MYTH #1: You lose control... In fact, because you are in a relaxed state, your mind is free of that
24 hour a day "chatter", and you are, therefore, in more control of your thoughts. ------------------------------------------------------------
MYTH #2: Morals, Beliefs and Values are compromised... In a hypnotic trance you can not be
made to do anything against your will. ------------------------------------------------------------
MYTH #3: You Go To Sleep... In fact, you will hear and remember everything that I say.
------------------------------------------------------------ MYTH #4: A Hypnotherapist can make
you do anything... A Hypnotherapist can not make you do anything against your ethics, values, or beliefs.
------------------------------------------------------------ MYTH #5 You will not come out of trance...
Never ever happens. At most, you will move into a natural sleep and wake up feeling energized and
refreshed. ------------------------------------------------------------ MYTH #6: Only mentally
weak or sick people are hypnotizable... In fact, the opposite is true. The capacity to be hypnotized
is a statement of relative mental health. ------------------------------------------------------------
MYTH #7: Women are more hypnotizable than men... The fact is that the sexes are the same in
their trance capacity. ------------------------------------------------------------ MYTH #8:
Symptom removal means a new symptom... Any number of troubling symptoms, from skin rash to fear of
animals, can be successfully treated with the help of hypnosis without the appearance of a substitute symptom.
Many symptoms are actually psychological fossils: remnants of earlier emotional times that linger on
as habits. ------------------------------------------------------------ MYTH #9: Hypnosis is dangerous...
In fact, there is nothing dangerous about hypnosis. If there were a danger, we would have to
tell ourselves not to slip into any other state of consciousness: not to daydream, not to concentrate deeply,
and not to become totally absorbed in things of compelling interest. ------------------------------------------------------------
MYTH #10: The hypnotist must be charismatic, unique or weird... On the contrary, a flamboyant or
eccentric personality might well disturb the trusting atmosphere that serves to bring out a person's trance
talent.
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