I am continuing to suspend in-person hypnotherapy sessions with me in my office. However, phone, and Zoom consultations ARE and WILL REMAIN AVAILABLE!
(This blog was
originally posted on August 8, 2016)
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Most people seek hypnotherapy to change or get rid of (quit) an unwanted habit. Whether you want to lose weight, quit smoking, stop procrastinating, improve sleeping habits or any myriad of behaviors, hypnosis and therapeutic guided imagery are powerful, effective tools to help you achieve your self-improvement goal. While I do not typically need to delve into your entire back-story to understand why you started, and want to change the unwanted habit, I will need certain, specific details about it to create an effective hypnotic script. Following is some important information about habits and habit-change to keep in mind.
- You must be coming in for hypnotherapy because you want to change the behavior for this therapy to be effective.
- While you (your conscious mind) want to change an unwanted habit, the subconscious mind is unlikely to share that goal. Changing habits entails getting out of your comfort zone (rejecting a subconscious known) which the subconscious mind considers “pain.”
- Hypnotherapy can help create and establish healthier/more productive and desirable behaviors in the subconscious mind to replace the unwanted one(s). However, habits do not begin overnight and habits do not change overnight. Furthermore, the longer you have been practicing that behavior, the more time it may take to change it. Remember, each time you have engaged in the habit strengthened its positive association in your subconscious mind.
- Increasing awareness of when you engage in the undesired habit helps you gain greater control over that behavior.
- Some behaviors may be a defense mechanism to avoid change and thereby protect the subconscious mind from the pain induced by change. In this instance, it may be necessary to address the cause of the behavior (habit) to help you achieve your vocational/avocational self-improvement goal.*
*California
law allows access by California residents to complementary and alternative
health care practitioners who are not providing services that require medical
training and credentials. The purpose of a program of hypnotherapy is for
vocational and avocational self-improvement (Business and
Professions Code 2908) and as an alternative or complementary
treatment to healing arts services licensed by the state. A hypnotherapist is
not a licensed physician or psychologist, and hypnotherapy services are not
licensed by the state of California. Services are non-diagnostic and do not
include the practice of medicine, neither should they be considered a
substitute for licensed medical or psychological services or procedures.
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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, four years in a row (2019-2022).
For more information about Calminsense Hypnotherapy® and to set up an
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