treat people. But the medical community was not convinced. Mesmer was accused of fraud, and his techniques were called unscientific.

Hypnotherapy regained popularity in the mid-1900s due to Milton H. Erickson (1901 - 1980), a successful psychiatrist who used hypnosis in his practice. In 1958, both the American Medical Association and the American Psychological Association recognized hypnotherapy as a valid medical procedure. Since 1995, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has recommended hypnotherapy as a treatment for chronic pain.

Other conditions for which hypnotherapy is frequently used include anxiety and addiction.

 

 

Common Hypnotherapy Myths and Fears

Hypnotherapy is a proven therapeutic treatment recognized by the AMA and yet, for some, hypnosis carries some unjustified stigmas. Here are 5 common misconceptions that often scare people away from this truly incredible healing art.

1. "It's a form of mind control" – This just isn't the case. No one can be hypnotized against their will and in allowing relaxation and acceptance of the therapy to take place, you are essentially the one in control of your own mind and you can choose to stop it of your own free will at any point.

2. "I will end up doing things I don't want to do" – This is a common fear of many people unfamiliar with hypnosis as a form of therapy. Often times people picture the popular stage act hypnosis of people doing funny, and often times embarrassing, things. Again, you are in control at all times. The therapist simply guides you, but does NOT control you.

3. "What if the therapist leaves me in a hypnotic state? Won't I be stuck that that forever?" - No, even if the therapist were to walk out of the room, you would soon realize he/she was no longer talking and you would open your eyes and be awake or perhaps, due to the relaxed nature of the therapy, you might even fall asleep but would soon wake up without assistance.

4. "I will be forced to spill my inner-most secrets to a total stranger." – The therapist's goal is to guide your mind on the path you wish to take. Many times patients may seek a therapist to retrieve repressed or forgotten memories. During hypnotherapy the mind may retrieve these memories; however, it is up to you as the patient whether or not you vocalize these thoughts to the therapist.

5. "It would never work on me." – At the very core of hypnosis, is relaxation. Though there is some amount of stress in everyone's lives, we are all capable of relaxing at some point and relaxation is all that is needed to begin the guided imagery.

 

 

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Toni Reed

 

 

 

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