What is hypnosis?

Hypnosis is simply a deeply focused brain wave state.  Everyone enters into various states of hypnosis everyday. Children under the age of 7 spend most of their waking hours in a mild state of hypnosis. 

This brain wave is the same one we're in during REM sleep, though you're not asleep at all during hypnosis.  You're 100% aware of everything that's happening and being said during your session.  

Hypnosis works by accessing the subconscious mind while you're in this brain wave state.  It's like the ultimate mind hack because everything that has ever occurred in your entire life is stored in your subconscious, and while your conscious mind eventually loses many memories, the subconscious mind remembers everything. 

First of all, you CAN.  You likely do it many times throughout your day, everyday. It's simply being in a state of Alpha brain-wave activity, which happens to almost all of us whenever we're daydreaming, letting our minds wander to the point where we miss our turn off when we're driving, or don't notice someone calling our name.  So, you CAN be hypnotized but some of us have a more challenging time being led into hypnosis by someone else.  There could be any number of reasons for this, most often having to do with trust and/or fears of feeling vulnerable...both perfectly valid emotions!  This article explains this in much greater detail-> 

Why Can't I Be Hypnotized? 

That's fine...in fact, it can be incredibly helpful to use more than one healing modality as it's simply approaching your issue(s) from multiple aspects.  In other words, it can't hurt.  It will simply serve to strengthen and reinforce the changes you are making! 

If this is the case, then consider yourself lucky!  Hypnotherapy, like any other type of therapy, may reveal more of the story for you though.  Perhaps you know the why, but not the how, or the where but not the when, and vice versa, and chances are that there is more than one why, where, how and when.  RTT hypnotherapy will help to reveal these in a safe environment.  Understanding is power and understanding in hypnosis is transformative!