Stage Hypnosis vs. Hypnotherapy: Why People Confuse Them
The lights are up, the music thumps, and a row of volunteers on stage are barking like dogs, forgetting their names, and falling in love with…
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196 articles totalHypnosis for Low Self-Esteem and Self-Worth
Confidence is about what you can do. Self-worth is about who you believe you are. A person can be outwardly confident, even successful, and still carry…
Hypnotherapy for Body Image and Your Relationship With Food
This is a tender subject, and it deserves to be handled with care rather than the usual diet-culture noise. How you see your body and how…
Hypnosis for Tinnitus: A Mind-Body Approach
Tinnitus, the ringing, buzzing, or hissing that only you can hear, can range from a minor background presence to a relentless intrusion that dominates your awareness…
Feeling Lost? How Hypnosis Helps You Find Direction
It is a strange kind of stuck. Nothing is necessarily wrong on paper, yet you feel adrift, unsure what you want, where you are headed, or…
Hypnosis for Claustrophobia
The elevator doors close and your chest tightens. The MRI technician slides you into the scanner and panic rises. The middle seat on a packed plane,…
Why Anxiety Comes Back, and Whether Hypnosis Makes It Last
You did the work. You felt calmer for weeks, maybe months. And then, after a stressful stretch or for no obvious reason at all, the old…
Hypnosis for Health Anxiety and Worrying About Symptoms
A twinge in your side becomes a tumor by midnight. A skipped heartbeat sends you to a search engine, and an hour later you are convinced…
What Actually Happens During a Hypnosis Session, Start to Finish?
Most of the fear around hypnosis comes from not knowing the choreography. People imagine being switched off, then switched back on with no idea what happened…
What Is Hypnobirthing, and How Does It Work?
Approaching childbirth, many people feel a knot of fear, shaped by dramatic stories, frightening portrayals, and the sheer unknown of it. Hypnobirthing offers a different way…
Does Hypnosis Work on Everyone?
You have decided hypnosis might help with your problem, and now the practical question arrives: will it actually work on me? It is the right question…
Handling Cravings and Triggers Without Relapsing
Whatever habit you are trying to change, the moment of truth is almost always the same: a craving hits, hard and insistent, and it feels like…
What’s the Difference Between Hypnosis and Sleep?
The name is the problem. Hypnosis comes from Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep, and the word has been quietly misleading people ever since. A nineteenth-century…
Hypnotherapy to Cut Down or Stop Drinking
Drinking is a topic where honesty matters more than usual, because getting it wrong can be dangerous. So before anything else: if you are physically dependent…
What “Psychosomatic” Really Means
Few words are more misunderstood, or more wounding when misused, than psychosomatic. To many ears it sounds like an accusation: your symptoms are imaginary, you are…
Hypnotherapy for Emetophobia (Fear of Being Sick)
Most people dislike vomiting, but for someone with emetophobia, the fear of it organizes their entire life. They avoid foods that might be off, restaurants, crowded…
Can Hypnosis Help You Practice Self-Love?
Few phrases have been more thoroughly drained of meaning than "self-love." It has been reduced to bubble baths, spa days, and slogans on tote bags, which…
What Is Sleep Hypnosis, and How Do You Use It?
Search for help with sleep and you will quickly run into "sleep hypnosis", thousands of recordings, apps, and videos promising to talk you into a peaceful…
Hypnotherapy for IBS: How Gut-Directed Hypnosis Works
For the millions of people living with irritable bowel syndrome, daily life can be quietly organized around the unpredictability of their gut, the bathroom locations, the…
Are You Aware and in Control Under Hypnosis?
It is the single biggest fear people bring to hypnosis: the worry that they will hand over the keys to their own mind, do something humiliating,…
How Mental Rehearsal Under Hypnosis Improves Performance
Before a race or a big performance, you will often see an elite athlete with their eyes closed, subtly rehearsing every movement in their mind. They…
Hypnosis for Sleep Anxiety
There is a cruel irony at the heart of sleep anxiety. The more desperately you want to sleep, and the more you worry about not sleeping,…
Gastric Band Hypnotherapy: What It Is and How It Works
The idea sounds almost too clever: the benefits of weight-loss surgery without the surgery, achieved purely through the power of suggestion. Gastric band hypnotherapy, also called…
Hypnotherapy for Emotional and Stress Eating
You are not hungry. You know you are not hungry. And yet, after a stressful day, you find yourself standing at the counter eating something you…
How to Stop Your Mind Racing at Night
You are exhausted. You want nothing more than to sleep. And the moment your head hits the pillow, your mind switches on, replaying the day, rehearsing…