What kinds of behaviors can be modified using hypnosis?
Any behavior that is not psychopathic can probably be altered using hypnosis as at least an adjunctive therapy. Hypnosis is just that. It is a tool through which we can modify our behavior. So if you have a fear or a phobia that's inappropriate or unwanted—or a habit, for instance, that's inappropriate or unwanted, or an emotional pattern like low self-esteem or low self-confidence—those can be overcome and transcended with the help of hypnosis. Is it guaranteed? No, but what is. It's not magic. It's a process. But it happens to be a state of consciousness in which the mind becomes very adaptable to change, and the subconscious mind will listen to whatever you tell it without the critical conscious mind in the way, which is basically the case when we're in trance. That's how we do it. So I tell people that I work with the worried well of the world—people that just have something in their lives that's not working the way they want it to. Maybe they have a habit—they bite their nails or they're smoking or they weigh a little bit more, they're using food in an inappropriate way, or maybe they just don't feel good about themselves (A lot of people learn not to like themselves very much.)—and they don't like that. It's keeping them from living the life they want. Through hypnotherapy—and other tools, of course—we can help people transcend those issues
