Hypnotherapy, do you believe?

I have never been hypnotised and I haven't heard of anyone who have been. I'm not sure if I agree with it, but then again I don't know much about it to have an honest knowledgable opinion.

hypnosis is just putting someone into a highly suggestive state. it can be abused, but i've never heard horror stories. i don't know about men using hypnosis to attract women, but there have been stranger things. i don't think of it as a 'trick' the way magicians use it. its great that you're getting into it. its a budding field, as most branches and areas of psychology are.

I am also learning hypnotherapy. I went into trance many times. It was a great experience. There r many misconcepts linked with hypnotherapy. Some r .....people will any thing that is told by the therapist is a wrong concept..........The person is fully in charge of himself or herself, nobody can control them through hypnosis, hypnotherapy is not a magic too........ Its a scientific method to treat mainly pain and stress but now a days its uses r endless.

I have heard about how hypnotism can help from quitting smoking to losing weight & even to get hyper-active kids into control.
I am personally quite interested to try it to see if it could help me stop my strees & weight loss, really!
On the other hand, I have seen on TV how some hynotism demos, shows and get people to go on stage, make them do silly things and have everyone bursting into laughter, but when the person being hypnotised wakes up, have absolutely not idea what is happened with him!
As much as I would like to try it out, I do have some reservations about it too.
I volunteered once as a subject and it was not effective with me. I think you have to have a level of trust in your therapist that I am unwilling to give. I have had more success with therapies where I have more active participation.

I believe that there is some validity to hypnotherapy.

I'm curious though: how would a man use hypnosis to attract women? Is it possible to put someone in a hypnotic state without her noticing or without her consent?

i sort of ya believe in it..although can not figure out the logic in it but it seems possible

Yes, I have been hypnotised by both good and bad, some made me well, others made me very ill... my hypnotherapist and I are still trying to work on removing some deep suggestions we are not sure quite where they came from, but are strong, and holding me back from doing most of what I want to do... So far I like the progress. the last thing suggested to me was to write more. Well I wrote myself into 57 dollars on mylot so that is good laughs. - DNatureofDTrain:) .

((I've just started on a course to become a clinical hypnotherapist and was just wondering what people thought about it. ))
That's great. I think that it boils down to mind over matter and if you believe it will work, it will or vice versa. I've heard of expecting mothers using hypnosis to block pain from childbirth. I have seen it done successfully and I was totally impressed! I'd consider learning hypnotherapy; ) Good Luck!

((Have you ever been hypnotised? How did it feel?))
My hubby and I were hypnotized to quit smoking. It felt relaxing during the hypnosis. We did stop smoking for two weeks but as soon as my M-I-L fell ill, we let the stress get to us and started smoking again: (

((Has anyone heard any horror stories about hypnosis?Men are now using such skills as hypnosis and NLP to help attract women. Is this ethical?))
No to both. Definitely not ethical!!!

Hi Pondlife:

During my training as a spy I was hypnotised.
They did it until I could pretend I wasn't hypnotised so if I was caught I would not tell the enemy anything.

Ivor

I have been using hypnosis for over 40 years (no I am not certified nor do I have any licence) practicing hypnosis. when I was in the army I used to teach (after hour) men how to hypnotize . In fact I taught them how to hypnotize people even if they could not speak the persons language. That involved hypnotizing a person that could be used as a translator, hypnotizing them to be able to hypnotize the prisoner. After I got out of service I went to college and in my psychology class I was interested in learning more about hypnosis but I would up teaching the class (and the instructor) about hypnosis. A couple of interesting cases that I worked on, one was a woman who had multiple personalities. and had been going to a psychiatrist (for this problem) for 8 years and he had only prescribed medications for her. Within 6 weeks I had gotten rid of these "alter egos" for her (or rather she had gotten rid of them). The doctor wrote me a letter and asked how I had done this abut I knew that he was really wanting to know why I had done this ( getting rid of one of his "cash cows"). The other interesting case was while I was in the army and one of the guys was going to go over to VietNam and was deadly afraid of snakes. If you mentioned snake to him, he would literally climb the walls o get away from any snake that might be around. With only one session I had him handling a harmless snake (only a 4 foot bull snake). Yes a person can be influenced by the power of suggestion. This is a mild form of hypnosis. Advertisements make a lot of money by using power of suggestion.