How does hypnosis work?

When something happens to us, we remember it and learn a particular behavior in response to what happened. Each time something similar happens, our physical and emotional reactions attached to the memory are repeated. In some cases these reactions are unhealthy. In some forms of hypnosis, a trained hypnotist guides you to remember the event that led to the first reaction, separate the memory from the learned behavior, and replace unhealthy behaviors with new, healthier ones.

During hypnosis, your body relaxes and your thoughts become more focused. Like other relaxation techniques, hypnosis lowers blood pressure and heart rate, and changes certain types of brain wave activity. In this relaxed state, you will feel at ease physically yet fully awake mentally and may be highly responsive to suggestion. If you are trying to quit smoking, for example, a hypnotist's suggestion may help convince you that you will not like the taste of cigarettes in the future. Some people respond better to hypnotic suggestion than others.

There are several stages of hypnosis:

Reframing the problem
Becoming relaxed, then absorbed (deeply engaged in the words or images presented by a hypnotist)
Dissociating (letting go of critical thoughts)
Responding (complying with a hypnotist's suggestions)
Returning to usual awareness
Reflecting on the experience

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 My Mission

To foster and advance human development— to guide, teach, and empower my clients to experience the behavioral, emotional, and spiritual change, growth and recovery they desire

To provide the finest care possible in a safe, comfortable environment where, dignity, sensitivity, and confidentiality are paramount. 

To instill and disseminate this precept— our potential to attain professional and personal goals, to live a life of joy, spirit, peace-of-mind, and abundance in all aspects is unlimited; and then provide my clients the tools and resources with which to do so.

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IF you want your circumstances and/or your enviroment to change. You must first change yourself