Hypnosis FAQs

Hypnotherapy is a process of interacting with the subconscious mind in an open-reflective process to create positive changes in your life. There are several relaxation techniques 

administered by a certified holistic therapist, which may include verbal and visual imaging.

Hypnosis is actually a natural state of mind that many of us encounter in everyday  life on a regular basis. If you’ve ever been engrossed in a book, movie,  or performance, then you have likely experienced the trance-like state.  It is a natural, deeply relaxed state of mind.

Research shows that therapeutic hypnosis can boost the immune system because it lowers stress hormones. Hypnotic immune system active mental imagery can increase white blood cell activity so your body fight health issues more efficiently.

Hypnosis is a natural state. Each of us enters a hypnotic state several times a day. When we are falling asleep. When we are waking up. Driving, watching TV, listening to music, working on a favorite hobby or activity in the “flow” state. These are all “altered states of consciousness,” and all are various levels of trance. Trance is normal, natural and common. 

Hypnosis can not make you do something that is against your morals or ethics. Hypnotherapy is self-hypnosis and no hypnotist can make you do something that you really don’t want to do. That’s why some people can be hypnotized to stop smoking and yet they still smoke. You have to want the change, agree with the change, and then hypnosis is an instrument for helping make that change better, faster, and permanent. 

You always have control, and you can always hear what’s going on. 

Hypnosis  is one of the world's oldest sciences. Amazingly, ancient hieroglyphics  show that the Egyptians were using hypnosis as early as 3,000 B.C.  There is evidence the Greeks and the Mayans understood it and used it as  well. 

While hypnosis has had a place in society for thousands of  years, it has also carved out a place as a legitimate modern medical  practice worldwide.

For  the past hundred years there has been an abundance of research and evidence that  psychological and physiological changes could be produced by hypnotism  which were worth study on their own account, and also that such changes  might be of great service in the treatment of patients.”

The most recent studies have reported that therapeutic  hypnotic methods are significantly beneficial in the management and treatment of a wide  range of conditions and problems encountered in the practice of  medicine, psychiatry and psychotherapy.

No.   Hypnosis is nothing but a state of relaxed deep focus. A hypnotized  person always has control and can always hear what's going on. It is a  natural state that you enter at least twice a day (while waking up and  while falling asleep!) and probably much more often than that.

While undergoing hypnotherapy, clients have the ability to  communicate with their therapist and express any requests they may have.  Experienced hypnotherapists verify the comfort level of their clients at all times during hypnotherapy sessions.

Hypnosis is the way most people recover past memories and past life information. In a group session with a good setting and a competent hypnotist it is possible for most people to get a glimpse of their former lives. Greater details about past lives are better accomplished in individual session. The hypnotist can concentrate on the individual and deepen and lengthen the process. It is also possible to record the session and have the subject answer questions while they are in trance about their experience for further study.”  This is something you will need to ask Marquerite.

A trance us a narrowing or focusing a state of attention.  Trance experiences include things you may have experienced several times before. It is similar to daydreaming, or feeling temporarily "spaced out" or like when you feel wow how did I get here?  You realized you drove back home using some type of "auto-radar" because you were not consciously concentrating on driving like you should have been.  When you are in a trance-like state your attention is focused in a specific are and you are not "consciously" thinking about everything else and every one else around you.