08/25/09

Rev. Karin Hall-Willis C.Ht. RMT

Karin Hall-Willis is a certified hypnotherapist based in Little Rock, Arkansas. Her business is centered around helping people by using hypnosis. Areas of expertise include stress reduction, study habits/exam anxiety, weight reduction, smoking cessation, and past-life regression. Karin has worked in many other areas and encourages those who would like to make a positive change in their lives to consider hypnosis, where the mind can create big changes in a short time span.

What is Hypnosis...

Hypnosis has been around for for as long as mankind, but most people have little understanding of this potentially life changing process. Everyone has experienced hypnosis in one form during their lifetimes. When you are driving and can't remember the past few miles, when you are watching a movie and are so taken in that all outside influences fade into nothingness, when you are so captivated by a speaker (teacher, preacher, politician, or actor) that you lose track of time, when the stresses of the day leave you feeling dazed and out of it, these are all forms of hypnosis.

Just about everyone has seen some kind of stage hypnotist who makes his audience do strange things. Either that or they have seen a movie where there is a middle aged man swinging a watch back and forth in front of the eyes to hypnotize a person. Hypnosis is regaining some of popularity from the past, and it has been featured in a number of television shows and movies in the past few years: "Shallow Hal", "The Blood of Dracula", "Somewhere in Time", "Bell, Book, and Candle", Road to Rio", "Stir of Echoes", "On a Clear Day you can See Forever", and most recently NCIS in May 2008. Of course, most of what you see in the movies is not real. It has been sensationalized for the camera and should not be regarded as a "serious" scientific method. However, people are still fascinated by the wonders of hypnosis. It is often that thrill of the unknown combined with the possibility of personal gain that draws us in.

I think that most of us would agree that mankind has yet to fully explore the mind and unlock the full potential that we have as individuals. We only use about 12% of our minds on a daily basis with the unconscious mind taking up the other 88%. Books like "The Secret" and the movie "What the Bleep do we Know" have brought to light the potential of your own mind: how the mind creates in reality what it first experiences as thought.

Hypnosis is a tool, which can unlock the potential of that unconscious mind and aid you in creating the life that you would like for yourself.

Professional hypnotherapists have guidelines that they have to follow which are outlined in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles, which is published by the Department of Labor. We do not treat medical conditions unless referred by a licensed physician, and we do not treat psychiatric disorders unless, once again, referred by a licensed medical professional. We can, however, use hypnosis in a wide range of cases to improve the lives of people everywhere.

How can I help You?

By accessing the unconscious mind, hypnosis can be used to benefit any individual. I have a list of 146 ways that hypnosis can be used to improve your life... Below are some examples of how hypnosis can be used to improve life in specific areas:

Smoking Cessation

Sports Performance

Exam/Test Anxiety

Stress Reduction

Overcoming Fears/Phobias

Past Life Regression

Testimonials:

"I can't thank you enough! It is something that most people take for granted, not me, each successful visit to a public restroom has been a cause for a little celebration!" - CP, Little Rock

What often stops people from exploring hypnosis more fully are some common myths.

Under hypnosis I will bark like a dog...

Be assured that under hypnosis, you will be conscious of all that is being said to you, and you have the ability to reject what is being said also. I know I will probably upset a couple of people by saying that stage hypnotists look for a certain type of person when they ask for volunteers from the audience and know who is the secret exhibitionist in the bunch, the one who secretly craves the attention and wants to be free from restraints. You cannot be made to do anything at all that you do not wish to do.

The fear of being stuck in hypnosis

There are people who spend a lot of time in a hypnotic state due to excess stress and people who exist in the primitive "fight/flight" modality. This state is self-induced. When life allows, they will regain normal alertness. Hypnosis clients are taken out of hypnosis at the end of a session. If something extraordinary prevented a hypnotherapist from bringing a client back to full alertness, the client would naturally fall asleep and on awakening would once again regain normal everyday alertness.

Hypnosis only works on the weak minded

Everyone can be hypnotized. These are certain characteristics that make some people easier to hypnotize than others. Until the past 15 years or so, hypnosis had been hit and miss with only about a 50% success rate. The success or failure of hypnosis up until that point relied heavily on the emotional character of a person and not the intelligence of that person. Deeper understanding of the human mind has led to a far greater success rate, reaching up into the 90% range.

Hypnosis is of the Devil/Evil/unnatural

Hypnosis is a natural state that we have all experienced at some time or another. It can be used as a wonderful tool for self-improvement and certainly can bring out the very best in a person, whether that is fulfilling a goal, performing to full potential, being able to open up to more positive relationships, create better health or overcome a bad habit or a fear. Hypnosis is, in my opinion, something that everyone could benefit from in some way or another--it can even be used to find a stronger spiritual connection with God.

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