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Hypnosis is a psychological state of focused attention, deep relaxation, and heightened suggestibility. I induce hypnosis by guiding you into a state of deep relaxation where your conscious mind takes a step back and your subconscious mind becomes more open to suggestion.

Contrary to some popular misconceptions, hypnosis is not a form of mind control where someone can be made to do things against their will. In a hypnotic state, you still have their critical faculties intact and will not act in ways that are against their values or beliefs.

Key Elements of Hypnosis:

1. Suggestibility: Hypnosis makes individuals more receptive to suggestions. This can be used for various purposes, such as breaking bad habits, reducing stress, managing pain, or enhancing confidence.
2. Altered State of Consciousness: Hypnosis is often described as an altered state of consciousness. While it’s not sleep, individuals may experience a deep sense of relaxation and heightened awareness.
3. Focused Attention: During hypnosis, a person’s attention becomes highly focused on the hypnotist’s voice or specific suggestions. This can lead to a reduced awareness of external distractions.
4. Subconscious Influence: Hypnosis works by accessing the subconscious mind, which controls many automatic behaviors, emotions, and beliefs. By influencing the subconscious, hypnotists can help individuals make positive changes.
5. Rapport and Trust: The success of hypnosis often depends on the rapport and trust between the hypnotist and the individual being hypnotized. A comfortable and safe environment is crucial.
6. Individual Variation: Not everyone is equally susceptible to hypnotic suggestions. Some individuals are more naturally receptive, while others might require more practice to enter a hypnotic state.

Common Uses of Hypnosis:

1. Behavioral Change: Hypnosis can be used to help individuals quit smoking, lose weight, or overcome certain phobias.
2. Stress and Anxiety Reduction: Hypnosis can help individuals relax and manage stress or anxiety more effectively.
3. Pain Management: Hypnosis has been used to alleviate pain, either as a primary or complementary technique.
4. Performance Enhancement: Some people use hypnosis to enhance their performance in areas such as sports, public speaking, or creative endeavors.
5. Therapeutic Healing: Hypnotherapy is used as a complementary approach in psychotherapy to address various psychological issues.
6. Entertainment: Hypnosis is often used for entertainment purposes, where participants are guided to perform amusing or imaginative acts while under hypnosis.

Ethical Considerations:

Ethical hypnotists prioritize the well-being, safety, and your consent. Hypnosis is always practiced responsibly and with your best interests in mind.

If you’re interested in experiencing hypnosis or using it for a specific purpose, give me a call or send me a message. Whether for therapeutic reasons or entertainment, hypnosis can offer unique experiences and potential benefits when approached with the right understanding and mindset.

Hypnosis is the language of the brain.

The map is not the territory. Our map is our thoughts and feelings. The territory is reality. We respond to thoughts and feelings about reality, not the reality itself. It is good news because it means that is possible to get a better map, a better way to think.

Experience has a structure. How memories are arranged in our minds determines what they mean and how they will affect us. If we can change the structore of our memories, we will experience these events differently.

Mind and body are part of the same system. If you can change your mind, then your abilities can change. If you change your posture, your breathing or any parts of your physiology, then your thoughts will change, and this will improve the way that you feel.

People have all of the resources that they need. An image, a sound, or a feeling is a resource. We can see pictures in our mind, whether the pictures are clear or fuzzy. They build up into great visions. Inner voices can criticize us or encourage and guide us.

If we have experienced a feeling once, then emotions can be transferred from the past into the present and be there anytime we need it.

If you’re here, you’re wondering about what hypnosis is and how I can help you. Let me dispell some myths for you first. Hypnosis is not mind manipulation. Hypnosis is guided daydreaming. You go to a comfortable place in your mind and you are guided to help solve some of the issues you are trying to resolve.

If your mind is telling you that:

You can’t do it

It’s too hard

I’m too afraid

I’m not good enough

I can’t get over this addiction

Your words are very powerful. What you say to and yourself says alot about where you are in your life. Get in agreement with who you want to be and who you really are.

What if your subconcious agreed with what you are trying to achieve? And what if you were able to talk to yourself in a way that was uplifting and positive?

Whether it’s smoking, weight loss, test anxiety, depression or you just getting in your own way, I can help you reach your goals.

I work with adolescents and adults.