Hypnotherapy for your heart, mind and body. San Diego CA

Introduction to Hypnosis

Aimee Fuller, CCH

Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist

What is Hypnosis?

A natural state of mind that can be induced by another or can happen spontaneously
A state of extraordinary mental, physical, and emotional relaxation
A state of selective awareness
The mind perks up as the body relaxes

What is a Hypnotherapist?

Federally recognized title under Health and Human Services for an unlicensed specialist in hypnosis
Hypnotherapists use hypnosis to assist you in healing at the levels of heart, mind and body
Licensed healthcare professionals also use hypnosis

“Known as "sleep healing" in ancient Greece and "mind cure" in the fourteenth through mid-nineteenth centuries, what we now call hypnosis has a long history of therapeutic use.”
-Andrew Weil, MD

Common Myths About Hypnosis

Myth: You can get anyone to do anything you want them to under hypnosis.
Myth: You will be completely unconscious in hypnosis. You won’t remember a thing.
Myth: A hypnotist can control your mind.
Myth: Churches frown on Clinical Hypnosis.
Myth: Clinical Hypnosis is the same as Stage Hypnosis and Spiritualism.

The Hypnotic Perspective on How Your Mind Works

All of your life experiences are stored in your subconscious mind. Your subconscious mind makes decisions from an emotional state based on the past. Thus, your past is controlling your present and future results in life!

Neurons that fire together wire together! Life experiences create actions that become habits- they are hardwired in the neural cell structure of our brains!

How Hypnosis Works

The subject and the hypnotherapist enter into an intensified emotional relationship using the hypnotic state of mind
The subject and the hypnotherapist release beliefs/habits that no longer work, suggest new positive beliefs/habits
Positive mental expectancy creates the possibility for change
The subconscious mind reacts, creating a physical response to a mental suggestion

Signs of Hypnosis

Fluttering eyelids
Reddening of the eyes
Eyes rolling back
Increased tearing
Changes in breathing

How is hypnosis different from the normal waking state?

Hypnosis works at the level of the subconscious mind
Hypnosis works at the level of the limbic system
The brain waves slow down in hypnosis
The conscious mind becomes an observer

Ways to Access the Subconscious

Activities where you limit your focus
Music
Movies
Athletics
Highway driving
Going to church
Other monotonous sounds
Listening to a speaker that touches you
Listening to a boring speaker
Trauma/Accidents
Fear
Tripping
Intense emotional event

What does hypnotherapy help ?

Heart

Emotional release
Release trauma from the past
Overcome negative programming
Forgiveness of self and others
Healing your inner child
Increase patience
Create an inner conversation of self love, confidence, and self worth
Replace negative mind chatter with positive beliefs
Greif over death of a loved one

MIND

Release fears and/or phobias (spiders, rats, flying, heights, people, germs, terrorists, dogs, failure, etc...)
Improve public speaking ( yes, even if you already do Toastmasters!)
Learn faster
Retain more
Passing a test
Improved memory
Find lost keys, etc.
Release fears and/or phobias (spiders, rats, flying, heights, people, germs, terrorists, dogs, failure, etc...)
Improve public speaking ( yes, even if you already do Toastmasters!)
Learn faster
Retain more
Passing a test
Improved memory
Find lost keys, etc.

BODY

Deep relaxation
Quite Smoking
Addiction cessation
Weight Loss
Eating healthier
Exercise more often (and enjoy it more!)
Get into the zone in sports/ Improve game
Muscle memory
Healthy immune system
Healing the body
Skin problems
Digestive problems
Release stress
Breathing deeply
Sleep better at night
Stop Snoring
Anesthesia
Pain Management

Hypnosis is a powerful tool for healing heart, mind and body!