Most people immediately think of hypnosis as being something involving a stage show. They think of people quacking like a duck or heating and onion or lemon and believing that it is something sweet. However, hypnosis is actually much more than that. When used by a qualified and talented hypnotherapist it can be used for a wide range of mental health, medical, and performance-oriented applications. Therefore, the primary uses of hypnosis are healing the body, healing the mind, and self-actualization. Medical applications of hypnosis include stress management and the direct influence of...

If you are anything like me, by the time you reached maturity there were probably numerous things in your history that you regret. These could be things that you said or did – or even failed to do. Indeed, we go through life with this ever growing collection of stuff that we wish we could discard. How we look at those events or failings determines much about your current and future behavior. Your relationships with others and your health can easily become victim to your inability to release the bonds that guilt place on our mind, body, and soul.

By simply changing how we look at...

Can the use of suggestion and imagination improve physiological healing? Controversial studies at the Harvard Medical School have left the allopathic medical community scratching their collective heads. Two separate research projects conducted by a team led by psychologist Carol Ginandes, PhD, indicated that a significant number of patients who combined guided imagery hypnosis and traditional allopathic care tended to heal significantly faster than those who followed only an allopathic regimen. Their findings mirrored similar research involving improving the immune system of sufferers of...