No matter how well I explain hypnosis, how it works, or what it is, people still have misconceptions about what hypnosis truly is. Hypnosis does not take peoples free will away, nor is it a passive process. A hypnotist is not able to change a person or their habits unless they want to change. I have had people come into sessions with a preconceived notion that all they will have to do is get hypnotized, and all their problems will disappear. While it is true that most clients do feel better after the hypnosis session if they do not reinforce what we have worked on in the session people tend to fall back into bad habits and thought patterns. If you are curious about what hypnosis feels like we have a blog post here. We give people tools and techniques to help reinforce what we worked on between sessions, and the people who utilize them see more benefit and tend to need fewer sessions to obtain the goals they desire. Hypnosis can bring profound, life-changing results to a person's life, but it's not magic. Bringing positive changes into one's life is work, and it takes conscious effort to bring about. If one is willing to put in the effort and utilizes the additional tools that we provide the benefits one can achieve is close to limitless.
Vincent