Benefits of Hypnosis


    1. Hypnosis is consistently effective in over 80% of the studies involving smoking reduction and full cessation.
    2. Hypnosis has been found to be more effective than drug interventions for smoking cessation.
    3. Hypnosis Subjects Lost More Weight Than 90% of Others and Kept it Off
    4. Hypnosis can more than double the effects of traditional weight loss approaches
    5. Studies shows that after two years Hypnotic subjects who were
      1. former smokers are twice as likely to remain smoke free
      2. weight loss subjects continue to lose significant weight
    6. Hypnotherapy group with stress reduction achieved significantly more weight loss than the other two treatments separately.
    7. Hypnosis Reduces Pain and Speeds up Recovery from Surgery
    8. Healed 41% faster from fracture
    9. Healed significantly faster from surgery
    10. Raised Self-esteem & Serenity. Lowered Impulsivity and Anger
    11. Hypnosis Shows 77 Percent Success Rate for Drug Addiction

Who can be Hypnotized?

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Hypnotizable versus Suggestible

There is a difference between Hypnotizable and Suggestible

Define Hypnotizable:In order to be hypnotizable, one must be able to go into trance.  Since everybody can go into trance, everybody can be hypnotizable.  

Define Suggestible:People are deemed to be suggestible if they accept and act on suggestions by others.

We are generally all influenced by our environment and others around us; consciously or unconsciously.  Therefore we should all be “suggestible”.

A better question about hypnosis might be whether you prefer to be influenced by people and things in your environment outside your awareness or whether you prefer to work with someone, like a hypnotist, that is trained to make useful suggestions to your unconscious, for the positive changes you want.

Who is “NOT” Suggestible?A person that is:
    1. Infants and children under the age of four years old -who lack concentration span.
    2. Developmentally challenged - typically with an IQ under 70
    3. Paranoid or Psychotic
If you notice the exceptions are of people with limitations in their ability to concentrate and focus.
So, unless you’re an infant, developmentally challenged, paranoid or psychotic you are probably suggestible.

Neuroscience research shows that 95 to 99 percent of the time our subconscious mind, runs our behavior. That implies that, 95 percent of the time or more we are unconsciously programmed by others and the environment around us, and only 1 to 5 percent of the day we are consciously active at moving towards our wishes and desires.

Given how we are constantly bombarded with information, wouldn’t it be great if we can have the power to actively choose our trances more often?  With Hypnosis, NLP or anything other trance based changework we get that choice.

Myths of Hypnosis

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Myth #1– Can a hypnotist control me against my will?  Can I be brainwashed? NLP is manipulative. (Hypnotist has complete power over you when you are hypnotized. Hypnotist have special powers.  Hypnosis/NLP can make me helpless.)

- NLP & Hypnosis both use varying levels of trance. Trance is a naturally occurring phenomenon.  You can not be made to do anything that you do not want to do.  There is always a part of you that is aware of what is going on, and you can never violate your highest values.  You can keep any secrets you want.  And if you choose to, you even have the ability to lie while under hypnosis.

Myth #2 – Only weak-minded people can be hypnotized or Hypnosis/NLP will only work on certain people. 

- The more intelligent you are, the more powerful your trance, and the more able you are to change.  

Myth #3 –  You’re asleep or unconscious when in hypnosis. “I didn’t get hypnotized, I heard every word!” (or In hypnosis you’ll be able to recall everything that’s ever happened to you. or I won’t remember anything that happened when I were hypnotized)

- This myth arises because trance is a very different state of attention and relaxation, and connects different parts of your brain, while you are aware of everything that happens to you while in trance, you may not remember everything upon your emergence from trance, because of the differences in brain activity between these two states of mind.

Myth #4 – You can remain permanently stuck in hypnosis or trance and never come out.  

Trance is a natural state.  There are only 2 places to go from trance: to Sleep or to Full Waking Consciousness.

Myth #5 – Hypnosis or NLP can be bad for your health.

So as far as we’re concerned they can never be bad for your health, because it’s a naturally occurring state anyway. If you want to feel balance within yourself and with  the world around you, trance is the best state to be in.

Myth #6 – Hypnosis/NLP is the devils work! or part of the occult

Again, - Trance is a naturally occurring phenomenon.  You can not be made to do anything that you do not want to do.  There is always a part of you that is aware of what is going on, and you can never violate your highest values.  You can not reveal any secrets or say anything you do not want to.