At least once a day, someone calls me office with questions about hypnosis. The most common thing I hear is some variation of “Can I be hypnotized?” or “I’m not hypnotizable, I just know it”.
The truth is this…If you’ve ever daydreamed, or become completely absorbed in an activity, then you are completely hypnotizable.
Take a look at this article we found by Stephanie M. Lee of the San Francisco Chronicle about a new study that asked why some people are more prone to hypnosis than others…
Many people contact our office and ask how hypnosis can help someone who is suffering the ravages of drug addiction. Every client is different but we can safely say that hypnosis for drug addiction may be your best chance for successfully removing the grip that drugs have on your life.
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Some people think that hypnotherapy is nothing more than snake oil. However, some of the most prestigious hospitals in the United States, such as Beth Israel and Mount Sinai in New York City seem to disagree with this harsh assessment of hypnosis.
These hospitals, as well as many others, offer hypnosis to their patients to help them manage pain, anxiety, and a number of other health problems that traditional medicine has difficulty addressing successfully.
You can feel your heart racing as you repeatedly clench and unclench your numb, tingling hands. You try desperately to catch your breath and slow your heartbeat but nothing seems to calm you down. You place your hand on your pounding chest and tell yourself that you are fine, but you can’t shake the all-consuming feeling that something terrible is happening.
Sound familiar? If it rings a bell, than you may be one of the 6.8 million Americans who suffer from anxiety. Although it may not necessarily manifest itself as a panic attack such as the one described above, it is still an extremely debilitating, frustrating experience for those who fall victim to this disorder.
You show me a flying pig named Sancho, and I’ll show you a person in America who isn’t depressed now or hasn’t at one point in his/her life been depressed.
Clinical Depression (and, by extension, dysthymia, bipolarity, psychotic depression, postpartum depression, and seasonal & situational depression) afflicts 10% of the population at any given time, and Major Depressive Disorder the leading cause of disability in the U.S. for ages 15-44.
While the disorder is over-diagnosed, we cannot ignore the fact that a great number of people suffer from Clinical Depression, and I must acknowledge the fact that a great number of people come to me for symptoms like “chronic sadness,” “indecisiveness”, and “poor sleeping patterns.” Basically, they come to me wanting happiness, as it manifests itself through healthier living and a more optimistic frame of mind. No need to complicate it any more than that.