Hello and welcome to the lecture entitled magic words and misconceptions of hypnotherapy. Now, when I stumbled onto hypnotherapy quite some time ago, I realized that I discovered a tool for a very, very deep healing on a spiritual level. It could do really deep soul work. It's actually quite profound. And so when I got certified and start doing my practice, I realized that there were two words that went with hypnotherapy that didn't really do it any favors. And those two words are hypnosis and hypnotized.

Because what those two words do is they fuel people's preconceived notions about what they think hypnotherapy is. And I don't know where these preconceived notions come from maybe from cartoons they watched as a child or person's eyes are going round and round in their head, or maybe they seen some stage hypnosis. work they've done some, some really funny things on stage using hypnotherapy powers. So what the preconceived notion is, is that they think the therapist can cast a spell on people can take them into a trance, and they can hypnotize and they have magical powers, where they can say magic words to make them change the way they think and change their behavior. And so what that is actually doing that's transferring the responsibility of healing onto the therapist. And that is not how hypnotherapy works.

So hypnotherapy works at its greatest when the client takes full responsibility for their circumstances in life, and then uses this powerful magical meditation tool to help release trauma from the past. Now the worst case scenarios, or I've seen this, this misconception present itself is in weight loss and quit smoking and people who want to quit smoking. And unfortunately hypnotherapy is sold that way. to a lot of people. Now, if you are interested in helping people to lose weight, or to help them quit smoking, then, you know, bless you. And I wish you the best of luck.

And I hope this course can give you the tools that you need to help people do that. And also, if people do lose weight in the course of their lives, which everyone has to deal with weight sooner or later, or if you help them quit smoking, and that's one of the greatest achievements that they will ever do in their life. So, so it's a really great thing to do. However, for me, I just found that too many people wanted to come and have me say some magic words, wave my magic wand, and then all of a sudden, they wouldn't want to smoke or they wouldn't want to eat anymore. And that just wasn't how it works. So let's talk about weight loss for just a second.

And how hypnotherapy can effectively apply to weight loss is that when you're dealing with weight loss, you have to understand it's a long term commitment to a change in lifestyle, which includes diet, exercise and emotional triggers are those suppressed emotions that come up in the past that trigger someone's trauma that makes them eat in appropriately. So, so I can't say magic words to help people not want to eat anymore. But I can help them release those subconscious emotions from the past that may trigger inappropriate eating behavior. And so most people who are successful at weight loss are incredibly dedicated, committed and determined, and they'll do whatever it takes to lose weight. Now, let's talk about quit smoking for people who want to quit smoking. It's a little different than weight loss, and that you're actually dealing with two things.

You're dealing with a physical addiction, and you're also dealing with suppressed emotion from the past. And so one thing I've learned about people who are dealing with addictions is that there's usually some really deep trauma in the past. It's like, and it's usually like some type of unresolved grief. And so they've lost a part of themselves along the way, and they're trying to fill that hole back up with whatever they can, you know, be it smoking. Drugs alcohol or whatever. And so, you know, so the addictions are complicated and it can be very deep work that you need to do with people.

So but let me give you one indication how the selling of hypnosis, you know, can kind of sell hypnotherapy what it does kind of short so I'm a member, a woman that I used to live next door to, and she went to a conference where the sky this hypnotist was coming through to hypnotize all these people to get to quit smoking. And he rented a big conference room at a hotel and like 400 people showed up and they paid a lot of money to be there. And he did whatever he did in his seminar. And when she went home, she quit smoking, she didn't quit. She didn't smoke again, for six months, and then what happened is that after six months, some emotions came up from her path from her childhood and she immediately went back to smoking again. So the conference was great for modifying behavior, but it didn't really deal with suppressed emotion from the past.

With two words where you really want to get to, and so, so when she came to see me, she said, Well, I had this really great experiences conference, I want you to help me. And I said, well, let's look at some of the stuff that happened early on in your life. He says, she said, I mean, we got to deal with that crap. So I can quit smoking. And so should we had a session, then she went home, and her husband blew smoke interface after the session. So she didn't really have that kind of support at home.

So the work we did didn't really pan out. And so that's kind of unfortunate. And so when you're working with people who want to quit smoking, so also remember that there's a timing component involved, and so they're not going to quit until they're really ready to quit. And that's going to be different for everyone. And because they have a physical addiction, they're going to need to wean off that addiction somehow probably with a pat or some type of gum or something like that. So So that's kind of my experience with weight loss, and couldn't helping people to quit smoking, which I really don't work with anymore, just because I found there's too many preconceived.

Notions that go along with it. But if you want to do that, that's great. And I wish you the very best of luck. So, let's move on to our next lecture. I'll see you there.