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Hypnosis and The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

How Hypnotherapy Works

Hypnosis for Weight Loss

Sports Performance

Procrastination

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Hypnosis for Weight Loss

Magic Wand or Snowball Effect?

2008 January 23, Wednesday
Posted by Susan French, C.Ht.

Hypnosis is a powerful tool but exactly HOW does it work? The real magic is that hypnosis works as both a "magic wand" and as a "snowball gathering snow."

Let's take a look at each separately and then how they work together.

The magic-wand effect is when you have a hypnosis session and your issue is solved instantly and without further effort. Magic!

The snowball effect is what you experience with several hypnosis sessions, in which each session reinforces and enhances the relief created by previous sessions.

The reality is that both effects create permanent change. Hypnosis creates the initial change. Reinforcement ensures that the change lasts.

Reinforcement occurs when you regularly use a reinforcement CD made by your hypnotherapist, induce self-hypnosis, or through continued subsequent sessions with your hypnotherapist. Your hypnotherapist guides you in creating the initial change and reinforcing it, thereby accomplishing your goal of permanent, positive change.

Now, let's look at it a little more closely.

We use hypnosis to change responses and behaviors. All responses and behaviors are learned. All that hypnosis really does is cause very rapid learning (or relearning) to take place so that new responses and behaviors become automatic.

Hypnosis allows this rapid learning to occur by interrupting the conscious, critical factor of the mind/brain. For reasons of survival, the critical factor of the mind/brain slows down the learning process. However, when those initial survival reasons are no longer necessary, it makes sense to interrupt or bypass the critical factor, which is precisely what hypnosis does - painlessly, safely, and effectively.

We know that no learning is INSTANT. You didn't learn to ride a bike instantly. You didn't learn to speak instantly. You didn't learn to read or write instantly. You were taught the initial ideas and methods and those ideas were repeatedly reinforced until they become automatic.

Hypnosis allows that learning or relearning to happen more rapidly. However, as with any learning process, it needs to be reinforced. Thus, hypnosis is both a "magic wand" and a "snowball gathering snow."

Let's take a look at Joanna's experience to get a better idea of exactly how hypnosis DOES work:

Joanna was sitting in the waiting room at the Hypnosis Motivation Institute. She was waiting for her first hypnotherapy appointment. She was desperate to lose weight. She had lost and gained at least three hundred pounds in her thirty-two years. Now, here she was, seventy pounds overweight again. She had tried everything.

She had heard some say that hypnosis could be like a magic wand. She had heard others say it didn't work at all. Her best friend Martha had just lost fifty-five pounds using hypnosis. She said it was easy and it worked, but that Joanna would have to do her part too. Would it work for her?

If this reminds you of your own questions about weight loss and hypnosis, keep reading.

We can call the habit of overeating a food addiction, compulsive overeating, or a self-destructive habit. Whatever we call it, though, once that kind of behavior takes control, you will need to unlearn old, destructive behaviors and relearn new, constructive ones.

Joanna followed through with her hypnosis for weight loss. She learned the reasons she ate for comfort and she altered those behaviors. She learned that eating good, fueling foods were essential, and she incorporated those ideas into her daily life. She also learned that she needed to move her body more. Exercise became her oasis. It became her "me-time" every day.

Joanna lost her seventy pounds easily and happily and has maintained her new weight because she created a new relationship with food, with her body, and with life itself. That was five years ago.

Hypnosis makes the process of transforming counterproductive behaviors to productive behaviors easy, effective, and empowering. Any behavior that does not serve your goals and dreams can be changed using hypnosis.

Hypnosis accelerates your learning process so that what might have taken you twenty years to "learn" can be restructured in four to six sessions.

Hypnosis is being used in major medical institutions, such as, Harvard Medical School, UCLA, Stanford, Kaiser Permanente, Beth Israel Deaconness Hospital, and many burn centers, to ease pain, fear, and treatment [, and accelerate healing] for their patients.

Hypnosis is approved by, both, the American Medical Association (AMA) and the National Institute of Health (NIH) for Complementary and Alternative Medical Treatment and as an adjunct to traditional treatments.

The moral of this story is this: if you are wondering if hypnosis is a magic wand or a cumulative change response (snowball effect), it is both!

If all else has failed and you are ready and committed to achieving your goals, it is time to try hypnosis. It works!

Susan French, C.Ht.

Sports Performance

Hypnosis Strikes Gold for Amateur, Olympic, and Pro Athletes

Hypnosis Motivation Institute
2007 May 04, Friday
by Chris Geier
Certified Hypnotherapist
Guided Imagery Facilitator and
Certified Personal Trainer

For many years now the Olympic teams and Pro athletes have been using the tool of hypnosis to gain the mental edge on their opponents. Tiger Woods for golf, Wayne Gretzky for hockey and now amateur athletes are using hypnotherapy for the mental aspect of the game. It has been said competition at any competitive level is 80% mental and hypnosis is the key to mental success.

Hypnosis is a relaxed state of consciousness. Through hypnosis a therapist can create an environment in the subconscious mind where stress and relaxation cannot coexist concurrently. For an athlete it is the key to realizing automatic reactions and achieving a hyper focused state during performance. When an athlete is focused and unaware of distracting thoughts his performance is automatic. Being in a relaxed state during play can mean the difference between success and failure. Achieving this paradox is the ultimate goal for facilitating peak sports performance at any level, no matter the age or experience of the player.

We have all experienced this state of automatic response naturally during a variety of everyday activities; while reading a book, during long drives, and every night before we fall asleep we all enter a state of hypnosis. Of course negative as well as positive reactions to events that occur can place themselves into our subconscious during this hyper suggestible state. This is where the Hypnotherapist can guide an athlete and assist them in "weeding out" any counter productive thoughts and responses that can get in the way of achieving the enhanced level of performance they seek.

There are two parts of the mind; the conscious and the subconscious. The former is where we store logic, reasoning, analysis and decision making. The latter is where we house identifications, associations and learned responses. We don't think about walking, we don't think about scratching an itch, this is the subconscious mind at work. If negative thoughts or enter the conscious mind during practice or play they can settle into the subconscious mind and potentially become automatic responses resulting in a reduced level of performance.

During play or performance, distracting thoughts and bad habits, can result in hesitation. Just a fraction of a second can mean the difference between winning and losing during a game. Ultimately an athlete wants to perform automatically as much as possible to ensure playing at their best. A player endures hours of repetition to engrain automatic reactions during practice sessions in the subconscious mind. Through hypnosis a therapist can access and guide the outcome to a response, so that an athlete reacts without compensation, hesitation and with the proper techniques, opening the subconscious mind to accept and achieve perfection. Changing these automatic reactions is where hypnosis can be a great tool.

"What you visualize you will materialize", Dr. Denis Waitley. His Studies have shown that when athletes are hooked up to a biofeedback machine and they visualize themselves going through their routines, a practice or performance; the same muscles are engaged as if they were actually going through the motions. For a performer it is crucial to train a physical response and store these automated responses in the subconscious mind. This gives athletes an innate level of confidence in their performances. Ultimately this allows them to be able to ask only one question, what's next. Using hypnosis in conjunction with guided imagery and visualization to train the mind to achieve these automatic reactions has shown great success.

As a Hypnotherapist, guided imagery facilitator, and personal trainer, Chris Geier has helped fitness enthusiasts of all levels and ages by bringing together a synergistic program of sport specific physical training and mental conditioning. Encouraged by his own research and 18 years of experience, Chris has motivated clients to achieve success by incorporating the power of the subconscious mind into their routines.

Chris uses hypnosis for as many as 150 vocational and advocational issues such as fear of public speaking, sports performance enhancement, weight management, and smoking cessation. Chris focuses on a symptomatic approach where the aim is to achieve a "different reaction" to any stressor or habit that is inhibiting a client from living the life of their dreams.

Procrastination

Overcoming Procrastination; What Are You Waiting For?

Hypnosis Motivation Institute
2007 May 04, Friday
by John McGrail
Certified Hypnotherapist

Beating procrastination can literally lead to a whole new life - all it takes is a desire to change, a decision to act, and a little help from your subconscious mind.

Ask any random group of people what they'd like to change in their life and chances are you will hear a great list of worthy goals: Find a new job, better relationships, make more money, stop smoking, lose weight, build confidence, de-clutter my life, etc. Chances are just as likely that these same people will provide a million reasons as to why they haven't started doing anything about it yet. Ask why and you will very likely hear something like, "Oh, yeah, I plan to get to it - tomorrow... next week... sometime, but..." Famous last words.

Most all of us at some time experience the pain of procrastinating - and it is painful because procrastinating prevents us from doing or becoming better; from living a richer, fuller life; from attaining goals we know would make us happier and more fulfilled. Why do we do this to ourselves?

For some procrastinators, "non-doing" represents not having to deal with success or failure and the personal issues (new expectations) either would bring. The subconscious thinking might be: "If I wait until the last minute and fail, then my failure wasn't caused by my own inability or shortcoming, but instead by a lack of time." For others, the thought pattern might go something like: "If I wait until the last minute I might fail, and then I won't have to deal with any new expectations of me that would accompany my success." Or, "If I don't do anything, I cannot fail; nothing will happen to me, I'm safe." Safe maybe, but in a very deep rut.

Some people procrastinate for extra validation, waiting until the last minute and then "pulling it off" (whatever "it" is) brings that extra validation; "I must be pretty good; after all, look what I just did." And if they don't pull "it" off, once again there is a handy excuse - not enough time - that places the cause and responsibility for the lack of results away from the individual.

The occasional procrastinator can generally overcome the inertia of resistance to change; her bouts of procrastination may be nothing more than a minor nuisance, a mosquito in the tent of life that she can track down and swat away. For the chronic procrastinator though, the behavior creates an endless cycle of suffering, and the disappointment and guilt of having let himself and sometimes his friends and loved ones down... again.

The cycle of chronic procrastination can lead to a spiraling crash of self esteem and a feeling of abject failure. Thankfully, it is also a cycle that can be broken, though most people need assistance. Hypnotherapy is a wonderfully powerful tool for providing that assistance.

Overcoming procrastination begins with identifying and dealing directly with the cause(s). And it's important to understand that regardless of the cause or combination of causes that result in your procrastinating, you had to learn how to behave that way. That's right! We all learn our fears, our lack of self esteem, our need for extra validation, our limiting beliefs through the chain of our experiences and how we associate and identify those experiences into our subconscious mind where they become the behavioral patterns that hold us back.

Through hypnotherapy we help the subconscious mind, the engine of behavior, to unlearn the old patterns and attitudes and relearn new positive ones. We can desensitize a client to his fears of failure and/or success, eradicating his subconscious link between failure and self esteem, then re-teach new positive attitudes, for instance that any given "failure" is nothing more than part of the process of learning and growing. With appropriate reinforcement - and we have many effective and fun ways of providing this reinforcement - this new response becomes a new subconscious belief and behavioral pattern every bit as automatic as the old negative pattern of procrastination was.

We all deserve a happy, productive and fulfilling life and procrastination does not have to stand in the way. Rid of procrastination, a person can engage in the excitement and adventure that creating and attaining goals can provide! I work with a lot of procrastinators and every day I see these clients literally transforming themselves into the achievers they wish to be - and often very quickly. The process is as natural as watching a good movie. So, once again, what are you waiting for?

How Hypnotherapy Works

The Process in Four Steps

Hypnosis Motivation Institute
2007 August 03, Friday by Marc Gravelle
Certified Hypnotherapist and Instructor

The typical client who comes to a hypnotherapist is a well functioning person who wants to change or improve something in their life, but hasn't been able to affect that change on their own. There are hundreds (and counting) of applications of the process of hypnotherapy.

Let's use procrastination (of doing paperwork) as an example of a common hypnotherapy client. The process is basically four steps:

1. The hypnotherapist explains their behavior to them.

What this really means is that the hypnotherapist exposes the subconscious motivators of the client's behavior. In the case of procrastination (of paperwork), the subconscious explanation would be to recognize that we all (as humans) operate on what's known as the Pain/Pleasure Principle. Freud was the first to recognize this. This principal is that we all (as humans) seek things that are pleasurable and we avoid things we find painful (or fearful). Especially if if the perception of the activity is painful. So a behavioral, or subconscious, definition of procrastination is that it is AVOIDANCE, due to some perceived pain or fear. It's human nature to procrastinate.

2. The hypnotherapist then creates or describes a strategy for change.

This means a real plan in which the client is an active participant. In observation of Einstein's definition of insanity (doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results) this plan is to do something differently.

In the case of procrastination, a new strategy would be to alter or change the perception of the pain (or drudgery of paperwork). We could do this by agreeing to limit the amount of time the client actually does the paperwork. For instance, if the client used a simple kitchen timer, sets it, (say for 20 minutes), and then takes a break, their perception of the drudgery would change and they would more likely to actually do some paperwork. The strategy becomes "chip away at it, you don't have to do it all at once."

3. The third step involves the hypnotherapist helping the client become suggestible, or receptive to the new strategy.

Hypnosis is something that is little understood by the general public. That it is misrepresented in film, media and by stage hypnotists further distorts the general public's understanding of what it really is. An accurate way to think of what hypnosis is, is that it is a state of mind of increased suggestibility, or receptivity to the verbal suggestion given by the hypnotherapist. The client remains consciously aware. Hypnosis is also a very natural state of mind. For instance, anyone who falls asleep has to enter a light state of hypnosis in order to attain unconscious sleep (we drift into sleep).

The hypnotherapist guides the client into this state of mind by suggesting that the client experience a series of body changes (such as the breathing growing deeper, a little dryness forming in the mouth and throat, and a little fluttering of the closed eyelids). Once the client experiences those body changes, the hypnotherapist will then help the client relax the muscle groups of their body (still very conscious). When the client is relaxed in their body yet still alert in their mind they enter that state of mind of increased suggestibility. At this point the hypnotherapist will verbally repeat the important parts of the new strategy, such as "we want you to make short periods of paperwork a priority in you're life. Knowing that you will limit these periods to just 20 minutes, makes it easier and more doable than in the past."

Visualization is another suggestive technique. The hypnotherapist may have the client visualize doing the paperwork while feeling relaxed, hearing the timer ding, and feeling a little grin or smile beginning to form on their face. That type of suggestion is called an inference. It implies (or infers) that the client will follow through and get some paperwork done.

4. Evaluation

In a subsequent session, the client and hypnotherapist evaluate what change has occurred. Was the client successful by doing some paperwork? If so, the strategy becomes reinforcing the change (or new behavior), and making it stronger and stronger. The ultimate goal (in this case) is to create a new automatic habit of doing paperwork. This modality, or process, has hundreds of applications. Just a few are better study habits, test anxiety, fears and phobias, sales techniques, assertive communication, preparation for childbirth, preparation for surgery, relationship enhancement, happiness, anger management, the list goes on and on, including procrastination.

Hypnosis and The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

Never say, "I wish I had done that." DO IT!

Hypnosis Motivation Institute
2007 June 04,, Monday
by Hank Hamilton
Certified Hypnotherapist

You can, you know, through the power of your own subconscious mind. All you have to do is re-program it. Where you are in life, right now, is the perfect place for you. Your subconscious mind has followed your plans and desires to a tee. Whether you are rich, or poor, extremely successful, or struggling (you have never "failed" as long as you're alive), happy, or dissatisfied and miserable, THAT is where you directed your subconscious mind to take you.

Your subconscious has the power and knowledge of the universe, but it has no imagination, no direction of its own. It is like a magnificent ship capable of taking you anywhere in life's ocean. It even has its own, built-in navigator, but YOU are the MASTER. You have to plot your course, and it will follow your every command.

You may take exception to the first paragraph, particularly if your life is among the more negative of the examples. There lies the point in question. The universe is in perfect balance, made up of "positive" and "negative" vibrations. If you seek, or even accept, the negative vibrations, that is what your subconscious projects, and what you, in turn, receive. Those who can only feel positive thoughts and project positive vibes, summon in powerful, positive strength to achieve anything.

Mind you, if you have suffered from "poor-meitus" for any length of time, or issued a great deal of negative vibes to yourself or others, this is hard to cure. The moment you try to put yourself on a "positive" course, you will find you have awakened a sleeping beast. Mr. Negative is a grasping, clinging monster who never wants to lose a slave. As you first begin feeling the results and rewards of a positive stance in all walks of your life, don't be surprised, or alarmed, by a series of negative occurrences. Just hang in there and, if you laugh at each weak attempt to discourage you, you will find your positive vibrations will always win out.

Everyone has a subconscious mind with the ability to do wonderful things for them. It is while developing in life, from childhood on, that so many negative messages can stunt its growth. From "don't touch that, you'll burn yourself," "get back or you'll fall," "look out, don't break that," to "you won't amount to much," "you'll never make it in that business," "you want to be a what?" - it's a wonder we ever make it to adulthood.

What your battered being has been most exposed to, or whatever compromises you have made in your development, can convince your subconscious mind that you want to be in a dull, unrewarding job, content to squeak by, at or near minimum wage.

Who do you really want to be? Where do you want to be? How wealthy do you want to be? Your birthright is to have health, wealth and happy relationships. Your subconscious mind can draw an abundance of each from your own treasure trove in the universe if you just go about it the right way. How do you get the attention of your subconscious mind and make it accomplish these things for you?

It is possible through deep study, concentration, and trial and error to make contact yourself. It is much easier with the help and guidance of an extremely well-trained Certified Hypnotherapist.

Your author was first introduced to Hypnosis at age 14. Using the techniques of positive mind, through self-hypnosis, he was able to become a television performer, vice-president of major advertising agencies, staff producer at ABC-TV, co-star/feature actor in major movies, and Seventh Dan Karate Master, before realizing that what he really wanted to do was to guide others to their dreams. To learn how to apply this ability to others he enrolled in, and graduated (with Honors) from the Hypnosis Motivation Institute in Tarzana, California - the first accredited hypnosis college in the U.S.

Having been in private practice for a little over a year, he has gained great pleasure in helping clients who were feeling bogged down in their careers, relationships, and lives in general, find new enthusiasm and, in many cases, great success.

One, who was feeling hopeless trying to make it in movies, discovered in our offices that her real talent was creative writing. After a few sessions, she finished the first draft of an exciting, terrifying novel, with plans for its sequel.

Another, who had a paralyzing phobia of taking tests, had to take two demanding tests to improve his ranking in his job. A few sessions prior to test time he passed them both with ease.

Yet another, a successful, self-made owner in a fast paced, very competitive business was suffering from excessive stress. He spent most of his time on the sites of his projects, rarely relaxed, and became quick-tempered over little, as well as big, things. His weekly sessions have guided him to relax, enjoy his life, and empower his entire being with positive reactions to everything. He delegates daily work to his foremen and their crews, who now give him complete respect and loyalty, while he spends a lot of time enjoying his newly purchased luxury cruiser.

Your mind can make miracles happen for you, too. You want to reach the top, enjoy life to the max? Don't ever say, "I wish I had done that." DO IT! It's easier than you think, through Hypnotherapy.

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Hypnosis and The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

How Hypnotherapy Works

Hypnosis for Weight Loss

Sports Performance

Procrastination

Hypnosis for Weight Loss

Magic Wand or Snowball Effect?

Sports Performance

Hypnosis Strikes Gold for Amateur, Olympic, and Pro Athletes

Procrastination

Overcoming Procrastination; What Are You Waiting For?

How Hypnotherapy Works

The Process in Four Steps

1. The hypnotherapist explains their behavior to them.

2. The hypnotherapist then creates or describes a strategy for change.

3. The third step involves the hypnotherapist helping the client become suggestible, or receptive to the new strategy.

4. Evaluation

Hypnosis and The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

Never say, "I wish I had done that." DO IT!