Clearing Myths & Misconceptions
- Therapeutic hypnosis is not mind control or brainwashing. During trance, you are not immobilized. You are consciously alert and remain oriented as to person, place, and time. You can even hold a conversation in trance.
- Hypnosis cannot cause anyone to do or say something against their will or that contradicts their values.
Uses of hypnotherapy
Hypnosis has been used for everything from a natural anesthesia during surgery, performance enhancement for sports, to relief from anxiety and control of habits like smoking and unhealthy eating.
Hypnosis therapy has been known to treat recurrent and disturbing dreams, inability to concentrate, sleeplessness, apart from cancers, spondylitis and slipped disk, among others.