When considering utilizing the help of a hypnotherapist or a hypnotist, it is highly recommended that your hypnotist be formally trained (i.e. have attended a brick and mortar school / done formal classroom work). The school providing this training should be state-certified and not ‘online’. Like any mental health profession, there are good and bad therapists out there, proper education improves the chances your hypnotist is knowledgeable and able to offer the most help.
Your hypnotherapist must also be certified and most importantly knowledgeable and experienced with hypnosis coaching or hypnotherapy. Choosing a competent hypnotherapist will ensure faster and better results and will maximize the benefit of your hypnosis sessions and suggestions. In some rare instances, hurtful memories may surface. Adverse reactions, such as headache, dizziness and nausea, can happen but are very uncommon. A trained hypnotherapist or hypnotist will easily calm you, and will use everything you experience to enhance your hypnosis session further.
Use caution before allowing a hypnotherapist to help you restore lost memories. In this type of hypnosis, some people actually create “memories” from their imagination, this is called memory distortion of false memory creation. These “implanted memories” can be troubling to you and your loved ones. You should not undergo this this type of hypnosis unless your hypnotists is trained and experienced.
Experienced hypnotists can make every hypnosis session productive, positive, relaxing and allow you to use the power of your unconscious mind to heal yourself and rid yourself of hurtful habits. You will leave the office feeling better than when you walked in, every time.
By going to a trained hypnotist, you will likely trust them more. Trusting the knowledge, professionalism and ethical conduct of your hypnotist are ‘extremely’ helpful, and can save you time and money.
Being in hypnosis (trance) is a natural, common and a normal everyday state of mind. Trance is a biological necessity, every human goes in and out of trance numerous times a day.
Since trance (being in hypnosis) is such a natural thing, one can come up with hundreds of examples. The following are are a few examples of hypnotic processes that you experience regularly:
- Driving & Highway Hypnosis
- Movies, TV & Movie Theater Hypnosis
- Day Dreaming
- Relaxing on a Beach
- Elevators
- Running
- Gardening
- Working on the Computer
- Reading
- The Missing Key Game
- The Disappearing Milk / Ketchup
- Repetitive Tasks (closing garage door, locking door, etc)
Driving while in trance or Highway Hypnosis is very common.
Have you ever driven some distance, or from point A to B, then wondered how it happened?
Did you ever feel as if you were on auto pilot, with not much memory of actually driving that distance?
Have you driven your car, were subconsciously aware of what’s around you, and were at peace deep inside?
Have you ever left work and got in your car for the 10-mile drive home, the next thing you found yourself on your driveway, you can remember the beginning and end of your trip but find that you have no real memory of what happened between?
These are all signs that you were in trance while driving, otherwise known as highway hypnosis
Find out more examples of what being in a trance (in hypnosis) feels like here.
Have you ever misplaced your keys or glasses and right away started following a specific sequence of hand movements? i.e. touch the jacket pockets, touch your pants pockets, check your back pockets?
This automatic sequence happens without your thinking of it. Then you notice the keys were in front of you, as if they magically re-appeared (they were there all the time but you didn’t see them) that means you were in a brief state of trance.
Find out more examples of what being in a trance (in hypnosis) feels like here.
Yes. Daydreaming is a hypnotic state that is much deeper than most people would realize. Daydreaming trance is a natural normal process that everyone experiences.
Find out more examples of what being in a trance (in hypnosis) feels like on Hypno-Facts.com, here.
A small number of people who go into a deep hypnotic state experience amnesia. Time distortion and not being able to recite everything that was said during a hypnosis session are classical signs of being in a trance.
However, most people, if they try, will remember more about what occurred during hypnosis. The conscious mind is never gone, it’s always there and one could use it if they need to.
It is important to see the words ’stage’ and ’show’ here.
Stage shows are based on two concepts:
- The cooperation principal: The individuals on the stage are all volunteers, wanting to be on the stage.
- The willingness (and eagerness to) follow suggestions: These individuals are asked if they are willing to follow the hypnotist’s suggestions.
Only those that have the desire, personality and are disposed to follow such suggestions of acting out on the stage are selected. Others are discretely sent back to their seats.
Evidence is very abundant. Hundreds if not thousands of studies, books and testimonials exist.
Browse my articles on the website called Hypno-Facts.com to find research, studies, evidence and more. Go to Hypno-Facts.com now (opens a new window).
Please do contact me if you have any questions to ask or stories to share. I’d be very happy to answer your questions or share your story.
