For many people, hypnosis is best known as a party trick or a bit of entertainment: A hypnotist on stage asks for a volunteer who undergoes hypnosis, then, at a snap of the hypnotist’s fingers, the ...

Thanks to on-stage brainwashing sessions and movies featuring disgruntled workers taking a baseball bat to the printer (Office Space, anyone?), hypnosis has a rep for being little more than pure ...

While the brain can be a great motivator, even an educated mind can also be our biggest obstacle in the quest to take better care of ourselves. The more we try to educate ourselves on how to be ...

Reese Witherspoon opened up about her battle with anxiety and panic attacks. She revealed that traditional methods like meditation and medication didn’t work well for her. Instead, hypnosis became a ...

Postmenopausal women who listened to self-guided hypnosis recordings daily for six weeks saw meaningful improvements in hot flash symptoms.

For Antioch’s Stephanie Helberg, hypnosis started out as a path to healing her past but eventually became a way to help others in their journeys to restoration. “Hypnosis and regression hypnosis have ...

Imagine if all you had to do in order to banish certain health complaints was to simply lie back and listen. Sounds, well, marvellous – if a little unrealistic. Well, maybe not, when you consider ...

Self-administered clinical hypnosis reduced hot flash frequency and severity by more than 50%, according to the results of a recent study published in Obstetrics and Gynecology.

We here at the council enjoy debunking health fads. We especially enjoy debunking — in both print and video — weight loss fads. In fact, just last week I debunked one of the hottest trends in weight ...

Hypnosis for childbirth has garnered a lot of attention in recent years and even has a celebrity following with the likes of Kate Middleton and Kim Kardashian reportedly using the techniques to make ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — When it comes to ...

Back in 1986 when I was still an undergraduate psychology student, an optional part of our degree allowed some of us to attend a training course on hypnosis. As a consequence of taking the course, I ...