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| Today hypnotherapy is one of the most scientifically endorsed complementary therapies. |
- Dr. Mehmet Oz, Medical Director, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital |
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| Therapeutic research and psychological experiments have brought hypnosis out of the realm of magic. The hypnotic experience is one striking and potentially illuminating effect of a common human capacity to experience change in consciousness. |
Harvard Medical School,
Mental Health Letter |
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| Hypnosis has been shown to be a real phenomenon with a variety of therapeutic uses. |
Scientific American |
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| What you will learn about hypnosis on this page: |
- Change comes from the point of power for lasting change, the Feeling Brain.
- You rid yourself of sabotaging brain patterns.
- You establish supportive brain patterns, so you can reach your goals with ease.
- Trance is something you already do, you just haven't learned how to access it for your success.
- You are completely aware and in control throughout the process.
- Hypnotherapy is effective for most people.
- While it is not a magic bullet, the success rate is excellent.
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| Judy serves as teacher and guide as you experience the benefits of hypnosis. The methods and approaches are chosen to best suit each client and the goals they have. The number of sessions recommended varies according to each client and their needs. Below you will find valuable information on the research and benefits of hypnosis, and links to inspiring stories of those that have used hypnosis, and information on private sessions. |
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Hypnotherapy works. Approved by the American Medical Association (AMA) nearly 50 years ago, hypnosis is used by major medical centers, sports teams, and corporations. Although hypnotherapy is not a "magic bullet", It creates change efficiently and effectively and, because it works at the source, success is lasting.
Hypnotherapy goes beyond knowledge, insight, and willpower to create lasting change in the Feeling Brain, as opposed to the Thinking Brain. The Thinking Brain is the seat of knowledge. It is where we analyze, plan, and make decisions. When it comes to being a happier and more balanced person, there is no significant correlation to what is processed in the Thinking Brain. That is why a person can have a Ph.D. in nutrition and also have an eating disorder, be a priest and have an affair, or have tremendous insight into one's childhood and still repeat dysfunctional patterns of behavior. Therefore, knowledge and insight are not enough. To create lasting positive change, we have to go to the source, the Feeling Brain.
The Feeling Brain is our emotional core. It is where we experience how we feel in relation to a person, an idea, or an activity, and these feelings are what drive our behavior. Willpower is often employed to change behavior. But since willpower is a function of the Thinking Brain it ultimately surrenders to the stronger drives of the Feeling Brain. Therefore, we must alter the Feeling Brain for real and lasting change.
Think of your challenge as a boulder blocking your way on your path. Willpower can only enable you to lift the boulder and carry it so you can move forward, but it doesn't allow you to get rid of it. The boulder just keeps getting harder to carry. When you just can't carry it any more, you drop the boulder right back in front of you. Hypnotherapy, on the other hand, enables you to remove the boulder, in a lasting way.
When you are trying to create change from your Thinking Brain it is like watching a movie of yourself struggling with the boulder; you can see clearly how much easier it would be if you would just get rid of the darn thing. However, even though you have this awareness all you can do is, with frustration, watch the movie of you struggling. Hypnotherapy, however, enables you to get into the film's editing/writing room, the Feeling Brain, and re-write the script of you without the boulder.
Hypnotherapy accesses the Feeling Brain naturally and easily. Hypnotherapy accesses the Feeling Brain by using the natural and familiar state of trance. People go in and out of trance states all day and don't realize it. Laughing or crying in a movie, being "lost in thought", being deeply engrossed in a book, these are all light trance states. We create trance by deep focus, and in this state the Feeling Brain becomes open to suggestion and change.
Hypnotherapy establishes new neural pathways in your Feeling Brain that support your success. How we feel and react to what needs to occur for goal achievement is a result of established brain patterns, or neural pathways. These neural pathways can help or hinder us in reaching goals. Upon entering the natural trance state, clients address and change the feeling states that block their success. With hypnotherapy clients diminish those neural pathways that sabotage success and then establish new neural pathways that support reaching their stated goals with ease and speed.
You are always in control. In trance the client is always in control. Hypnosis can't make you cluck like a chicken or bark like a dog, unless you want to! Like being lost in thought as you drive down the road you cruise along on "auto-pilot" but if something happens, like someone cutting you off, you act immediately to take care of yourself. The same is true with hypnosis. In the natural trance state you have control to choose to accept a suggestion or not.
Let's clarify what is happening in hypnosis stage shows. The people up on stage are in a natural hypnotic trance state, but all that means is they are very open to accepting and believing any suggestion the hypnotist makes that they are willing to accept. If the hypnotist were to suggest something contrary to their morals or ethics, they would either ignore him/her, or they would "emerge" from hypnosis on their own.
Surprising to most people is that in the trance state you are aware of hearing the hypnotherapist's voice and the environment around you. You are not in a sleep state as many imagine it to be. Actually you are highly focused and you realize that if you wanted to, at any point in the session you could walk out of the room. However, if you are like most people, the experience feels so relaxing it's preferable to stay in that state, not leave it! But if you wanted to, you could do so at any time.
Hypnotherapy works for most everyone, that is, people with an IQ of at least 70, no severe mental disorders, and over the age of 7. Absolutely everyone who meets the above criteria can be hypnotized to some degree, if they want to be. It is true that not all techniques work for everyone. Therefore, it is important for you to find a hypnotherapist with enough training and experience so they can find the techniques that will work best for you.
Hypnotherapy is effective even for the very analytical. Analytical individuals experience hypnotherapy easily. Success with hypnosis has to do with your willingness to focus and follow directions.
If you feel a bit skeptical, that's okay. Many clients were skeptical at first. However, their skepticism went away when they experienced positive changes in their lives.
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