To minimize risk of exposure to and spread of the COVID-19
virus and COVID-19 variants, I am continuing to suspend in-person hypnotherapy
sessions with me in my office. Meanwhile, phone, and Zoom consultations ARE and
WILL REMAIN AVAILABLE!
(This blog was
originally posted on March 23, 2016)
Audio tracks can be used to consistently reinforce a suggestion for
changed behavior that is made to a client during the hypnotherapy session. Hypnosis Motivation Institute founder John Kappas, Ph.D. liked to record of the hypnotic suggestions
and affirmations that he gave clients during hypnosis. He then gave the
recording to the individual to listen to independently at home and reinforce
the suggestions for behavioral change between sessions. He found that these
recordings were particularly useful to achieve self-improvement goals such as increase
self-confidence, correct or curb impulsive behaviors and behaviors, facilitate
weight loss/weight control, and modify fear reactions.
Like the Hypnosis Motivation
Institute founder, I also like to offer and typically make an audio track
of the hypnosis portion of the session for each of my clients to play at home
and fortify the hypnotic message I provided in the office. Sometimes I put it
on a CD but, more often lately, I simply e-mail a digital copy of the track to
the client to listen to on a mobile device. Since it is designed to relax the
listener, I always attach a written warning in the e-mail or on the hard copy
that the person must not play the track while driving or at any other time when
alert attention is needed.
Unlike the generic, topic-specific hypnosis tracks that you can purchase
at book stores or on-line, the recordings I provide for each client are
individualized to address each client’s specific therapeutic goals and needs.
In almost every case, the suggestions, affirmations and motivational words that
I provide in the hypnotic
script are created on the spot, based on information that the client
provided just moments before being counted into the hypnotic trance. Even scripts
that have been previously created to facilitate weight loss, quitting smoking, overcome
a fear/phobia, etc. must still be customized this way so the client’s
subconscious mind will accept the new message I am providing. Each of these
recordings is free, a “take-away gift” I give to the client at the end of each
session.
Dr. Kappas advised that hypnotherapists should use discretion when
providing the recording for a client. For example, hypnotherapists should only
record the session for someone whom he or she feels confident will stop using
the track once the problem is resolved or his or her situation has changed, he
said. As I mentioned previously, I typically offer to record the hypnosis for
each of my clients; this is true regardless of the person’s presenting issue
according to the therapeutic guidelines and state regulations of the Business
and Professions Code 2908. In addition, each hypnotic script includes
suggestions that reflect where the person is on his or her therapeutic journey
to address and help the client focus on that stage of the therapeutic journey.
Special Offer: Intensive
Hypnotherapy to Quit Smoking
This
session lasts approximately 2 hours. You must be smoking 5 cigarettes
or fewer per day and have previously completed the First Hypnotherapy
session with me to participate in this program. Relevant handouts and a free,
digital reinforcement hypnosis track will be provided at the end of the
session. The Intensive Hypnotherapy to Quit Smoking session costs $275.
If you also need to do the First Hypnotherapy session, I am also offering a $35
discount on the First Session if you book and pay for both up front, at the
same time ($440 total). This promotional discount may not be combined with
any other discount or discount package. It is not redeemable for cash. Expires
on October 31, 2021.
Sara R. Fogan, C.Ht. is a certified hypnotherapist
based in Southern California. She graduated with honors from the Hypnosis Motivation
Institute in 2005. Sara has been voted the Best
Hypnotherapist in Santa Clarita, California, three years in a row (July 2019,
September 2020, July 2021). For more information about Calminsense
Hypnotherapy® and to set up an appointment, please visit http://www.calminsensehypnotherapy.com/.
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