| HOW DOES HYPNOSIS WORK?
Our subconscious mind automatically controls our bodily functions; breathing, heart beating, eyes blinking, and organs functioning. The subconscious mind contains every belief, thought, word, and experience you have ever had. Just like a computer operates only on its programming, so does your subconscious mind. Just like a computer can be reprogrammed; through hypnosis, your subconscious mind can be reprogrammed.
WHAT IS HYPNOTHERAPY?
Hypnotherapy involves counseling with hypnosis. You communicate with the deepest layers of your personality to create new and more powerful ways to solve problems, overcome fears and limitations, and make lasting changes in your life.
HOW CAN HYPNOTHERAPY HELP ME?
You can overcome anxieties, fears and phobias, you can move away from negative habits, unrewarding jobs and unfulfilling relationships, you can lessen or remove pain, you can heal sadness, anger and stress, you can improve and enhance performance skills. Hypnotherapy assists you to direct your life toward health, wealth, happiness and inner peace.
WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE TO BE HYPNOTIZED?
A daydream and a hypnotic state are the same process. In a daydream, you are aware of where you are and what you are doing, but at the same time you are very absorbed in the experience and sensations of your thoughts, ideas, and images of that daydream. Watching a movie, driving home on auto-pilot, practicing meditation or other relaxation techniques are other examples of this natural state of the mind.
I'VE SEEN HYPNOTISTS ON TV. WILL YOU BE ABLE TO CONTROL ME THAT WAY?
The answer is NO. Most of what is presented in stage hypnosis is very distorted and misleading. A common misconception is that the hypnotic subject is under someone else's control. You are always in control. At any time the hypnotic state may be discontinued, just as we do with a daydream.
CAN I BE HYPNOTIZED?
Most of the population go into hypnosis very easily, while a small percentage show great resistance (usually around the issue of being controlled) and the therapist may need to work with such people to help them "get out of their own way."
MUST I BELIEVE IN HYPNOSIS FOR IT TO WORK?
No. Hypnosis is not faith healing. Hypnosis is based upon scientific principles which work whether or not we believe in them. In 1958 the AMA (American Medical Association) recognized hypnosis as a safe and effective treatment for a wide range of medical and behavioral problems.
HOW IS HYPNOSIS DIFFERENT FROM MEDITATION OR RELAXATION?
Hypnosis is similar to meditation as a process for achieving a creative and peaceful state of mind. The difference is that in meditation that state of mind is the goal; and in hypnosis the emphasis is on actively using that state of mind to achieve what is being suggested by our words, thoughts, and ideas.
WHAT IS REGRESSION THERAPY?
Regression therapy, one of the most effective methods of hypnotherapy, is useful in exploring whether the problem has roots in traumatic experiences from childhood. If so, regression therapy can help expedite the process of working through feelings around traumatic incidents that never were expressed and help change self-limiting decisions you made about yourself or your circumstances as a result of the trauma. |
