Thank you for visiting the website of The Hypnosis Dr.  This is Dr. Marlene Shiple, the Hypnosis Dr, and I am pleased to WELCOME you today! 

Hypnosis is a wonderfully fascinating — enthralling — topic.  It is an amazing experience that allows you to get closely in touch with your subconscious mind … and, then, to use the creative power of your subconscious mind to make desired, successful changes in your life!

So, if you would like to know more about hypnosis … come right in!  Check out our articles, browse our products, make yourself at home!  Each word endeavors to help you better understand the phenomenon that hypnosis is.  And, then, once you understand better, perhaps, you will choose to use hypnosis yourself.  Maybe you will select hypnosis as the technique to make a REALITY out of those changes that had  previously been eluding you.

What do you think?  Can you imagine it?

Well, put on your seat belt and get ready for the ride of your life!  Prepare for a ride into the simple — yet powerful — World of Hypnosis …

Have you tried and tried and tried to change a habit … to no avail?  Are you frustrated and feeling hopeless — desperate — about it?  Do you feel as though you would be willing to try ANYTHING just to rid yourself of the problem?

This may be the perfect time to consider Hypnosis!

Hypnosis can help you release whatever is holding the old habit in place.  Hypnosis can help you uncover your own inner motivations and resistances.  Once these are uncovered, you are in the position to finally understand what’s really been going on — and causing you such frustration … and, ultimately, of releasing it!

Over the years of hypnotizing thousands of clients, I have developed a deep, profound respect for the wisdom of the mind.  I have witnessed examples where the habit — at one time — had an amazing, protective function … at a time when securing personal safety and being protected were more important than anything else!

However, with the passage of time, conditions may have changed radically … thus, eliminating the need for such a protective edifice.  If the protection has not been shed — mainly, because you didn’t realize that it was still there and that it was no longer needed, then you would continue to act as though the habit HAD to remain in place.  It would seem as though your very survival still depended on it … even though conditions no longer supported this belief!

Yes, this is all a major misunderstanding …

Yet, while this misunderstanding persists, it continues to actively prevent you from experiencing SUCCESS in changing that habit that you desire to eliminate!  Hypnosis can help your mind update itself.

Through hypnosis, you are guided by the hypnotherapist to recognize in an intensely effective way, the difference between what once was essential … and what now exists.  You are helped by the hypnotherapist to understand how time and new circumstances have brought you to a different juncture in your life, a juncture which calls for something totally new.

At this point in the hypnotherapeutic treatment — in a powerful leap — you are helped by the hypnotherapist to see the immense desirability of letting go of what was required in the past.  You are guided by the therapist to embrace what fits for you now — namely, accepting the new behaviors that you’ve been wanting to enact.  Then, the hypnotic process is used in one additional, effective way.  It is used to help you imprint — and practice — the new habits in your life!

So, if you are ready to let go of that habit … there is no time like the present to enjoy the success-boost that hypnosis can bring!

Have you been considering the use of hypnosis?

Perhaps, you want to change a habit … and want your life to be healthier as a result?  Or, perhaps, you want to use hypnosis as a tool to release blocks from the past?  Or, perhaps, you want to use hypnosis to make new habits more easily brought forth in your current life?

Hypnosis can do all of this … and MORE!

Hypnosis is a state of mind.  In the hypnotic state, you are physically relaxed and your mind is alert and aware.  Hypnosis is pleasant — and powerful!

In the hypnotic state, you work specifically with your subconscious mind.  The subconscious mind is the deep part of your mind.  The subconscious mind has as its task to create whatever it is commanded to create.  The way that you usually give commands to your subconscious mind is through your thoughts.

So, what you are thinking becomes the raw material that your subconscious mind uses to fashion its creation.  You have heard of “self-fulfilling prophecy”, have you not?  Well, self-fulfilling prophecy is nothing less than your subconscious mind at work creating that which you are thinking!

This being the case, it is essential that you

1. pay attention to your thoughts
2. make certain that what you are thinking is what you really want to experience
3. if your thought is NOT what you want to experience, change the thought

Hypnosis deepens this process.  Hypnosis uses positive ideas and thoughts — suggestions — more-potently directed to the subconscious mind.  Your subconscious mind then brings these suggestions about when you are back in everyday life, your normal state of awareness.

Once you have decided that hypnosis would benefit you, it is time to do research about your Hypnotist. You are looking for a “fit” a connection between you and the Hypnotist whom you select.

If you know someone who is seeing, or has seen, a Hypnotist and was pleased with the results and the assistance provided, you can ask him/her for a referral. If this is not available to you or not a direction you wish to pursue others avenues exist.

1. In the Yellow Pages (physical phone book or online), find the heading that addresses the type of treatment you desire e.g., “hypnosis” to find a practitioner skilled in creating the hypnotic state for habit change; “hypnotherapy” to find a practitioner who utilizes hypnosis as a state in which to reinforce and practice coaching strategies.

2. Look at the credentials of the Hypnotist:

• Where did s/he receive her/his schooling?
• What degree(s) has s/he earned?
• In what organizations does s/he hold membership?
• What certifications and/or licenses does s/he hold?
• How many years has s/he been in practice?

If necessary, call to get this information.

3. Consider random factors, variable among different hypnotists; e.g., location, convenience of appointments scheduling, cost.

4.  Taking into account #1 through #3 (above), make a list of 3-5 possible hypnosis professionals.

5. Talk with each Hypnotists on your list. Ask about his/her treatment style. For example, does he/she mostly listen while you talk? Does he/she offer practical suggestions for change? Is homework given?

Now, for THE MOST IMPORTANT PART of your selection process, consider the following:

a. How do these responses match what you think would work best for you?

b. Pay attention to your intuition while talking with the Hypnotist

• How does this Hypnotist sound and feel to you?  Is the Hypnotist’s voice and tone soothing to you?
• Do you sense that s/he would understand you and your circumstances?
• Do you sense that s/he would be able to help you?
• Do you feel that you would listen to and follow the guidance s/he gives?

Listen to your “gut feeling” and make an appointment with the Hypnotist whom you feel most strongly could assist you.

Here are the Steps to take to Get Benefit from those Negative Thoughts:

Now, let’s look at what you can do with the thoughts you have recorded. Let’s allow these negative habitual thoughts to benefit you! Let’s allow them to serve as guides for you into the paths for having MORE of what you want in your life.

WHAT TO DO:

1. Select the first of the negative habit thoughts that you have recorded.

2. Reword it into a positive idea.

3. Holding in mind that your subconscious mind has incredible power to create what you are thinking/saying to yourself, state that positive idea firmly, with conviction!

4. Continue to repeat this statement until it begins to “feel” more true about you.

This positive statement is called an affirmation. When you use affirmations to direct your subconscious mind to create these positive ideas ABOUT YOU … you allow positives outcomes to begin manifesting in your life.

NOW FOR AN EXAMPLE …

Let’s say that you noticed that you had been telling yourself, “I will never succeed. Other people can do it — but I mess up whatever I try.”

Can you see what you had been directing yourself to create with this idea? Can you see its results in your life? OF COURSE, you can!

OK, let’s re-word the thought. Let’s take the idea contained in the thought and use it in a positive way. This might become, “I am persistent and diligent and succeed at that which I undertake. I don’t stop until I do! I am a success!!”

REPETITION … REPETITION … REPETITION:

Now you repeat and repeat and repeat this idea … with the understanding that your subconscious mind — by its very nature — creates what you are thinking/saying. You continue to do so until you begin to feel a “fit” with these ideas.

MORE REPETITION:

Now it is your turn … Take another of the habitual negative thoughts that you have recorded. Now, re-word this thought into a positive idea. Then proceed to the repetition step with this second thought. Only you can limit the incredible positive outcomes you create when you give positive thoughts to your subconscious mind!

I invite you to continue following these steps over and over in this fashion until you’ve completed your list. As you do, continue to notice your feelings, your experience, and your successful affirmative thoughts.  Hypnosis operates to activate these positive, affirmative thoughts EVEN MORE quickly and effectively!

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