You listen to your powerful, intelligent mind. Should any thought of eating or food arise, your mind creates a mental stop sign. You see a stop sign between you and the food. You hear the word “STOP” resounding through your mind and body. You stop and think, “Do I really need this?” You listen to your mind; you are in control.

Hypnosis isn’t about being out of control – it is the ultimate display of control. The dude in the commercial is out of control – food is controlling him. With hypnosis mind control you can take control of your thoughts, your emotions, what you eat and how much you eat. Learn self hypnosis today and stop and think. OH, the bonus, you will save money! Self-hypnosis is free!

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Mind Over Matter: Patients’ Perceptions of Illness Make a Difference

ScienceDaily (Jan. 27, 2012) — Whenever we fall ill, there are many different factors that come together to influence the course of our illness. Additional medical conditions, stress levels, and social support all have an impact on our health and well-being, especially when we are ill. But a new report suggests that what you think about your illness matters just as much, if not more, in determining your health outcomes.

In general, our illness perceptions emerge out of our beliefs about illness and what illness means in the context of our lives. So, we might have beliefs about how an illness is caused, how long it will last, how it will impact us or our family members, and how we can control or cure it. The bottom line, says Petrie, is that “patients’ perceptions of their illness guide their decisions about health.” If, for example, we feel like a prescribed treatment isn’t making us feel better we might stop that treatment.

Research on illness perceptions suggest that effective health care treatment plans are about much more than having a competent physician. According to Petrie, “a doctor can make accurate diagnoses and have excellent treatments but if the therapy doesn’t fit with the patient’s view of their illness, they are unlikely to keep taking it.” A treatment that does not consider the patient’s view is likely to fail, he argues.

The authors conclude that understanding illness perceptions and incorporating them into health care is critical to effective treatment. Asking patients about how they view their illness gives physicians the opportunity to identify and correct any inaccurate beliefs patients may have. Once a patient’s illness perceptions are clearly laid out, a physician can try to nudge those beliefs in a direction that is more compatible with treatment or better health outcomes. Such conversations can help practitioners identify patients that are at particular risk of coping poorly with the demands of their illness.

Research confirms that brief, straightforward psychoeducational interventions can modify negative illness beliefs and lead to improvements over a range of different health outcomes. But this research is still new and scientists don’t know much about how our illness perceptions develop in the first place. With mounting pressure to lower the costs of healthcare, continued research on illness perceptions will help practitioners design effective interventions that are able to reach a large number of patients.

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If you are living with an illness and are ready to shift your mindset, call or email me and find out how medical hypnosis can modify negative illness beliefs and lead to improvements over a range of different health outcomes. In other words, put hypnosis mind control to work for you. Learn self-hypnosis and discover how you can change your mind set.

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Life Is A Web of Trances

People live their lives playing a hypnotic tape in their subconscious mind that is often giving them negative messages and self-limiting beliefs. With hypnosis, we have the opportunity to change that inner dialogue. It’s like taking out an old cassette tape and putting in a new one. You can seize control of your thoughts and change your behaviors by giving yourself new messages.

With hypnosis, much of what we are doing is undoing old habit patterns, old perceptions—and beginning new habit patterns and creating new perceptions. It changes the lens through which we view the world. More importantly, we are creating a new relationship with ourselves.

So how do you create a new relationship with yourself using hypnosis? It’s a return to consciousness—mindfulness. The return to consciousness is allowing yourself to experience both the pain and the joy in life.

It is to really be alive: to love and to fear.

None of us lives in a sterile world. Even with our best intentions and best efforts, we slip into old trances, old patterns of behaviors, back into unconsciousness. Life is a tapestry of trances, but most of us are letting everything and everyone else choose the colors and pattern in the tapestry and then we complain about what we create.

“Life is a web of trances, ranging from light to the deep.” ~Adam Crabtree

In Trance Zero, Adam Crabtree writes, “Traditionally, the phenomenon of trance has been associated with a special state called hypnosis. There is no basis for believing that these phenomena are limited to this special trance state. We all have the capacity to produce these phenomena, and we can experience any of them at any moment in our everyday existence. So, as it turns out, the phenomena of trance are simply the phenomena of life.”

Crabtree believes that we are constantly going in and out of trances of various kinds, and he further states that “Life is a web of trances, ranging from light to the deep.”

With hypnosis, you are always in control, even though it appears that you are giving up control.

What you are really doing is shifting control from the conscious level to another part of yourself, allowing the conscious mind and the subconscious mind to work together. Working together, powerful results may be attained. The conscious mind was formed to deal with life in the world and puts practical focus on the present moment with immediacy and urgency. The subconscious mind concentrates on the inner world and is aware of the whole range of inner experiences.

With hypnosis (all hypnosis is self-hypnosis), you are exercising control over yourself. Hypnosis is a path to a destination. Your focus simply changes from the conscious to the subconscious world. The conscious mind deals with rationality and determination. Reason dominates conscious experiences and willpower provides the force to get things done.

Just making a conscious decision to change is not enough. Willpower only goes so far. Dr. Shelley Stockwell, describes it this way: “Thought, behavior, and emotion originate in the subconscious mind. If you ask your conscious mind to change a pattern that has its origin in the subconscious mind, it’s a little like calling in a plumber to fix your electricity.”

Your subconscious mind’s world is very real. Its realities have a quality of presence and vividness every bit as insistent as that of the physical objects and people of the conscious world. In fact, the subconscious reality often seems more real than that of the conscious world. For example, in my 20s I was a college graduate, president of corporations and employer of 100 people, yet I was living my life as not good enough, not capable enough. Regardless of my real world, my inner-world reality was not good enough.

And though with hypnosis you are exerting control over yourself, hypnosis is not power over another person. It is a complex interaction, a cooperative act between the hypnotherapist and the client. It is two people cooperating for a mutual end, which is to establish better communication with the unconscious mind. The hypnotherapist is just the facilitator. Only you can hypnotize yourself. Hypnosis is not a “do to” process, rather, it is a “do with” process. Hypnosis is the induction of a profound change in your state of consciousness through a cooperative flow of energy and ideas.

From Becoming Slender For Life pages 45 -47

How is your inner dialogue? Is it a positive one that moves you forward towards success or do your thoughts and emotions hold you back? Clients in my Seattle hypnosis and Bainbridge Island hypnosis offices learn self-hypnosis so that they can undo those old perceptions and thoughts and seize control of their thoughts and emotions. Are you ready to clean out those old cobwebs? If so, give me a call.

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So, do you really want to stay in that trance of negative circular thinking? Why not learn hypnosis and change your thoughts and change your world. You really can create positive changes with self-hypnosis. In my Seattle hypnosis and Bainbridge Island hypnosis offices (and over the phone or Skype) I teach all my clients the Light Switch self-hypnosis technique.

Can You Be Hypnotized?

Some text books will tell you that 80% of the population is hypnotically susceptible. My own personal belief is that 100% of the population is hypnotically susceptible. About 20% are just not receptive. You have got to want it!

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So if you are ready to take control of your thoughts, emotions and behaviors, then give me a call or send me an email today. Remember, if you live too far from my Seattle hypnosis or Bainbridge Island hypnosis offices, together we can create phone and Skype sessions to meet your needs. Find me on Skype at HypnosisHealthInfo.

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If you are like many people, all you know about hypnosis are the misconceptions popularized in movies and on television and the great myths that are told by people who have never studied or experienced hypnosis.

“One of the interesting ironies about hypnosis is that old fantasy that it takes away control. It’s actually a way of enhancing people’s control, of teaching them how to control aspects of their body’s function and sensation that they thought they couldn’t.” ~ Dr. David Spiegel of Stanford University School of Medicine.

So if you still think that hypnosis has something to do with being controlled by someone else, then read Hypnosis Demystified.

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Tim Brunson

Is hypnocontrol bane or illusion? Over the years in my Seattle hypnosis office I have heard some amusing myths about hypnosis mind control and what it can make you do. The truth is, no hypnotist can make you do something you don’t want to do. Hypnotherapy is completely safe and is in fact, the ultimate display of control. Learn self-hypnosis and take control of your thoughts, emotions and behaviors. Hypnocontrol: Bane or Illusion by Tim Brunson, can be found in the Hypnosis Health Info Article Library.

Hypnocontrol: Bane or Illusion by Tim Brunson

An issue that often comes up with new subjects involves fear and concerns about being led by the hypnotic operator to perform acts, which would be against that their moral or ethical values. This phenomenon is normally called hypnocontrol. This is a myth. Having performed hypnosis sessions since 1992, I’ve never seen anyone do anything that was against their will.

Read Hypnocontrol: Bane or Illusion by Tim Brunson in the Hypnosis Health Info Article Library.

Hollywood continues to perpetuate the hypnosis mind control myth wish shows like the Mentalist. Again, no hypnotist can make you do something that is against your moral character. Read more about Hypnosis Myths.

Hypnotherapy can help you achieve your goals and make positive changes in your life. Learn self-hypnosis and manage you.

So what are your fears and myths about hypnosis? I’d love to hear from you.

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