What is Hypnosis?

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What is Hypnosis?

What Can Hypnosis
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1. An Altered State of Awareness*
    a. Most people report feeling very relaxed.
    b. Some say they feel as though they had an "out of body" experience.
    c. Others say it feels like that dream-state right before you go to sleep or wake up.
    d. Physically observable changes in the brain activities are observable using Functional Magnetic Resonance and positron emission tomography (PET) scans.
2. Focused Concentration
    Example: Some say that they didn't remember any extra details of their past, but that what they always had remembered was very vidid.
3. Lack of Self-Criticism
    A lot of us discount positive changes, because we feel we can't. (Example: "There's no way I'm going to exercise three times a week. Maybe you can, but not me!).
    In hypnosis, that self-critical, self-defeating part of us goes on vacation, leaving a part of us that's eager to entertain possibilities we usually don't allow ourselves.
4. Conscious and Subconscious Communication
    Hypnosis relaxes the critical, rational, responsible, thinking "conscious" part of us to communicate with the creative, open, innocent, and imaginative "subconscious" part. In my experience, healing takes place when there's good communication between the mature by constricted part and the child-like expansive part.
5. "Suggestibility"
    In hypnosis, we are more willing to explore and experiment with suggested ideas. In my work, I always talk with my clients about exactly what they wanted suggested.
*Ideas expressed on this website are that of Grace Fleming ("Megumi") only, and do not necessarily represent that of any organization or group.
*See the website by American Society of Clinical Hypnosis for more information about hypnosis.