Hypnotherapy For Dummies
Introduction
Hypnosis is a subject everyone has an opinion about, but few people
have ever directly experienced. Hypnotherapy, on the other hand, is a
topic that leaves many people baffled or completely blank. So what exactly is
the difference between hypnosis and hypnotherapy? That’s one of questions
this book answers.
An important point to understand is that hypnosis and hypnotherapy are not
the same thing. Hypnosis has been around since humans began to speak and
involves going into a trance. Hypnotherapy uses the hypnotic trance to help
you achieve a goal, or create a positive change in your thinking, to help solve
a problem. Whereas hypnosis is centuries old, hypnotherapy, like other talk-
ing therapies, is a relatively recent practice.
This book helps you understand how hypnosis works. It also discusses the
various problems and symptoms hypnotherapy can effectively treat, and
shows you how you can put hypnotherapy to use for you.
About This Book
Hypnotherapy For Dummies helps you understand hypnosis on both a theoret-
ical and a practical basis. Both are useful depending on your interests. You
can, for example, use this book simply to find out about hypnosis. You may
stop at this level and just be clearer about how hypnotherapists work with
their clients.
Or, you may be interested in finding a hypnotherapist to work on problems,
or to help you succeed in achieving your goals. If you don’t know what sort of
things a hypnotherapist can help with, you will be an expert after you read
this book!
Hypnotherapy can help people to overcome a surprisingly wide range of
habits, emotional problems, and phobias. It can also dramatically improve
performance for students taking exams, athletes wanting to improve their
game, and creative artists wishing to deepen their abilities.
In many ways hypnotherapy is like counselling, but it is a different approach
and much more rapid in producing changes. Hypnotherapists frequently
remove phobias within four to six sessions. There is also a body of evidence
demonstrating that hypnotherapy is the most effective way to help people
stop smoking.
