The major difference between everday trance states and hypnosis per se as practiced by a hypnotist or hypnotherapist is that its induction is intentional. Hypnosis is not only not a state of unconsciousness, it is a state of highly focused consciousness. Through the use of suggestion and the cooperation between the hypnotist or hypnotherapist and client, the subject first enters into a state of profound physical relaxation and then into a relaxation of the mind that is at the same time highly focused. This combination of physical relaxation and relaxed mental focus creates a state of optimum suggestibility which makes the therapeutic usefulness of hypnosis possible. The uses of hypnotherapy include weight-loss and weight management, smoking cessation, improved motivation and self-esteem, improved creativity through the unblocking of creative potential, stress reduction and stress management, control of anxieties and phobias such as public speaking, stage fright, airplane or flight anxiety (fear of flying), test anxiety. Any type of anxiety or phobia including anxieties which cause insomnia or interfere with sleep. Anxiety concerning dating and forming healthy relationships. Memory enhancement, enhanced sports performance and performance enhancement of all kinds. Hypnosis and hypnotherapy can help with academic testing and/or exam preparation. All kinds of perfornance anxiety can be helped by hypnotherapy. Hypnosis can also help alleviate anxiety concerning surgery, fear of needles, dental visits and other medical examinations and procedures including childbirth. The management of addictive behaviors is one of the many other useful applications of hypnosis. Hypnosis plus positive thinking equals change.

Old habits and behaviors are not easily changed, but hypnosis is an empowering tool that makes changing bad habits easier. Along with habits of good driving and good speech, or good dispositions such as calmness in moments of difficulty or crisis, there are the reverse bad habits and dispositions. There are the habits of overeating, poor eating, and smoking. Cigarette smokers and tobacco users who make the wise choice to quit have habits based on both behavioral (or pyschological) as well as physical (or chemical) factors. There are irrational fears of crowds or of speaking before groups. There are the array of anxieties in response to different types of stressful situations such as those relating to your business or job, nervousness about taking tests or examinations of all sorts. We may tell ourselves over and over again to relax, that our fears are irrational, that we should quit smoking or stop eating so much, etc. and yet our minds may not want to listen. We need to move beyond the status quo. Hypnosis and hypnotherapy can help!

Hypnosis and the practice of hypnotherapy can bring the conscious and subconscious minds into harmonious balance. However, the subconscious will reject hypnotic suggestions that conflict with a person's values and beliefs, and when these beliefs are in a state of general disharmony indirect and subtle conflicts can interfere with hypnotherapy. As a philosophical practitioner and certified hypnotherapist, I offer sessions in practical philosophy or philosophical counseling either separately or synergistically combined with hypnotherapy. Philosophical disciplines ranging from Taoism to existentialism to pragmatism are used with the goal of achieving clarity and harmony of mind. Philosophical counseling is also complementary for clients interested in exploring past life regression. Regardless of whether the hypnotherapy client believes that "past lives" remembered under hypnosis are real memories or are only imaginary, the significance of the issues and patterns that are uncovered can be meaningful, profound and lasting. The utilization of philosophical counseling to clarify and understand broader implications enhances the significance of both hypnotherapy and past life regression work.

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