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Celebrity Hypnotherapist Kimberly Friedmutter on Connecting with the Subconscious

By Dana Sullivan Kilroy — 2019

Tap into your inner self with her new book, Subconscious Power: Use Your Inner Mind to Create the Life You’ve Always Wanted.

Read on www.everydayhealth.com

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Does hypnosis work for anxiety, depression, and fear?

The idea behind hypnosis revolves around altering a person’s brainwaves, allowing them to tap into resources within themselves that they cannot reach when fully conscious. Research shows that the approach can help some individuals manage their anxiety.

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Zia Sherrell
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Mental Health and Hypnosis

Hypnosis is usually considered an aid to psychotherapy (counseling or therapy), because the hypnotic state allows people to explore painful thoughts, feelings, and memories they might have hidden from their conscious minds.

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WebMD
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How Hypnosis Can Help Ease Panic Disorder Symptoms

Although hypnotherapy has been around a long time, it is sometimes considered a CAM therapy and has grown in popularity for the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders. The following describes more about this approach to treating panic disorder.

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Katharina Starr
2020
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Can Hypnosis Treat My Anxiety

Anxiety disorders affect 40 million Americans each year, which makes anxiety the most common mental illness in the United States. There are many well-known forms of treatment for anxiety disorders including cognitive behavioral therapy, exposure therapy, medication.

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Sara Lindberg
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6 Surprising Health Benefits of Hypnosis

“In healthcare, hypnosis can be used as a psychological treatment to help you experience changes in sensations, perceptions, thoughts, or behaviors. It’s done in a clinical setting and performed by a trained, licensed healthcare professional, like a psychologist or a physician,” says Alison T.

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Penn Medicine Staff
2019
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Study Identifies Brain Areas Altered During Hypnotic Trances

Your eyelids are getting heavy, your arms are going limp and you feel like you’re floating through space.

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Sarah C.P. Williams
2016
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Has Hypnosis Finally Been Vindicated by Neuroscience?

Considering its origin story, it’s not so surprising that hypnosis and serious medical science have often seemed at odds. The man typically credited with creating hypnosis, albeit in a rather primitive form, is Franz Mesmer, a doctor in 18th-century Vienna.

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Melissa Dahl
2016
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Is Hypnosis All in Your Head? Brain Scans Suggest Otherwise

Hypnosis has become a common medical tool, used to reduce pain, help people stop smoking and cure them of phobias. But scientists have long argued about whether the hypnotic “trance” is a separate neurophysiological state or simply a product of a hypnotized person’s expectations.

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Erica Goode
2016
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Is Hypnosis a Distinct Form of Consciousness?

Studies confirm that during hypnosis subjects are not in a sleeplike state but are awake.

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Scott O. Lilienfeld, Hal Arkowitz
2008
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Can You Quit Smoking Through Hypnosis?

Researchers can't agree on whether hypnotherapy actually works. I tried it when I wanted to leave cigarettes behind, but I'm still not sure, either.

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Luke O'Neil
2015
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