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Hypnosis…just the facts

Hypnosis does not involve mind control, magic, unconsciousness or sleep.
You cannot be made to enter hypnosis against your will.
Hypnosis is a natural experience that happens to most of us each day when we become absorbed in doing something like driving, working, reading or watching TV.
All your senses are awake and alert while you are in a hypnotic state.
You are in control at all times while in hypnosis.
You only say and do in hypnosis what you would normally say and do in a fully conscious state.
You can return to full consciousness any time you either want to or feel the need to.
The subconscious mind makes up about 90% of your total mind power and contains a “mental movie” of everything that has happened in your life.
As you enter into hypnosis, you bypass the conscious mind and can then access information in the subconscious mind.
The use of hypnosis gives you the opportunity to make changes quickly and permanently.
Hypnosis was approved for use by the British Medical Association in 1955 and by the American Medical Association in 1958.
Hypnotherapy entails the use of trance and suggestion to adjust habits of thought, feeling and behavior.
Hypnotherapists use trance and suggestions to help normal people cope with every-day problems of living, such as issues related to jobs, hobbies and recreational activities.
Hypnotherapy can also aid in general self-improvement through strategies such as non-clinical stress management.
Hypnotherapists work in complementary ways with physicians and other health care providers to help optimize the care patients receive.
Hypnotherapeutic results can be restorative, rehabilitative, curative and occasionally seemingly miraculous