Hypnosis can help people achieve so many things that it seems almost impossible to list them all so I'm going to identify just a few of the areas.

Hypnosis can affect almost every area of one's life, physical and emotional. Some of the more common issues that people use hypnosis for are: eating disorders, stopping tobacco use as well as alcohol and other addictive habits, relieving stress and anxiety, releasing phobias, assist with natural childbirth, helping to resolve health issues (allergies, IBS, colitis, muscle spasms, ulcers, etc.), insomnia, panic, pre and post operative surgery, visiting the dentist, anger or depression, and pain. However hypnosis can also be used to for improvement or enhancement. Some of the things that hypnosis can help with are: self-esteem, motivation, studying, learning a foreign language, performance in sports, increased libido, and increased creativity.

I personally have used hypnosis to stop smoking. I used to smoke 3 to 4 packs of cigarettes a day and I have experienced what it's like to try and not be successful at stopping smoking. Hypnosis allowed me to redirect my habits so that I essentially forgot to smoke. I have now been tobacco free for well over 40 years.

I have also used hypnosis to assist me in my study of a foreign language. Releasing the limiting decisions that I could not learn a foreign language gave me the ability to learn. What I have discovered from this is that not only the language that I am currently working with is easier to learn; I also find that other foreign languages that I've come in contact with are easier to assimilate as well.

There is a lot of confusion over what hypnosis is and is not. First off, hypnosis is not mind control, being unconscious, being a sleep, or being zoned out. Everyone can be hypnotized if they choose to. No one can be made to do anything against their will. Unless you're okay with clucking like a chicken, a hypnotist cannot make you do it.

What hypnosis is, is a very relaxed state where you are completely aware of everything that is going on. It's like when you experience a daydream. When you are in a daydream, you're in your own little world. However, while in that daydream you are still aware of your surroundings. That is a trance state and that is what hypnosis is like. The hypnotherapist uses that trance state to assist the client in achieving the desired results. All learning, behavior, and change takes place at the unconscious level and when in a trance, you are more receptive to suggestions that, if accepted, can create the desired changes.

I am frequently asked how many sessions it takes to resolve a particular issue. Some things are more challenging than others. For example I can usually assist a person to be smoke-free in two sessions. Phobias can frequently be resolved in one or two sessions. Eating disorders can take a longer period of time to resolve because we have to eat to live and we have a complex relationship with food.

If you've not thought of using hypnosis before, why not consider it now?