The Vibrancy of Hypnosis

Have your clients become lost in a black and white world of extremes?

People are at a Crossroads when it comes to understanding how to see the world around them. People are desperate for clarity rather than continuing to see things as they’ve always seen them. Childhood wounds may fade into forgotten memories; and yet, they still distort people’s daily perceptions. Their long-lost beliefs of who they hoped they were, deeply within, masked by the misperceptions of living out their limiting mindsets.

Limiting mindsets begin benignly enough.

They typically ripple out as a protective mechanism for surviving the confusion of their earlier environments. Sadly, this way of surviving eventually becomes one’s greatest stagnation. It’s a confusing crossroads indeed. That’s where you come in!

To know one’s most authentic self, they must understand their emotions and their feelings. Mindlessly living numbed to how one genuinely feels leads to disconnections in all aspects of living. Eventually, this becomes the final confusion leading them to sign up with you.

Each client faces a conundrum that takes a very balanced approach. We must honor what once protected them, while transforming any toxicity into personal empowerment; and that is true alchemy, indeed. To transmute perceived weaknesses into actualized strengths is the result of working with a professional hypnotist – any one of us.

Your clients may be looking to lose weight, stop smoking, begin living a more aligned life, or to be their most authentic selves. All of these goals, and any other you see regularly, have at their heart a misunderstood belief stemming from a memory that resonates the loudest with one reexperienced emotion.

Let’s be honest. Our clients, very often, don’t understand what they feel or why. They may think they do. They may think they understand why they toss and turn – all night long – questioning every decision, second guessing every option. They even think they understand why they snack in secret when they publicly tell themselves not to. They really think they understand why they refuse to step up and accept a rightful promotion, why they won’t even apply.

They want to think they understand, “It simply isn’t possible. Not for me.” At least, that’s what they keep telling themselves.

More than simple neural programming through the words they are repeating to themselves, there is a genuinely held belief they feel beating within that statement. Their heart speaks to them within its rhythm creating the rhyme needing untangling. The fluttering like wings or the tied up in knots, that choking feeling of disconnection, your clients’ hearts are screaming to be heard!

The heart is the third, and most ignored, brain that our clients are clarifying through their hypnotic sessions. The heart is the bridge brain between the head and gut brains. It is essential to integrate the heart space into the free-flowing highway of communication your clients have available to them daily.

They simply may need you to provide them a roadmap.

Quite simply, our clients have lost touch with the truth, their emotions are their signposts to living as happily-ever-after as they choose to. That is not to suggest that “happy” is the only emotion to strive to recognize. That’s part of the limiting beliefs and societal misperceptions that working with you will correct for them.

You see, the pharmaceutical industry has clearly led the general public to believe there are “good” and “bad” emotions. That we can mute the ones that cause us discomfort and amplify the ones that we hope to enjoy. (The estimated total dollars spent on antidepressants in the US in 2024, according to google analytics, was 8.6 billion.)

Now, I am not comparing hypnosis to antidepressants – that would not be ethical. I am simply pointing out that roughly 13% of all US inhabitants over the age of 18, or roughly 1 in 10, were prescribed an antidepressant during the years 2015-2018. (According to the CDC in September of 2020. And a lot has changed since then that would lead one to believe, these figures have grown substantially in the last five years.)

Let me be crystal clear. It is never a hypnotist’s job to monitor or reduce a client’s medications. Those who need antidepressants need antidepressants. And some who do not – still choose them. Many are simply seeking the comfort being sold in between the commercials motivating their continuous snacking. (There is an epidemic of boredom we can talk about in a future article.)

Brené Brown’s, Atlas of The Heart is a brilliant roadmap for any client needing greater emotional intelligence. There was a time when I heard the only emotions keeping people “stuck” were being 1) hungry/horny 2) angry 3) lonely 4) tired. There was a theory that to change your behavior you needed to HALT to identify and satisfy one of those unmet emotions.

When I became a hypnotist that list expanded slightly, just not as much as my clients actually needed. Please understand, the full range of emotions available to color one’s experienced-life changes everything for them. A limitation of emotions to clarify and define their experiences keep them chained to the understandings of their younger and less-knowing brains. The nuances within lived experience are expressed within the varied hues of words chosen to color life’s descriptions.

Think of it this way, our clients come to us with a starter box of crayons, coloring their life with three to four colors, at most. Working with a professional hypnotist is like graduating to the deluxe artist’s set, with a built-in sharpener. The work you accomplish with your clients provides them the ability to see the vibrance of their life, beyond the black and white extremes highlighted with red splotches of trauma between fleeting moments of bright yellow or breezy blues.

Not meant to be a full representation of all potential emotions.

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The greatest empowerment of all occurs when you provide your clients a personalized and dynamic form of self-hypnosis. This truly is the very best way for a client to continuously sharpen the colors they are choosing in the moment they are living. Typically, a person’s greatest stagnation comes from chasing only one single emotion for the entirety of their life.

Hypnosis provides clients a comfortable way of connecting with the vibrancy of their life and self-hypnosis allows them to continue creating the colorful experience they truly desire for the rest of their lives.