Combining hypnosis with NLP produces much better results than using hypnosis alone.
At Goodwin Hypnosis, we use hypnosis, neurolinguistic programming (NLP), and memory reconsolidation to help you make positive changes in your life. Together, these methods can help you do things like get over a fear, break a bad habit, clear trauma, or improve your emotional well-being.
A Quick Explanation of Hypnosis and NLP
Hypnosis
Hypnosis is a safe and natural state of mind that makes it easier to learn (or unlearn) things quickly. All hypnosis is really self-hypnosis, and it happens to almost everyone many times a day. Maybe you’re daydreaming while driving or getting lost in a book. You might feel emotional while watching a movie, TV show, or commercial, or you could lose track of time while playing video games. Despite what most people think about hypnosis, you stay awake and in charge during the process, and almost anyone can be hypnotized.
We help our clients get into this very relaxing state so they can more easily and naturally reach their own goals. Some of these goals may be to change limiting beliefs and ideas, get rid of emotional or behavioral problems, and identify and release uncomfortable thoughts, feelings, and memories that are hidden from conscious awareness.
By using this powerful state of consciousness, you can learn more about yourself, grow as a person, and heal. To solve your persistent problems, you need to change how you think or feel about them. Hypnosis makes this easier and faster than it would be otherwise.
NeuroLinguistic Programming
The way you perceive your external (senses) and internal (memories and imagination) world determines your thoughts and feelings. Neurolinguistic programming, or NLP, is the study of how you think and feel. How you think and feel about yourself, others, and your past, present, and future experiences (real or imagined) affects how you communicate and act. We can help you improve how you think and feel so you can get the results you want with less time and effort.
We use NLP to resolve internal conflicts (“I want to do this, but I keep doing that”), clear emotional trauma, change memories, increase or decrease the desire for certain foods, access emotional states, improve self-image or empathy, set up new behaviors, and more. It’s completely safe, sometimes fun, and it’s much easier than you might think.
Memory Reconsolidation
Memory reconsolidation is a natural brain process that allows memories to change each time they are recalled. Scientific studies have shown that it is very effective at reducing the emotional pain from distressing memories. Did you ever play the “telephone game” as a child? Each time the message is passed to another person, it may change slightly and end up very different from the original version. Memory reconsolidation works in a similar way. Each time you remember an event, you’re actually recalling the last time you remembered it, not the original experience. While small, accidental changes to the memory usually go unnoticed, you can make intentional changes before it goes back into long-term memory.
Our trauma resolution work relies on established NLP methods combined with Integral Eye Movement Therapy (IEMT) to manage the reconsolidation process. Our safe and gentle techniques can neutralize a memory’s strong negative charge so you can remember your past without suffering. Clients usually go from an intense emotional response to a neutral state within minutes without losing any knowledge of their past experiences. Most of them even enjoy the process.
Watch some of our past clients describe their experiences of these rapid shifts (especially Amber, Brad, Michelle, Rhonda, and Vanessa).
We are not licensed mental health practitioners, therapists, or psychologists and do not conduct psychotherapy. You may read our scope of practice and hypnotism services here.