At these moments the conscious and subconscious minds are in harmony. Harmful habits and self-defeating behaviors come from conflict between our inner parts. Hypnosis leads you into a powerful trance state where change can take place with the guidance of your hypnotherapist. Hypnosis can restore balance to your life by realigning conscious and subconscious minds.
Hypnosis is effective in many areas including, helping individuals prepare for surgery, coping with cancer treatments, putting your life together and achieving your goals, getting unstuck from self-defeating patterns.
Hypnosis can connect you with a deeper sense of your direction in life. This is especially true with weight loss and stopping smoking. In both cases you are dealing with oral fixations that are an attempt to deal with deeper challenges in life. For example, if you eat or smoke out of boredom, the real question is, “What do you really want to be doing that you are avoiding?”
In hypnosis you temporarily silence the critical judgement part of your mind and put your right hemisphere in charge of your experience. This frees up your creativity and enables you to make changes on a very deep level. People who have been stuck in self destructive patterns of behavior can have insights and understandings that produce permanent positive changes in the way they live.
Many people are afraid that they will be controlled during hypnosis. Actually the opposite is true. In hypnosis your understanding and control over your life is increased. You can finally be free of the conflicts that were imposed on you. The hypnotist functions as a guide and helps you to connect with your deeper self. That really puts you in charge. Lee Overholser teaches his clients self-hypnosis so they can function as their own guides.