Frequently Asked Questions About Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy:

What is Hypnotherapy?

• Stress Management
• Weight Loss / Weight Maintenance
• Stop Smoking
• Improvement of Self-Confidence / Enhancing Self-Esteem
• Attaining Success Through Better Goal Setting
• Relief from Pain
• Improving Sexual Performance, or Dysfunction
• Improving Relationships of all sorts
• Behavior Modification
• Control Over Fear, Anxiety or Anger
• Control Over Fear of Public Speaking
• Relief from Insomnia
• Eliminating Destructive Habits (Smoking, Nail Biting, Procrastination, etc.)
• Improving Athletic or Scholastic Performance
• Enhancing Attention, Memory and Strengthening Concentration
• Overcoming Grief, Loss, Nostalgia
• Improving Creativity, Development of Intuitive Powers
• Past Life and Self Exploration
• Guided Meditations

Who can be hypnotized?

Any person who possesses an average intelligence and an average imagination. One only needs to trust the therapist and be willing to cooperate. Although hypnosis is induced by a therapy conductor, it cannot be sustained without the continuous induction. In other words, you will "wake up" from the hypnotic state as soon as the hypnotist stops talking.

Hypnotists provide assistance to the client's natural enthusiasm for self-improvement through positive suggestions to their subconscious mind while client is in the hypnotic state. Your hypno-therapist is your coach, teacher, guide, instructor and trainer.



A hypnotherapy session with Morrin Bass at New York Awareness Center, 2002

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What is Hypnosis?

Client Misconceptions about Hypnosis:

Hypnosis is probably one of the most misunderstood professions in the world. The movie and stage image and a real life clinical practice are quite different.

When hypnotized people think they would be asleep. They are often surprised to find out that they are totally aware of the surroundings, the hypnotist's voice, the voices and noises in the other room, etc. Another misconception is that they will be made to do things they would normally refuse to do. They client needs to understand that he/she cannot be made do anything that violates her moral, religious and personal convictions. This fear must be overcome in order to have successful therapy. A client will retain a full and accurate memory of everything during the session after the session is over.



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Your Conscious Mind

1. Analytical - it is a problem solver;
2. Rational - it reasons to why things happen;
3. It houses Will Power - from where we draw a short term boost of determination toward a solution;
4. It holds short terms (temporary) memory.

Your Subconscious Mind

1. Habits (Good, Bad, Utility)
   • Good Habits - those that are productive.
   • Bad Habits - those that are destructive ( smoking, compulsive eating, etc.)
   • Utility Habits - Closing the door when leaving, covering your mouth when sneezing, etc.
2. Emotions
3. Long Term (Permanent) Memory

Who Can Benefit from Hypnosis?

Power of Positive Suggestions (Post-Hypnotic Suggestions)

History of Hypnosis

No-one knows for certain when the practice of hypnosis originated but it is known that ancient Egyptians used a form of it in their dream temples.

In the eighteen century an Austrian doctor named Franz Anton Mesmer found he could cure people of different diseases without medicine or surgery, and he believed he had a magnetic force which could regulate the flow of magnetic fluids in people to produce cure. In many cases his cures were successful and this method of healing came to be known as Mesmerism.

Mesmer treated very rich and very poor people. For the less well-off he ‘magnetised’ a tree from which hung ribbons or cords for his followers to hold and receive his magnetic therapy.

Another method he used was to fill a large tub with water, containing bottles of iron filings. Protruding out of the tub were iron rods which the common-folk held onto. Many of the patients had violent seizures or fell into deep sleeps which could cure many different kinds of ailments.

Mesmer became very famous in Paris at that time and the French government, at the suggestion of Marie Antoinette, offered him a life pension and enough money to set up a clinic. Because Mesmer refused to allow the government representatives to supervise the clinic a huge controversy raged and in 1784 the King of France appointed a Commission to investigate mesmerism.

The report concluded that animal magnetism and the magnetic field were figments of the imagination and Mesmer’s practices and theories were regarded as worthless. The fact that many people had been cured of their ailments seemed of no consequence.

In the middle of the 19th century a Scottish doctor named James Braid published a book called Neurohypnology or the Study of Nervous Sleep. He invented the word neurohypnosis from which the word hypnosis originated.

Hypnotherapy assists you to discover and access your creative, unlimited potential, thereby allowing for the release of negative or limiting habits and associated ideas. We all experience doubts or setbacks. Resolving problems related to self-esteem, confidence or motivation is one of the most important and valuable capabilities of hypnotherapy.

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Hypnotherapy Fees:

$120 - Regular Office Visit (45 min.)
$150 – First Office Visit (90 min. session)
$120 – Subsequent (45 min.) session
$200 – 2-Session Smoking Cessation Program
$450 - 4-Session Weight Loss/Management Program

$600 - 6-Session Weight Loss/Management Program

$200 - Two-Session Stress Management Program
 

Successful, lasting results may require several hypnotherapy sessions. You may be required to listen to an audio tape of your session for reinforcement. You are responsible for actively cooperating with, and participating in, the success of your program. Neither Morrin Bass nor New York Awareness Center shall be held accountable for the results you attain. You may be referred elsewhere for treatment, or have your hypnosis program terminated if deemed appropriate by New York Awareness Center.

All information provided by you will be kept strictly confidential.



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