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Much of my initial work as a hypnotherapist is to dispel some
of the myths about hypnosis. Many people, even when they
come in to see me, have a lot of misconceptions about the
process. They think I'm going to wave my hand in front of
their face, and they'll go into never-never land. Then they
think I'm going to take control of their mind, and erase all
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thing I do is explain what hypnosis is, what it isn't, what it
can and can't do. Periodically, I even hold a free hour long
mini-class, open to the public, to educate about hypnosis.

Some years ago, I was at a party. A man came up and we
started talking. What do you do? he asked. I'm a
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he said, as he began scanning the party for someone else to
talk to. You're absolutely right. I can't hypnotize you. I don't
hypnotize anyone. By following my instructions, they
actually hypnotize themselves. That got his attention.

That's the first thing I tell my clients. All hypnosis is self-
hypnosis. If they don't follow my instructions, they won't be
hypnotized. And if they try too hard, they won't be
hypnotized. It's sort of like falling asleep at night. If you
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more. Hypnosis is a letting go. Letting go of the details of the
day. Letting go of the concerns. Letting your analytical mind let go of its hold on you. Just being in the here and now. Some people are afraid of letting go. They think it means that
someone else will be in control. I reassure them that they are
always in control of the process, and that they only go as
deeply as they feel safe doing. Generally, a client will drift
into a light state the first time. The second time I see them,
they go deeper because they realize that I'm not going to do
anything weird, like make them cluck like a chicken.

In hypnosis, I'm merely a guide. I can lead a client where
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I've had smokers come to me and say, I'd really like to want
to quit. But I still love smoking cigarettes, even though I
know I should quit. Take away the craving. I send them on
their way and tell them to come see me when they've decided
to quit. Hypnosis is a tool that can help them through the
process of quitting, but it can't make them quit. It's not a
magic wand. I can help a client move from point A to point
B, but they're the one that gets to walk the path. Hypnosis can
make it infinitely easier. It can make a mountain into a
molehill, and make changes happen very quickly. But the
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consumption of sweets. After hypnosis, she loses her desire
for them, but finds that it was an enjoyable part of the meal
with her husband. She gets mad at me because I took away
the enjoyment.

Many people erroneously think that hypnosis is some other
dimension of consciousness. It's not. It's a very normal,
natural awareness that we're moving in and out of all the
time. When you're driving down the road on autopilot, and
your mind drifts off, and all of a sudden you're aware that
you've driven past your turnoff. Or when you're at the movie
theater, and get so involved with the action on the screen that
you're barely aware of the rest of the people in the audience.
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on a project that time just speeds by, and outside distractions
fade away. These are all examples of the state of mind that
we call hypnosis. It's just that I know how to help a person
reach that level of consciousness deliberately, and know what
to do once we get there.

Hypnosis is really just being able to focus on one idea. Back
in the mid 1800's, Dr. James Braid coined the term hypnosis
after Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep. But after more
experience with it, he realized that the word hypnosis was
inaccurate. Dr. Braid then tried to rename it to mono-ideaism,
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So many people think that hypnosis is magic. Strange things
happen with hypnosis. If a subject is told that an ice cube is a
hot coal, a blister appears. A person is told that they're stiff as a board, and their head is placed on one chair, and their feet on another. Then several people stand on the person's
stomach, and he doesn't collapse. These things look like
magic. They aren't. All that happens in hypnosis is that we
access abilities we naturally have, but that we don't seem to
be able to connect with while in our normal analytical state.
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