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for fears, phobias, pain, addictions, and addictive behaviors, and self-limiting beliefs
If have you limited yourself with a 'story' about what you can and cannot do, why not move to a new story, something about who you really are, and what you can really do?
Hypnosis can be used as a radical-short term therapy. We incorporate elements of classical hypnotherapy, Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) and Ericksonian hypnosis in conjunction with a broad range of Coaching skills. We have extensive training in Neurological Reprogramming (NR), a radical and cutting-edge synthesis of all the above. These are all powerful tools which can address and transform issues such as fears, phobias, addictive behaviors, obstructive attitudes, and above all the self-limiting beliefs that lie at the bottom of such issues. We can also help you transform problematic emotional patterns and habits. We can help you uncover the underlying causes, and help you change patterns of behavior that may be the habit of a lifetime. In addition, these tools can also be used to manage pain and disabilities, often when all else has failed. In conjunction with other coaching tools, hypnosis can help you transform every aspect of your thinking, your behaviors, and you life. In short, we can help you empower yourself so that you become an active participant in determining the course of your life.
Hypnotherapy is not an alternative to psychotherapy, nor can it claim to address clinically diagnosed mental illness. It can, however, effect profound and long-lasting change to persistent emotional issues. It can utterly transform difficult emotions such as rage, depression, or anxiety. The Hypnotic process utilizes the innate creative capacity of the imagination. In the hands of a skilled Hypnotherapist its effect can be profound and long-lasting—because Hypnotherapy is a way to systemically address both the symptoms and the underlying emotional causes of the issue.Hypnosis itself is a natural state of mind. Sigmund Freud himself, who did not think that he was a good Hypnotist, said that no change takes place without Trance (Hypnosis). What he implied, based on how we now describe Hypnosis, is that change is dependent on the engagement and excitement of the imagination. In other words, no change takes place without a belief in our capacity for change.
The first job of the Hypnotherapist is to teach and demonstrate to her client the remarkable transformational power of the mind—something which is deeply underestimated in the mechanistic and pharmaceutical industry-driven world of Healthcare, and even in the worlds of psychiatry and psychotherapy.
Hypnosis is a natural state of mind. We experience something like it every day—when we daydream, for example, or just before we fall asleep at night.
When we daydream, or before we fall asleep at night and are only still half awake, we linger for a short time in a dream-like zone, whether for a moment or for an hour. Our mind is receptive to images, insights, creativity, or even to lingering fears and anxieties. We do not reason or analyze. We are not completely awake, but we are not unconscious. We free-associate, or we reiterate unconscious and habitual perceptions and patterns, positive or negative, healthy or unhealthy.
As young children we were in a state of mind somewhat like this, not fully rational, very much driven by the imagination. This state is akin to hypnosis. Then, and now, we undergo all of our deepest learning in it—especially the learning that has to do with who we imagine we are, and what we imagine we are capable, or not capable, of doing. All real learning takes place in a state in which our imagination is engaged, Much of our early formative learning is absorbed, rather than received or taught. "I am good" I am bad" "Life is kind" Life is unkind" No one understands" I am loved" I am alone" These lessons are continually reinforced throughout our life. We may imagine that we leave behind our childish impressionability to become rational. But through the continual triggering of the imagination, the old internalized message persist and are reinforced until they are uncovered and replaced.
Our culture underestimates the enormous power of the mind. Patriarchal religious institutions has sought to control mind, nature, creativity, even life itself. Non-western cultures have typically respected the power of the mind and spirit. Every culture has at some point, before it was co-opted, respected their own indigenous traditions of wisdom and healing as they emerged out of wild mind itself. Even after those traditions all but disappeared the basic need for a way to express the intuitive, sub-conscious stream, has always been present below the surface: in the mystical and artistic traditions, in alchemy and the various 'heresies' which have surfaced on a regular basis. Hypnosis is still consider to be a heresy in some quarters. There is a lingering fear of the mind in those who seek control, whether of themselves or others. The irony is that when we let go of the need to control, we can experience an otherwise unimagined freedom.
In the hands of an experienced practitioner, Hypnotherapy can be used to uncover, explore, and transform self-limiting ideas and habits that cause persistent difficulties for us. It is a way to bypass the rational mind, and literally to uncover the root of the matter.
Problems and difficulties can persist even though we may have a clear intellectual understanding of them, and even though we may have a strong will to change. A mere affirmation cannot take hold if there are underlying attitudes in conflict with it. Hypnotherapy is a way to explore those underlying attitudes, and the fears, phobias, and self-views that may be limiting change in different ways. Hypnosis is a way to create radically new ideas and patterns of thought to facilitate real change.
Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy are not new. Anton Mesmer is often considered the first proponent. He was the teacher of Jean-Martin Charcot, who was himself a teacher of the young Sigmund Freud. One of the reasons that hypnosis is still not fully accepted in the mainstream traditions of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis and psychiatry is that Freud, whose monumental influence is still felt, gave up Hypnosis early because he felt he was not a good Hypnotist. But Mesmer was influenced by the alchemical tradition of Paracelsus and the traditions of European mysticism
Hypnosis is as old as the human mind itself and, as a healing modality, goes back through all cultures to traditional and sacred healing practices, We designate it with different names — Shamanism, Voudoun, Mysticism. It cannot be eliminate completely even from the most authoritarian forms of institutionalize religion and re-emerges in our sacred traditions. It makes use of the innate power of the imagination to effect mental and psychological change and liberation. Hypnotherapy in its current forms is one expression of that universal underground tradition resurfacing, A skilled Hypnotherapist often makes use, sometime intuitively and instinctively, of tools typically associated with the shaman or traditional healer.
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Because Hypnosis is
a natural state of mind it is available to everyone. Anyone can
benefit from a deeper recognition of their own innate capacity for self-generated change and healing. Hypnotherapy can transform painful emotions, attitudes
and habits, and can help you recover you natural capacity for enjoying life, for creativity, joy,
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- Persistent self-limiting attitudes such as-
"No one understands me . . ."
"What if they find out about me? If people discovered who I really am they would probably realize I was unlovable."
"No matter what I do, nothing seems to work . . ."
"I want to get out of dept, but nothing I do seem to work."
"I hate my job."
- Creative blocks, the creative process
- Relationships, sexuality, gender identity
- Habits and addictions-cigarettes, alcohol abuse, drugs abuse, marijuana and narcotics.
- Food issues, addiction to food, bulimia, anorexia, weight problems, ending the dieting cycle by addressing the underlying emotional needs
- Anxiety, panic attacks, fear.
- Stress and anxiety, agoraphobia, fear of flying, fear of success
- Communication skills, shyness, confidence, self-esteem
- Memory, creativity, removing obstructions that limit your true capacity.
- Sleep Disorders and Insomnia
- Depression, energy, focus
- Pain management, allergies, fatigue,
- Hypertension
- "Incurable" maladies, and illnesses that are typically approached with therapies that have significant side effects can often be alleviated to a significant degree. We cannot 'cure' the incurable, nor are we an alternative to medical diagnosis and treatment. We do however offer tools can alleviate symptoms as well as significantly change your attitude with such illnesses as:
migrainesfibromyalgiachronic fatigue syndromeasthmaParkinson'srheumatoid arthritisHIVcancer
Hypnotherapy is short-term radical therapy to facilitate changes in views and behaviors. Because it is short-term, It does not base itself on the establishment of a long-term therapeutic relationship as as central element in its process. Hypnotherapy makes no claim to work with severe mental illness, and although it may help to augment other treatments, it is not psychiatry, psychology, or psychotherapy in any official capacity.
The Hypnotherapist works with the understanding that people have inner resources through which they can facilitate change and healing within themselves. Hypnotherapy often acts as a catalyst for this to happen. A skilled Hypnotherapist may use modes usually associated with psychotherapy—Gestalt, Cognitive Therapy, different forms of breath and body oriented therapies—but they are secondary to the Hypnotic process itself, which when practices appropriately itself has a life-changing potential of inestimable depth.
"I have no idea what the solution to your problem is, but I know with certainty who does." Are words you may hear from us Hypnotherapist. The Hypnotherapist's job is to facilitate her subject's self-transformation. It is not her job to diagnose or prescribe.
And it is also her job to be present, to truly listen and to respond from that intuitive and responsive inner place that is itself akin to Hypnosis.
All hypnotherapy is really 'self' hypnosis. It is only within yourself that true change is effected. No one has the answers for anyone else, though a Hypnotherapist, can be the essential catalyst for you to effect change within yourself. As part of our working relationship we will teach you self-hypnosis, not only as a way to relax, but also as a way to focus, to uncover and uproot self-destructive ideas you may hold about yourself that may have limited you in the past. We will teach you how to continually reinforce new ideas and attitudes that will help you realize your full potential.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
How long does Hypnotherapy take?
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We have natural self-protective mechanisms. Just as certain traumatic memories can be hidden for years, so we seem to have the natural ability to release only those emotions, memories and experiences that we are able to integrate.
Sometimes strong emotions are awakened through the hypnotic process. A well-trained Hypnotherapist knows how to help you transform, contain, and learn from them. Strong emotions are sometimes the result of suppression or fear. They usually pass quickly. If they linger beyond the session you will be given tools to address them.
While there are very few things that can be guaranteed to be 100% permanent, Hypnotherapy is an ideal tool to help you realize reliable and systemic change in your life. Since the central focus of Hypnotherapy is not analysis, diagnosis, or theory but on effecting real change in your attitude and behavior, it is difficult to hide behind patterns of blame and self-pity and random constructs about what may or may not have happened in your life. Hypnotherapy is a a way to empower you in a world of constant change. It helps you to trust change within yourself when that change leads your to realize your greater potential.
Hypnotherapy gives you power and permission to start telling yourself a different story about who you really are.
You might hear us say that we have no idea what will can help you or what you need, but that we do know (with unshakeable confidence) who does know. The work of the hypnotherapist is to catalyze the change that comes to you from within yourself. Such change is never superficial or temporary. Once learned, you will have skills that you will always remember.
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