Did you ever hide something important – not to lose it, just to forget where you hid it? Well, could using hypnosis help you recall the location of that item? The power of hypnosis can certainly increase focus but, how could it help you remember? The answer to that question rests in the mechanisms of memory, hypnosis and the skill of the hypnotist.
Over the years many clients have come to me asking for hypnosis to find lost jewelry, valuable papers, or items that were simply misplaced. Most of the time …

Hypnosis can offer numerous benefits. You will be able to relax deeply and remove stress out of your system through hypnosis. You can also use hypnosis to promote weight loss and as a tool to quit smoking. However, you should learn hypnosis first before you can enjoy its great benefits.
So here is a simple guide for you to determine where is the best place to learn hypnosis, self-hypnosis, and medical hypnotherapy.
Studying Hypnotherapy through Online Training
One of the best ways to learn hypnosis is to study it online. …

Why can’t I cure my own bad habit?
If you have a bad habit – such as comfort eating, smoking or an addiction to gambling or alcohol, for example, then you can probably answer the question for yourself. A lot of us simply can’t kick a bad habit on our own – we tend to say that it’s because we don’t have the willpower to actually carry it through.
The fact is that any kind of bad habit takes hold of you both psychologically and physically. So, when you try to kick …

There has been much hoopla made about the 20-foot smoke-free zone going into effect around Arizona businesses. The details of the successful proposition can be seen at http://www.smokefreearizona.org Though this may seem a stern requirement, many U.S. employers have declared their entire facility and surrounding grounds as “Off Limits” to smokers.
Putting health risks aside and the resultant costs associated with inflated insurance costs, the average smoker is at best 90 percent as efficient as their non-smoking counterparts. In addition to coffee breaks and lunch periods, the average smoker will take …

Even the greatest creative minds experience blocks at one time or another.The well just seems to dry up, making work tiresome, slow and difficult. Here is a great little technique that can help ideas literally flow from your mind, almost like they are coming from somewhere else. This technique is called automatic writing.
Automatic writing is switching off the conscious part of the mind and writing from the subconscious part. It requires no conscious though whatsoever, indeed conscious thought only hamper the process. You must write in a totally non judgmental, …

Hypnotherapy is great for relaxation and relieving stress. It calms both our minds and bodies, giving us that valuable ‘time out’. However it can be quite costly to hire a clinical hypnotherapist, and we may not always want one around when we want to de-stress. This is not a problem, as it is possible to do self hypnosis, and I will show you how.
To begin with, you will need to make sure that you will not be disturbed for at least half and hour, preferably an hour. …

As the surgeon’s knife cut into her chest, Pippa Plaisted, 46, should have been in agony. The 45-minute breast cancer operation she was undergoing at Lister Hospital, London, would normally have needed a general anesthetic. But Plaisted hadn’t been anesthetized, nor given painkilling drugs of any sort.
Instead, hypnotherapist Charles Montigue stood at the operating table, his thumb resting on Plaisted’s forehead, monitoring the hypnotic trance he’d put her in minutes before surgery began. Eyes closed but awake, Plaisted could hear the surgeon calmly telling her, at each stage of the …

After avoiding the dentist for the best part of a decade, Leslie Mason was in pain and knew he needed urgent treatment.
Two rotten teeth and four roots had to be removed but he could not afford to pay £400 for the work and was also dreading the discomfort he would have to endure.
He mentioned the dilemma to his friend John Ridlington, a qualified hypnotist, who revealed he had been discussing the potential of hypnosis to a dentist he knew.
A quick check confirmed Mr Mason could act as a guinea pig …

Shelley Thomas, 53, was wheeled into an anteroom at London’s Middlesex Hospital in preparation for pelvic surgery. A patient going into that operation is usually given a mix of painkilling narcotics and nerve-quelling tranquilizers. But not Thomas. Instead she rested on a gurney, alert and calm, taking deep breaths at her hypnotherapist’s instruction. Thomas counted aloud, “One hundred, deep sleep; 99, deeper sleep; 98 …”
“By the time I got to 95, the words and numbers had all gone,” says Thomas. “It’s quite peculiar. They all go.”
Minutes later, thoroughly hypnotized, Thomas …

It’s gaining credibility as a treatment for a multitude of troubles, from nicotine addiction to post-traumatic stress disorder
Hypnosis helped James Williams cut back on his drinking eight years ago. So when he developed a fear of flying after September 11, he again sought hypnotic relief. “I had always thought hypnosis was a stage show kind of thing. But I’ve found it incredibly effective at getting me to focus on what I want to accomplish,” says Williams, 56, a vice-president of Polyonics, a Westmoreland (N.H.) maker of bar-code stickers. Indeed, today …