What is Hypnosis?

• Hypnosis is a totally natural state, and you may be surprised when you realise that hypnosis doesn't "feel" any different than normal relaxation. The person may feel quite mellow, with a sense of heaviness or lightness, or you may feel euphoric if you enter a very deep state, but really it isn't different than normal relaxation.
  
  
• It is a trance state characterised by extreme suggestibility, relaxation and heightened imagination. It's not really like sleep, because the subject is alert the whole time. It is most often compared to daydreaming, or the feeling of "losing yourself" in a book or movie. You are fully conscious, but you tune out most of the stimuli around you. You focus intently on the subject at hand, to the near exclusion of any other thought.
  
  
• You are more consciously in control of your emotions, imagination, intuition, and conscience. You can begin to intentionally associate stronger feelings to your goal
  and not to the unwanted behaviors. In hypnosis you are better able to imagine your success and emotionally motivate yourself to take action without fear or guilt.