At Gulfshore Hypnosis Associates, our goal is to help you overcome life-long challenges, helping our clients push through self-imposed limitations and achieve their loftiest goals. Whether your goals include losing weight, shedding stress, managing chronic pain, preparing for surgery, earning top scores on SATs, or even improving your sports performance, we can help. We practice according to the NGH Code of Ethics. Q: What is hypnotism? A: Hypnotism is the professional practice of the hypnotic arts and sciences, also known as “hypnosis.” Hypnosis is actually self-hypnosis and is not something we do to the client; it is something we enable a client to do for him or herself. The self-hypnotic state is a mental state of relaxed concentration that most people can enter naturally. We function as a teacher and guide to show you how to use the self-hypnotic state to manage your health challenges easily and effectively.
Q: Can a hypnotized person be made to do something he or she doesn’t want to do? A: No, since hypnotism is something a person must willingly do to him or herself, it is logically impossible for someone to do something they refuse to do. What hypnotism can do is enable a person to overcome resistance to doing what needs to be done in order to achieve what that person wants to achieve. It can help you get out of your own way and become successful, and it can help you stimulate your own natural healing power by soothing away the worries that interfere with that power. There is a relationship between intelligence and the ability to be hypnotized; anyone with average or above-average intelligence can be hypnotized. You cannot be hypnotized against your will. If you resist, it will not work; hypnosis requires your consent, you are the initiator of this self-hypnotic state. You remember everything and you will not reveal intimate secrets since you retain the control. If you have ever driven on a highway, begun to daydream, then driven past your exit, you have experienced hypnotism.
Q: How does adding hypnotism to standard post-surgical care speed recovery? A: Mount Sinai researchers, in a 2002 examination of 20 studies on hypnosis and surgical pain, found that adding hypnosis sped recovery almost 90% of the time, in terms of levels of pain, anxiety and the need for pain medication. Premier is mental preparedness, stress reduction, and positive outcome visualization.
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