Yes. It really does. As long as you want it to work.

What I mean by that is, a hypnotherapist can only hypnotise a person who wants to make some changes. For example, if your partner sends you to see a hypnotherapist because he or she wants you to stop smoking (and you don’t want to stop smoking), it’s not likely to be effective.

You just can’t hypnotise people to do things they really don’t want to do.

However, if you want to make some changes, even if you don’t believe in the ‘Power of Hypnosis’, the chances are high that you will be successful.

What will I learn in this blog?

• That everyone can be hypnotised if they wish to be
• The more open you are to treatment, the better the results
• If you are passionate about change, hypnosis can help
• How hypnosis could help you get back in control

What happens in hypnotherapy?

There are different types of hypnotherapy, and different ways of hypnotising someone. So, how does hypnotherapy really work?

First, you’ll usually have a talk with your therapist to discuss what you hope to achieve and agree what methods your therapist will use. At The Hypnosis Clinic, we offer a free initial consultation either in person or via video, so you can find out more about how suitable it is for you.

After this, the hypnotherapist may:

• Lead you into a deeply relaxed state – most people feel refreshed and relaxed
• Use your agreed methods to help you towards your goals
• Gradually bring you out of the trance-like state. Most people feel refreshed and relaxed

You’re fully in control when under hypnosis and do not have to take on the therapist’s suggestions if you do not want to.

If necessary, you can bring yourself out of the hypnotic state.

Hypnosis does not work if you do not want to be hypnotised.

What is the success rate of hypnotherapy?

Early studies from the 90s found that people who used hypnosis lost more than twice as much weight as those who dieted without the cognitive therapy.

A 2014 study worked with 60 obese women, and found that those who practiced hypo-behavioural therapy lost weight and improved their eating habits and body image. And a small 2017 study worked with eight obese adults and three children, all of whom successfully lost weight, with one even avoiding surgery due to the treatment benefits.

Of course, none of this is conclusive, so you should follow these simple guidelines to explore hypnotherapy as an option.

• Choose a hypnotherapist that offers a free introduction, so you can see if you are comfortable.

• Check out their Google Reviews.

• Find out what their qualifications and and how long they have been in practice.

• Choose a hypnotherapist who has passed exams from a reputable body, like The British or American Council of Hypnotist Examiners.

• Find one who is represented by a trade association like the National Hypnotherapy Society.

• Finally, only work with someone you feel comfortable with.

What did I learn here?

We asked ‘Does hypnotherapy really work?’ And the answer was that hypnotherapy can be very successful if you find a good practitioner and you have a strong desire for change.

If you’d like to find out more about how hypnosis can help you, have a look at our website. We offer a free initial consultation, either by a Telehealth video link or at our clinic in Novena Medical Centre.

Or you fancy a chat, just give us a call.

How to use hypnosis to help alleviate psoriasis.

According to the NHS (www.nhs.uk), psoriasis is a skin condition that causes red, flaky, crusty patches of skin covered with silvery scales.

These patches normally appear on your elbows, knees, scalp and lower back, but can appear anywhere on your body.

Most people are only affected with small patches. In some cases, the patches can be itchy or sore.

Psoriasis affects around 2% of people in the UK. It can start at any age, but most often develops in adults under 35 years old, and affects men and women equally.

The severity of psoriasis varies greatly from person to person. For some it’s just a minor irritation, but for others it can majorly affect their quality of life.

Psoriasis is a long-lasting (chronic) disease that usually involves periods when you have no symptoms or mild symptoms, followed by periods when symptoms are more severe.

What will I learn in this blog?

• That psoriasis symptoms are episodic
• What may trigger an attack and hw to stop it
• The hypnosis can help with underlying factors
• How lo minimise the effects of living with the condition

Why does it happen?

People with psoriasis have an increased production of skin cells.

Skin cells are normally made and replaced every 3 to 4 weeks, but in psoriasis this process only takes about 3 to 7 days.

The resulting build-up of skin cells is what creates the patches associated with psoriasis.

Although the process is not fully understood, it’s thought to be related to a problem with the immune system. The immune system is your body’s defence against disease and infection, but it attacks healthy skin cells by mistake in people with psoriasis.

Psoriasis can run in families, although the exact role genetics plays in causing psoriasis is unclear.

Many people’s psoriasis symptoms start or become worse because of a certain event, known as a trigger. Possible triggers of psoriasis include an injury to your skin, throat infections and using certain medicines.

The condition is not contagious, so it cannot be spread from person to person.

How is it treated?

There’s no cure for psoriasis, but a range of treatments can improve symptoms and the appearance of skin patches.

In most cases, the first treatment used will be a topical treatment, such as vitamin D analogues or topical corticosteroids. Topical treatments are creams and ointments applied to the skin.

If these are not effective, or your condition is more severe, a treatment called phototherapy may be used. Phototherapy involves exposing your skin to certain types of ultraviolet light.

In severe cases, where the above treatments are ineffective, systemic treatments may be used. These are oral or injected medicines that work throughout the whole body.

What can trigger an attack?

According to Medical News Today, psoriasis tends to involve flares, when symptoms get worse, and times of remission, when a person may have no symptoms.

Avoiding triggers, where possible, may help prevent a flare. Common triggers include:

•Stress

•Smoking

•Skin injury, including cuts, scrapes, and sunburn

•Certain medications, including some drugs for high blood pressure, psychiatric disorders, arthritis, and malaria

•Infections and illnesses, such as strep throat, colds, and other common conditions

Triggers vary between individuals. People who can identify their triggers should find it easier to avoid them.

Ok – sound great – now tell me about how hypnosis can help!

Most of the current treatments for psoriasis are topical creams to treat the symptoms: red and flaky skin. Hypnotherapy gets under the skin (metaphorically) to look at the causes of psoriasis.

We know that stress can be a factor in a psoriasis flare-up, and hypnosis is very useful in helping someone to be more calm, relaxed and confident.

Often with this kind of condition, people experience a vicious circle of having stress in their lives that precipitates the psoriasis, and then the psoriasis that precipitates even more stress!

Personally, I often see psoriasis as ‘emotional armour plating’. In my experience, I often find there lies a soft soul behind a thick skin.

So, hypnotherapy can work on 2 levels: firstly to deal with some of the underlying lifestyle factors like stress and smoking which may cause an outbreak, and secondly to see if there are any emotional reasons behind the problem.

You might think it odd that we can influence the incorrect formation of skin by our thoughts, but we are a lot more in control of the automatic systems in our body than we think!

For example, the digestion of food and the beating of the heart are completely automatic processes (thankfully), yet we can have a strong influence over them, just by using our conscious thoughts.

Don’t believe me? OK, think of something really tasty you would like for lunch or dinner, something really delicious. Now your mouth is producing saliva, and your tummy will start to rumble as your gallbladder releases bile to start to break down the fatty acids you were imagining. You produced that effect just by thinking.

Now think about someone who has done something horrible to you in the past. And, your heart is beating faster, your blood pressure has inflated slightly and the adrenal glands above your kidneys are producing the stress hormone cortisol. Again, all this happens just by the application of a little conscious thought.

The mind body connection has been accepted for many years; your ability to cure yourself lies in the patterns of your thoughts.

Your skin is a reflection of the innermost parts of your body. For example, if you get angry, your skin reddens. Is it really that far of a leap to say that if you feel vulnerable your ski hardens?

Using therapeutic hypnosis, we can look into what is causing the unwanted inflammation and help you to feel more calm and relaxed, to increase your self confidence and feel better about the way you look and feel.

Of course, change can take time, which is why we can make a special self-hypnosis recording to help to rebalance your skin for better health.

CASE STUDY

Your Mind Could Fix Your Skin.

At least that’s the idea behind an emerging medical specialty that explores the interaction between the mind and the skin. Its practitioners believe that for some patients, stress may play a role in skin conditions from acne to psoriasis, rosacea, warts, eczema, blushing and hives.

These doctors, who identify themselves as psychodermatologists — “derm shrinks” or “skin shrinks” for short — concentrate less on medicating the skin and more on getting at the psychological components of what ails it. They do not ignore traditional medicine. But they add treatments like psychotherapy, meditation, relaxation, hypnosis, acupuncture, yoga, tai chi and even anti-anxiety drugs.

These strategies, psychodermatologists say, have the potential to help the tens of millions of people who suffer from chronic skin ailments. And many patients, frustrated by skin conditions that seem resistant to traditional medicine, are apparently willing to give them a try.

New York Times

What did I learn here?

The psoriasis has its origins in our mind as well as our body. Hypnosis can help to redress the imbalance that causes our emotions to reflect in our skin.

Generally you should expect to have 3 to 4 sessions of treatment and and have a custom-made recording to start re-balancing your skin to be more healthy.

If you’d like to find out more about how hypnosis can help you, have a look at our website.

We offer a free initial consultation, either by a Telehealth video link or at our clinic in Novena Medical Centre. Or call us personally for a chat on 6397 6073.

How to use hypnotherapy to alleviate Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS).

About two in 10 people in the UK have IBS and get episodes six times a year or more. How long a flare up lasts varies from person to person and may change from one episode to the next. You can develop IBS at any age, but you usually have your first symptoms when you’re between 20 and 30.

Although older people may feel that IBS is an inevitable part of ageing, the opposite is actually true. While sensitivity of the nerves within the digestive system may increase with age, there are ways to help reduce the overall risk or alleviate the symptoms.

Whilst the cause is largely unknown, we do know is that stress, anxiety and depression increase gut symptoms and severity of IBS and that people with anxiety, depression or those with high levels of stress are more likely to have IBS.

What will I learn in this blog?

• That IBS can affect people at all stages of life
• That it is often linked to stress, anxiety and depression
• There are things you can do to alleviate the symptoms
• How hypnosis can resolve the underlying causes of IBS

What exactly is IBS?

According to the NHS, Irritable bowel syndrome is a common condition that affects the digestive system.

• It causes symptoms like stomach cramps, bloating, diarrhoea and constipation. These tend to come and go over time, and can last for days, weeks or months at a time.

• It’s usually a lifelong problem. It can be very frustrating to live with and can have a big impact on your everyday life.

• There’s no cure, but diet changes and medicines can often help control the symptoms.

• The exact cause is unknown – it’s been linked to things like food passing through your gut too quickly or too slowly, oversensitive nerves in your gut, stress and a family history of IBS.

The excellent UW Medicine website says IBS is a functional gastrointestinal syndrome, which means there is no visible damage to the bowels. This makes IBS different from inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, where the bowels are visibly enflamed.

“In IBS, we think there’s a brain-gut dysregulation so that the brain is misinterpreting the signals it gets from the bowel. There’s an alarm bell going on in the brain even without any injury or irritation. Even the normal digestive process creates sensations of bloating, pain and discomfort,” says Shoba Krishnamorthy, M.D., a gastroenterologist at UW Medicine’s Eastside Specialty Centre who treats people with IBS.

In times of actual crisis, this process is helpful. If you’re trying to run away from a threat, for example, you don’t want your brain to send blood to your bowels so they can digest food; that energy is best diverted elsewhere. But for people with IBS, our brains and guts somehow think that danger is a constant.

What are the symptoms?

The main symptoms of IBS are:

• Stomach pain or cramps – usually worse after eating and better after doing a poo
• Bloating – your tummy may feel uncomfortably full and swollen
• Diarrhoea – you may have watery poo and sometimes need to poo suddenly
• Constipation – you may strain when pooing and feel like you cannot empty your bowels fully

IBS can also cause:

• Flatulence
• Passing mucus from your bottom
• Tiredness and a lack of energy
• Feeling sick (nausea)
• Backache
• Problems peeing, like needing to pee often, sudden urges to pee
• Not always being able to control when you poo (bowel incontinence)

What do I do to change all this?

There’s no single diet or medicine that works for everyone with IBS. But there are lots of things that can help if you have been diagnosed with it. The NHS has gone good tips:

IBS can be treated, but there is currently no cure. You may have heard claims that things like peppermint oil or probiotic-enriched yogurt will banish your IBS symptoms for good, but there’s little scientific evidence to prove that.

Still, there are things you can do to learn more about how IBS affects you, and there are simple steps you can take to stop it from interfering with your life.

Try an elimination diet

Food is a major player in IBS — and what foods prove bothersome vary from person to person.

If you’re not sure what foods trigger you, or you have an inkling but want confirmation, try eliminating common offenders — things like dairy, gluten, acidic foods, coffee or carbonated beverages — from your diet for a couple of weeks and see if you start feeling better. Then, slowly add each food back into your diet, one at a time, and see if you start experiencing symptoms again.

For more accurate results, you can also do this with the guidance of your doctor or a dietitian.

Learn your other triggers

Along with certain foods, IBS symptoms can be triggered and exacerbated by other things, primarily stress and hormonal changes. It’s common for women to experience worse symptoms shortly before or during their period, for example.

If you get a better idea of what triggers you, you can take extra steps to decrease the effect. If you’re having a stressful week, choose foods that are less likely to bother your stomach. This approach probably won’t entirely rid you of your symptoms, but it may lessen them.

Talk with your doctor about medication

While you can always take over-the-counter medications like laxatives, antacids or medications that help relieve an upset stomach, there are also prescription medications that might be helpful.

Antidepressants may work for some people, especially those who experience anxiety, too.

You can also talk with your doctor about non-medication aids like probiotics. While more research needs to be done to determine if probiotics truly ease IBS symptoms, there are specific strains of bacteria in certain probiotics that might be helpful for some people. Your doctor may be able to recommend a probiotic supplement that may work for you.

Deal with the underlying issues

Psychotherapy, hypnotherapy or cognitive behavioural therapy is another solution for some people.

If you have anxiety that interacts with your IBS, therapy to treat your anxiety could help relieve some of your IBS symptoms. And if you only have IBS, there are even therapy practices that focus on how IBS affects you that could be helpful.

How does hypnosis help with IBS?

As you’ve seen, anxiety, stress and depression can all play leading roles in the story behind IBS.

Seeing a Clinical Hypnotherapist really can help you to change your relationship with your digestive system for good.

Hypnotherapy works from 2 different directions, firstly to look and see what has actually caused the underlying problems and then to give you the tools you need to be able to fight that anxiety, stress and depression by increasing your feelings of calmness, physical relaxation and control.

You see, what often happens with anxiety is that we get a circle of behaviour that gets out of control. Firstly, concentrating on the thing that makes you anxious makes you … well, anxious! That continued concentration can turn a small puddle of worry into a massive sea of anxiety; your mind becomes a stressful place, where the anxious thoughts seem to dominate all the other, more tolerable thoughts.

This has a knock-on effect on your body; it goes into ‘fight or flight’ mode, your muscles tense, blood pressure increases, heart rate goes up, digestion slows down or stops working properly, your senses heighten, it’s as if the body is preparing for some really physical challenge. That’s where the symptoms of IBS really start.

Calmness is the antidote to anxiety and stress. When your mind is calm, you see things in their true perspective, and with their correct levels of meaning. Because your outlook is more rational, thinking and optimistic, it prevents the negative thoughts from getting a hold and taking you someplace you don’t want to go.

Now, there is a side-effect of being calm, and it’s that your body relaxes. No longer at DEFCON 1 and under attack, your muscles relax, your heart rate and blood pressure are adequate and you feel at ease with yourself. That frees your digestive system to work at the optimum level to process food properly.

In the sessions of hypnosis, you are taught to relax to a very deep level and you can also have a specially-recorded selfhypnosis session. To use at home, then you can gradually replace the old feelings with the new ones, until they just feel right. You can even have a bespoke self-hypnosis programme for you to use at home.

It’s important to find a therapist that respects your confidentiality, so that you feel comfortable telling them all about your issues.

Remember, your digestive system reflects how you feel on the inside. To change the way your gut works, you need to change the way your mind works. That’s where hypnosis really comes in.

To find out more about hypnosis and how it works, have a look here: https://thehypnosisclinic.com.sg/what-is-hypnosis/

What did I learn here?

That having a healthy digestive system is as much to do with your mind as it is with your body!

The right diet, coupled with the right attitude will take you to where you want to be.

If you’d like to find out more about how hypnosis can help you to control allergies, have a look at our website, We offer a free initial consultation, either by a Telehealth video link or at our clinic In Novena Medical Centre

Or if you fancy a chat, just give us a call.

How to use hypnosis to tackle allergies.

An allergy is a reaction the body has to a particular food or substance.

Allergies are very common. They’re thought to affect more than 1 in 4 people in the UK at some point in their lives. They’re particularly common in children. Some allergies go away as a child gets older, although many are lifelong.

Adults can develop allergies to things they were not previously allergic to. Having an allergy can be a nuisance and affect your everyday activities, but most allergic reactions are mild and can be largely kept under control.

Severe reactions can occasionally occur, but these are uncommon.

What will I learn in this blog?

• That almost all allergies can be managed
• Developing tolerance to an allergen is possible
• Hypnosis helps you to get in touch with your immune system
• That hypnosis can help you to be less allergic

What are the most common allergies?

According to the UK NHS, there are a wide variety of substances (allergens) that cause allergic reactions:

The more common allergens include:

• Grass and tree pollen – an allergy to these is known as hay fever (allergic rhinitis)
• Dust mites
• Animal hair, tiny flakes of skin or hair
• Food – particularly nuts, fruit, shellfish, eggs and cows’ milk
• Insect bites and stings
• Medicines – including ibuprofen, aspirin and certain antibiotics
• Latex – used to make some gloves and condoms
• Mould – these can release small particles into the air that you can breathe in
• Household chemicals – including those in detergents and hair dyes

Most of these allergens are generally harmless to people who are not allergic to them.

Allergic reactions usually happen quickly within a few minutes of exposure to an allergen. They can cause:

• Sneezing
• A runny or blocked nose
• Red, itchy, watery eyes
• Wheezing and coughing
• A red, itchy rash
• Worsening of asthma or eczema symptoms

Most allergic reactions are mild, but occasionally a severe reaction called anaphylaxis or anaphylactic shock can occur. This is a medical emergency and needs urgent treatment.

If you feel you have an allergy, your GP is generally your first port of call. They can help determine whether it’s likely you have an allergy. If they think you might have a mild allergy, they can offer advice and treatment to help manage the condition.

If your allergy is particularly severe or it’s not clear what you’re allergic to, they may refer you to an allergy specialist for testing and advice about treatment.

So what do I do to reduce my allergic symptoms?

In many cases, the most effective way of managing an allergy is to avoid the allergen that causes the reaction whenever possible. For example, if you have a food allergy, you should check a food’s ingredients list for allergens before eating it.

There are also several medicines available to help control symptoms of allergic reactions, including: antihistamines – these can be taken when you notice the symptoms of a reaction, or before being exposed to an allergen, to stop a reaction occurring.

For some people with very severe allergies, a treatment called immunotherapy may be recommended. This involves being exposed to the allergen in a controlled way over a number of years so your body gets used to it and does not react to it so severely.

Case Study – How do I reduce hay fever symptoms?

One in every four people in the UK suffer from hay fever, or allergic seasonal rhinitis, and for many people, the start of summer is the worst time of the year. As temperatures increase, people may find they are suffering from itchy eyes, blocked sinuses and ticklish throats.

According to the UK BBC hay fever affects up to 16 million people in the UK. Most people take antihistamines and other drugs to reduce symptoms.

Hay fever, and other allergic reactions occur when the body’s immune system reacts to a particular substance thinking it is dangerous or harmful. It’s not clear why this happens, but most people affected have a family history of allergies.

The number of people with hay fever is increasing every year. Whilst the reasons for this are not clear it may be the result of living in a cleaner, germ-free environment, which reduces the number of germs our immune system has to deal with. This may cause our systems to overreact when it comes into contact with harmless substances.

Allergy to polled in a mixture of sensitivity & intolerance; an overreaction produced by the body’s immune system when exposed to a normally harmless substance.

Hypnotherapy can be particularly helpful in reducing the symptoms of hay fever by:

• Reducing oversensitivity
• Promoting tolerance of antigens
• Encouraging acceptance of pollen
• Reducing blood flow to the nasal area
• Increasing calmness as the hay fever season approaches
• Keeping blood pressure at a safe, healthy level

At The Hypnosis Clinic, we have a lot of success in helping patients to reduce their hay fever symptoms, and in some cases, eliminating them altogether.

We can even make a unique self hypnosis recording for you to use. It really will change the way your body responds to the allergen, by increasing tolerance and decreasing sensitivity.

Of course, each person has different expectations and challenges, so each treatment is individual to you. In addition to your regular hypnosis sessions, we keep in touch in-between to make sure that you are managing to reduce your symptoms and feel more calm and relaxed.

What else can I do to reduce my hay fever symptoms?

• Limit your time outdoors. Pollen counts are highest in midday, early evening and when it’s windy.

• Use air conditioning both in the car and in your home. Consider a HEPA filter for your home.

• Shower in the evening to wash the pollen off before bedtime. Be sure to thoroughly wash your hair. The steam from the shower is sometimes beneficial in relieving symptoms.

• Use a saline rinse to clear pollen from nasal passages. Talk to your health care provider about the best options for you.

• Keep pets out of your bedroom if they have been outdoors. This reduces the amount of pollen in your sleeping area.

• Dry clothes in a dryer, not outdoors on a clothesline.

• For itchy eyes, use a cold compress to reduce symptoms. And don’t rub — it can make symptoms worse.

• Sip warm tea to relieve a sore throat from drainage. While you sip, inhale the steam to reduce sinus congestion.

• For sinus pain and pressure, try a warm compress on your face.

What did I learn here?

That most allergic reactions can be reduced and managed with hypnotherapy, whilst some may me completely eliminated.

Generally you should expect to have 3 to 4 sessions and and have a custom-made recording to get yourself in tune for a more balanced viewpoint.

If you’d like to find out more about how hypnosis can help you to control allergies, have a look at our website, We offer a free initial consultation, either by a Telehealth video link or at our clinic In Novena Medical Centre.

Is hypnosis safe?

Here at The Hypnosis Clinic, it’s the question we are asked more than any other. And the answer is a resounding ‘Yes!’

However, there’s a caveat with that. Like any powerful tool, it is only safe in the hands of a trained professional.

What will I learn in this blog?

• That hypnosis is a safe way to access your inner self
• In these trance-like states we are more open to suggestion
• That the suggestions we give ourselves can be powerful
• How hypnosis could help you to make changes in your life

Will I be out of control?

Absolutely not! Modern clinical hypnotherapy is very different to what you have have seen on stage or TV. You are always in control.

No matter what you may have seen on TV, you can’t be hypnotised against your will. Hypnosis requires cooperation between two people – your therapist will show you the way and you can choose if you want to go there or not.

It’s quite OK to be sceptical – I certainly was for my first session 25 years ago, and it didn’t make any difference to the effectiveness of the hypnosis, In face, analytical people often make great subjects.

How safe is it really?

A lot of people ask ‘Is hypnotherapy safe?’. The routines we use are the safest in the world. You enter hypnosis via a deep relaxation technique and your exit is safe and controlled at all times.

Hypnosis is a state of altered awareness during which our subconscious mind is more open and receptive to suggestions that are given. We drift in and out of different levels of awareness many times a day, absorbing information on a subliminal level as well as a conscious one. Your hypnotherapist will work with your subconscious mind to help you to achieve your goals.

You are in charge. You cannot be made to do anything you don’t wish to and you can’t be taken into hypnosis against your will. It is your experience, you are in control.

As long as you wish to enter hypnosis, you will. It’s an easy, enjoyable and thoroughly relaxing experience. You are aware of what is happening and where you are.

You can only be encouraged to do what you want to do. Hypnosis works with your will and not against it.

In fact, you already know what hypnosis feels like, because you have experienced natural hypnotic states throughout your life, when watching TV, daydreaming or driving for example. These are pleasant, dreamlike states when we drift off.

The Safe, Intentional Hypnosis we use during your sessions, is entering these same, natural states deliberately and with awareness.

It is a systematic method that allows you to enter a safe, trance-like state, in which one can communicate directly with the subconscious and issue safe instructions or “suggestions”.

Will I be asleep?

No. You are fully awake and alert, aware of everything that is happening throughout the session. In fact, you may find that you’re even more alert and focussed in hypnosis.

Generally most people remember either everything or certain parts of the experience. You will find that suggestions which have been given to you in hypnosis will resurface in your conscious, thinking mind after your hypnosis session and these will be the thoughts that produce changes in your behaviour or your way of thinking and feeling.

Hypnosis is a heightened learning state where the body is deeply relaxed and the mind is alert. On occasion, a person may drift into sleep, but this is not the goal of the session. It is the hypnotherapists’ job to make sure the client maintains a relaxed awareness during the session, and remains awake.

Although the mind may drift, you should still be able to hear everything that is being said to you during the session.

There are no hypnosis side effects, other than a feeling of being calm, relaxed and wonderfully well rested.

What if I can’t be hypnotised?

Everyone can be hypnotised. It’s important to remember hypnosis is a willing state. You cannot be hypnotised against your will, and working with a hypnotherapist is a co-creative process. The most common reason for failure to induce a hypnotic state is a lack of rapport with a hypnotherapist, or working with someone without proper training.

Always check into the education and background of a new hypnotherapist before committing to a session, and choose to continue working with someone with whom you feel a sense of trust and rapport. Working with a hypnotherapy expert you can trust is essential to getting the results you want.

What can I do with hypnosis?

The list of potential applications is only really limited by your imagination – these are some of the popular things hypnotherapists deal with every day:

• Become a non-smoker
• Reduce your weight
• Resolve anxiety and beat stress
• Build strong, happy relationships
• Speak confidently in public
• Enjoy flying
• Experience happy, natural childbirth
• Let go of phobias
• Improve your memory and pass examinations
• Enjoy better quality sleep
• Increase motivation and fitness
• Have healthier sexual relationships
• Overcome addictions Improve your self-esteem and confidence
• Employ rapid healing.

So – maybe it’s easier to tell you what you can’t do!

• Forget a person, time or event
• Make someone else do what you want them to
• Change anything like eye colour or other hereditary conditions
• Live forever (sorry)

Of course, these lists aren’t exhaustive, but you get the picture. We offer a range of hypnotherapy courses that will enable you to achieve your ambitions.

What did I learn here?

That hypnosis is perfectly safe when used by a trained professional.

If you’d like to find out more about how hypnosis can help you to make changes in your life, have a look at our website.

We offer a free initial consultation, either by a Telehealth video link or at our clinic in Novena Medical Centre. Or call us personally for a chat on 6397 6073.