What is hypnosis?

Hypnosis is a powerful state of focused awareness that can be used to uncover and dissolve the root cause of many issues people suffer from every day. Hypnosis allows you to access all the healing resources inherent within the subconscious mind, promoting natural healing from within. Hypnosis is used to help people discover the subconscious reasons for their symptoms, behaviors, or habits. When they are discovered, certain tools and techniques are used to help release them and relearn a new positive way of thinking, subconsciously. This is called hypnotherapy. Hypnosis has been sanctioned and used by the medical community since 1958 to help patients overcome chronic pain, create anesthesia, and heal psychogenic illnesses.

Is hypnosis safe?

Hypnosis is safe - it's a perfectly normal and common state of mind we go into naturally every day. You enter hypnosis regularly when daydreaming, watching a good movie, or reading a book. During these activities you remain consciously aware and in complete control, just as you do when a professional hypnotherapist assists you in entering into a state of hypnosis.

How does hypnosis work?

Hypnosis works by achieving a level of focused awareness, and at the same time bypassing the analytical aspect of the mind. Another way to describe the analytical aspect of the mind is that it is a comparing mechanism sometimes referred to as the critical factor. When new information is introduced to the mind, the comparing mechanism compares the new information to what it already believes is either true or false. This is a protective aspect of our mind. This is why changing habits by willpower alone is so difficult - we often already believe we cannot change, so thinking about making the change happen (using willpower alone) is ineffective. Hypnosis is powerful because with focused awareness the analytical aspect of the mind is bypassed, and new, healthy and beneficial suggestions can be made directly into the subconscious, without the comparing mechanism rejecting these new beliefs. So the change we want to achieve in our life is accepted by the subconscious mind as true, and we see results quickly.

How well does hypnosis work?

According to a comparison study presented in American Health Magazine (Psychotherapy Magazine, Vol 7, Issue 1, Alfred A Barrios. Ph.D.)

Psychoanalysis: 38% recovery after 600 sessions

Behavior Therapy: 72% recovery after 22 sessions

Hypnotherapy: 93% recovery after 6 sessions

Can I be hypnotized?

The truth is you are always hypnotized or focused on something. You wouldn’t be alive if you were not hypnotized to some degree. Though it is my opinion, I do not believe that you could live an existence without being in some state of hypnosis whether it is a conscious or unconscious state, you are always focused or hypnotized on a thought, feeling, sensation, memory, or a picture. Not thinking you are hypnotized or hypnotize-able is merely another state of hypnosis.

So, yes of course! You can be hypnotized anytime you watch an enjoyable movie, or read a good book. Hypnosis is a normal and natural state of mind that everyone has already experienced. Actually, it's such a normal state of mind that most people don't realize they are hypnotized. All you need to do to go into a state of hypnosis when coming in for a hypnosis session is be willing and able to follow gentle instructions for reaching a state of focused awareness.

What is 5-PATH?

The acronym “5-PATH®” is short for the longer name Five-Phase Advanced Transformational Hypnosis®. 5-PATH® is a special hypnosis system that incorporates the most powerful techniques available to the modern hypnosis professional utilized in such a way as to increase effectiveness of each component of the system. It is an optimization of what works, and is criteria based. That is, the hypnotist using the system is able to apply advanced hypnotic methods to a wide variety of issues. This increases both the effectiveness of the hypnotic techniques and also its reliability. This means that each client is able to get more results more quickly than any other system. In fact, as far as I know, there is no other recognized system of hypnosis. 5-PATH® is the only system of hypnotism ever recognized by the National Guild of Hypnotists, and has been officially installed as a Special Interest Group by a world-wide organization of over 10,000 members. For more information on 5-PATH.

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