WHAT IS HYPNOSIS...

Hypnosis is a natural, yet altered, state of mind where the critical factor (which facilitates communication between the conscious and subconscious mind) is relaxed and selective thinking is maintained. Once you have open communication with your subconscious, you can discover any limiting ideas/beliefs that may be holding you back.

Many people fear hypnosis because of the way hypnosis has been portrayed in books, movies, and television and by stage hypnotists.   Medical Hypnosis is very different from those portrayals.  In fact, using hypnosis the way it is sometimes presented in popular media would be a violation of a therapist’s ethical standards.  

Hypnosis is very similar to daydreaming or being so completely engrossed in a book or TV program that you will pay no attention to someone speaking in the same room.  Yet when a person is in hypnosis they are aware of their surroundings and at a moments notice are able to cope with an emergency if one was to come up.   

Hypnotherapy is a modality for communicating positive ideas and understandings. That is, the client, hearing the words and delivery by the practitioner, begins a line of thought and forms new associations. Each set of association is then further linked and associated to new ideas, understandings, and possibilities. Consequently, bypassing or breaking conditioned clusters of negative experiences and beliefs help the client construct a new map of reality and facilitate cure. In the words of Milton Erickson, “It is this experience of reassociating and reorganizing his own (Client’s) experiential life that eventuates in a cure”.

What is NLP? 

Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a theory of language, communication and thought together with an associated therapeutic method, which holds that people can improve the way they interact with the world by means of certain principles and techniques concerned with their use of language. People can use NLP’s principles and techniques to represent their world better, learn and communicate better, and ultimately have better, fuller, and richer lives.