Exploring Hypnosis

Hypnosis can be very effective when assisting students with study skills. I personally have experience with helping people overcome test anxiety and helping them pass their licensing tests for various professions.

Hypnosis is also effective in helping people develop the belief that they are capable of learning.

There a stages of learning and hypnosis can be effective in assisting in all of these stages,

Hypnosis can also be effective in aiding with concentration, memorization and understanding,

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Hypnosis has been recognized by the AMA as a legitimate medical treatment since 1958.  I b elieve that the main reason Physicians don’t practice hypnosis is simply because it takes too much time to adequately offer an intervention.

Hypnosis is extremely effective with pain management but a ethical hypnotist will require a prescription from the clients doctor.  A hypnotist working in conjunction with a medical professional can effectively be a part of the treatment of stress related disorders: irritable bowel syndrom, diabetes, cardiocascular disorders and even cancer.

Beware of the hypnotist that claims to be able to treat these problems as an alternative to medical care.  It may be possible but it is much more safe to have a medical professional at least monitor the progress of treatment.

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Fair new on the scene is the idea of using hypnosis to facilitate child birth.  More women are becoming aware that they can birth children in a safe manner, without drugs, anesthesia and with a minimum of discomfort.

Theory here is that people in general and women specifically have been convinced (hypnotized) into believeing that child birth should be an unpleasant experience.  Through hypnosis a woman can get rid of the old programing and prepare for a wonderful and fullfilling childbirth experience.

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Hypnosis is a safe and effective way to loose and maintain weight.  It can help you loose the weight you want and to develop a healthy eating plan and increase physical activity.  The key is to change behaviors by focusing on change in the subconscious mind.   The conscious mind can know that the behavior change is needed and wanted but until the subconscious mind accepts and believes that weight lose is in your best interest, it will not allow it.

There can be many reasons for the subconscious to believe that it is in your best interest to retain the weight but it must become ready to release the weight for it to happen.

There are many ways for a Hypnotist to access the subconscious and they can all be effective.  The key is to  find a hypnostist who has a program that has proven effective.  Self-hypnosis can also be effective and there are several hypnotists offering programs on CD.  Another possibility  is to have a custom made program made for CD.

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This article was first published on February 20, 2008

I was thinking about the average new client that comes into my office. Usually, they have tried several (or many) other solutions to their partiuclar problem. Many time hypnosis is a last reosrt. As I have discussed in an earlier post, they are sceptical and nervous. But most of all I think that they believe that the hypnotist has some type of occult power that will rid them of whatever issue that they have come to deal with.

Well, almost all of us would rather have someone take responsibility for our behavior. I would love to be able to take some type of magic pill that would take away all of my problems. I think that most of our new clients are hoping for just that. They hope that we can do some type of hocus-pocus and their problem will just go away. And for some of them, it does. But the truth is that for most of our clients, there has to be some type of personal responsibility on their part to solve their issues.

As a Hypnotist, I can offer support and and help provide tools that my clients can use to solve their problems but I cannot do it for them. I can offer interventions that I have been trained to use to help them The bottom line is that we all need to avail ourselves of whatever tools we can find and take responsibility for solving our on problems.

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This article was first published on February 21, 2008

88I enjoyed publishing the book review on Roy Hunter’s book. I intend to publish regular reviews of books on hypnosis, self-hypnosis, NLP, and other self-help books that I think would be of interest to professionals or the general public.

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This article was first published February 20.2007

I have decided to do my first book review of Master the Power of Self-Hypnosis by C. Roy Hunter, M.S. The book instructs the reader on how to use self-hypnosis to change areas of his or her life that they would like to change.

I need to tell the reader that I have met Mr, Hunter several times and have attended several workshops that he conducted. I have also read all of his books. Mr. Hunter is responsible for inspiring me to be the best Hypnotherapist I can be. I also feel that I have had the best training from Mr. Hunter that I have had in all of my hypnosis training.

The first part of the book educates the reader on the history and basic facts of hypnosis. The second part of the book informs the reader of the role of the Subconscious and how to program it. This part of the book also describes stress management. Part three describes the process of defining your goals for self-hypnosis and the process of putting them to work with self-hypnosis. Part four describes creative daydreaming, Part five describes how to inject power into your self-hypnosis.

The book ends with a set of questions and answers about self-hypnosis and a glossery of hypnosis term. Finally, Mr. Hunter a;sp provides some self-hypnoosis scripts and affirmations..

This book is well written and in my opinion is the best book of self-hypnosis available. It is clearly written and Mr. Hunter gets his point across clearly on all subjects. My only complaint is that Mr. Hunter is too modest. He attributes his skills to his mentor, Charles Tebbits. Mr. Tebbits was a great hypnotist and is one of the pioneers of modern hypnotism. Mr. Hunter studied under Mr. Tebbits but I believe that Mr. Hunter has taken what he learned from Mr Tibbets about the art of self-hypnosis and taken it to new heights. I reccommend this book to anyone who is serious about making real changes in their life.

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This article was first published on Jamuary 28, 2008

It’s been while since I posted. I have been settling down with a new job and considering where I might want to go with this blog that would interest others. I have decided to post some reviews of the books I have found most helpful in my career as a Hypnotist. I will also talk about other subjects. I intend to post a review at least once a week with other articles that the reader might find helpful. Again, this blog is intended for the general public as well as the practicing Hypnotist. Please watch for my first review, a book about self-hypnosis by Roy Hunter.

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This article was first published on November 27. 2007

One of the most memorable answers to this question is “What the mind can conceive, hypnosis can achieve”. Naturally, there are some things that people probably will not achieve. I don’t think any of us are going to be able to fly without some type of aid. The book Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy says that unaided flying is easy. You just throw yourself into the air and try not to hit the ground. I don’t think we will be able to do that. But I do believe that any reasonable goal can be achieved with hypnosis and some goals that many people do not consider reasonable.

Things my clients have accomplished with Hypnosis

I have worked with people for an lot of different issues. The ones that come to mind are weight loss, smoking cessation, test anxiety, pain management, sports performance enhancement, fear of heights, fear of snakes, other phobias, depression and anxiety. I am sure there are others but I would have to go through many files just to ferret out the answer.

There is lots more

There is an almost infinite number of things that hypnosis can aid from hypnobirthing to dental and medical hypnosis to almost anything you can imagine. If you have a question about anything please feel free to email me or leave your question in my comment section.

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This article was first posted November 18, 2007

If any of us who have been hypnotized can look back to the time before that happened we would see that we had a lot of misconceptions about how hypnosis might feel or what we might do under hypnosis.

New clients are courageous

They come into our offices not knowing what is going to happen to them. They are probably under the impression that they are turning some amount of control over to the Hypnotist.

It is my opinion that the one thing people fear the most is the unknown. When a person who has never done hypnosis comes to my office they are entering unknown territory.

Once person has done hypnosis, they understand that all fear is unfounded.

A couple of stories

Actually, I guess there is a story to be told with each new client that walks in the door but

here are a couple that stand out in my memory.

A man came to me for smoking cessation. We did the pre-talk and everything seemed to be going normally. He agreed to do hypnosis but after several efforts and several different inductions he did not do hypnsois with me. We discussed the problem and he claimed to not know why it wasn’t working. We made an appointment for the following week but on the way out the door he said “You didn’t use a watch”. He then explained to me that you couldn’t be hypnotized unless the Hypnotist swung a pocket watch in front of your eyes.

I explained to him that that wasn’t true but he didn’t return for the next session.

Now that wasn’t fear but it does show how misconceptions get in the way.

Another example is that I bought a block of radio advertising time. When I found out which of the radio announcers was going to make my commercial, I offered to give him a free session of hypnosis so that he could experience the process and have a better idea of how to work the ad copy. He refused and later told the ad salesperson that he was afraid that I would hypnotize him and have him write a check for all of the money he had in the bank.

Every new client that walks in the front door has their individual fears about hypnosis. It is my job to discover the fear and explain the process. Hypnosis is about communication between the client and the Hypnotist. That starts with the pre-talk.

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