“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can

achieve.”

• Napolean Hill

Hypnosis is an enjoyable, easy and effective way to change

our bad habits into good ones and our negative feelings

into positive ones. All of our emotions, beliefs, and

habits reside in the subconscious mind and hypnosis

provides direct access to the subconscious mind to replace

any negatives with powerful, positive beliefs.

While many people think of it as “deep sleep”, hypnosis is

a comfortable and relaxed state that focuses attention and

concentration, bypasses the conscious mind filter, and

allows the subconscious mind to be open and receptive to

positive suggestions, tapping into the power of the

body-mind connection. Most people experience a heightened

state of awareness when they are hypnotized, while only

about 10% will enter into a state where their mind is so

relaxed that they do not remember the session.

People experience this natural, normal state at least twice

each day – before they go to sleep and when they wake up.

If you have experienced arriving somewhere and can’t

remember actually driving there, or if you have missed a

freeway exit then you have been in a natural hypnotic state

often referred to as “highway hypnosis”.

Natural hypnosis may also occur when you become so involved

in an activity, reading a book, or watching a movie that

everything else seems to be blocked out, even to the point

of not hearing people who talk to you. Whenever

concentration is intense, it’s easy to slip into a natural

hypnotic state.

Hypnosis has been used for thousands of years as a powerful

tool to help and heal. Early records mark the Egyptian

sleep temples and the Temple of Aesculapius in Greece as

sites where hypnosis was used as an important part of the

healing treatment.

The ancient Hawaiian Kahuna’s, healing masters, routinely

used hypnosis in their healing practices. A resurgence of

the use of hypnosis began in the 1700’s with the work of an

Austrian physician named Franz Anton Mesmer. In the 1800’s

Dr. James Braid brought hypnosis to the medical arena with

his work in hypnoanesthesia.

Hypnosis was used as an effective and rapid treatment for

“shell shock”, now referred to as post-traumatic stress

disorders, following World War I, World War II, and the

Korean War.

The American Medical Association approved hypnosis as an

effective treatment in 1958 and recommended that training

in hypnosis be included in medical school curriculum.

Hypnosis and guided imagery continue to be integrated into

modern medical and health care systems.

The National Institute of Health recognizes hypnosis as a

Complimentary and Alternative Medicine treatment modality

and continues to fund research to validate the importance

of hypnosis.

Research results have shown dramatic results in a variety

of areas, particularly as an adjunct to conventional cancer

treatments and for pain management. Moving even more into

the traditional arenas of medical care, hypnosis remains as

one of the most powerful healing modalities by utilizing

the power of the subconscious mind in motivating the

mind-body connection for balance and health.

Hypnosis is probably best known for breaking habits with

stop smoking and weight loss success and yet it has been

found to be effective in reducing and managing stress,

achieving deep relaxation, increasing energy, overcoming

fears, overcoming insomnia, and reducing the experience of

pain.

Hypnosis has also been shown to be effective in overcoming

test anxiety, improving test performance, improving sports

performance, improving motivation, setting and achieving

goals, improving memory and concentration, increasing self

confidence, and building self-esteem.

Most of us have habits or feelings that we’ve tried to

change and yet nothing we do seems to make a difference.

We know how we want to act and feel, but our

decision-making and will power doesn’t seem to be enough to

have any lasting effect. Although our conscious mind has

made a decision to change, the beliefs and ideas held in

our subconscious mind won’t allow the change to take place.

Hypnosis allows the subconscious mind to move into

agreement with conscious desires and goals so you can live

a life of freedom and success!