"Hi, I'm Debbie Catz.
I'm a certified clinical hypnotherapist here
in the San Francisco Bay area.
I have a masters degree in social work.
To learn more about this you can visit my
website at www.norcalhypno.com.
And now I'm going to help you understand the
simplicity of hypnosis.
The definition of hypnosis is a deep state
of relaxation.
And the way hypnosis works is, it's dealing
with the subconscious mind.
So, in our brain we have two parts of our
mind: the subconscious and the conscious.
The subconscious mind is ninety percent of
our brain.
That's pretty big.
The conscious mind is ten percent.
It's also known as the critical conscious
mind.
And we live most of our lives in the critical
conscious mind, in that ten percent that kind
of chatters away at us all the time.
So the way hypnosis works is through a soft
voice, through some music, scripts, a nice
relaxing couch or recliner.
We have a person to get into a relaxed state.
And the reason for that is by getting relaxed
we are quieting that conscious mind, that
ten percent chattery part of us.
And that opens up that ninety percent subconscious
mind.
If you think about the subconscious mind,
think about maybe a hard drive of a computer.
And we're reprogramming it, and that's really
how hypnosis works, by quieting the conscious
mind and opening up the subconscious mind
that has all of our memories, and everything.
And we can affect change in a person's belief
systems and behaviors by addressing the subconscious
mind.
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