Whats the difference between hypnotherapy and guided imagery?
Actually, there is no difference. Guided imagery is just another name for hypnotherapy. • If I’m hypnotized, will a hypnotist be controlling my mind? No. Hypnosis is not mind control. You are always in total control. A hypnotist or hypnotherapist cannot make you do anything, nor can they use hypnosis to get any information from you that you would be unwilling to share. You may have seen old movies where someone is made to commit a crime or reveal secrets under hypnosis. This is total fiction. Scientists have tried in laboratory experiments for over a century to get hypnotic subjects to perform potentially dangerous or harmful acts, and to reveal private and personal information. So far, not one test subject has done so. Hypnotherapy is effective because the people who come for hypnosis treatment ask for and receive suggestions to do things they want to do and to make changes they want to make. • What if I don’t come out of hypnosis? This doesn’t happen. No one ever gets “stuck” in hypn
