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Common misconceptions
Q. Who can be hypnotized?
Anyone with reasonable intelligence can be hypnotized.
If you are able to read a book and follow simple instructions you are hypnotizable.
The level however, varies from person to person.
Most therapy sessions do not require more than a light trance state.
Q. Am I sleeping?
Actually, it is just the opposite! You are wide awake. You are very aware under hypnosis. You are actually in a state of what is called hypersensitivity. All of your senses are enhanced, your sight, hearing, taste, smell, emotions. It is closer to a state of day dreaming or relaxing. You will be focused on the words of the Hypnotherapist and outside sounds will seem to fade away.
Q. Can I get stuck in hypnosis?
No, the hypnotic state can be terminated at any time you chose.
It is your choice to enter the state and you can always choose to leave it.
Q. Is hypnosis dangerous?
Every 15 minutes of hypnosis is equal to approximately four hours of sleep.
Q. Will I be in control and aware of what is happening?
A. Yes, all the time. You are in an alternative state of consciousness You can hear everything that is being said. Nothing happens without your consent. You have absolute control. However, you are extremely relaxed.
Q. Will I remember what happens during the sessions?
A. Yes, people remember everything they or the therapist said during the session. In rare instances the therapist might need to remind them of one or two points that were talked about in order to trigger off the rest of the memory. 
Q. Is hypnosis suitable for children?
A. Yes, usually from about the age of six, provided they can understand what is being said, In 1981 self hypnosis was introduced into the national curriculum in Sweden. For children under the age of six, sleep hypnosis can be conducted with great success.
Q. Will the therapist have to touch me?
A. Some therapists will touch you on the wrist, shoulder, neck or forehead to test whether you are properly relaxed or to assist you into a deeper state of hypnosis. They will seek your permission first. Other than this form of contact, a therapist has no business touching you.
Q. Is it in some way anti-Christian?
A. In many respects the effect is similar to prayer or meditation. People put their hands together in prayer, also in alot of meditation.
It was also accepted by the Catholic Church as a proper procedure for it's members in 1958.
Q. How many sessions will I need?
Many Hypnotherapist offer a free initial assessment consultation in which to meet you, assess your problem, determine your needs and the likely number of sessions and agree an affordable fee per session.
Q. Will I do anything against my will?
A. No, you will not do anything that you do not think is acceptable or against your nature.
Conscious mind
Your Conscious Mind
Firewall
- negative conditioningHere is a simple metaphor to explain how the mind works.
Picture in front of you a computer. Now imagine that this is a high security computer with a Firewall, and password protection.
The firewall here represents your conscious mind.
Anything that is input to the subconscious mind will be stopped before it enters by the security of the firewall. One of the main problems with the conscious mind is that it is geared very negatively. Even things that are not ‘Viruses’ will be stopped by the firewall. 
As an example if I told you that, “You are the most beautiful person that I have ever seen“, or that “You are the most intelligent person I have ever met“, some people upon hearing such a positive comment, rebel maybe thinking to themselves. “OK, now what’s the catch?” Some immediately go on the defensive from hearing such a compliment.
Even when the person saying the comment has meant it, most of us have such low self-esteem that we will not accept it or we think there is an alternative motive behind it.
The conscious mind is a creature of habit, it is use to repetition and loves routine, it tends to keep the status quo rather than make any drastic changes. Even though something may be good for it, it wants to stay the same way because it is comfortable or familiar with the way it is.
Such as smoking for example. You can tell your conscious mind to stop smoking over and over again and that conscious Firewall will put up barriers fighting off the suggestions to quit smoking, rationalizing to itself things such as “I don’t want to quit, Im not a quitter! I am happy just as I am, I don’t care if it causes lung disease, it doesn’t matter if it makes me weak, I’m going to die someday anyway.” It seems like no matter how many positive comments you get even after mass repetition… it will continue to fight them off, thats its job, to protect!
Now going past the conscious Firewall into the computers Hard Drive, you’ll find the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is the most perfect computer ever made. Every sight, sound, smell, taste, everything you’ve experienced since you were born is logged in perfect clarity in your subconscious minds's Hard Drive. Now here lies the problem, imagine your subconscious mind being operated by a four year old child. It is innocent and naďve.It wants to help you but just doesn’t know the best way to do it. Therefore it tries to help you the best way it knows how. 
A good example of that would be someone getting in a bad injury in sports. The subconscious mind wanting to protect this person may think that the best way to protect him is to cause a panic attack so this person will never leave the house again to play sport. To a child it may seem like the best solution.
Or another example would be someone who has a serious problem with alcohol . A four year old child may think that the best way to eliminate this problem is by making that person lose his job so he has no money to spend. You can see where the subconscious mind really wants to help, but has no real idea how to what is best.
Now imagine a computer programmer, that knows the password to your computer hard drive, being able to easily by pass the firewall to access the hard drive of the subconscious mind.
Using simply and easy to follow instructions the Hypnotherapist simply uses the time to programme the hard drive using simple suggestions (Suggestions, Not commands) that are now more successfully accepted without the negativity and arguments made by the firewall.
Upon seeing that a ‘Better’ way of running certain ‘Programmes’ the hard drive accepts some, or all of the suggestions, and quickly changes
course using proper solutions.
The subconscious mind wants to help you to solve your problems and to be a functional member of society, more successful and happy that you could ever of imagined. Once the proper suggestions has been given and accepted by the subconscious mind you now have 95% of your mind working for you. And now the mere 5% of the conscious mind which constantly seems to be in a rebellion mode.
This brings us back to the conscious mind or Firewall. How do we get suggestions past the Firewall?
HYPNOTHERAPY
