Hypnosis is a safe and natural state which helps you to engage your own inner resources. Acheiving change with willpower alone is tough - just one part of you trying to accomplish the whole task.
Our behaviour is produced by both the conscious part of ourselves - the analytical and thinking part - and the subconscious, that part which provides urges, desires, behaviour on 'auto-pilot' and ideas from 'nowhere'. Your subconscious is a reservoir of useful memories, aptitudes and skills, usually underused.
To produce any lasting change in behaviour, it is necessary to respect the needs of your conscious and subconscious parts. Even when distressed you are not 'broken' - you can be responding to the sometimes out-dated logic of your subconscious. Hypnotherapy helps to get all parts of your mind working together for your benefit and well-being.
Is hypnotherapy safe?
What will hypnotic trance be like - will
it feel 'strange'?
Will I be under another person's power
while in hypnotic trance?
Will I lose control, say or do anything
embarassing with hypnotherapy?
But what about those people on the stage
at hypnotic shows?

Do you remember the last time you were so absorbed in a book or film that you lost track of time; the last time you arrived safely at a destination despite being so absorbed in your thoughts that you didn't notice landmarks on the way; the last time that you so deeply relived a pleasant memory that you 'came back' with a smile on your face? Hypnotic trance is a normal, healthy state that we pass in and out of every day.

The great power of your mind extends to always protecting you - even while in trance. You can no more be made to do anything against your will or principles in trance than in a normal, conscious state. It has been said that all hypnosis is self-hypnosis - your hypnotherapist just facilitates you in achieving your own natural, healing state.

Hypnosis in hypnotic shows is used to give volunteers access to their most creative latent abilities, not to coerce their participation. From buying the ticket to standing up in the auditorium, from walking to the stage and being selected from the many eager participants, volunteers are willing. The performance is hypnotically enhanced - not the consent.

"Absolutely brilliant. After 38 years of smoking I gave up instantly and it really wasn't painful"

Susan D

"I've lost 10 kilos - and never felt better. Best of all is knowing I've always had the potential to change - I just needed someone to show me how"

AH