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 Hypnosis Success Secrets Or 3 Costly Mistakes To Avoid When Choosing A Hypnotherapist
 The purpose of this page
is to help you avoid making costly mistakes when choosing a hypnotherapist and
give you information that will enable you to get the best from your hypnosis
session.
 First of all it’s true to
say that hypnosis can be a very powerful way to stop smoking, to lose weight and
quickly solve many other problems However it’s important to
know what to look for when choosing a hypnotherapist and even more important to
know what to avoid. So I have listed the three most
costly mistakes people make when choosing a hypnotherapist:
 Mistake number 1: is
thinking that all hypnotherapists are the same when in fact the individual
ability of hypnotherapists varies greatly. Whilst it is a situation that
the profession is currently addressing, it’s important to
understand that not all hypnotherapists are qualified, registered, or even
insured. In fact it is not against the law to practice Hypnotherapy in the UK,
even if you have had no training at all. So it’s very important to ask a
hypnotherapist what their qualifications are, how long their training was, how
long they have been in practice and what professional bodies they are registered
with. It can also be helpful to ask a hypnotherapist what experience they have with the particular problem you
are seeking help for. .
 Mistake number 2 is the
false belief that it takes lots of sessions to correct a problem with
hypnotherapy. The fact is an experienced hypnotherapist can
correct even long standing problems in as little as just one session.
This is why it’s important not
to choose a hypnotherapist just on price, because a cheap Hypnotherapist in the
long run may cost you a lot more and you won’t be happy as quickly. Like most things you tend to
get what you pay for in the hypnotherapy profession and a low price often
indicates either a lack of confidence or a lack of experience neither of which
are useful qualities for getting fast effective results. A good hypnotherapist
will usually have spent a long time, and a lot of money on their training and
will therefore value themselves and their services accordingly.
 Mistake
Number 3 is thinking you know what hypnosis
is. People often have a lot of
fears or misconceptions about what hypnosis is. Misconceptions and fears which
if not addressed could delay or even prevent their success. Because the most
important consideration for someone going to a hypnotherapist is how to get the
most out of their sessions it will help here to explain a little bit about what
hypnosis really is and what it isn’t.
 There is nothing strange, mysterious or
science-fiction-like about hypnosis. It’s just a profession like any other. Put
simply, hypnosis is a state of magnified concentration. And a good
hypnotherapist is a magnified concentration specialist, taking negative habits
and behaviours such as smoking, overeating and stress and replacing them with
positive habits, such as exercise, eating healthily and peace of mind.
 Hypnosis
represents an opportunity for you to change. It is a gift you are giving to
yourself, by allowing you to become master of your own mind and replacing a past
habit or behaviour with what you want today.
 All hypnosis is self-hypnosis –
a good hypnotherapist is a guide who can show you how to go into your own mind
and make the changes you want to make. Many people believe that all they have to do is close their eyes and the
hypnotherapist will do the rest or even that the hypnotherapist can make them do
things against there will. This can be a very costly
belief. hypnotherapy is always a partnership between a client and their
hypnotherapist.
 A good hypnotherapist will always take the time to explain to
you exactly what to expect during the course of a session so that before you
even do the hypnosis you know what to expect, you know there are not going to be
any surprises but more importantly you know how to maximise the benefit you’ll
get from the session. Not to do this can lead to you requiring more sessions
than you might otherwise have needed and can also affect the quality of
the results you achieve.
 Having said that, hypnosis is a very
natural phenomenon we all go into a state of hypnosis every day – you’re reading
a book, for example, and someone comes along and speaks to you. You’re so
engrossed in the book that you don’t hear them. That’s a state of hypnosis.
Or, you’re in a lift and you
fail to get off at the right floor, because your mind has drifted off thinking
about something else. That’s a state of hypnosis too.
 I often say
to clients before a session, “Don’t expect to feel hypnotised, just expect to
feel relaxed.” Because people have seen the old films and stage shows and
sometimes it seems from the outside as though the person is in some strange
state and under the control of the hypnotist. But it’s really only a state of
relaxed concentration. It’s a very familiar feeling. In fact, we all go in and
out of a state of hypnosis throughout the day.
 Some people believe they can’t
be hypnotised, or they might say that they are very strong willed. As has been
said, a good hypnotherapist will not be trying to control you against your will
and as long as you have a desire to change, then you can be hypnotised easily
and helped with hypnosis.
 Which is why, when some people ask, “Can I
be hypnotised?” I always tell them that anybody of normal intelligence can be
hypnotised because we’re all going in and out of a trance all day long. For
example, you’re in a car, at a red traffic light and the light changes to green
and you don’t notice until someone honks their horn behind you. You have drifted
into a relaxed state, which is an alpha brainwave state, which is a state of
light to medium hypnosis. So you see that it is a very familiar state, because
we’re all drifting in and out of various states of hypnosis all day
long.
 One question I
often get is, "What does it feel like to be hypnotised?" Well the answer is, a
lot of people don’t feel any different when they are hypnotised. They often tell
me that they were just sitting there going along with it; which is the right
thing to do, because it was not until they were coming out of hypnosis that they
realised, how deeply hypnotised they had been. Perhaps the biggest misconception
that I want to put right is that a hypnotherapist cannot control your mind.
 A hypnotherapist can’t make you do anything
you don’t want to do. But a hypnotherapist can help you easily to
do something you do want to do. I often say to people, if I were
to suggest to you, while in the chair, that you’ll rob every bank in London and
bring me the money, well of course, you would refuse.
 The point I’m making is this, if a
hypnotherapist were to say anything you’d disagree with, it would be filtered
out by the deepest structures of the unconscious mind – your ethics, morals,
values and beliefs. Which is why good hypnotherapists tailor their programmes so
carefully.
 The next big myth is this, people often say, “Will I lose
my memory?” The answer is, no, you’ll remember everything that goes on in the
session, It will be as if you’re just sitting there in the chair, with your eyes
closed, while in a deep relaxed state, that’s all.
 And here’s another one. a doctor, in
charge of the casualty section of a large hospital, who wanted to stop smoking,
asked if it was possible that one could get stuck in a hypnotic state? When
asked if he'd ever had, any one come through his doors with a case of terminal
hypnosis, he of course said no, because that’s like saying I sat down, closed my
eyes to relax, listened to my favourite piece of music and got stuck there and
that never happens, and that never will.
 In fact, when people question the safety
of hypnosis, I often remind them that several years back, the government did an
eighteen-month investigation into hypnosis after a schizophrenic tried to sue a
famous stage hypnotist. Of course in the end, not only was the case dismissed,
but the really good thing to come out of that situation for the profession, was
that the government concluded that hypnosis is a hundred percent safe.
So now we know that hypnosis is
totally safe, it’s a normal, natural, everyday state. The question is, “Does hypnosis work? “
Since the British and American Medical Associations approved clinical hypnosis
in the 1950s, there have been many important scientific research papers and
academic books written that contain countless studies on the effectiveness of
hypnosis.
Lets use an example from the field of
stop smoking. Because there has been so much
research done in this area, we can say that when people try to stop the habit of
smoking, will power alone has a success rate of about 8% and Nicotine patches
have a success rate of about 15%.Let’s compare that to
hypnotherapy. There was a study done by Dr.
Von Deadendrof MD, printed in the January 1968 edition of The American Journal
of Clinical Hypnosis, entitled “The use of hypnosis in a thousand cases of
tobacco maniacs.”
 There are three interesting points about this study.
First of all, he didn’t just test fifty or
a hundred people. He actually tested a thousand people. Secondly, he didn’t just
follow up for a month or two to make sure that they remained non-smokers, he
actually followed up eighteen months later. And thirdly, out of a thousand
smokers after eighteen months, he found with his methods of hypnosis 94%
remained non-smokers. And this was one of the most impressive studies done,
largely due to his unique approach which has been studied in depth. And I
believe that we’ve actually made a few improvements in the last forty-one years
in the field of clinical hypnosis.Staying on our example of
smoking, the largest study of its kind published in the New Scientist Magazine
concluded, and I quote, “Hypnosis is the most effective method to stop
smoking.”
 Hypnotherapy is actually taught as part of
the curriculum in many medical colleges these days and Doctors and Dentists have
been applying it in the field of medicine for more than a century. Indeed much
of the research that has been done in the area of hypnotherapy has been
conducted by Medical Doctors and Surgeons.
 The fact is that modern
methods of hypnotherapy especially when combined with the new sciences of NLP
and Cognitive Therapy are often safer, quicker, more effective and therefore
much cheaper in the long run than any other approach at dealing with problems
such as: smoking, alcohol, gambling, eating problems, anger issues, fears,
anxiety, stress, insomnia, pain control, depression, low self esteem, even
sports performance and much, much more.
So let’s recap. We now know that hypnosis is
safe. We know that when you chose the right hypnotherapist hypnosis makes it
easier to change habits and unwanted behaviours. We know that hypnosis works.
And we know that hypnosis will work for you.
In fact the powerful nature of
hypnosis often means that the day of your appointment with the right
hypnotherapist marks the end of your problem.
 My name is Philip Knox I hope
this information has been useful to you and I’d like to thank you for taking the
time to read it, thank you.
Hypnosis Uxbridge, Hypnosis
Brighton, Hypnosis Horsham.
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