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Who is in Control During a Hypnotherapy Session?
Posted by: In: Atlanta hypnosis, atlanta hypnotherapy, Hypnosis Experience, hypnosis mind control 03 Mar 2014 0 comments

After practicing hypnotherapy in Atlanta since 1988 one of the things that I’ve learned is that it’s my clients who are ultimately in control when they are in hypnosis. I appreciate that my guidance is extremely helpful to my clients. And, many of them have let me know, directly or indirectly, that they taken my ideas and suggestions and implemented them in some very creative ways.

For example, I was using imagery of taking an airplane mind with one of my clients who was in a very deep hypnotic state. When she finished her hypnosis session, she let me know that she didn’t like riding on airplanes, so she took the train. I was delighted and fascinated by her creative response.

When she told me that she took the train, she was also telling me that she was the one who was in charge.

It is my job as a hypnotherapist to create a context in which my clients can create solutions to their problems, or enhance their existing skills.

For example, one of my clients had difficulty playing his best golf game when he was with his buddies. Playing by himself or with his wife he did dramatically better. He was putting pressure on himself to play well when he was with his buddies and the tensions and self talk that he created got in the way of him playing his best game. So, I helped him to remember, while he was in hypnosis, that by forgetting himself and just enjoying each and every shot that he could play his best game. Two days after our session he shot an 83. Previously when he was playing with his buddies his score would typically be 97 or 98.

Another client got creative and solved a problem as a result of a question that I asked. He had a fear of flying. He told me that even while he was sitting on the ground in the airplane that he would be gripping the armrests with white knuckles. I asked him what he would think if he saw himself sitting there, completely safe, through a window on the side of the plane. He laughed. And, by simply shifting his mental perspective and laughing at his anxiety while he was in a completely safe situation he lost his fear of flying.

And, even though my question precipitated my client’s healthy and dramatic response to the thought of flying. It was his creative imagination that made the fear silly to him, and which eliminated his fear.

Joe’s Unique Way of Becoming a Non-smoker
Posted by: In: Atlanta hypnosis stop smoking, atlanta quit smoking, Atlanta quit smoking hypnosis, atlanta stop smoking, News, smoking, smoking cessation, Stop Smoking 21 Feb 2014 0 comments

Joe is someone who’s very much in control of himself, and his life. And, so it was a little surprising that he chose hypnosis to help him stop smoking. After all, a great many people associate hypnosis with being controlled…Read the rest of the article.

New Research ShowsThat Smoking Cessation May Help Mental Health
Posted by: In: atlanta quit smoking, atlanta stop smoking, smoking cessation, Stop Smoking 17 Feb 2014 0 comments

e! Science News reported today new research from the Washington University School of Medicine that shows benefits to the mentally ill when they stop smoking.

The study is published online in the journal Psychological Medicine. The assumption has been that psychiatric problems are more difficult to treat and that quitting smoking may interfere with treatment. The research shows just the opposite. Quitting smoking or reducing the number of cigarettes smoked by half was associated with a lesser risk for mood disorders like depression, as well as a lesser risk of drug and alcohol problems.

The researchers analyzed data from 4800 daily smokers. Those who had addiction or psychiatric issues at the beginning of the survey were less likely to have the same problems three years later if they had stopped smoking. And for those patients who didn’t have any psychiatric problems at the initial survey it turns out that they were less likely to develop those problems that they’d already stopped smoking previously.

See the article in e!Science News at http://tinyurl.com/kaqpx3o

Smoking More Than 7 Times Deadlier Than in 1950’s
Posted by: In: cigarettes, smoking 02 Feb 2014 0 comments

The Surgeon General of the United States has released a report, http://tinyurl.com/ofdrzrg, that shows that smoking is deadlier than ever. Men who smoked in 1959 with three times as likely to get lung cancer as men would never smoked. Now men smoke are 26 times more likely to get lung cancer than non-smoking men.

The Surgeon General’s report also says that smoking has been shown to cause a number of diseases that have never been linked to smoking before. That includes diabetes, ectopic pregnancy, rectal dysfunction, and rheumatoid arthritis.

The reasons for the increase in the deadliness of smoking have not been determined. There’s some speculation that it may be due to chemical additives to the tobacco in cigarettes that were not there in the 1950s.

Lose Your Fears While You Sleep
Posted by: In: hypnotism, hypnotize, phobia, phobias, sleep 28 Jan 2014 0 comments

New scientific research shows that it’s possible to eliminate fears while you sleep. An article in The Australian, http://tinyurl.com/p4w54x6, describes the methods of the researchers.

A number of hypnotherapy techniques include suggestions to be carried out while sleeping. The research mentioned above indicates that it’s possible to deliberately change our memories while we sleep. A hypnotherapist might suggest to the unconscious mind to make changes in memories, and release emotions that have been plaguing the client.

The researchers were unable to determine whether the memories that were changed or simply modified or whether you memories reform that replaced the old ones. In either case, there is a great deal of potential in helping people with traumatic memories.