Hypnosis is a naturally occurring state we have all entered without realizing it. We get hypnotized when we cry during a movie, get swept away by a piece of music, or feel a deep sense of loss when the hometown team loses.

We even enter this state when a commercial for a box of cereal of comes on television & we automatically find ourselves reaching for this brand when we are in the grocery store.

Artists, entertainers, preachers, politicians and advertisers all induce trances. Fortunately it is also a state where profound healing and lasting change can occur.

• of concentrated attention;
• where you are more receptive to suggestion;
• where you bypass the critical factor of your conscious mind;
• where accelerated change is possible
• where we can educate and communicate with our subconscious mind, that deep more elemental part of our being.

• of your imagination;

• of your emotions;
• of your heart-beat, respiration, immune system and other instinctual and physiological processes;
• where your beliefs and limitations were programed into you;
• where your impulses arise;
• of your deeper, more authentic self;

• accept positive and beneficial suggestions;

• overcome fears and irrational impulses;
• break free from negative beliefs and limitations;
• change your subjective perception of pain;
• harness the power of Imagination to heal and transform your life;
• gently dissolve harmful emotions;
• bring different parts within you into alignment such as the part that wants to be healthy and the part that craves sugar.

Although there has been an explosion of scientific research into hypnosis over the last hundred years – and its incredible healing powers have been scientifically documented over and over again – this makes it even more remarkable that there is no widely accepted definition of hypnosis.

We agree on what it does, but disagree as to why. What most hypnotists and researchers will settle on, is that it is a state of focused or concentrated attention where we become much more open and responsive to suggestion.

However, hypnosis is much more than this.

What this means in more practical terms, is that hypnosis is a state where you can begin to reprogram your subconscious so you no longer feel the impulse to smoke that cigarette or eat that piece of cake.

It is also a state where you have such focused and concentrated attention that you can begin to alter your subjective perception of things. Perhaps the chronic pain that had been blighting your life. Even going so far as to change it so profoundly that this pain no longer feels as sharp and intense and intolerable. Perhaps even making it disappear altogether as you instruct your subconscious to alter its pathway.

Hypnosis was approved by the British Medical Association in 1955, the American Medical Association in 1958, and the Canadian Medical Association in 1959. It was even approved by Pope Pius XII in 1956 (for the relief of pain during childbirth).

And unlike other treatments, hypnosis cannot lead to an infection or overdose. It has no toxic side-effects. It does not conflict with any medication you may be taking. It is safe and 100% natural.

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