Hypnosis Applications



Smoking Cessation

Over 75% of adult smokers would like to stop and at least 60% have tried to quit in their lives. However, smoking is a highly addictive habit and 97% of all attempts to quit are met with failure.

Approximately 20% of ex-smokers report quitting on their first attempt, while only 50% succeeded after 6 tries. Of successful quitters, 90% used individual methods of smoking cessation rather than organized programs, with 'cold turkey' being the method most often used. (Taylor & Dingle, 1994)

An examination of multiple research studies show that a single session hypnosis treatment to stop smoking produced about a 25% success rate, whereas in excess of 70% of those engaging in 2 to 4 sessions of hypnosis quit smoking within weeks.



Weight Loss

Hypnosis affects subconscious factors such as family training, mood/emotions, habits and exercise level by:

Assisting in motivating weight loss
Assisting in changing attitudes towards food and health
Encouraging weight maintenance by exercising
Assisting in creating a new body image

Diet programs alone are unable to do this. Even diet programs that include exercise programs are not going to work for most people in the long run. (Journal of the American Medical Association, January 2005)

The powerful hypnosis weight loss program offers weight loss hypnosis to give you the strength you need to succeed.



Phobias/Panic Attack

A specific phobia is an intense fear of something posing little or no actual danger. Common specific phobias are terrible fears of animals, insects, closed-in places, heights, flying, driving, storms, water. Such phobias are irrational fear of a particular thing.

A social phobia is an irrational anxiety elicited by exposure to certain types of social or performance interactions, like being introduced to other people or being teased or criticized. This type of irrational anxiety leads to avoidance behavior.

Someone experiencing panic and anxiety is feeling the effects of the 'fight or flight' response. The fight or flight response is our bodies natural response to a perceived danger. When it is activated, hormones are released into the body to enable us to either deal with or escape from the dangerous situation.

Hypnosis can be used as an analytical tool for Hypnoanalysis to regress the patient to the time when the anxiety first began and analyze the situation that first triggered the anxiety. Tracking the anxiety to its originating source and bringing this source to the conscious attention of the patient results in a correction. (Barnett, 1989)



Anxiety/Inner Conflict

The reaction to emotional trauma results in the adaptive partition of the subconscious mind in discrete segments bound together by a common principle. As such, they can be considered quasi autonomous and often develop conflicts with each other.

It is not unusual for this type of inner conflicts (i.e. shame, anger, guilt) to express themselves as emotional symptoms, psychosomatic symptoms or maladaptive behavior. (Watkins, 1993)

Hypnosis provides deep access to the subconscious mind, facilitating communication among conflicting clusters and resolving the incongruities. Experience with this approach has demonstrated that complex problems can be resolved in a relatively short time.

Hypnoanalysis techniques can be used to resolve conflicts between various neuro-patterns with more or less fluid boundaries within the subconscious mind. These can be hypnotically activated and made accessible for contact and communication with the therapist. (Emmerson, 2003)



Self-Esteem/Confidence

The enhancement of feelings of self-esteem and self-confidence is an extremely powerful instrument in working with a diversity of patients: depression, low-self-esteem, overemotionality, grief reactions, coping with chronic illness. (Hartland, 1971)

Hypnotherapy procedures offer the clinician an abundance of options for enhancing self-esteem and self-confidence by addressing the self-image problems, obtaining subconscious commitments from the patient and by using symbolic imagery in altering imprinted ideas. (Hammond, 1990)

Ego-strengthening techniques are indicated for all the patients looking for an alleviation of their emotional pain.



Pain Management

Hypnosis is one of the oldest and most documented interventions for reducing clinical pain and suffering. (Doody, Smith & Webb, 1991)

One of the major initial applications of hypnotism was the supression of pain during medical procedures. Currently, hypnosis has emerged as a major modality in the management of pain with respect to both organic and psychosomatic manifestations, including headaches and cancer. Hypnosis often reduces pain even when traditional medical interventions have failed. (Alden & Heap, 1998; Patterson & Jensen, 2003)

When hypnosis is used for chronic or enduring pain, treatment begins with hetero-hypnosis, hypnosis of one person by another. The clinician induces a hypnotic state and provides specific suggestions for pain relief. If continued treatment is necessary, the clinician will teach the patient self-hypnosis.

Hypnosis is typically used to reduce anxiety and control the pain and discomfort associated with labour and delivery as well as postnatal episiotomy pain. Beyond its surgical application, hypnosis is effective in pain management for pain associated with illnesses such as cancer.




Psychosomatic Diseases

Hypnosis, as suggestion in its most potent form, establishes the capacity for conditioning and formation of habit patterns that exceed by far those developed at ordinary levels. Consequently, hypnotic conditioning ameliorates organic conditions based on an important psychogenic factor.

The psychosomatic diseases like esssential hypertension, cardiac arrhythmias, peptic ulcer, irritable bowel syndrom, biliary dyskinesia, migraine headache, bronchial asthma, allergies, stuttering, obesity or erectile dysfunction, are very successfully treated using Medical Hypnosis. (Kroger, 1977)

Most of the times, the cause of the above diseases is represented by some of the following emotional conditions: inhibited rage, traumatic memories, anticipatory anxiety, excessive insecurity, obsessive traits, undue jealousy, extreme distrust and suspicion, profound fears (phobias) or depression. (Barabasz, 2005)

We share the belief that Medical Hypnosis should be delivered by licensed and trained health care professionals, capable to interact enough with the patient to be certain that emotional disturbances and psychotic problems have been excluded.



Academic/Athletic Performance

All life processes go through an initial phase of arousal, they reach a peak where performance is optimized and then relax back to a basal level.

Excessive anxiety lowers intellectual efficiency and impairs cognitive performance variables. Therapeutic applications of hypnosis, like hypnotic motivation and hypnotic optimization of the individual's normal range of abilities, have been used to reduce anxiety before stressful events like exams, for optimal mental performance results. (Goldburgh, 1968)

Competitive athletes attribute as much as half of their performance to their mental condition.

Hypnotic techniques improve mental toughness and remove limiting beliefs by creating the feeling of success and the winner attitude. Peak performance training removes the tension and the stress related to high performance. It sets a positive outlook towards athletic events and the sheer will to outperform the others, it deals with mental blocks by giving the requisite increase in high level motivation and has also been proved useful in repairing sport injuries. (Narcuse, 1964)