WHY HYPNOSIS?

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WHY HYPNOSIS?

Life can be puzzling.

You can go for years, re-reading the pages of your life’s story, searching for answers: “How did I end up here? Why does it feel like I can never really improve my situation?” But no matter how many times you revisit those pages, you can’t seem to find your way to turning over a new leaf.

Why?

Because you’ve been coming at it with your conscious mind.

Thats’ the thinking part. It’s limited, procedural, and easily caught in the weeds. When it finds a story it doesn’t like, it tries to change them using sheer willpower. But when you’re stressed, stuck in old habits, or just plain exhausted, it’s all to easy to fall back into the same patterns. Before you know it, the next chapter looks just like the ones that came before.

This is because in order to make the desired “edits,” you have to feel a different way.

Luckily, beneath the surface, your subconscious mind holds the key.

It’s the feeling part, that is unlimited. It’s where the emotions and beliefs live that are driving your story. Getting in on that subconscious level, it is possible to efficiently break out of old beliefs that are holding you back.

But how do you access it? That’s where hypnosis comes in.

Hypnosis is like handing a highlighter pen to your subconscious mind so you can cut to the chase and get to the good stuff. Together, in hypnosis, we will:

  • Highlight key information — making it easy to spot the emotions and beliefs that have been driving your actions.

  • Release old narratives — letting go of what has been holding you back and transforming patterns that no longer serve you, through the power of positive suggestions made at the subconscious level.

  • Establish a new chapter — driven by new emotions and beliefs that make it natural to go after the things you really want for yourself.

Having learned from the past, it’s safe to stop rehashing the same old stories and start writing the one you truly want to live.

Hypnosis is the way to finally break you through to a brand-new chapter.

  • Hypnosis is a powerful state of focused awareness that can be used to uncover and dissolve the root cause of many issues people suffer from every day. Hypnosis allows you to access all the healing resources inherent within the subconscious mind, promoting natural healing from within.

    Hypnosis is used to help people discover the subconscious reasons for their symptoms, behaviors, or habits. When they are discovered, certain tools and techniques are used to help release them and relearn a new positive way of thinking, subconsciously. This is called hypnotherapy.

    Hypnosis has been sanctioned and used by the medical community since 1958 to help patients overcome chronic pain, create anesthesia, and heal psychogenic illnesses.

  • Hypnosis works by achieving a level of focused awareness, and at the same time bypassing the analytical aspect of the mind. Another way to describe the analytical aspect of the mind is that it is a comparing mechanism. When new information is introduced to the mind, the comparing mechanism compares the new information to what it already believes is either true or false. This is a protective aspect of our mind.

    This is why changing habits by willpower alone is so difficult - we often already believe we cannot change, so thinking about making the change happen (using willpower alone) is ineffective. Hypnosis is powerful because with focused awareness the analytical aspect of the mind is bypassed, and new, healthy and beneficial suggestions can be made directly into the subconscious, without the comparing mechanism rejecting these new beliefs. So the change we want to achieve in our life is accepted by the subconscious mind as true, and we see results quickly.

  • Hypnosis is safe - it's a perfectly normal and common state of mind we go into naturally every day. You enter hypnosis regularly when daydreaming, watching a good movie, or reading a book. During these activities you remain consciously aware and in complete control, just as you do when a professional hypnotherapists assists you in entering into a state of hypnosis.

  • Hypnotherapy is the applied use of hypnosis. Hypnosis is used to help people discover the subconscious reasons for their symptoms, behaviors, or habits. When they are discovered, certain tools and techniques are used to help release them and relearn a new positive way of thinking, subconsciously. This is called hypnotherapy.

  • Yes, of course! You've already been hypnotized anytime you watched an enjoyable movie, or read a good book. Hypnosis is a normal and natural state of mind that everyone has already experienced. Actually, it's such a normal state of mind that most people don't realize they are hypnotized.

    All you need to do to go into a state of hypnosis when having your session with Highlight Hypnosis is be willing and able to follow gentle instructions for reaching a state of focused awareness.

  • Gwen Thomas is a highly qualified professional. She is registered with the National Guild of Hypnotists and the State of Washington.

    In addition, she has achieved extra certification in the advanced hypnotherapy system called 5- PATH®. Rest assured that she will treat you with respect, and that your visits are completely confidential.