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Mid-Ohio Valley Hypnotherapy is located within the Body Logic clinic in Vienna, WV. Offering a wide range of hypnotherapy solutions, Amy provides her clients with compassionate care and positive results. In addition to individual therapy, Amy will work with with you, your nutritionist, your medical doctor, your chiropractor, or other professional, to give you the complete care you need for any area of your life. Amy also provides fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum therapy as a certified hypnotist and offers childbirth education as a certified Hypnobabies® Childbirth Hypnosis instructor. For more information on the services MOV Hypnotherapy offers, please take a few moments to browse through the site or Contact Amy for a consultation.
“If you think hypnosis is like you see on TV or in the movies,
you must think being shipwrecked is just like Gilligan’s Island”
-Stephen Parkhill
Hypnosis is a very misunderstood tool. It is not at all about giving up control of your mind or your self to someone else. Quite the opposite. Hypnosis, as it is used in the therapeutic context, is about *gaining control* over your mind and the reactions that thoughts, emotions and so forth are creating in your body. All hypnosis is self-hypnosis, and learning self-hypnosis is a very empowering process.
Hypnosis is a means of moving into a perfectly natural state of mind that people actually move in and out of several times in a day. Have you ever had the experience of driving along the highway and suddenly realizing that you passed your exit several miles back? Or been so caught up in a book or movie or video game that you don’t even realize that someone has been speaking to you for the past several minutes? THAT is hypnosis. So you see, when a hypnotist induces you into hypnosis they are not asking you to experience anything strange or that you haven’t experienced before.
Anyone of at least average intelligence, who can follow directions can be hypnotized. Occasionally, a person may need several attempts before actually entering into hypnosis. What causes this? Generally, it’s holding onto a little bit of fear- fear of loss of control. This is actually a misunderstanding as the proper use of hypnosis actually gives you greater control over all aspects of your life.
When you are hypnotized , you are aware of all suggestions given to you and you will not do anything against your moral or ethical principles. (despite what you may have seen in stage shows of hypnosis)
In hypnosis you access your subconscious or more powerful part of your mind where real, lasting change takes place. You may have heard it said that we only use 10% of our brain; hypnosis is a way to get access to that other 90% . Especially in habit and pain control, this eliminates any internal battle that may occur.
