So many people say to me, “how do I know if I could be hypnotized?” The greatest misconception is that they feel in order to be hypnotized you need not to be so smart. The exact opposite is true. Continue reading
When people hear the word “trance,” they understandably worry a bit. Immediately, their minds jump to pictures of themselves walking like zombies, completely out of control. Who knows what can happen to us when we’re in a trance, right?
The truth is we are almost always in a trance. Whether we’re driving, watching a movie, surfing the web, or cooking, we are always in a subtle involuntary state of semi-consciousness. It’s more rare to be fully conscious than it is to be in a trance.
As a lover of film I was deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Philip Seymour Hoffman. He was a genius actor capable of immense depth. But he also had a highly addictive personality that, as a hypnotist for 35 years, I could see from a mile away.
According to various news sources Hoffman quit his drug addiction back in his early 20s, and only recently relapsed in 2013. For genetic and environmental reasons he couldn’t escape drugs.
Read more about his comments on his addiction.
If you suffer from the same predispositions, go here to learn how hypnosis can help you overcome your addictions and give my office a call at (212) 599-3195.
If you’re in the arts, or in any vocation that involves steady creative output, you’re sure to have experienced periods of mind-numbing exhaustion. Blankness. Nothingness. Self-doubt, self-criticism, self-delusion, self-absorption…. The list goes on.
What do you come up with next, or perhaps now? Why do you feel blocked, lacking stamina and inspiration?
Clinical Hypnosis can help you get in tune with the parts of yourself that you might have neglected or never knew existed. Give me a call and let’s revive your imagination.
Details matter. Yet we lose them every day, and not every detail carries the same weight as the other. One lost item can mean the collapse of a larger picture.
Whether it’s forgetting a crucial ingredient to a beloved recipe, forgetting the reasons you make certain high-risk business decisions, forgetting what street you’re on, or where you were going…hypnosis can improve memory loss greatly, no matter what age you are… Curious about how?