Journey Through Hypnosis

Hypnosis helps people every day with a variety of issues. At Journey Through Hypnosis, we use a variety of advanced hypnotherapy techniques that are individualized for each client, including regression therapy. We specialize on working with clients on issues such as stress, anxiety, wellness, sleep patterns and more!

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What Is Hypnosis?

Hypnosis is a powerful state of focused awareness that can be used to uncover and dissolve the root cause of many issues people suffer from every day. Hypnosis allows you to access all the healing resources inherent within the subconscious mind, promoting natural healing from within.

Hypnosis is used to help people discover the subconscious reasons for their symptoms, behaviors, or habits. When they are discovered, certain tools and techniques are used to help release them and relearn a new positive way of thinking, subconsciously. This is called hypnotherapy.

Hypnosis has been sanctioned and used by the medical community since 1958 to help patients overcome chronic pain, create anesthesia, and heal psychogenic illnesses.

What Can Hypnosis Help With?

Hypnosis helps people everyday with a variety of issues. At Journey Through Hypnosis we regularly work with clients on issues like:

 
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HEALTH & WELLNESS

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STRESS & ANXIETY

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FEARS & PHOBIAS

 

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Potential Benefits of Hypnosis

  • Stop Smoking

  • Remove Fears

  • Improved Sleep

  • Boost Confidence

  • Build Resiliency

  • Improve Relationships

  • Reduce Stress

  • Break Bad Habits

  • Regain Control in Your Life

  • Enhance Performance

  • Improve Moods

  • Lose Weight

  • Increase Motivation

The Truth About Hypnosis

You are always in control during Hypnosis.

Your hypnotist has no control over you. Hypnosis stage shows where people do crazy things are for entertainment! That’s not what happens in a hypnosis office. Your hypnotist serves as a guide, or coach, it’s a consensual state. Your hypnotist will work with you to understand your needs, and goals, and that will be an important part of the hypnosis process and suggestions they give you while in hypnosis.

You’ll be conscious and alert the whole time in Hypnosis. 

We want you to remember all the insight you gain from the hypnosis session, so unless you’re using hypnosis for medical purposes including surgery, you’ll be conscious and alert the whole time.

Hypnosis is a state of mind - not a feeling. 

Hypnosis is not a feeling – it’s a state of mind. Some people feel light – like they’re floating, some feel grounded and safe – like a tree. Others feel nothing at all, or a light buzzing feeling. They’re all correct – but it’s different for every person.

Hypnosis is not sleep, nor is it relaxation. 

Hypnosis is focused awareness where you are highly receptive to positive suggestion. It is not sleep, nor relaxation. We often have you focus on relaxation in the hypnosis office to help you focus. But there will be many times where you feel excited, or with lots of energy.

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Everyone can be hypnotized! 

Anyone who is able and willing to follow instruction can be hypnotized, and you cannot be hypnotized against your will. It is a consensual state. It works best when you really want to make changes in your life but are having a hard time doing so or a hard time following through.

 
Lu Anne Patrick Founder of Journey Through Hypnosis

Who Will Be Hypnotizing Me?

Lifelong educator and health practitioner, Lu Anne Patrick, has expanded her practice to include Hypnosis/Hypnotherapy focusing on Anxiety/Fears, Weight loss, and Birth-Hypnosis and education. She believes in the power of hypnosis to make lasting changes in the conscious and unconscious minds which produces positive outcomes for clients as they discover a healing shift in lifelong limiting habits, symptoms, and behaviors. 

Lu Anne has an M.S. in Communicative Disorders. She is a certified 5-PATH hypnotherapist, a certified 7th Path Self-hypnosis Teacher, and a member of the National Guild of Hypnotists.

Lu Anne is the mother of 6 children and a large extended family: loves reading, hiking, deep conversations and traveling. Originally from California, she now resides in VA. Her Hypnosis practice is both in person and on-line and she would love to hear your story and connect with you!

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Hypnosis works by achieving a level of focused awareness, and at the same time bypassing the analytical aspect of the mind. Another way to describe the analytical aspect of the mind is that it is a comparing mechanism. When new information is introduced to the mind, the comparing mechanism compares the new information to what it already believed is either true or false. This is a protective aspect of our mind.

    This is why changing habits by willpower alone is so difficult - we often already believe we cannot change, so thinking about making the change happen (using willpower alone) is ineffective. Hypnosis is powerful because, with focused awareness, the analytical aspect of the mind is bypassed, and new, healthy and beneficial suggestions can be made directly into the subconscious, without the comparing mechanism rejecting these new beliefs. So the change we want to achieve in our life is accepted by the subconscious mind as true, and we see results quickly.

  • Hypnosis is safe - it's a perfectly normal and common state of mind we go into naturally every day. You enter hypnosis regularly when daydreaming, watching a good movie, or reading a book. During these activities you remain consciously aware and in complete control, just as you do when a professional hypnotherapist assists you in entering into a state of hypnosis.

  • Hypnotherapy is the applied use of hypnosis. Hypnosis is used to help people discover the subconscious reasons for their symptoms, behaviors, or habits. When they are discovered, certain tools and techniques are used to help release them and relearn a new positive way of thinking, subconsciously. This is called hypnotherapy.

  • Yes of course! You've already been hypnotized anytime you watched an enjoyable movie, or read a good book. Hypnosis is a normal and natural state of mind that everyone has already experienced. Actually, it's such a normal state of mind that most people don't realize they are hypnotized.

    All you need to do to go into a state of hypnosis when coming into Florence Hypnosis, is be willing and able to follow gentle instructions for reaching a state of focused awareness.

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