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What does hypnosis feel like?
The experience of a hypnotic trance not so unusual or strange. To the contrary, it feels vaguely familiar to countless other moments in your life where you were absorbed in a zone, lost in thought, enthralled by bliss, or perhaps simply meditating. Meditation is...
Video: ABC News highlights presurgical hypnosis
This video highlights benefit of hypnosis for a woman who needed breast surgery.
Paul featured in Boston Voyager magazine
Thanks for sharing your story with us Paul. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there. After working for 10 years at Massachusetts General Hospital and in homecare Hospice as a Registered Nurse, I was ready for a change and wanted to pursue...
Video: How hypnosis works
Well done video produced by 'The Factoid' on how hypnosis works.
5 Science-backed health benefits of hypnosis
It sounds like the work of sorcerers and scam artists, but hypnosis can play a very real role in protecting and promoting health. This isn’t the “You are getting very sleepy...” hypnosis you’re used to seeing in pop culture references, but a clinical procedure used in...
Hypnosis helps cancer patients with anesthesia
Is hypnosis just a trick of stage magicians or hocus-pocus for gullible New Agers? Not according to new research just presented at the European Anaesthesiology Congress in Amsterdam. Professor Fabienne Roelants and Dr. Christine Watremez, from the Department of...
Video: Stage hypnotist explains hypnosis
TedX: Albert Nerenberg uses stage hypnosis to explain the effects of hypnosis.
Is hypnosis all in your head?
Hypnosis has become a common medical tool, used to reduce pain, help people stop smoking and cure them of phobias. But scientists have long argued about whether the hypnotic “trance” is a separate neurophysiological state or simply a product of a hypnotized person’s...
Video: Kristine’s pain relief
Kristine's unexpected pain relief with hypnotherapy. [info]
Stanford studies brain effect of hypnosis
A study identifies brain areas altered during hypnotic trance. By scanning the brains of subjects while they were hypnotized, researchers at the School of Medicine were able to see the neural changes associated with hypnosis. Your eyelids are getting heavy, your arms...
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A Boston area Hypnotherapist, with 10 years of medical experience as an RN, Paul has been helping clients since 2001 to overcome everyday challenges. Read more
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Healthy Hypnosis: The Simple Truth and Practical Use Paul explains the A-B-C’s of clinical hypnosis and offers case studies and examples of actual client sessions. This is a must read for anyone interested in this fascinating technique.
