We have all been hurt and betrayed in one way or another sometime in our lives. When we are hurt and betrayed there's a natural response or reaction that is quite involuntary: we close and cringe. This would be analogous to what happens when a person touches a very hot surface: there is an involuntary response that causes you to quickly move your hand away.

The nervous signal that causes us to snap our hands off the hot surface does not go up to the brain initially. We feel the pain later because the signal travels through a different nerve fiber to the brain, only then we become aware of what happened. The initial reaction is to move the hand, with no thought involved, and no awareness of the heat; the body does that to protect itself from tissue damage. It is this lack of initial awareness of potential damage to the hand that reflects the unconscious nature of reactions.

Just as in the hot surface example, emotionally we also quickly snap away from situations that are hurtful to...

Hypnotherapy is a form of therapy that uses hypnosis to achieve a variety of objectives. Hypnosis can be used very successfully to uncover the roots and sources of emotional difficulties and personal obstacles. Hypnosis can be used successfully to resolve conflicts between individuals, even in instances when one of them is deceased, or between different aspects of an individual's nature.

Hypnosis can be used successfully to achieve a rapid change in behavior. Finally, hypnosis can be used successfully to bring an individual's conscious awareness in contact with one's Higher Self.

Can you really achieve so much?

Naturally, anyone familiar with the topics alluded to above would be doubtful that such varied and dramatic objectives can result from a single mode of therapy. This reservation is natural when one is not familiar with hypnosis.

Although forms of hypnosis were used in ancient Egypt, over 5000 years ago, in classical Greece, at the famous Oracles, and throughout the middle...

The short answer is no. You do not need to believe in past lives to receive benefit from hypnotherapy.

As a matter of fact, that is what is awesome about hypnosis. You are enjoying a personal journey into yourself. Your experiences and beliefs will be those lived by you during your therapeutic process.

Our daily busy lives keep us at a lower consciousness level that is somewhat disconnected from our true self. Feelings like anger, hate, selfishness, or just the mere and so-called “stress” takes us through life from lesson to lesson, without leaving us much time for contemplation from a higher ground.

Most individuals believe the state of hypnosis to be a much more unconscious state where you will not have control of yourself. Contrary to this popular belief, the state of hypnosis is a higher state of consciousness that can only be described by those that have experienced it.

The truth is that even in a light or moderate state of hypnosis you can benefit greatly from the...