Busting Myths about Hypnosis

I’ve been facilitating hypnosis sessions since 2014. In 2018, I obtained my certification in hypnotherapy. In that course, I learned more about hypnosis and increased my appreciation for the details Dolores Cannon placed in her technique.

Sometimes I will encounter a client who has fears or other misconceptions about hypnosis. I

may hear: “I don’t know if I can be hypnotized.” The following are what I tell these clients who are hesitant about hypnosis:

1. Every time you close your eyes, your brain activates the alpha waves. This means every time you meditate or pray with your eyes closed, you are in hypnosis.

2. When you are with family and friends after a large meal and you’re sitting around talking and you drift off; spaced out. Then someone says, “Earth to Barbara!”

How did you feel when you came out of it?  It felt good! That was you placing yourself into hypnosis.

3. Children, from birth to age seven are in hypnosis 24/7. That is why we say children are highly suggestible. They have imaginary friends. Children can see and interact with the unseen.

4. When a person has physical trauma and 911 is called, the paramedics are trained in hypnosis. They know when they arrive to the victim, they don’t have to do a hypnotic induction, because the trauma patient is already in the alpha state of hypnosis and can be guided to stop feeling pain and for the body to stop bleeding.

5. Have you ever missed a street or exit on the freeway or wondered how did you arrive at your destination so fast? It is because you and everyone is driving in a hypnotic state. Every client I’ve interviewed over the past ten years has replied “Yes” to this question, including myself.

6. During my hypnotherapist certification training, I watched a black and white video of a woman who had her thyroid gland removed in surgery, without pain medication or anesthesia. She was guided to place herself into hypnosis for the operation. This is old information that has been hidden from us for a very long time.

Hypnosis is a natural state of awareness and consciousness for humans. When you go to sleep at night, you walk to your bedroom with the beta waves of your brain activated. The beta waves tell us you are awake and alert. You are walking and talking. 

When you sit on your bed and turn off the light, the room goes dark. Your brain automatically activates the alpha waves. The alpha waves are the first level or light level of hypnosis. Hypnotists can assist you at this level to reduce your weight, stop smoking, stop gambling, etc.

As you lay down, you close your eyes and drift off, your brain activates the theta waves. This is a deeper hypnotic state. This is where we go for healing and accessing information from the subconscious, also known as the Higher Self. This is also the level where channelers go for loving entities or spirits to come forward to talk, using the channeler’s vocal cords. 

As your brain relaxes even further into the stage of sleep, your delta waves are activated. Healing and communications from your Higher Self through the form of dreams occurs at this stage. 

In the morning, when you begin to awake, you go through the stages in reverse: delta, theta, alpha and finally beta. In other words, you automatically place yourself into hypnosis and back out again. You do this every day of your life. You are already an expert at hypnosis. You didn’t know it, because no one may have explained it to you before, in this simple manner. Now you know.

One final note: No one hypnotizes you. No one makes you go under hypnosis. Rather, you hypnotize yourself. You go into, not under, hypnosis. It requires your permission, because you have free will, free choice and free decision. You will not do anything you would not do morally, ethically or logically. To give you an example, our hypnotherapy instructor told us to stand on our head while we students were in hypnosis. Nobody would do it. 

When hypnotherapy is facilitated with a heart-centered therapist/practitioner, it can be very rewarding, very healing and very loving. 

Blessings and joy,

Barbara Becker

To learn more about Energy Healer Barbara Becker, read her books: Enclosure: A Spiritual Autobiography and Expansion: The Journey Continues.

Her QHHT® session stories book, Time Travels: Exploration of Lives Remembered, illustrate how Barbara facilitates sessions just as Dolores Cannon designed the technique and the amazing healing her clients have received.

Consider a QHHT® session or a BQH session with Barbara. You will have the opportunity to visit past lives, learn about your life purpose and receive healing.