Hypnosis is a meditative state. In fact, it is really a goal-oriented meditation.  When you become relaxed your mind slows down into what are known as theta brain waves.  This is a natural state that you go through every time you wake up and go to sleep.  You even go into this state when you are watching tv or driving a car.  In this state, the subconscious mind comes forward and the critical factor of the conscious mind quiets down.  You are in control the whole time but are more suggestible and open to creating the changes you desire.

There are many scientific studies showing how powerful hypnosis is.  Here are a few of them:

This study shows a 93% improvement rate after only 6 sessions of Hypnotherapy.  While psychotherapy reports only a 38% improvement rate after 600 sessions.

Source: Barrios, Alfred A. “Hypnotherapy: A Reappraisal,” Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice (1970)

Another study showed amazing results when hypnosis was used with women who had breast cancer.  The results from the study were those who received hypnosis experienced 50% less pain and their survival rate doubled compared to the control group who did not receive hypnosis.

Sources: Spiegel, D. & Bloom, J.R. (1983b).”Group therapy and Hypnosis Reduce Metastatic Breast Carcinoma Pain.” Psychosomatic Medicine, 45, 333-339. Spiegel, D., Bloom, J.R., Kraemer, H.,C. & Gottheil, E. (1989a) “Effect of Psychosocial Treatment on Survival of Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer.” Lancet pp. 888-891.

Another incredible study at Harvard Medical School showed that broken bones healed 40% faster with hypnosis.

Source: Harvard Medical School, Carol Ginandes and Union Institute in Cincinnati, Patricia Brooks, Harvard University. Gazette Online at http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/05.08/01-hypnosis.html

Every other approach I’ve witnessed doesn’t take into account the subconscious and its role in your limiting beliefs and habitual patterns.  Even things you are not aware of at all can be holding you back from reaching your goals and if you don’t deal with them and just try to motivate your way through it, you typically hit the same blocks and return to where your subconscious mind is comfortable and what it believes to be true.  Teaching you about health and wellness is wonderful but it usually just speaks to your conscious mind.  The 5% of the mind we are aware of in our waking state.  The other 95%, the subconscious or unconscious mind, is where you can clear up the limiting beliefs that hold you back and change your patterns and habits by literally reworking the neural circuits in your head.  It’s quite incredible and fascinating if you ask me.  That is why my approach does both.  It works with the conscious and subconscious mind so you have 100% alignment on what your goals are and it makes it more effortless.