Learning more about hypnosis

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Hypnosis, or hypnotherapy, is a state of deep relaxation and focused concentration. It is a type of mind-body medicine where a trained and certified hypnotist or hypnotherapist guides an individual into this deep state using verbal cues, repetition, and imagery. The American Psychological Association defines hypnosis as a state of consciousness involving focused attention and reduced peripheral awareness characterized by an enhanced capacity for response suggestions.

You are brought into a deep state of focus and relaxation that’s achieved with hypnosis:

• Your conscious mind is quieted.
• You can tap into the part of your brain where your thoughts, beliefs, perceptions, sensations, emotions, memories, and behaviors originate.
• In this state, you’re more open to gentle guidance from your hypnotherapist to help you modify or replace the unconscious thoughts that are driving your current behavior.Our deep-tissue massage is designed to relieve severe tension in the muscles and connective tissue. Our therapists use slow strokes and deep finger pressure on the affected areas to alleviate pain and stiffness.

Myth: Hypnosis isn’t natural. It’s a form of entertainment.

• Hypnosis isn’t a stage act or some magical act. Clinical hypnosis is a type of medical therapy often used as part of a treatment plan that includes traditional medical approaches.

Myth: You lose consciousness or have amnesia when you’re hypnotized.

• Most people remember everything that happens during hypnosis. You remain aware of who you are and where you are and remember what happened during a hypnosis session.

Myth: You’re under the control of your hypnotherapist when you’re hypnotized.

• Your hypnotist or hypnotherapist guides hypnosis, but hypnosis is something you do for yourself. You can’t be made to do anything against your will. You won’t reveal any information that you wish to remain secret. You don’t lose control over your behavior. Hypnosis makes it easier to experience suggestions but doesn’t force you to have specific experiences.

Myth: Hypnosis is nothing more than deep sleep.

• Hypnosis isn’t sleeping. Some deeper forms of hypnosis could make you appear asleep because your body is still and quiet, but you aren’t asleep. Our prenatal massage is designed to relieve the physical discomforts of pregnancy, such as back pain, leg cramps, and swollen ankles. Our therapists use gentle techniques that are safe for both mom and baby.

There are four stages of hypnosis: induction, deepener, suggestions, and emergence. People describe hypnosis in different ways. You may feel like you're "zoned "n" or in a trance-like state — so focused that you can block out surrounding distractions. Have you ever been so focused on a TV show or so entrenched in a good book that you don't hear your family talking around you or even your dog barking? This experience is somewhat similar to how you might feel while hypnotized. Many people say they feel calm and relaxed despite their increased concentration. It's described as a pleasant experience. 

Induction: During this stage, you begin to relax, focus your attention and ignore distractions. Your hypnotherapist will guide you through this stage with specific techniques such as controlled breathing (breathing in over a count of seven, then breathing out over a count of 11) or progressive muscle relaxation (tensing muscles as you breathe in and relaxing muscles as you breathe out, then repeating in a particular order of muscle groups throughout your body) or focusing on a visual image.

Deepener: This stage continues the first stage, taking your relaxation and focus to a deeper level. This step often involves counting down or using similar descending imagery, such as walking down stairs or slowly sinking deeper and deeper into a comfortable bed. These first two stages are aimed at easing your openness to suggestions.

Suggestions: This is the stage for actual experience, behavior, or perception change. Your hypnotherapist will use imagery and carefully chosen language. The suggestions are usually symptom-focused (to resolve a symptom) or exploratory (to explore experiences associated with the start of symptoms). Suggested changes may be in perception, sensation, emotion, memory, thought, or behavior.

Example: To quit smoking, you'll learn to identify your triggers to want to smoke, learn positive ways to change, understand resources to effect change, disrupt your pattern, attach a better response, notice the difference, and install the changed behavior. You may be encouraged to see your "old" self with black lungs in a mirror behind you and see your "new" healthy self with clean lungs in a mirror in front. You'll then be guided to choose which self you like and to walk toward that self.

Emergence:

During this stage, you come out of hypnosis. Your hypnotist may use reverse deepeners, such as giving you the suggestions that you're climbing up stairs or counting up.

Each person differs in their ability to be hypnotized. A person’s fears or concerns about hypnosis may interfere with their ability to be hypnotized. 

Hypnotherapy may help treat any number of medical conditions in which psychological factors influence physical symptoms.

Common issues include:

• Stress and anxiety, especially before medical or dental procedures; panic attacks; and post-traumatic stress syndrome.
• Phobias.
• Desirer to live in the moment
• Find romance
• Surrendering and Let go of past Thoughts
• Past life regression/ Past age regression

Behavior control issues, including giving up smoking, losing weight, and enuresis (bedwetting).  

Mindfulness:  When you are fully present and aware of your emotions and thoughts in the moment, without being distracted by the past or future. It can feel like enjoying what's happening right now,

Coincidences:  Lacks an apparent causal connection. A coincidence may be synchronicity — the experience of causally unrelated events—, yet their occurrence has meaning for the person who observes them.

Developing Intuition: Intuition can be an accurate force that permeates all facets of life. Learn how to tap their innate inner knowledge and use it to enhance their lives and attain their goals. 

Meditation: Meditation is a practice in which an individual uses a technique, such as mindfulness, focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity to train attention and awareness and achieve a mentally clear, emotionally calm, and stable state. It is often used to reduce stress, promote relaxation, and enhance personal and spiritual growth. The practice has roots in various religious and spiritual traditions but is widely used in secular contexts for health benefits. 

Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) changes our thoughts and behaviors to help achieve desired outcomes. Because our neurological processes, behavior, and language are interconnected, we can "reprogram" our brains to control our thoughts and actions. IC programming (NLP) is changing our thoughts and behaviors to help achieve desired outcomes.  

EFT  Emotional Freedom Technique: Could a few well-placed taps on your body be what it takes to help reduce stress and even ease physical pain? It may sound unbelievable, but there's some compelling science behind the Emotional Freedom Technique, more commonly known as EFT tapping. 

Self Hypnosis Teaching you self Hypnosis

We provide;

• I Free To Be a two-day hypnosis training workshop. Instructor Larry Quemere
• National Guild of Hypnosis professional certification program. Instructor Larry Quemere
• A one-day refresher workshop for Hypnotist who want to brush up on their skill sets

Feel free to connect to see if we would be a fit for you.  Email larry@steppingofftheedge.com or text or call us at 781.254.5933