Hypnosis is a proven and time tested way to help you achieve your goals. Throughout history, thousands, if not millions of people have benefited from its power to help them make positive changes in their lives. Some notable users of hypnosis have included: Albert Einstein, Jackie Kennedy-Onassis, Henry Ford, Kevin Costner, and even Mozart. Hypnosis can help you to better understand yourself. It can help you change bad habits such as: smoking, eating unhealthy foods, or biting your fingernails, into positive habits such as : exercising, eating healthy, and coping with negative situations and emotions more adaptively. It can help you turn your negative or sad feelings into positive or upbeat ones. It can help you to effortlessly focus on almost anything in your life that you would like to change, while leaving you unburdened by analytical or pessimistic thoughts.

CAN HYPNOSIS WORK FOR YOU?

We have all been in a hypnotic state, in fact most of us visit this state every day.

Of course, we all do things like this on a daily basis. This is what it is like to be hypnotized. When in hypnosis, you can hear everything going on around you, you can hear all of the suggestions you’re being given and most times people say, “I don’t think I was hypnotized.” When asked why, the reply is usually, “Because I heard everything you said.” This is one of the misconceptions of hypnosis!

The subconscious mind then accepts these suggestions and creates the behavioral, physical, or emotional changes in order to achieve the given suggestions. When in hypnotic trance, the subconscious mind is 88% more alert than in a conscious state.

When in hypnosis, you can bring yourself out whenever you truly desire. People have asked, “What happens if the hypnotherapist walks away or something happens to her and I’m in hypnosis?’ Don’t worry…..you will either gradually go deeper and then wake up or simply begin to rise out of the hypnotic state to a fully conscious state.

WHAT IS HYPNOSIS?

There are various definitions for hypnosis though they all mean the same thing. Simply put, hypnosis can be explained this way. When a person is in a relaxed state, the conscious mind is able to be bypassed in order to directly make suggestions to the subconscious mind. That’s basically it. That’s all you need to understand in order to grasp the idea. A good metaphor is to refer to the subconscious as your hard drive, as in a computer, and the hypnotherapist as the reprogrammer. When you have targeted a specific glitch, such as a bad habit, in your programming, the hypnotherapist is able to guide you into a relaxed yet aware state in which your subconscious is reprogrammed with positive suggestions that replace negative elements. Our conscious mind finds it difficult to change bad habits. The subconscious mind is able to change bad habits by readily accepting positive suggestions. Therein lies the secret to the effectiveness of hypnosis: Through positive suggestion, hypnosis changes your beliefs, attitudes, or behaviors which you would like to improve.

BELIEF---DESIRE---EXPECTANCY

The most important factor regarding the application of hypnosis is a combination of three things, belief, desire, and expectancy. You must believe it will work, have a genuine desire for it to work, and expect that it will work. If these three factors are in place, then you are willing and open to suggestion.

Some changes require a different approach, understanding, and strategy, but can all be achieved through hypnosis.

We are all victims of habit. Most of us hardly ever recognize our positive habits, like exercise or a healthy diet, for we look at those as expected. We do however focus on all of our negative habits, like overeating and smoking. There are two things to understand. Habits are a conditioned response in the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind does not know the difference between a “good” habit or a “bad” habit. The subconscious mind does not know the difference between reality or imagination.
If you do something enough times, the subconscious mind begins to believe that this behavior pattern is what you want and therefore stores it for you and makes it part of you natural behavior.

Then no matter how much you try to consciously change the behavior pattern, using what we know as “willpower”, your subconscious mind wins the mental tug of war and you return to that “stored” behavior pattern. This is why “willpower” is the downfall for it will not work for the vast majority of people in a permanent or even sometimes short term period. The only way to effectively and permanently make a true change in your behavioral, physical, or emotional pattern is to change the remembered pattern in the subconscious mind.

There are four levels of brain wave activity, Beta, Alpha, Theta, and Delta. The top level, Beta, is complete consciousness and the deepest level, Delta, is the deep unconscious sleep. The middle two levels, Alpha and Theta are simply more relaxed states than total consciousness but above deep sleep. This is what is referred to as the hypnotic state of mind, simply being relaxed.

Alpha is a daydream or when you drive up the highway and drift off a bit and Theta is when you are in a dream state, above deep sleep. The light relaxed state of Alpha is all that is necessary to achieve in order to make changes. This is why most people do not think they are “hypnotized” because we have all been misled as to what hypnosis really is.