01. WHAT IS HYPNOSIS?

 

"Hypnosis is a state of magnified concentration in whereas a person's subconscious mind becomes receptive to positive emotions and positive habit changes such as helping a person stop smoking, lose weight, increase motivation and confidence and to let go of stress and tensions". A suggestion under the hypnosis relaxation is nine times more powerful and stronger because your subconscious mind is 90% of your mind power. Hypnosis helps to put a person in control of their mind power. Our conscious mind or will power part of our mind is only about 10% of your total mind power. All negative habits and emotions are all in a person's subconscious mind and hypnosis helps you to reprogram your subconscious mind and emotions so that you can reach every goal in your life and not hold yourself back from happiness.

 

02. WHAT IS MEANT BY ENVIRONMENTAL HYPNOTISM?

 

Environmental hypnosis is the process of being hypnotized by the environment like driving your car and day dreaming you are hypnotized. When you learned how to drive a car, the pattern of driving got accepted and recorded into your subconscious mind and when you daydream and drive, your subconscious mind is doing the driving for you. At that time, your subconscious is working for you.

 

Watching a movie we become hypnotized into the movie and feel the effects of the movie. As you start to watch a movie, you start to focus and concentrate on the movie, and after a few moments you become hypnotized into the movie and start to kind of live and feel the emotions of the movie. If the movie is sad, people cry, if it s happy or exciting people are going through a roller coaster of emotions. Movies can put you into a hypnotized state of mind, and movies can produce good happy feelings or thoughts, or movies can activate fear, hatred, violence and other negative images and patterns. Be careful what movies you let your children watch and be careful what movies you watch.

 

You can be hypnotized many different times a day. Listening to music, watching a soap opera, watching a sports event, working, shopping in a super market, smelling a good smell to name a few. We go into hypnosis and magnified concentration all the time and each and every day. We are all hypnotized at times during the day by the environment.

 

03. IS HYPNOSIS AND SLEEP THE SAME THING?

 

Psychologically speaking, sleep and hypnosis represent directly opposite states of mind. In sleep, the attention of the sleeper is diffused, while in hypnosis it is concentrated. In a hypnosis relaxed sleep, your subconscious mind is receiving positive thoughts and suggestions and in a natural sleep, your subconscious mind in transmitting thoughts in the form of dreams.

 

04. IS THERE ANY DANGER OF A SUBJECT NOT AWAKENING FROM HYPNOSIS?

The term awakening from hypnosis is what's most generally used, but actually the term arousing from hypnosis is more accurate. There is no danger whatsoever of a person not arousing or awakening from hypnosis, even if in the very deepest trance levels of somnambulism. Now if you hypnotize a person and leave them in hypnosis, they will naturally convert to from hypnosis to natural sleep and awaken feel peaceful and refreshed.

 

05. HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO HYPNOTIZE A PERSON?

 

The potential to enter hypnosis lies within the mind of every person. Mind operates like a computer, so hypnosis can occur in an instant with some subjects. The length of time it takes to hypnotize rather depends on the situation.

 

06. ARE MEN BETTER HYPNOTIC SUBJECTS THAN WOMEN?

 

Sex does not seem to be a factor. Men and woman appear to be equally hypnotizable. The individual them-self is the factor depending if they are resistant to allowing themselves to get hypnotized, and on how effectively they can learn the skill of entering the hypnotic state of mind. Being able to be hypnotized and using the power of mind is truly a learned skill. Some people both male and female seem to have a natural aptitude for it. Others take longer to learn, but both men and woman are equal when it comes to being hypnotized. Focus and concentration can also be a factor in person entering into hypnosis.

 

07. IS IT DIFFICULT TO HYPNOTIZE A STRONG MINDED PERSON?

 

Actually we prefer to work with a strong-minded person, as a strong-minded person is someone who achieves the goals they set out to achieve. We would say that being strong-minded is really an asset to being hypnotizable. A strong-minded person can concentrate better and can focus better on the suggestions of the hypnotherapist, and are sometimes the best clients in hypnotherapy. Lawyers, doctors, teachers and even military personal can make great subjects for deep hypnosis and hypnotherapy sessions. Remember a stubborn person is not a strong-minded person. Stubborn people may be difficult to hypnotize. A strong minded person who is an open minded person, willing to allow themselves to be hypnotized, may be some of the most receptive types of people for hypnotherapy.

 

08. CAN CHILDREN BE HYPNOTIZED?

 

Indeed they can, and wonderfully so. Children go in and out of hypnotic mental states often in the games they play. In our clinical work with children, we employ a let's pretend or make believe we are hypnotized technique which provides an exceedingly rapid method of hypnotizing children, as they make a game of it. When you watch children playing you can see that they are hypnotized almost naturally by pretending they are cowboys or pirates or playing with pretend friends. Children understand simple suggestions the best.

Children tend to stay in hypnosis shorter periods of time, but they seem to also go in and out of hypnosis a number of times during a hypnotherapy session.