About Hypnosis
Research on the use of hypnosis in
disease management.
Hypnosis
is a relaxing, naturally occurring state of mind.
We experience it every day. Each time we read a captivating novel, float
off in a daydream or see an engrossing movie we are in a natural state
of hypnosis. Hypnosis enhances four important abilities: access to
memories, feelings, thoughts, and problem-solving skills. Hypnosis can
be traced back over three thousand years to sleeping temples in ancient
Egypt. Modern hypnosis can help people
overcome smoking habits, overeating, fears, pain, even warts. Hypnosis
can also be used to enhance careers, improve academic performance,
reduce sexual inhibitions, build self-esteem, attract abundance, and
activate forgiveness and release of negative memories and emotions.
Everything we experience is filtered through the rocky terrain of the
conscious mind. Here we analyze every fact or event to see if it matches
our own expectations and beliefs.
This mental process allows us to choose our reality and our thoughts.
Hypnosis allows us to access the deep ocean of our subconscious where
our long term memory, emotions and creativity reside. Wholeness and
peace of mind come when the two aspects of our mind-conscious and
subconscious-are in balance and working together.
Hypnosis is one of
the most effective ways to find and release undesired habits and to
build on your innate talents. If you want to Stop Smoking, Lose Weight,
Improve Memory or Performance, Speed the Healing Process, Reduce Stress
or just find out how to release anger and be happier, Hypnosis can help
you achieve your goals.
People often ask me what types of things hypnosis can help improve,
change or fix. I often say that it would be easier to describe the
things that can't be helped with hypnosis. Here is a laundry list and
it is not complete. Hypnosis is not the magic pill for everything that
ails you, but it is a powerful tool that can support you when you want
to make changes in your life.
Eliminate Bad Habits:
Smoking, overspending, pornography, overeating, gambling
Overcome Fears: Public
speaking, flying, crowds, swimming, enclosed spaces, elevators,
escalators, snakes, etc
Enhance Performance: Sports
performance, presentations, sales improvement, procrastination, business
relationships.
Improve Learning:
Concentration, procrastination, test taking, memory, listening skills,
study skills
Reduce Stress: Work issues,
relationships, death and dying, anxious thoughts, low confidence
Improve Health: Weight loss,
reduce nausea and pain, insomnia, prepare for surgery, morning sickness,
prepare for childbirth.
Unique Issues for Children:
bedwetting, ADD, confidence, nightmares, sports performance.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I be hypnotized?
Some people wonder if they can be hypnotized. Because hypnosis is a natural
state of awareness anyone of normal intelligence can be hypnotized if they
want to be. You can be hypnotized only if you want to go into hypnosis
and willingly follow the hypnotist's instructions.
Can I get stuck in hypnosis?
No, you can never stay permanently hypnotized because you are in control at
all times and can emerge yourself if you chose to.
Could I be influenced to do
something against my will?
No. You are always aware of the suggestions given to you. You won't do
or say anything that you find unacceptable. When you are in hypnosis you are
aware of everything that is said and you are not unconscious. Instead,
you are deeply relaxed and very mind is very focused, much more so than when
in a normal state. You are able to hear and respond and actively
participate in the session. The hypnotist does not possess any type of
power over a person. Your hypnotist is a guide, and you can choose to follow
that guidance or choose not to follow that guidance
Will it work for me?
If you like the suggestions given and hold the right mental attitude, the
critical factor in your conscious mind will allow the suggestions to be
planted in your subconscious mind. All of your automatic
reactions, beliefs, habits and emotions live in your subconscious mind.
If you accept the suggestions given to you while in hypnosis, then you
reprogram your subconscious to accept these changes.
The subconscious mind operates just like a computer in the sense that it
must respond to what enters into it. If at some time during our past
our subconscious mind was led to believe that we needed to be fat, we became
fat. If it was led to believe that cigarettes made us stronger, sexier
or more mature, we began to smoke. With hypnosis, we access that
internal computer and change those old subconscious perceptions. When
we do that, our responses, behaviors and feelings change.
Most of us have habits or feelings we've tried to change but nothing we do
seems to make much difference. We know how we want to act and how we
want to feel and yet will power hasn't been able to make a lasting change.
Even when we've consciously been working hard to make the change there's
still something deep inside us that just won't let it happen. Hypnosis
lets you change those inner feelings so your conscious mind and subconscious
mind are in agreement.
In that way when the once overweight person is faced with food, they find
that the old inner emptiness has been replaced with a feeling of fullness,
and a natural focus on more important things. The person that used to smoke
simply doesn't think about cigarettes anymore. And when they see someone
else smoke, it just makes them feel good that they don't do that anymore.
Because hypnosis can reprogram our subconscious feelings, beliefs, attitudes
and motivations, the changes are immediate and lasting. This is why
hypnosis is becoming so popular.
Shifting Consciousness
In hypnosis we talk about shifting consciousness, or accessing an
altered state of consciousness. Let me start out by stating that your
brain is only part of your mind or consciousness. That's what I think.
Scientists and philosophers can't even come up with a concise definition
of consciousness. But that doesn't mean that it isn't real or important.
In fact I think that its importance is why they can't agree. Here is a
definition from Wikipedia that describes altered state of consciousness.
"An altered state of consciousness is any state which is significantly
different from a normative waking beta wave state. The expression was
coined by Carlos Castaneda and describes induced changes in one's mental
state, almost always temporary.
A
synonymous phrase is "altered states of awareness". An altered state of
consciousness can come about accidentally through indigestion, fever, sleep
deprivation, starvation, oxygen deprivation, nitrogen narcosis (deep
diving), or a traumatic accident. It can sometimes be reached intentionally
by the use of a sensory deprivation tank or mind-control techniques,
hypnosis, meditation, prayer, or disciplines (e.g. Mantra Meditation, Yoga,
Sufism or Surat Shabda Yoga). It is sometimes attained through the ingestion
of psychoactive drugs. Naturally occurring altered states of consciousness
include dreams, lucid dreams, euphoria, ecstasy, psychosis as well as
purported premonitions, out-of-body experiences, and channeling."
About Bobbie Escolas
Bobbie Escolas has been privileged to experience the power of Angels in
her life. They inspired her to learn hypnosis and subtle energy
techniques so that she can help people heal their lives.
She has authored two books of poetry, and six guided hypnosis
recordings. She practices transpersonal hypnosis that integrates body,
mind and spirit. She also offers workshops on various topics that
connect body mind and spirit. Before devoting herself solely to this
calling, she worked as a marketing executive for over twenty years.
Bobbie graduated summa
cum laude from the University
of
Nebraska at Omaha and earned a master’s certification in
hypnotherapy and training credentials from the National Association of
Transpersonal Hypnotherapy. She is also a member in good standing of the
National Guild of Hypnotists,
the
International Society for
the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine (ISSSEEM),
the
International Association of Counselors and Therapists,
and The Association for Research and Enlightenment, A.R.E.) She is a
second degree Reiki practitioner who has been trained by pioneer Reiki
author
A.J. Mackenzie Clay.
