Hypnosis Applications

Smoking Cessation

Over 75% of adult smokers would like to stop and at least 60% have tried to quit in their lives. However, smoking is a highly addictive habit and 97% of all attempts to quit are met with failure.

Approximately 20% of ex-smokers report quitting on their first attempt, while only 50% succeeded after 6 tries. Of successful quitters, 90% used individual methods of smoking cessation rather than organized programs, with 'cold turkey' being the method most often used. (Taylor & Dingle, 1994)

An examination of multiple research studies show that a single session hypnosis treatment to stop smoking produced about a 25% success rate, whereas in excess of 70% of those engaging in 2 to 4 sessions of hypnosis quit smoking within weeks.

Hypnosis effectively Stops Smoking without cravings or withdrawal. Why?
Because our techniques give you direct access to where the cravings start and end,
your subconscious mind.

The reason most smokers light up is to satisfy a FEELING that ends with pleasure. So doesn’t it stand to reason that if you began smoking because of an emotional response, you can stop smoking by changing the emotional response?

If you want to be a non-smoker, then you must address the root cause of your desire to smoke. The most effective and natural way to do this is by accessing the power of your subconscious mind. The same determined will and powerful mind you used to suppress your bodies natural aversion to breath smoke when you first started.

You get what you think about. If you are a smoker, then it is obvious what your mind has been thinking about. This is why most stop smoking programs eventually fail. Your mind begins to think more and more about the relaxation smoking used to provide you with. It leads to thinking about that would feel right now, the next thing you know where it leads – bumming one.

What would happen if you just didn’t think about smoking?
That power of your mind is called Hypnosis.

If you are 100% ready to quit then you WILL become a nonsmoker!  If you think saying goodbye to cigarettes will be difficult it probably will!   With Hypnosis you can quit smoking without putting on unwanted pounds, without being irritable and without having to avoid others who smoke. The powerful hypnotic suggestions that are implanted into your subconscious will have you disliking any and all tobacco products.

   If you truly are ready to become a non-smoker then you will be successful by stopping smoking with hypnosis.

Once you are ready to quit smoking, here is what happens after you quit:

Just 20 minutes after you stop smoking, you’ll notice…
Blood pressure decreases.
Pulse drops to normal.
Hands and feet may feel warmer.

About 8 hours after you stop smoking…
Nicotine levels in blood reduce by half.
Carbon monoxide levels in blood return to normal.
Oxygen levels in blood return to normal.

Stop smoking benefits after 24 hours...
Cilia in the lungs start to clean out the tar in mucus.
Chances of a heart attack begin to decrease.

After you’ve quit smoking for 2 days...
Nicotine is eliminated from the body.
Damaged nerve endings start to re-grow.
Senses of taste and smell are greatly improved.

Read what our clients have to say about their success with hypnosis.

Weight loss begins in the mind

Hypnosis addresses what is often considered to be the root of the problem; emotional eating.  Diet programs alone are unable to do this. Even diet programs that include exercise programs are not going to work for most people in the long run. (Journal of the American Medical Association, January 2005).

This is why Hypnosis succeeds where traditional diets fail.

If you really look at how you go through your day you'll discover that much of what you do is "automatic." You don't normally think about locking your front door when you leave the house, you just do it. When you drive to work, you don't think about every step involved in operating your car, you just do it. In fact, you'd never get anything done in life if you had to consciously think about everything you did moment to moment.

All automatic behaviors are rooted deeply within the subconscious mind and that's precisely why you don't have to think about them. When it comes to eating and exercise habits, this mechanism can lead to weight issues.

Hypnosis works because it addresses those habits and issues at the source,
the subconscious mind, and at this level they can be modified effectively.

Hypnosis a pleasant, relaxing experience during which you can gain understanding of your eating patterns and changes them into healthy once.

Is this you?

You want to lose weight. You know all the reasons you should lose weight. You really want to get in better shape. You want to take better care of yourself. You are tired of looking in the mirror and seeing yourself fat and out of shape.
You’ve tried every imaginable diet pill, crazy diet, and starvation method and exercise gadgets to help you lose weight...and failed. Or you lost the weight only to gain it back. You’ve become discouraged, disheartened and depressed. You’ve even considered liposuction and gastric bypass surgery. You feel like a hopeless case.

Stop trying to loose weight. Focus on what you want to gain!

The question is how do you become motivated to eat healthy?

This is where Hypnosis will help you.

We strongly suggest that you spend zero time each day counting calories, or grams, or ounces. These behaviors only make you hungry, by thinking about restricting what you eat.
Our emphasis is on helping you to live a more satisfying lifestyle then eating every time you feel a feeling.
Hypnosis will help you satisfy yourself in many new ways! You are going to distinguish between real hunger and emotions. If you are really hungry, EAT, and satisfy the physical hunger. You will be able to respond to emotions in more satisfying ways.

This is the only weight loss program on the face of the Earth that we know of, which will NOT lead you into a state of deprivation, but rather to a state of satisfaction, physically AND emotionally.

Whether you have 10 or 20 pounds to lose...or over 100 pounds to lose...Hypnosis will give you the strength you need to succeed.

- Eliminate the cravings.

- Overcome self-sabotage.

- Change or reinforce how you interact with food.

- Give you control over the quantity and quality of the food you eat.

- Help you enjoy exercise.

- Assist you to enjoy the weight loss process

- Create positive self-image

Fears and Phobias

A specific phobia is an intense fear of something posing little or no actual danger. Common phobias are terrible fears of animals, insects, closed-in places, heights, flying, driving, storms, and water. Such phobias are irrational fear of a particular thing.

A social phobia is an irrational anxiety elicited by exposure to certain types of social or performance interactions, like being introduced to other people or being teased or criticized. This type of irrational anxiety leads to avoidance behavior.
It can become all-consuming. People who live in the fear are more and more dominated by the things they have to avoid in their life. And their world becomes smaller and smaller.

Someone experiencing panic and anxiety is feeling the effects of the 'fight or flight' response. The fight or flight response is our bodies natural response to a perceived danger. When it is activated, hormones are released into the body to enable us to either deal with or escape from the dangerous situation.

In Hypnosis a patient is safely regressed to the time when the Fear\Phobia first began and then changes his\her response on this situation that first triggered the Fear\Phobia. Tracking fear\phobia to its originating source and bringing this source to the conscious attention of the patient results in the permanent correction of the phobia.

Hypnosis effectively deals with fears and phobias by working directly with the source of the fear and confusion, your subconscious mind, and teaching it other options- quickly and safely.

Academic/Athletic Performance

All life processes go through an initial phase of arousal; they reach a peak where performance is optimized and then relax back to a basal level.

Excessive anxiety lowers intellectual efficiency and impairs cognitive performance variables. Therapeutic applications of hypnosis, like hypnotic motivation and hypnotic optimization of the individual's normal range of abilities, have been used to reduce anxiety before stressful events like exams, for optimal mental performance results. (Goldburgh, 1968)

Competitive athletes attribute as much as half of their performance to their mental condition. No matter what your chosen sport, improving your mind/body dialogue is a benefit. By developing this skill you will be able to listen more instinctively to the messages your body sends and increase the connection you have with your team mates and competitors. Your intuitive mind wants to guide you toward your goal, but do you know how to tune into it?

Do you want to be at your peak performance? Do you want your body to run like a well-oiled machine? Do you want to achieve a particular goal and improve your on personal best? Creative visualization has helped athletes all over the world realize their dreams. But it takes more than just imagining a scene in your mind. You have to use the power of your unconscious (subconscious) to make it a reality.

Hypnotic techniques improve mental toughness and remove limiting beliefs by creating the feeling of success and the winner attitude. Peak performance training removes the tension and the stress related to high performance. It sets a positive outlook towards athletic events and the sheer will to outperform the others, it deals with mental blocks by giving the requisite increase in high-level motivation and has also been proved useful in repairing sport injuries. (Narcuse, 1964)

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (“IBS”)

You still have the pain, the bloated feeling, always worried about how far the nearest toilet might be. The constant worry of suddenly succumbing to an attack of painful, griping, stomach ache, a bloated waist, and uncontrollable diarrhoea, can be so embarrassing that it often prevents the sufferer from leading a normal life.

The fear of having an IBS attack when they are not in familiar surroundings, can create such anxiety, stress, and illness, that many people have to give up their jobs, avoid meals out and are prevented from even going on holiday.

For some, the symptoms of Irritable bowel syndrome can be helped by adhering to strict dietary limitations, but this does not work for all and is not always easy to maintain.
For Irritable Bowel Syndrome, one of hypnotherapy's greatest benefits is its well-established ability to reduce the effects of stress. Your state of mind has a direct impact on your physical well-being, even when you're in the best of health.
In Hypnosis you will learn how to change the way your body feels and works right now, reducing discomfort, a bloated stomach, and stomach ache.

We will also teach you how to use your own subconscious resources to relax your stomach, and intestines, and calm the spasms, reducing the bloated feeling and improving the natural flow of body waste.

The imagery used will help you learn how to control your IBS rather than it control you. Once you have learnt how to relax, and take control your symptoms will disappear or reduce so dramatically that they become unnoticeable.

With Hypnosis you will feel more confident to regain your life, and start enjoying things you never thought you could.

A recent 'Clinical Review' of hypnosis and relaxation therapies published in the BMJ looked at the existing research on hypnosis and concluded: 'Randomised trials have shown hypnosis to be of value in treating [...] irritable bowel syndrome.' (Vickers & Zollman, ‘Hypnosis and relaxation therapies,’ BMJ 1999;319: 1346-1349)

An experimental study of 12 patients with IBS showed that treatment resulted in significant improvement in symptoms and reduction in related anxiety. (Galovski, T.E., and E.B. Blanchard, 'The treatment of irritable bowel syndrome with hypnotherapy.' Applied Psychophysiology & Feedback, 1998: Dec., vo. 23(4):219-232)