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Hypnosis

Use the power of your subconscious mind to create the life you want

What is hypnosis?
The subconscious mind is the seat of the emotions, imagination, memory, habits, and intuition. It is the essence of how we experience ourselves and the world. Hypnosis is the key with which we can open the door to the subconscious. Any meaningful personal transformation that has ever occurred resulted from a shift in the subconscious mind. Although it is an altered state beyond ordinary consciousness, hypnosis is a natural state that can occur spontaneously. There are many ways hypnosis can be induced and deepened. Once in a hypnotic state there is a tremendous variety of applications for harnessing and transforming the subconscious in order to attain the goals of the client.

Definitions by the "recognized experts"
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." - William James

"Hypnosis is primarily a special psychological state with certain physiological attributes, resembling sleep only superficially and marked by a functioning of the individual at a level of awareness other than the ordinary conscious state... when hypnotized, or in the hypnotic trance, the subject can think, act and behave in relationship to either ideas or reality objects as adequately as, and usually better than, he can in the ordinary state of awareness." - Encyclopedia Britannica

"A state of intensified attention and receptiveness, and an increased responsiveness to an idea or to a set of ideas." - Milton H. Erickson

"All of the various mesmeric, hypnotic, and verbal suggestive induction procedures have only one objective: To help promote this state of single-mindedness, of exclusively concentrated attention, letting other ideas pass into oblivion. Because the monoideized attention has heightened the intensity of the one focal or dominant idea, the power of the imagination on mind and body is considerably greater than in the ordinary waking state, and thus suggestions are likely to initiate correspondingly greater influence." - Ronald E. Shor

Making hypnosis work for you

Although the changes hypnosis can help affect are as individual as the people seeking those changes, the list below represents some of the more common issues for which hypnosis can be effective.

Weight Loss: Hypnosis can help motivate weight loss, reprogram eating habits, and establish a procedure for weight maintenance.

Smoking: Hypnosis can help eliminate the smoking habit and provides procedures for permanent behaviour modification.

Stress: Hypnosis employs techniques to reduce or eliminate stress, promotes relaxation, and reprogram specific behaviour patterns.

Phobias: Hypnosis can be used to reduce or eliminate a fear of something.

Natural Childbirth: Hypnosis can be used to support and reinforce natural childbirth methods, program pain control and promote a positive post-birth phase.

Major Health Problems: Hypnosis may be used to help ease the symptoms and reduce the effects of such chronic problems as colitis, muscle spasms, and ulcers.

Pain: Hypnosis can help to control pain in chronic conditions such as arthritis or back pain and can introduce techniques for the reduction of pain of surgery, injury, or disease.

Self-esteem and Motivation: Hypnosis can help improve self-projection, reprogram past negative behaviour, increase confidence and self-acceptance, program for specific goals, and instill feelings of comfort in regard to success.

Learning: Hypnosis can improve study habits, enhance memory, and instill positive attitudes towards learning.

Sports: Hypnosis can help refine athletic performance by allowing strong focus on areas that need improvement, creating a sense of success in the execution of skill, increasing stamina and co-ordination and enhancing overall attitute.

Creativity: Hypnosis can help release blocked potential in areas of writing, painting and the performing arts, motivate production, and promote the use of the trance state as an aid to insight.

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