So, What will really happen if I go into hypnosis? 

Well, we know that Stage Hypnosis and the “hypnosis” we have seen in films and on TV seem to make people do things they usually wouldn’t want to. The big question is: “Can a hypnotist or hypnotherapist take control of you?”  

The really good news is: 

• You can only be taken into hypnosis if you really want to.

• You cannot be made to do anything you don’t want to.

• Everyone, all people, are able to enter into, and benefit from, hypnosis.

• You will remember everything that happens during a hypnotic session.

• You will be aware of everything (maybe even more than usual!)

 “So, how come people do crazy things on Stage Hypnosis TV Programmes?” 

• The thing to remember is that there is no difference really between Paul McKenna and “The Generation Game”
• Stage Hypnotists can choose from huge audiences (800+) to find the right few people to work with.
• The choice is not to find the most hypnotisable, but to choose the most outgoing and fun.
• The hypnotist on stage or TV is like the researcher on “The Generation Game”, they choose the people most likely to make a fool of themselves on prime time television.
• They choose the people who want to have their “5 minutes of fame”.
• Most people, put under pressure in front of an audience or in front of a TV audience would do the same
• The subjects remember everything that happens!
• “Everyone knows that you forget everything when you are in hypnosis.”
• Thus they have full permission to do what ever they want to get their 5 minutes of fame.
• The problem is that afterwards, they remember everything, but can’t tell anyone, because their credibility will be undermined.
• Many people report headaches and sickness after partaking in stage hypnosis events.

So what is real hypnosis?

The answer lies in the realm of the unconscious, the astounding creative resource that we all have inside that shapes our experience of life. It is the source of our dreams and our daydreams, of our hunches and inspirations, of the high performance “flow” that sometimes guides our thoughts and actions. It is the repository of all of our lived experience, even that which we don’t remember. It is the foundry of our anxieties, and the foundry of the defenses we erect to counteract them, and ultimately, of the solutions we craft to resolve them. Our unconscious is the vast, deep ocean on which the tiny island of conscious floats. We can find our own solutions if we can clear away the chatter and limitations of our un-required habitual ways of being. Hypnosis allows people to circumvent their mindsets and recruit their powerful unconscious resources to solve their problems. 

When you enter into hypnosis, you move beyond conscious perceptions, thought pattern and beliefs to be more in touch with your inner mind. It is a state in which you can bypass the part of your mind that is bound by waking logic and the limits of our understanding of the physical world – and can instead call on the world of inner resources. A world of physical as well as mental abilities, of past learning’s and associations; of ways of seeing, feeling and synthesizing, and understandings that are less limited than normal conscious thought. In this state, your mind is open and receptive to therapeutic suggestions and is able to invoke its own natural ability to heal and solve.  

Hypnosis is a Natural State with which we are all already familiar. If you have ever sat across the table from someone and realised that for the last several seconds you haven’t heard a word they have said, then you have been in natural hypnosis. If you have ever gazed out of the window with that feeling that you are not really seeing anything, then you have been in natural hypnosis. Day dreaming, forgetting the last 3 miles of driving your car, getting lost in a book: anytime when your concentration turns inward, your attention is pulled from the outside, and your thinking becomes more free-form and intuitive – then you are in natural hypnosis. Everyone is in natural hypnosis several times a day.

“So when I come for my first hypnotic session, what will it feel like?” 

You will be deeply relaxed and calm, aware of everything happening around you. Hypnosis is a pleasant dream-like state, that is very similar to day-dreaming. You will feel wonderfully relaxed and you may find that your sleep will be of much better quality, as a result of using hypnosis. 

“Are there any other things that can help me to be really comfortable during my first hypnotic session?” 

Yes! First of all you can choose to sit in the recliner chair, because when you are ready to go into hypnosis, you can tilt the chair right back and raises the foot rest so that your entire body is supported and really relaxed. When you are getting ready to go into hypnosis, make sure that you a lying in a position that is really comfortable for you! And when you are ready to go into hypnosis, all you need to do is simply close your eyes and listen! There will be some quiet relaxing ambient music that will allow you to relax even easier. During the hypnotic session, remember that it is OK to move your body if you want to – if you need to get just a little more comfortable – then do! And the last thing to remember is that you can really enjoy the experience. Hypnosis allows you to have some time for yourself when you really can simply relax.