Hypnosis - What to expect?
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With each of my clients I provide a FREE 30 minute consultation.
During this assessment:
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We will discuss your goals, desires, and create a unique plan based on your individual needs.
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I will explain the basics of hypnosis (or other solutions we might utilize, such as Reiki or Shadow Work) and answer all of your questions.
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I may take the opportunity to determine your personal type of suggestibility. This is to help adapt the session to you as an individual and ensure that hypnosis will help you accomplish what you want to achieve, in the most efficient way possible.
If for any reason you can't be hypnotized - you will not be charged!
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Once the plan is made – we can begin your first session immediately so you can get relief fast!
Note: Generally most consultations take around twenty to thirty minutes, but may take longer depending on the individual issue at hand.
What can hypnosis help with?
This guide will help you understand why hypnosis is an efficient, safe, and modern treatment that addresses many problems. Through hypnosis a client may quit smoking, manage healthy weight loss, address and remove fears, phobias or worries, become more confident in their social and professional spheres, etc.
Hypnosis can also help change the way a client deals with stress-inducing situations; allowing them to re-think old habits and behaviors, turn procrastination into motivation, sleep better, reduce stress/pain, and gain better focus for work and study.
We can help with many problems:
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Improving Relationships
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Fears & Phobias (Public Speaking, Flying, Elevators, Spiders, etc.)
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Anxiety & Stress
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Motivation
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Self-Confidence/Self-Esteem (Confidence for Dating, Socializing, etc.)
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Pain Management (Chronic Pain)
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Weight Loss & Eating Disorders
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Smoking Cessation
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Alcohol or Drug Addictions
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Sports & Fitness Improvement
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Fertility Issues
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Sexual Dysfunction (Erectile Problems, Premature Ejaculation, or Inability to Orgasm)
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Anger Issues
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Nail Biting, Teeth Grinding, Stuttering (& Many Other "Bad Habits")
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Bed Wetting
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Academic Improvement (Learning & Studying)
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Specific Memory Recall & Improving General Memory
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Age Regression
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Resolving Grief, Loss, Trauma
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Stress Related To Chronic Diseases – Diabetes, Asthma, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Allergies, etc.
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Life Transformation
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Reaching Goals & Succeeding
"Hypnotherapy can treat headaches, ease labor pains, help you quit smoking, replace anesthesia and improve study habits – all without side effects." -Psychology Today Magazine, January 2001
Hypnosis - How does it really work?
(For those who are interested/curious in the functional details of hypnotism.)
Hypnosis can be defined in two parts:
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Bypass the critical faculty of the conscious mind.
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Establish acceptable selective thinking.
(Elman, 1964)
What is the critical faculty?
The critical faculty is the protective part of your conscious mind that judges, analyzes and evaluates what other people say. While these are all vital thought processes, they can also often make you rationalize unhealthy or negative thoughts, habits and behaviors instead of examining them honestly. By bypassing this part of the mind under hypnosis, a client is free to think in a non-judgmental, honest and uncritical manner about their lives, choices and actions.
The critical faculty is the reason you can tell a smoker over and over that their habit is killing them. You can print pictures of what their lungs, eyes or teeth will look like on every pack of cigarettes they buy (which we do!) and the smoker could completely understand just how bad what they are doing is, and how much they need to quit... but continue to smoke!
It isn't because they are stupid, or intentionally self-destructive. It is simply their critical faculty unconsciously works against them. Perhaps for them, smoking brings comfort and relaxation. The critical faculty will then reject suggestions to quit smoking in favor of keeping these comforting beliefs... thus the smoker continues to smoke.
What is acceptable selective thinking?
Selective thinking occurs when a person adopts wholeheartedly a new way of thinking or reacting to a problem. By definition, selective thinking is uncritical, as it is generated and established only after the critical faculty is bypassed. The client must be amenable to this new way of thinking in order for it to be effective. Under these two key conditions, we have hypnosis. A client under hypnosis experiences a variety of hypnotic phenomena, such as heightened imagination, heightened memory, and altered perceptions. Hypnotherapy is the use of hypnotic phenomena and targeted suggestions to achieve beneficial change.
As previously stated, a client must be amenable to a new way of thinking (the suggestions) in order for them to be effective.
For example: you could not simply hypnotize a vegan to love eating meat.
This is also why someone trained in hypnosis couldn't rob people by inducing a hypnotic state then "suggesting" they hand over all of their money. If such a thing were possible, hypnosis training would be a lot more popular!
What happens during hypnosis?
Getting into hypnosis only takes the first 5-10 (maximum 15-20) minutes of your session, and often the client doesn't even feel it. Once you’re in hypnosis, change occurs because of the suggestions we give and the processes we guide you through. Here are a few of the most common techniques that we use in hypnosis:
Direct suggestion: This is what most people think of when they think of hypnosis. Direct suggestion means that hypnotist makes suggestions such as “Every breath of fresh air makes you feel healthy, proud and strong” or “You find it easy to move on from past mistakes.” While this cliche approach may seem silly to those watching it be used out of a hypnotic state, the technique is timeless for a reason; because it is so effective.
Reframing: Hamlet said, “There is nothing either good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.” Reframing helps you to see a situation in an entirely new light - not just intellectually, but emotionally - so that bad habits start to feel abnormal, and better habits start to feel right. Much of what we believe is simply due to framing (or what we might also call "conditioning") to what we accept as normal. Corporations spend trillions of dollars every year to reframe YOUR perception of their products through commercials, and they do it because it works so well!
Visualization: Entire volumes have been written about the power of visualization. In hypnosis, we ask you to visualize success so that it starts to feel obvious, motivating, and attainable. While hypnotized these visualizations can have lasting positive effects and are much more vivid, as well. Metaphysically speaking: a popular concept is that visualization in a meditative (hypnotic) state literally bends the universe around you, allowing you to manifest the reality you visualize.
These are only a few of the basic techniques we use, but the possibilities of what might occur during hypnosis are limited only by the imagination.
If you have more questions about hypnosis, please take a look at our
Frequently Asked Questions page.
You can also contact us directly below to arrange your free consultation.
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