Hypnosis-Hypnotherapy - in Glendale CA

Hypnosis is a natural way of bypassing your conscious mind and reaching directly to the subconscious mind. 

In a state of deep relaxation, your mind accepts suggestions as they are and releases beliefs that hold you back.

Hypnosis is effective because it works directly with the part of the mind that keeps the problem in place – the unconscious.

We use hypnosis to help people make the changes they want in their lives quickly, easily and effectively.

Hypnotherapy is the combination of hypnosis and therapy. Through hypnotherapy, the therapist guides you to delve into your subconscious mind to change behavior that may be negatively impacting your ability to live life to the fullest.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
~Albert Einstein

People visit hypnotherapists for all sorts of reasons. Most commonly, they come to stop smoking, manage their weight, sleep better, release anxiety or cure phobias. Hypnotherapy is also proven to be very effective for folks who want to overcome or let go of unhelpful patterns.

Hypnotherapy works by uncovering the reasons for your struggle trapped in your subconscious. Using hypnotherapy techniques, we facilitate a process of healing to positively change your life. Unlike modern medicine, hypnotherapy seeks to uncover the source of your problem to reveal the cause, and to help you heal - without drugs, without sedatives and without dulling the senses.

Hypnosis is a very helpful tool in the improvement of human life.
I use hypnosis for the health and benefit of people.

Hypnosis is not mind control. Therefore, the therapist cannot make anyone do what he/she does not want to do - medically or otherwise. Hypnosis is an internal process - not an external force. The hypnotherapist does not exude any power over the client.

Anybody can learn to hypnotize, but to be a hypnotherapist takes years. That is the difference between an entertainer and a professional hypnotherapist. There are no guarantees for success in therapy. It depends on many variables such as a client's motivation to change.

To properly prepare a person for hypnosis, I educate my clients regarding some misconceptions and believe it needs to be discussed and questions answered. This is necessary because I believe there are only three things that can prevent a person from being hypnotized: (1) lack of knowledge, (2) fear, (3) resistance.

If a person can think, reason, and communicate, that person can be hypnotized. By discussing the misconceptions and answering the client's questions, hopefully any fear of hypnosis can be eliminated. The only other thing that keeps a person from being hypnotized is resistance which the  client controls.

Some misconceptions are:

(1) A hypnotized person is unconscious or asleep. False.
A hypnotized person does not pass out, or become unconscious and is not asleep. In the hypnotic state, the client can hear and remember much of what is said during the sessions. Even though I tell everyone that they will hear and remember much of what I say, there is always someone who says that they were not hypnotized because they hear every word I said.

(2) A person may not come out the hypnotic trance. False.
There is not a case in recorded history in which a person failed to come out of hypnosis. A person may become so relaxed that he will fall into a natural, restful sleep. If so, he will awake naturally later.

(3) Under hypnosis, a person will obey any suggestions. False.
Although this is a favorite theme of fiction writers, it is not true. In reality all hypnosis is self-hypnosis. The person will not do anything under hypnosis that is against his moral or personal standards.

(4) A post-hypnotic suggestion lasts a lifetime. Maybe
A post-hypnotic suggestion can last from a few minutes to a life time. That all depends to what the suggestion is. If I gave the suggestion that each and every time you touch your two fingers together that you will relax and feel calmer, and if you were to repeat that suggestion, then that suggestion and action will remain with you for as long as it is necessary.

(5) Only weak-minded people can be hypnotized. False.
Contrary to popular belief, the more intelligent and imaginative the person, the easier it is for that person to be hypnotized. That is why kids and A type personalities have acute response to the process - thus faster outcome.

(6) A person has to be in deep trance for hypnosis to be helpful. False.
People respond favorably to self-improvement suggestions in the light and medium states of hypnosis.

(7) If you remove one symptom another will take its place. False.
Very seldom if at all does an individual replace another symptom with one released by hypnosis.

To schedule your next appointment with Liza, Call 818-551-1501