Hypnosis in Oregon

How does Hypnosis Work?

Using hypnosis to address issues, such as: weight loss, smoking, depression, childbirth, stress, sports performance, confidence, habits, cravings, and fears, is about behavior modification.  There is a developed behavior that is guiding your automatic reactions to events.  These reactions are based on your previous experience.  When you are trying to change a behavior, it can be a very real struggle as your conscious mind attempts to change what your subconscious mind already has in place. 

You can compare it to the mindless way you may have trained yourself to lock the door when you get in the car.  At first it takes conscious effort.  Eventually it becomes automatic, to the point that you may not even know if you locked it or not without checking.  Once that simple habit is in place, changing it is possible with some effort and repetition.

A habit can become stronger and more complex when you apply emotions and time.  If someone has a strong fear about car doors being unlocked, they probably took on that fear at some fearful time in the past.  It could have been someone's innocent statement about car-jackings, a horror movie or a personal fearful moment.  Any of those situations have the potential to create a fear behavior.  The emotional content of this habit makes changing that behavior more involved.

The simple fact that we do create behaviors means that we can change them, if we understand how.  Hypnotherapy has shown to be a rapid way to change behaviors, especially with modern hypnosis techniques.  When using the very same principles behind our natural behavior creation, we can easily quit old habits as well as create new ones. 

Some Of The Things Hypnosis Can Help With:

Weight Loss: End the fight for control of your food choices, portions, snacking, and exercise.  Making educated choices, free from inner conflict, will result in healthy weight loss.  Hypnosis is not a diet.  For many people, the word diet means struggle and frustration.  Hypnosis changes that meaning.  Being on a diet is different than having a healthy diet. Hypnosis focuses on changing how we think and act around food in a comfortable, anxiety free way. 

Weight management and weight loss can be one of the most complex issues to work with.  It takes more effort to moderate a habit, like food, than it does to stop a habit, like smoking.   Improving eating habits for weight loss is easier when using hypnosis because it can alleviate the "problem areas".  The times when a person mentally struggles for control of their food choices.   Addressing weight behaviors requires persistence, thoroughness and the real-life weight loss experience to make it work.

Quit Smoking: You know you want to quit smoking at the very same time a part of you wants to continue.  How much easier would it be to stop smoking if your "smoking mind" also wanted to stop?  If you had no fear about no longer smoking? Learned behaviors around smoking are relatively similar for all smokers.  The mind has learned to associate feeling good with the act of smoking.  So, when that person smokes, they DO feel good.  This can create a good feeling about the anticipation leading up to the smoking and a sense of anxiety when trying to stop smoking cold turkey.  For some people, there may be negative reactions to address about a fear of no longer being able to smoke.  While there are similarities among different people that want to stop smoking, everyone is unique.  To effectively help people quit smoking, it is important to address the unique ways that people experience the different aspects of the smoking habit.

Sports Improvement: Learn how to teach your body to respond with it's full athletic potential.  Hypnosis increases the power of creative visualization.  Many clients have improved their game literally overnight with a single hypnotherapy session.  This will often involve visualization to create muscle memory.  Then, formal hypnosis to boost the expectation of success and reduce any fear of failure. 

Depression, Anxiety and Grief:  You know life should feel better, but it isn't.  It can be different.  Depression and grief can be our minds natural reaction to events. Sometimes this reaction lasts much longer than it should.  Our mind will sometimes keep the memory alive and active.  Our mind is not always aware of the passage of time.  If we experience grief, fear and/or *depression for long periods, it is possible our mind is continuing to re-experience the memory  as if it were still recent (PTSD, or post traumatic stress disorder). Hypnosis can help a person's mind deal with these memories of sadness, loss, fear and anxiety, to actually feel freedom from them.

Memory:  Hypnosis can be very helpful when you want to recover memories.  Whether you want to find your lost keys or need to remember names.  While hypnosis is great for recall, it is important to understand how the mind deals with memories.  Memories are fluid and always subjective.  You remember things through the eyes and mind you had at the time of the experience.  Memories are not always factual.  Sometimes they are symbolic or a mixture of fact and symbolism.  And, memories can be created out of nothing.  You and your hypnotist need to be careful with questions - that they do not lead your answers.

Pain management:  Repeated clinical studies show the sensation of pain is a function of your cortex and is based off of previous experience and expectations.  Hypnosis makes use of this basic principle to reduce pain and help you manage your sense of well-being. 

Natural Childbirth:  Natural childbirth using hypnosis benefits both the mother and the child; labor time is reduced for a less stressful experience, no medication means no side effects, quicker recovery time, higher APGAR scores. The baby's pre-birth position can also be addressed.

A combination of pain management, creative visualization, removal of fear, and trained muscle response allows a quicker and more comfortable birth experience.  The use of modern hypnosis techniques makes this training simple and rapid.  After the initial training, the techniques are possible to accomplish and practice at home alone or with your partner.

My wife and I used this technique for our son's birth in December.  After 15 minutes of "hard labor" our first child was born.  The nurse looked at me with surprise and said "It (hypnosis) really worked!". 

Stress and Anxiety:  Much of our stress can be attributed to our learned behaviors in reacting to stress triggers.  Stress can be a sense of feeling anxiety, fear, nervousness and being overwhelmed,   Addressing these learned behaviors reduces the amount of stress and anxiety we experience.  The remaining situational stress can then be more comfortably managed with self-hypnosis techniques.

Irritable Bowel Syndrome:   Irritable Bowel Syndrome, IBS, is estimated to affect up to 20% of the population in the U.S., of those affected, 67% are women.  By comparison, only 9.5% of people are affected by depression and 7% by diabetes.  The symptoms of IBS have shown to respond favorably to hypnosis techniques.  Stabilizing a person's emotional state, such as stress, anger, and worry, is a large part of the process.  ~    clinical study abstracts

Self-Hypnosis:  I believe that self-hypnosis is the basis for any strong hypnosis session when wanting long term results.  I teach a self-hypnosis rapid induction as a part of my normal session.  The self-hypnosis, when used at home, is a practical way for people to reinforce the work in our sessions.  This rapid induction is also used in my condensed self-hypnosis reinforcement audios. 

Behavior modification for children:  Children respond quickly and easily with hypnosis.  They rarely have the common misconceptions and fear that adults have regarding hypnosis.  Hypnosis uses that part of the mind  a child is often using anyway.  That creative, feeling way of thinking that a kid uses while playing.  Study skills, anger, stress, fear, nail biting, self-confidence, sports, anxiety, depression, and eating habits are all things that kids may experience and can be successfully modified with hypnosis.  With school coming soon, be prepared.  Any student can use a boost of confidence and help with study skills. If a child wants to change the behavior, a simple hypnosis session may be all the help they need.

* While hypnosis is a drug-free, natural alternative for many issues, hypnosis is complementary to

    conventional medicine.

* A doctor referral may be required when working with any medically diagnosed issue.

Note:  I avoid using client testimonials in my marketing, even though I do happily receive them  from satisfied clients.  Any testimonials are anecdotal.  This means they have very little, or, no value in determining your likelihood of success.  Rather, they are a powerful marketing tool used to persuade a target audience.  This is a form of hypnosis (persuasion via authority figure) and I do not want to use hypnosis, persuasion, or sales techniques  against my prospective clients. 

Glancy Hypnosis is located in Salem, Oregon just three miles from I-5, and 40 miles South of Portland. This central Willamette Valley location is convenient within Oregon.  Clients making the short drive from Portland enjoy quality, personalized service at a lower cost than the Portland Metro area.

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