Q: Is hypnosis medically approved?
A: Yes. The American Medical Association and the American Psychiatric Association have approved hypnotherapy for use by professionally responsible individuals. The British Medical Association also adopted hypnosis as a viable therapeutic tool in 1958 (the same year as the AMA.)
Q: Is hypnosis dangerous?
A: No. The induction of hypnosis is never dangerous to the subject, although many have preconceived notions that cause them to be fearful. Our job is to educate and inform clients so that they see hypnosis for what it is: a powerful tool for creating personal transformation.
Q: How does hypnosis help people?
A: Everyone has the ability to reprogram their emotional attitudes and limiting beliefs. Hypnosis is the most functional and reasonable way to retrain negative attitudes, rather than suffer a lifetime of emotional suffering and self-sabotage.
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Q: Can any person be hypnotized?
A: People of average intelligence (unless there is some form of brain damage) can be hypnotized if they are willing and do not resist. The depth of hypnosis varies with a person's ability to respond. Even if you are not a naturally responsive subject, with practice you can improve your receptivity to hypnosis and create positive results.
Q: I’d like to come see you, but I’ve been to the Hypnosis shows at county fairs where they make people do all kinds of funny things. How can I be sure you won’t make me do something embarrassing?
A: It is perfectly natural to feel wary of letting someone “control” you in that way. Rest assured, Hypnotists can’t make you do anything that you don’t want to do. Everyone on that stage has to agree to be hypnotized for fun in order for the suggestions to work. Remember that Hypnosis is a common, trance-like state of focused imagination that you experience every day whenever you watch television, read a book or lose track of time while driving. Hypnotherapists simply use this natural state of mind to help client’s achieve their goals by accepting healthy habits and positive realities. Incidentally, even though about 20% of the population go very quickly into hypnosis and become the superstars of stage shows, everyone can be hypnotized to make positive changes in their life – but only if you want to!
Q: How can hypnosis help me to stop smoking and lose weight?
A: It’s important to realize that negative habits such as smoking or overeating have their roots in your subconscious mind. Hypnosis works because it allows direct access to that part of you stuck in the old patterns of behavior. By using a variety of safe yet powerful techniques, we retrain your unwanted habits and subconscious beliefs so that you naturally achieve your goals. You just forget that you ever smoked and your desire intensifies to eat the right foods and drinks at the right time and in the right amounts. Most importantly, you begin to feel healthier, happier and confident that you are now in control.
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Q: In what areas is hypnotherapy helpful?
A: Hypnotherapy is helpful in a variety of areas including weight loss, smoking cessation, stress reduction, eliminating insomnia, removing past blockages, resolving sexual issues, achieving sales success, releasing anger, improving self-confidence, creating healthy relationships, enhancing athletic performance, increasing learning ability, pain management, motivation, phobia release, settling inner conflict, improving health, and much, much more.
Q: Why does your center employ both male and female Hypnotherapists?
A: If a client wants to resolve an issue that is both painful and embarrassing, they might feel more comfortable with either a male or female Hypnotherapist. Sexual issues fall within this scope, with women feeling more comfortable with a female Hypnotherapist, and men trusting more that a man can help them resolve their difficultly. Weight loss, smoking cessation and creating self-confidence are all issues that we address at Greenwood Hypnotherapy using both male and female Hypnotherapists.
Q: How can children benefit from hypnosis?
A: Children do incredibly well in hypnosis, since they already live in a trance-like state of imagination! We use a variety of techniques specifically designed for youngsters from five years old to teenagers. Regardless of the issues children face - from bed-wetting to learning difficulties to self esteem - hypnosis is a wonderful tool to help them release past blockages and create new healthy habits for living.
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Q: My child can't seem to focus on anything, so how can they be hypnotized?
A: Great question! We have discovered that nearly all children have the ability to focus on what interests them. The key is to make their hypnosis sessions both fun and transformational. Using guided imagery and their own imagination, children move into hypnosis without resistance or distraction. We then are able to guide their subconscious minds in the release of negative behaviors and embrace a healthier outlook on life.
Q: How can Hypnosis improve my self confidence?
A: Everything you have experienced throughout your life helped to create who you are today. Unfortunately, our past often includes someone or something that caused us to doubt our abilities and mistrust our efforts. Over time, this is reinforced to a point where we lose our confidence. A young elephant can be tethered to a stake and taught that resistance is futile. As an adult, it still believes that a puny stake can keep it imprisoned, when all it would take is one strong effort and the elephant would be free. Like the elephant, you come to believe in your inadequacies and lose your confidence, yet with a focused effort you can free yourself of limitations. Hypnosis uses a variety of techniques to reclaim your power and once again experience who you truly are – far more capable, confident and successful than you allow yourself to believe.
Q: Can you help children with their self-confidence?
A: Few things are more rewarding than helping a child regain their sense of pride and confidence in themselves. Using guided imagery and their own vivid imagination, Hypnosis transforms their fears and anxieties. Children once again become the open, loving, adventurous beings they were meant to be.
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Q: How powerful is a hypnotist?
A: Hypnosis is a consent situation in which 10 percent of the effort is the hypnotherapist's and the remaining 90 percent is the responsibility of the client. Think of the hypnotherapist as your inner coach who helps you achieve your goals.
Q: Why isn’t my will power strong enough to lose weight and keep it off?
A: Most people are initially successful at dieting, but ultimately fail to keep the weight off. The reason is that our will power, which is a function of the conscious mind, is ultimately not as strong as our habit patterns, which reside in the subconscious mind. . The inner conflict you experience during dieting results when you try to will your way past the desires of your habit patterns. Once you are off the diet, the old habits that have been held back by your will power rush in and literally take over, causing you to once again gain the weight. The goal is to have your subconscious and conscious mind working together as allies, not adversaries. The main benefit of Hypnosis is that it allows you to bring these different parts of you together into healthy alignment with your ultimate desire for health, happiness and peace of mind.
Q: My seventeen year old son has trouble falling asleep, even when he’s tired. How can Hypnosis help without the use of medication?
A: While insomnia has long been an issue among adults, recently it has also become more common among teenagers. This inability to sleep is typically a result of stress, illness or depression and is caused by new issues arising or old ones re-emerging. In today’s fast-paced world, teenagers experience many stressful situations that fill their conscious minds with unresolved issues and a seemingly infinite number of anxious scenarios. Unlike medications which generally address the symptoms and not the cause, Hypnosis anchors into the subconscious mind new beliefs by releasing old behaviors, building self-confidence and creating a more positive outlook on life. As a result you experience a peaceful night’s sleep where you awaken refreshed, revitalized and renewed.
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Q: How can Hypnosis release physical pain?
A: Hypnosis can be defined as a trance-like state of focused imagination. When you focus that imagination on allowing the pain to diminish or disappear, you actually direct your brain to begin to ignore the signals coming from the affected nerves. As long as you are dealing with chronic pain – defined here as that pain which no longer serves any useful purpose – Hypnotists will help you release the pain and learn powerful techniques of self-hypnosis to deal with what might arise.
Q: Can Hypnosis really help resolve sexual issues?
A: Absolutely. Most sexual issues are the result of destructive beliefs that create unwanted behaviors. Hypnosis helps you to improve your self esteem and focus upon what you do want, forgetting about the old behaviors that focused upon what you don’t want. You draw to you what you feel like you deserve, and the way to release sexual issues is to believe that you deserve to be happy, fulfilled and empowered. Hypnosis allows you to improve your self-confidence so that you enjoy all aspects of your life.
Q: I feel constantly stressed with work, my kids and even my spouse. Can hypnosis help me relax and regain control of my life?
A: One of the most important benefits of Hypnosis is that you learn how to relax and feel more in control. Hypnosis gives you the ability to naturally move beyond the limitations of your overloaded conscious mind and connect with that calm, knowing part of you that confidently handles life’s difficulties. Hypnosis even helps you to sleep better, allowing you to react to stress in healthier ways. You become calm, centered and focused even around the most difficult people, even in the most stressful situations. As a result, you naturally become more efficient and have more time to enjoy your improved relationships.
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Q: Can I be successful with Hypnosis even though I am not a visual person?
A: That's a great question. Many people believe that you have to be able to inwardly "see" or "visualize" what's being said in a session in order to be successful. In fact, many of our clients are kinesthetic or auditory learners who simply can't close their eyes and picture much of anything. We use the words, "feel" or "hear" instead of "see" with those clients, adapting their own unique attributes so that they can be successful at achieving their goals.
Q: My teenager resists authority figures, so I'm wondering if you can still work with them?
A: Yes, we can. One of the most important things that teens quickly realize during is that we are on their side when it comes to healing past wounds. We are allies in helping them achieve their goals. Often simply having someone other than parents or friends to talk with helps them to open up and express what it is they are really worried about, giving us the opportunity to create a program that specifically fulfills their needs.
Q: How does the subconscious accept hypnotic suggestions?
A: Hypnotic suggestions bypass the conscious, analytical mind and directly connect with the subconscious mind. When given a new suggestion that is within the bounds of a person's moral and spiritual beliefs, the subconscious mind accepts the positive suggestions literally as a new reality.
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Q: Can Hypnosis help me overcome my phobia?
A: We have many clients that come to us to release their phobias. Whether it is fear of flying, driving, enclosed spaces, or anything else, hypnosis helps you to transform the phobia by draining the energy from the fear. Hypnosis also gives you the confidence to move past those fears in order to overcome the self-sabotage that often keeps you from achieving your dreams.
Q: How can Hypnosis help me release my stress?
A: Hypnosis is a wonderful tool to reduce stress. Stress is released through a variety of techniques including relaxation, positive suggestions and future visioning. As you become more calm, centered and confident, your mind and body return to a healthy, balanced state from which you begin to naturally live your life.
Q: Are the results of hypnosis permanent?
A: Suggestions stay with some individuals indefinitely, others need reinforcement. The effects of hypnosis are cumulative: The more the techniques are practiced and post-hypnotic suggestions are brought into play, the more permanent the results become. Self-hypnosis training and reinforcement tapes for home use also provide additional help.
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