What is hypnotherapy?

Most of us are familiar with stage hypnosis. You've probably seen this at a party, Las Vegas, and many cheesy events. The hypnotist picks people out of the audience, induces some kind of sleep state, and then has people running around on stage barking like dogs, clucking like chickens, eating onions like apples, and all other kinds of ridiculousness to the amusement of the audience.

So here are the conclusions that we usually come to from this experience:

• Hypnosis makes you unconscious.
• Hypnosis makes you do things you don't want to do.
• Hypnosis is only good for a laugh.

Wrong, wrong, and wrong!

The state of hypnosis is simply your subconscious mind. It is the same state of mind that you are in in daydreams, prayer, meditation, and dreaming while asleep. The relationship between the conscious and subconscious is just like this iceberg. 10% is above water while 90% is below.


Conscious mind (10%)

• analyzes
• thinks and plans
• short term memory

Subconscious mind (90%)

• long-term memory
• emotions and feelings
• habit patterns
• relationship patterns
• addictions
• involuntary bodily functions
• creativity
• spiritual connection

Have you ever been driving and then realize you are at your destination and you can't remember driving for the last 10 minutes? That's called highway hypnosis. You are simply hanging out with your subconscious while your body does the driving. Slipping into a hypnotic state is just as natural as daydreaming!

For 80% of the day, we go back and forth from the conscious to subconscious. All day long. As a result, anyone can be hypnotized!

In our subconscious, we've locked away beliefs about ourselves, traumatic experiences, lessons we've learned, and basically anything that has happened to us. When a hypnotherapist unlocks the subconscious, we are free to reframe events, experiences, and beliefs to bring power back that will change your habits, beliefs, and behaviors. Very powerful stuff.