Is Hypnosis for Weight Loss Real? Does Quit Smoking Hypnosis Work?

If you are reading this, you are already thinking about trying out hypnosis for a problem you’re facing in your life – be it weight loss hypnosis, quit smoking hypnosis or hypnosis for another issue.

Maybe you’ve read about it. Maybe you’ve seen ads about it. Maybe you have a friend who tried it and liked it. Now you’re wondering if hypnosis might be useful in your life — to beat a problem, to ease pain, to break a bad habit, to grow a skill, or just to get past a stumbling block in your life.

You have questions, and you deserve answers.

Both hypnosis and hypnotherapy have been surrounded by misconceptions in the past, but now a vast range of people recognise and actually benefit from these practices in a tangible way*.

In Brisbane, hypnotherapy and hypnosis are accepted as valid and effective* procedures.

So whether your goal is to treat a specific condition or you simply want to keep bad behaviours from doing damage to your health, hypnotherapy – as an integral part of a well-rounded treatment plan – may help.

How We Help: Weight Loss Hypnosis, Quit Smoking Hypnosis & More

By working with our trusted staff, who have a solid track record administering hypnosis and hypnotherapy treatment, Brisbane clients can turn their motivation to improve themselves into better physical and mental health*.

The following are some of the key goals you can work on with guidance from a trusted hypnotist:

Freedom from damaging habits – By directly influencing the unconscious without the roadblocks of conscious resistance, hypnosis may help you quit smoking, drinking, gambling, overeating and other unhealthy practices you no longer want to be a part of your life*.

Manage your pain better – Hypnosis has historically been used as a way to effectively relieve all types of pain, from extreme pains like that of childbirth or surgery where anaesthetic is not available through to chronic pains and ailments faced on a day-to-day basis.*

Meet specific health goals – Whether your aim is to lose weight, get better sleep at night, reduce stress, alleviate anxiety or another goal, hypnosis may help give you the empowerment you need to achieve your aim*.

Overcome phobias – Hypnosis and hypnotherapy offer a gentle and non-confrontational way for patients to face their fears. If fear is holding you down in an area of your life, hypnotic treatment can help you overcome this impediment*.

Feel more empowered – Hypnosis is a possible way for patients to turn their worries into positive action*. Whether you need help to become a more patient parent, raise more confident children, or be a better friend, your hypnotist and hypnotherapist can provide you the tools required to meet your specific needs*.

+ What Is Hypnosis & How Does it Work?

Hypnosis is a phenomenon where a hypnotist places you into an altered state of consciousness that lets you see yourself and your surroundings in a new and different way. It puts your mind into a new space, and when you are in that space — call it a hypnotic state or a trance state — you operate differently.

This trance state is not like everyday awareness. Even your brain waves are different. Research has shown that while ordinary mental activity mostly involves the frontal cortex, a trance state engages deeper levels of the brain and brain stem.

When you are in a hypnotic state, you can concentrate and focus your attention exclusively on what’s going on inside your mind and body. You can push outside distractions out of your awareness – something that may people find themselves incapable of doing in their day-to-day lives. Your creative energy zooms. You can think outside the box. You can guide your thoughts, your feelings, and your memories, and focus them wherever they need to be without unwanted distraction.

The hypnotic state is akin to being in a darkened theatre where only one spotlight is turned on. That spotlight is super bright, and whatever it touches is lit up brilliantly, while everything else on the stage is hidden; and you can control and direct that spotlight.

But while the trance state is special, it isn’t uncommon. You experience it a lot in day-to-day life. Let’s say you go to a movie, or a play, or a concert, and the performance is great. You sit there, totally wrapped up in what’s going on until the show ends, or the intermission comes along. Then you realise that you’re hungry, and your shoulders are stiff, and your rear end is kind of sore. You didn’t notice any of that before because you were literally in a trance state, totally focused on the performance and mentally outside your body.

The difference between that kind of experience and what we call clinical hypnosis therapy – whether it be hypnosis for weight loss, quit smoking hypnosis, or hypnosis for something else – is simple. When it happens spontaneously, as it could in the theatre, we don’t give it any special name. When we do it on purpose, we call it hypnosis.

+ Hypnotherapy: Using Hypnosis for Treatment

Hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness. Hypnotherapy is the art and science of using that altered state to help people deal with physical and emotional problems.

Here is an important thing to understand: All hypnotherapists are hypnotists, but not all hypnotists are hypnotherapists. For instance, stage hypnotists can maybe get you to walk and quack like a duck, but you wouldn’t want them dealing with your depression. The fact is that just about anyone can learn to hypnotise people. It is not a complicated task, and the techniques are all over the internet these days.

A hypnotherapist, on the other hand, has received intensive training and education in working to help people improve their lives. Competent hypnotherapists typically have other training to complement and back up their skills in hypnosis.

Let’s take an obvious example. One of the early uses of hypnosis was in helping people block out pain when they had to undergo surgery. But just because your next door neighbour has great skills as a hypnotist, you wouldn’t let him cut on you unless he was a surgeon, right? In the same way, just because someone can hypnotise you, that doesn’t necessarily mean they have the ability to guide you to improved mental health.

When you combine these two skills you get hypnotherapy: A treatment there is no doubt works.

So the most important step for anyone wanting to try hypnotherapy is finding an expert to help you achieve your goals. This person must be formally trained in hypnosis and hypnotherapy, and recognised as a legitimate practitioner via certification, registration and membership of accredited bodies, including:

The Australian National Hypnotherapy Register

The National Hypnotherapist Register of Australia

The Australian Hypnotherapists Association

Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy Brisbane Clients Can Trust: The Hypnosis Therapy Clinic.

The Hypnosis Therapy Clinic has offices in Brisbane and Toowoomba. It offers the services of two highly skilled healing professionals.

Sally Schinkel

Sally Schinkel is a Clinical Hypnotherapist. She is a diplomate in clinical hypnotherapy, and has additional training in Goulding SleepTalk therapy for children and in Neuro Linguistic Programming.

She also has years of hands-on experience in using hypnotherapy to help her clients deal with life’s problems, including administering hypnosis for weight loss & quit smoking hypnosis to many clients with great success*.

Steven

Steven is a Clinical Hypnotist. He is a diplomate in clinical hypnosis and has extensive training in traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture, enabling him to administer a wide range of body-mind healing services.*

Both Steven and Sally are certified members of the Australian Hypnotherapy Association, the primary organisation in Australia for training and certifying professional hypnotherapists. Members of the AHA are recognised worldwide as skilled, competent professionals in the areas of hypnosis and hypnotherapy research and practice.

How Can Sally & Steven Help Me?

Sally and Steven specialise in using hypnosis and hypnotherapy to help their clients overcome a number of issues*, including:

Quit smoking hypnosis
Hypnosis for weight loss
Pain control hypnosis
Hypnosis for stress and stress-related disorders
Hypnosis to stop drinking
Hypnosis to control gambling
Hypnosis for building confidence in children

It should be emphasised that hypnosis and hypnotherapy treatment are not magic pills or a one-shot formula.

With each session of hypnotherapy, Brisbane clients will experience improvement*. However, it requires commitment from both the client and specialist to see long-term, significant results. That’s why the programs at The Hypnosis Therapy Clinic Brisbane are delivered to you over 3, 6 or 9 sessions. The key is to choose a program that is solution-focused: designed by an expert, backed by a solid system and foundation, and personalised according to your unique situation.

Disclaimer

Last updated: August 9th 2016

The following is a disclaimer for all products and services that are offered on this website by the Hypnosis Therapy Clinic:

Neither Sally nor Steven provide, or claim to provide, medical advice of any kind. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. The many benefits of hypnosis therapy should not be a replacement for appropriate medical care.

Neither Sally nor Steven provide, or claim to provide, advice of a legal, financial or psychological nature. Always seek the advice of a licenced professional.

Any advice received is open to your own personal interpretation. Neither Sally nor Steven are liable for any actions taken as the result of their advice.

By engaging in Sally & Steven’s professional services you agree that you do not suffer from epilepsy or other mental illness.

No guarantees of any kind are given or implied on this website.

No claims as to the exact results you can obtain are made.

No claims as to the immediacy, scale or permanency of the results you can achieve are made.

Results will vary depending on individual circumstances.