HYPNOSIS has been used for over 200 years by physicians, surgeons, and researchers. It was first used as anesthesia before chloroform and ether were discovered and is now frequently used in medicine, dentistry, psychotherapy and sometimes in surgery. Hypnosis has been unanimously endorsed by the Council on Mental Health of the American Medical Association and the British Medical Association.
It is estimated that the conscious mind makes up only 12% of our mind: the remaining 88%—the subconscious or unconscious mind—is not normally accessible during the wakened state.
Our conscious mind is always critiquing and judging all suggestions that are proposed to it: the job of the conscious mind is to protect the ‘status quo’ of your belief system. Whether learned or experienced, our feelings live in the unconscious part of our minds. In Hypnosis, we are able to push the critical conscious mind aside in order to communicate to the unconscious mind through relaxation techniques.
HYPNOSIS vs. THERAPY?
Therapy appeals only to the conscious mind and is also an important part of making changes. It elicits the help of the intellect to resolve problems and relieve stress. We can gain a lot of knowledge through therapy, but sometimes -- the more intellectualizing and rationalizing we do—the greater the tendency to develop alibis and to protect the subconscious from changing our behaviors.
Sometimes, despite your best intentions to change things, you may find that you still can’t make the progress you would like to make. By creating access to the unconscious mind with hypnosis—where so much of our behavior is controlled—you are able to effortlessly find the ways to make the desired changes.
The most compelling reason to use hypnosis is to empower you to step outside of your often limited conscious mind and discover more of your own personal resources.
In addition to direct, results-oriented psychotherapy, i use individualized hypnosis sessions where and when they will serve your goals for change. In my practice, hypnosis is used as an additional tool to guide and empower you to make the changes you want to make.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Reaching the unconscious mind requires no real effort: it’s a matter of allowing, not forcing. In hypnosis you allow yourself to relax and your unconscious mind does the work. It’s simply a matter of the therapist talking to you while you are in a very relaxed state:
During hypnosis, you are not asleep and you never lose control of your awareness. In fact, your state of awareness is heightened. Your ability to decide what you will and won’t do — what you will and won’t accept — is enhanced.
Hypnosis can also help you to change the behaviors you want to change: without going all the way back in your childhood to look for the sources of that behavior and without knowing what caused the behavior in the first place.
Hypnosis can mobilize helpful resources within you that are largely unrecognized and unused. The job of the professional hypnotist is to build the bridges to these resources and make them accessible to you.
WHEN IS HYPNOSIS HELPFUL?
Most people are aware that hypnosis can be used to lose weight, stop smoking and break other unwanted habits.
But you may be surprised that Hypnosis can be helpful in almost any area of your life where you feel 'stuck.'
With hypnosis, I have helped people to:
WHEN IS HYPNOSIS HELPFUL?
Most people are aware that hypnosis can be used to lose weight, stop smoking and break other unwanted habits.
But you may be surprised that Hypnosis can be helpful in almost any area of your life where you feel 'stuck.'
With hypnosis, I have helped people to:
- Enhance confidence and sports performance
- Relieve anxiety, depression, fears, phobias and physical pain and
- Aid in specific therapeutic issues where change seems slow and/or difficult.
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A young woman get over her fear of needles and dental surgery
- A man stop tinnitus (ringing in the ears)
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An older woman stop her nervous tics
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Men to resolve erection problems and retarded ejaculation
- A woman to stop nail-biting
- Women from wanting/eating junk food
- Men and Women to stop smoking, get motivated to lose weight and stick to it
- A physician pass his medical board exams
- A college student overcome a fear of speaking before a group
- A man to stop obsessing over his wife's affair
- A young woman to let go of a past relationship
- A man to stop self-sabotage
- A woman to overcome writers' block
IS IT TRUE THAT SOME PEOPLE CAN’T BE HYPNOTIZED?
People of average intelligence can be hypnotized, if they are willing and do not resist. The depth of hypnosis varies with a person’s ability to respond. If you are not naturally responsive, you can usually improve your receptivity to hypnosis with practice.
Some people may go deeper into trance than others, but that does not affect the results of the hypnosis. Hypnosis will not work if you don’t want to use it, because no one can hypnotize you against your will.