On May 18, 2016, Dr. Reynolds received his certification as an Ericksonian Hypnotist which validates his ability to actively use Ericksonian hypnosis with his clients. Dr. Reynolds will now incorporate hypnosis into client’s Life Tweak Programs, Life Strategies Programs, Business Strategies Programs and in the new Mythic Life Program should the client request such an addition. Dr Reynolds will begin to see clients who only want hypnosis sessions beginning May 30.
Hypnosis is a set of techniques designed to help a person reach a state of consciousness that enhances the client’s focus on a specific thought, feeling, behavior or psychological state, while at the same time diminishing that client’s focus on everything else. In this state, the hypnotist can give suggestions that can help the client change the thought, feeling or behavior to a more favored one. As such, hypnosis can be used to help people quit unwanted habits such as smoking or nail-biting, or increase other abilities such as increased focus and concentration, motivation, or increase sports ability, to name a few.
Ericksonian Hypnosis is one of the fastest growing and influential branches of hypnotherapy and has inspired NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) guided imagery and short term therapy. Traditional Suggestion Hypnosis works best on the part of society that is considered highly hypnotizable. The rest of society falls under the categories of moderately hypnotizable and low hypnotizable. These last two groups have very strong conscious minds that regularly use more critical types of thinking or have logical minds that block most suggestions delivered in Traditional Suggestion Hypnosis. Ericksonian Hypnosis was created and is delivered in a way that bypasses the blocking mechanisms of the conscious mind allowing it to work on almost anyone. Because of this, it is often described as the “smart man’s hypnosis” because it works for those who are unaffected by standard hypnosis.