What are some obstacles that hypnosis can improve?
• stop smoking
• reduce overeating
• lose weight
• relieve chronic pain
• recover from depression
• improve self-esteem
• recover from some addictions
• manage and reduce anxiety
• overcome phobias
• cope with panic disorder
• reduce or eliminate annoying habits such as nail biting
• resolve complicated grief
• recover from PTSD
• compensate for learning problems
• improve study habits
• improve public speaking and overcome “stage fright”
• overcome athletic and sports performance problems
What can I expect from a session?
Establishing rapport between the client and the hypnotist is essential for the client's conscious critical mind to ease and temporarily diminish. In this state, the client becomes receptive to the hypnotist’s suggestions and can vividly imagine them as real. With the client's consent, the subconscious mind becomes accessible, allowing me to convey information in a manner that bypasses the critical factor of the conscious mind, ensuring greater acceptance and receptivity.
Will I lose control?
Hypnosis is not mind control. You cannot be compelled to act on suggestions that are contrary to your beliefs or values. Hypnosis cannot be imposed upon you without your consent. Effective clinical hypnosis requires your willingness and cooperation as a participant. Collaboration between you and your hypnosis provider is essential for successful outcomes.
Who can be hypnotized
The majority of individuals can undergo hypnosis if they are willing to participate. Cooperation and the ability to focus and follow instructions are essential for successful hypnosis sessions.
Will I fall asleep?
Hypnosis is not sleep. During hypnosis, the individual is not in a state of sleep; rather, it is a state of heightened mental focus and concentration. While deeply relaxed, the individual remains alert and aware of their surroundings, including the hypnotist’s voice. It is common to recall the suggestions given during the hypnosis session afterward. If someone enters a state of sleep during the session, it is no longer considered hypnosis. In such cases, the hypnosis provider will gently awaken the individual.
Are there any examples of an experience that resembles hypnosis?
Ever drove your regular route home and barely noticed you're already home? It has been labeled as "Highway Hypnosis"
According to Wikipedia,
Highway Hypnosis, also called "white line fever," is a trance-like state where drivers zone out on monotonous roads, performing driving tasks on autopilot without conscious awareness, often resulting in fuzzy memories of the trip or arriving at a destination with no recollection of how they got there.
[As defined by Cleveland Clinic]
Highway hypnosis is a lot like time blindness, or the idea that time flies when you’re having fun. When you’re consumed with a task you enjoy, your brain goes into autopilot mode and hyperfocuses on the task at hand so you lose track of time and other things happening around you. This behavior is rooted in something called ”procedural memory.”
When we’re talking about something that just catches on quite naturally, we often say it’s “a lot like riding a bike.” That’s because our brains are able to automatically recall how to perform procedural tasks — like the aforementioned bike riding, putting together a puzzle, playing the drums or driving a car — without making much conscious effort to do that task. In those situations, autopilot takes over so you can do those tasks with little to no effort.
Highway blindness, then, is caused by a combination of hyperfocused automatic attention and procedural memory.
Driving along the same path might lead to you ”zoning out” so that your brain takes over the process of getting you there without much effort. And the monotony of road trips, long drives and straight highways may have the same effect.
“When something becomes very familiar to us, a certain amount of automatic processes is actually expected,” notes Duke. “If you take the same route to work every day, you’re at greater risk for experiencing highway hypnosis because it becomes automatic for you. You don’t have to look out for the exit; you know your way.”
“Your eyes are on the road and you’re alert, but your automatic brain processes take over,” explains Duke. “There’s a debate that it’s actually a sign of driving with confidence because you’ve done this so many times.”
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/highway-hypnosis
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