When someone asks "How does hypnosis work?" there are two answers, depending on what the person is really wanting to know.

For example, some people want to know how hypnosis works with regards to what actually happens in the brain.

And the answer to that is simple..."We don't know."

We can detect that hypnosis works with EEGs , but we don't have a way to actually see how it is working.

Several universities are doing studies to try and find out exactly how hypnosis works and this is only because hypnosis does work, otherwise no one would spend the time or money to find out how it works.

The majority of people, and maybe you, just want to know "What does hypnosis do, exactly?" and "How can it help me?"

Here's how it works...

You've got two parts of the mind.(there are actually three parts of the mind , but for our purposes, we only need to concern ourselves with two)

The conscious and the subconscious. These are loosely referred to as the logical and critical (conscious) mind and the creative (subconscious) mind.

More than likely, you are functioning in your conscious mind right now.

The goal of hypnosis is to bypass your conscious, critical mind to get to your subconscious mind because this is where all your memories, emotions, and beliefs are held.

Self Hypnosis does a good job of explaining how this is done.

For the most part, it's just a process of getting relaxed. Then, once you are "in trance", it's about interacting with your subconscious mind to get it to agree that it is in your over all best interest to agree with the behaviors that will bring about the changes you desire in your life.

This is done with suggestions.

You are probably most familiar with suggestions from marketing. For example, when you see a commercial that says, "everyone is buying it", that is a suggestion.

It sounds really simple, and it works.

The power of suggestion has more information about this.

There are specific techniques that are used to make sure the suggestions have the most effect.

For example, if you are trying to lose weight, saying "I am losing weight" will not work.

This is because the subconscious mind cannot conceive loss.

So, instead you would say something like "I am creating a happier and healthier me."

The subconscious mind can grasp this because it knows how to create, which is why it is called the creative mind.

That is basically idea of how hypnosis works.

As far as what it can do for you, ...alot.

Keeping with our example of weight loss, hypnosis will allow you to like going to the gym or eating healthy food.

Again, the key to doing that is with suggestions.

Take sex for instance. (Just follow me, here)

Think about the first time you heard about "it".

Did you want to get up and go have sex right away? Probably not , you may have even thought -ewwh gross if you were very young and innocent, I'm sure that has changed over time, right?

This is a very simple way to convey to you the idea I am presenting here.The notion that your ideas and beliefs must be changed in order for your actions to change.

So using hypnosis we can recreate many different reasons, then tie them to emotions = motivation ...at the subconscious level and this will allow your creative mind to generate automatic habits to get you what you are seeking in the every day conscious behaviors that lead to results and lasting change.

That is what hypnosis can do for you.

And that is how hypnosis works.

So, you can go out and...

MAKE a great day.