Perhaps you wonder what it would be like to be hypnotized, but aren’t interested because it’s not your style to cluck like a chicken or eat lemons as if they were a delicious dessert.
Stage Hypnosis - together with movies, television (including cartoons), books, magazines, and other forms of popular entertainment help to increase the average person’s misconceptions and fears about Hypnosis. Lacking factual knowledge, the majority of the public is consistently misled about the therapeutic value of Hypnosis.
Hypnosis is a natural function of the right hemisphere of the brain, and unless suffering from brain damage, every individual has the ability to be hypnotized. Every night when our brainwaves slow down right before we fall asleep we enter into Hypnosis. When we are in Hypnosis we are in a very intense physically and mentally relaxed state of selective awareness. In Hypnosis we bypass the conscious part of our mind in order to reach and affect the subconscious mind, which is the 90 % of our mind that controls and regulates the involuntary functions of the body, such as breathing, blood circulation and digestion. It also stores our values, beliefs and emotions we use to make everyday decisions.
The subconscious mind controlling these beliefs acts the way it has been programmed to act, exactly as a computer does. Most of our programming occurs prior to the age of seven, long before we are old enough to differentiate between ideas that are helpful or harmful to our well-being. Lasting personal change can happen only when we re-program early childhood patterns which no longer serve our best interest.
Our subconscious mind is convinced of truth in a variety of ways. Repetition, identification with groups, ideas presented by authority figures and intense emotions can all open up the doorway to the subconscious mind. All kinds of phobias, anxieties or fears present irrational thought patterns that are housed in the subconscious mind and thus cannot be changed by logical reasoning. The last and perhaps most practical and effective way to convince our subconscious mind is through hypnosis. Since the subconscious mind doesn’t judge and takes everything literally it will believe anything that it is told as long as it is within the moral code of the person being hypnotized.
Hypnosis is one of the safest – and fastest - ways to change a person’s life for the better. Since the subconscious is 90 % of our mind, doesn’t it make sense to start using more of that potential?
Hypnosis is not only the healthiest and most effective way to quit smoking but it is also tax deductible. You can include in medical expenses the fee for your Hypnosis sessions you pay for a program to stop smoking. However, you cannot include in medical expenses amounts you pay for drugs that do not require a prescription, such as nicotine gum or patches, that are designed to help stop smoking.
