Often, and frustratingly, I hear new clients say, “My head is a blank” or “I don’t know.”

Why come to see a hypnotherapist?

Obviously, you have an idea of what you want to accomplish. You have questions for a therapist.

He or she only can help when you provide information. 

Some clients are desperate because they have an issue to resolve they have failed to resolve. Goals range from weight loss to sending cancer into remission.

One client, pleading for help, suffered from brain cancer. He had a positive attitude even though he had dealt with it earlier in his life. He felt hypnotherapy would give him the focus and mindset to be better. His cancer went into remission for a short time. Unfortunately it came back more aggressively and he died within six weeks of seeing me for help. His mother said hypnosis helped him relax and prepare for death.

Panicking and Dissembling

A lady experienced panic attacks so strong she was unable to go farther than stepping just outside the door of her home without undergoing a meltdown. She had seen a world famous psychiatrist, psychologist and even a noted hypnotist.

Frustrated and angry, she told me how she wanted to have the therapy done. Just “Do it this way,” she ordered.

Oh, she was upset when she returned for a second session. She complained I was no better the other therapists. 

I reminded her that I conducted the therapy her way.  She had declined answering any of my questions. Unless she was willing to accept the therapy I offered, my way, she should leave.  Leave now and come back if you are agreeable, I said.

Compliantly, she returned.  After determining the cause of her agoraphobia and desensitizing her to the issues, she speedily recovered. Amazingly, she promptly left on a round-the-world trip, by herself, and has not looked back.

Once a client opens up and answers questions, recovery is swift.

Where to Direct Questions

Hypnosis helps people seeking a quick fix. A psychiatrist may require 600 sessions that a hypnotherapist can resolve in six to ten.

This is a direct result of the therapist not talking with the conscious, (which a psychologist or psychiatrist would do) but with the subconscious, which comprises 90 percent of the brain power we use with the conscious mind being 10 percent.

Clearly the subconscious is what needs to be influenced. Hypnosis helps by offering an image to the subconscious of the behavior the client wants. Once the image is established within the subconscious, it is usually a short time before the subconscious gets what is asked of it.  Soon you have achieved the desired changes. 

When seeing a therapist, make sure you know what you want, and share it with him or her. 

“I don’t know” is a dead end.

Happy mental health.

Do not hesitate to contact me by telephone, 310.204.3321, or by email at nickpollak@hypnotherapy4you.net. See my website at www.hypnotherapy4you.net