Virtual Hypnotherapy
My name is Michael Conrad. I'm a retired psychologist with 42 years of experience in Los Angeles California, and have retired my license and liability insurance in 2020 and now operates as an unlicensed life therapist since there are no licenses or liability insurance policies for that type of therapist. I will continue to offer the same therapeutic advice, just under the title of life therapist.
But psychotherapy is not what you came here for. You came here because you understand that hypnosis can help you overcome and even cure whatever ailes you. I have used hypnosis, both virtually and in person, in my therapy sessions since 2000, giving me 25 years of experience as a medical hypnotist.
The mind controls the body. If it is your mind that is making you feel physically sick or mentally unbalanced, then it is your mind that can make you healthy again. And when your willpower isn't working effectively, then hypnosis will help. However, don't expect years of what you're going through to disappear in one session. Several sessions may be necessary. There is no such thing as a one visit cure just as there is no such thing as one pill from a bottle of pills is all you need.
Hypnosis can help you with depression, stress, anxiety attacks, sleeplessness, as well as nervous habits such as nail biting, biting the inside of your cheek and cracking your knuckles, plus fear of major operations to much smaller fears such as spiders, heights, dentists, flying, and so on.
Hypnosis can also help you with symptoms you may feel only medication can help such as PTSD, turrets, fibromyalgia, lower back pain that requires injections, restless leg syndrome, painless childbirth plus depression after childbirth and, if that isn't enough, it also helps in eliminating a dependency for alcohol, illegal drugs and pain medications such as opioids without experiencing withdrawal pains.
Virtual sessions are now the most effective way to get help when you need it and I can almost always be there for you when you contact me and we can meet on the app called MEET which should already be on your phone or whatever video platform you prefer.
Virtual sessions are conducted once you have headphones or earbuds like in the picture above, a place to prop up your phone or laptop so that you don't have to hold it, a comfortable chair or sofa to lean back in and a very quiet room with no distractions, children screaming, phones ringing, or a loved one telling you dinner's ready.
What exactly is hypnosis? The word hypnosis was originally created to describe the process you put yourself through in order to fall asleep, named after the Greek god Hypnos, the god of sleep. It's lying in bed and letting go of all the thoughts and stresses of the day, eventually limiting your thoughts to how warm the blanket feels around you or how soft the pillow feels beneath your head, and without even realizing it, you drift off to sleep.
Hypnotized is actually called mesmerized. You are mesmerized when you can focus your attention on something to the point where you are oblivious to everything else going on around you. It's also called tunnel vision. Named after Franz Mesmer, the creator of the mesmerizing techniques everyone has mislabeled as hypnosis.
Franz Mesmer's theory is this. By focusing your eyes on an object (visual tunnel vision) while focusing your hearing on the sound of someone's voice (audible tunnel vision), the more mesmerized you become, at which point a part of your mind becomes willing to accept suggestions, but only if they're coming from someone you trust and if you were leaning in the direction of those particular suggestions in the first place. Think of a hypnotist/mesmerist as a motivator who helps you stay on a path that you've already taken.
The confusion all began in 1843 when James Braid noticed that when clients had created tunnel vision and were mesmerized, that they exhibited the same sleepy "look" that one had when going to sleep. So he changed the word from mesmerized, which is the "focused" look, to hypnotized, which is the "sleepy" look. But he eventually saw his mistake, that they weren't sleepy at all, so he tried to change the word back to mesmerized, but by then the word hypnotized became so popular, thanks to movies, that he gave up trying.
Knowing this, here is what to expect. Your hypnotist, or mesmerist, will ask you to focus your eyes on a particular object (visual tunnel vision) while focusing your hearing on only the sound of his voice (audible tunnel vision). If you have followed instructions, then your eyes will appear blurry, out of focus, distant. It is at that point that you are hypnotized, or mesmerized, at which point the hypnotist may say the word sleep. The hypnotist, or mesmerist, will then give you suggestions that you are willing to accept in order to experience change for the better.
Can everyone be hypnotized? NO. About 15% of the world's population's brains are wired differently. Another 10% either don't trust the hypnotist, are afraid of the unknown, simply cannot relax, try too hard or are easily distracted by everything going on around them and therefore can't create the necessary tunnel visions.
Who, then, can be hypnotized? Daydreamers, artists, musicians, actors, athletes, deep thinkers, introverts, puzzle solvers, gamers, visionaries and the like. Anyone who has a very vivid and creative imagination.
Why do hypnotists/mesmerists say the word sleep? Because we do it effortlessly every night and therefore it's the easiest word for our brains to accept and comply with. However, it isn't really sleep, but the moment before sleep when your body stops fidgeting and completely relaxes. You will still be able to hear everything going on around you and you will always be able to accept or reject any suggestion given to you.
A brief history here. In the beginning, mesmerizing techniques, now mislabeled as hypnosis, were only used by medical doctors, especially during war times before the invention of morphine, which primarily calmed injured soldiers, put them into deeper REM sleep during unfortunate amputations, and also limited infections and quickened recovery. Many years later was when non-medical people used their very limited knowledge of mesmerism/hypnosis to create stage shows for entertainment purposes only, while leaving the true medical effectiveness of hypnosis to us real professionals.
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