The most insightful way of looking at hypnosis is, I believe, to see it as a means of waking from the greater trance of conditioning by family and society. We are all trained to adopt and maintain certain beliefs – the "right" ways to think and behave, the limits we are taught to agree to, what states of mind and body are acceptable, what body functions to feel ashamed about, even what products to consume to maintain the trance. A trance truly worth waking from.

Hypnosis is not something done to you -- unless you’re thinking of the kind carried on by politicians and advertisers in support of the cultural trance. It is not like surgery or getting a massage, but something we do together as a cooperative effort. My practice is client-centered: I work to assist you in attaining the results you want and select. I act as a coach and guide to help you create your desired changes and evolve according to your most powerful wishes. Your part is a skill set you easily learn with practice, consisting mainly of allowing yourself to play along with the suggestions and permitting your imagination skills to develop.

Within the hypnotic state, you can access levels of mind which influence your body’s responses and activities. You can bypass the barriers to limiting thoughts and feelings. Suggestions are more likely to be enacted upon -- automatically, in body-mind -- than is likely, or even possible, in everyday social awareness.

There is also a growing body of scientific study, called Psychoneuroimmunology, or PNI, which is showing that the mind is directly linked to our immune systems. Your body is capable of producing, from within, an incredible array of healing substances, when you know how to ask. Techniques used in hypnotherapy can affect our physical, psychological, and spiritual well-being. Suppose, for example, you could learn to generate neuropeptides at will to nourish and strengthen the cells of your immune system? Everyone has such ability.

Why does hypnosis work well? Because subconscious mind is amenable to control through suggestion. It produces more of what you suggest to it with your thoughts. Whatever you think of, your subconscious mind will produce more of that in your life. Present conditions are the result of thought. Hypnosis opens access to a place where you have conscious recognition of which thoughts you usually choose. It can open the way for you to select new thoughts – to bring you more of what you really want -- rather than more of what you don’t want.