How safe is hypnosis and what is it?
Hypnosis is a natural, safe state of mind which you spontaneously experience many times a day. For instance, you are in hypnosis when:

• You find yourself day dreaming.
• You are driving on a road and you find yourself so focused in something in your mind that you missed your exit, or you arrived home not remembering every turn and manoeuvre you made to get there.
• You are watching a film and you are crying, getting scared or experiencing any kind of emotion related to it.
• You are looking for an object which is within sight, but you can not see it.

Hypnosis is safe - over 200 years of experience in the Western World and there have been no cases of someone hurt by hypnosis. The British Medical Association accepted and recognised hypnosis in 1959.

All hypnosis is fundamentally self-hypnosis, as one of the real pioneers of modern hypnosis Dr. Milton Erickson stated many years ago. Hypnosis is defined as a state of heightened suggestibility and you must be willing to follow the suggestions, or there is no so-called trance state. Only you decide when you go into hypnosis - no one has the power to hypnotise you against your will! Your hypnotherapist is simply a guide who helps you use these human abilities to make the changes that you want. For example, breaking bad habits, overeating, smoking, etc.