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(PRWEB) May 12, 2005 — Hypnotists play a major role in the application of modern medicine. Nearly all major hospitals have Hypnotists and Hypnotherapist on staff. The Hypnotists are filling requests for everything from pre, and post-surgery, rehabilitation, ‘special’ procedures to cancer treatment, and the list goes on. Hundreds of people stop smoking every year using hypnosis. Fears and phobias are released and anxiety and depression can be dissolved.

With all the positive aspects of hypnosis, what is keeping more people from using it? In one word: it is fear. Most people have only seen hypnosis as it is portrayed by Hollywood or by Stage Hypnotists. Both are in the entertainment business, both have one goal and that is to produce a show that will sell tickets. It is interesting that an individual who watched Independence Day starring Will Smith will not stop paying his or her taxes because America as he or she knows it was destroyed by aliens. So why do people think hypnosis is mind control? Simply because most of these people have not been exposure to truths of hypnosis.

As long as there have been human beings, there has been hypnosis. We use this commonly occurring, and natural state of mind, unknowingly, all the time. It is just natural for us. For example, if you have ever watched a television program or movie and become really absorbed into the program, you were probably in a trance. This trance is what caused you to get teary eyed during an emotional scene or tense and frightened even though you knew it was just a film. (Advertisers understand this. They use television programs to induce a hypnotic trance and then provide you hypnotic suggestions, called commercials!)

Another common example of this naturally occurring state of mind is when you are driving down the road, with your mind focused on some other task (a day dream perhaps), and next thing you know, you have arrived at your next turn without any memory of the past few miles. That is called “highway hypnosis”.

The U.S. government defines hypnosis as having two parts: (1) the bypass of the critical factor, and (2) the establishment of acceptable selective thinking.

This seems to be a useful and accurate definition of hypnosis. This “bypass of the critical factor” simply means the release of limiting beliefs. For example, the use of hypnosis for anesthesia has been accepted by the American Medical Association since 1958. It is well established to be a fact that hypnosis is useful for creating anesthesia. However, if you have the limiting belief that the mind cannot create a powerful anesthesia, you will be unable to do so. However, in hypnosis, this limiting belief can be bypassed, and hypnotic anesthesia can be quickly created. “The establishment of acceptable selective thinking,” the second part of the definition, refers to the process of guiding someone into hypnosis by using a hypnotic induction. The establishment of selective thinking creates the mental environment or state of mind that enables you to reject limiting beliefs (that you picked up by living in our society), so that you can accept new more empowering ones.

The hypnotic state is an optimum state for making changes in your life because you can set aside limiting beliefs that may have been preventing you from moving toward a more healthy, and happy you.

So now you know that you can be hypnotized. You have done it literally thousands of times. You did it yourself when you were daydreaming and missed that turn (self-hypnosis), you have been hypnotized when you enjoyed a television program (being hypnotized by someone else), and you have followed hypnotic and post-hypnotic suggestions when you preferred some brand name that you saw repeatedly on television (hypnotic compounding of suggestion).

Now you can use hypnosis to make your life better on purpose. Tri-State Hypnosis Center, in Cincinnati,Ohio provides that service. Using hypnosis in a clinical and professional setting clients find relief from many issues. At the Center we bring the latest hypnotic techniques to our community (i.e., EFT, 5-PATH and 7th PATH). If it starts with “hypno” we are probably engaged in bringing it to you (e.g., hypnosis, hypnotism, hypnotherapy, and hypno-meditation). We provide hypnosis for most issues for which hypnotic treatments are appropriate.

Some examples include, but are not limited to, hypnosis for weight loss, stop smoking, relaxation, stress management and many medical issues that have a psychogenic or stress component (i.e., sexual issues, premature ejaculation, obsessive compulsive disorders, sleep problems such as insomnia, pain management, etc.). Some of the useful tools of the Hypnotist include deep relaxation, guided imagery, guided meditation, visualization, trance, age regression, hypnotic inductions (instant, rapid, progressive relaxation, etc.).