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Taking you beyond...

Welcome to Hypnosis Works!

Taking you beyond your limitations, your inhibitions, your expectations..To where you want to be.

Be it at school, at work or in sports, we can help you move forward, sometimes in ways that will pleasantly surprise you, perhaps even exhilarate you, perhaps make you wonder why you didn’t do this earlier.

  • You could think of us as personal trainers of the mind and body.
  • Or you could think of us as coaches for your subconscious.
  • Or you could think of us as the minders of your inner wellbeing.
  • So just the way you set a goal and get the help of a personal trainer or coach to reach it, you can set goals for school, work or sports, and use hypnosis to propel you forward.
  • But without the cheerleading quality or any hyped-up motivation, because when change comes from inside out, it is profound and long-lasting.

What is Hypnosis?

Hypnosis has an image problem because of its history of being seen as a tool for mind control. That is one of the biggest myths of hypnosis. The reality is that you are in control of your experience and the hypnotist is just your facilitator.

Hypnosis is defined as a state of conscious­ness in which your logical analytical faculties are reduced sufficiently to allow deeper levels of your sub­con­scious mind to be utilised for your benefit.

It is a state of “focused concentration”. You can be virtually oblivious of what is going around you yet acutely aware of a narrow range of stimuli called to your attention by the hypnotist.

Levels of consciousness range from full alertness to sleep, and hypnosis lies in between. Using golf as an example, trance consciousness can range from daydreaming (in which you think of playing golf), light trance (you imagine yourself playing golf) to deep trance (in which you feel yourself playing golf).

Virtually everyone can be hypnotised, except for the mentally subnormal.

Be assured: Hypnosis only works with people who want to be hypnotised. In hypnosis you cannot be made to do anything against your will that is unacceptable to your own values and patterns of behaviour. You cannot get stuck in hypnosis. And if for any reason the hypnotist leaves, you will simply drift back to full consciousness, just the way you would if you had taken a nap.

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The power of suggestion

Don’t think of a pink elephant.

And what did you just do? Did you just think of a pink elephant?

Hypnosis heightens the power of suggestion, so it sometimes feel like a command to the subconscious mind and it duly complies with the suggestion, for example if someone who want to lose weight is told to drink more water, the person may find themselves unconsciously drinking more water during the day. And still thinking of elephants. Imagine seeing a huge bull elephant being held back by a tiny chain attached to a peg on the ground.

The bull can obviously break the chain but as soon as it feels tension in the chain it stops pulling. One way of seeing it is to think in terms of a computer operating system(OS). The elephant is running on the same OS that it ran as the little elephant that stood no chance of breaking the chain. Hypnosis can be like a patch or an update to the OS to take in changes in the development over the years, so that we are not held back by limiting beliefs that were created when we were children.

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10 ways hypnosis can help you in sports

  • Get into the ‘zone’
  • Overcome competition nerves
  • Enhance your performance
  • Get motivated for training/competition
  • Build self-confidence
  • Improve your focus & concentration
  • Overcome your mental blocks
  • Manage your emotions
  • Enhance your muscle memory through mental rehearsals
  • Recover faster from Injuries
Testimonials
Nuno Delicado, former national Portuguese pentathlon champion

I worked with Joe the day before a triathlon competition. It was not the most important competition ever and I was not particularly well trained, but, as always, I wanted to do well.

Joe helped me first elicit what “do well” meant specifically. Only then I noticed I had not known the answer before! How could I achieve an unknown goal??

He then helped me relax and rehearse the whole race, from preparation, to start, the 1.5k swim, zoom on the feelings and sensations on each stroke, enjoying the crowd and the water, fast and smooth transition to cycling, the 40k ride, fluid, fast, feeling the wind, focused on a strong but sustainable pace, and then the transition to the 10k run, legs changing from circles to fast strides, starting to feel the heat and the pain, but as relaxed as possible, enjoying the whole event, the public, the other athletes, feeling once more “superman”, and going fast... until the finish line. And then rest, rehydrate, celebrate. YEEEAAAH...! :)

Next day everything went quite as rehearsed: a fast and enjoyable race and a personal best by a few minutes, in spite of my not ideal preparation! Thanks, Joe! Awesome job!

Mountainbiker , who achieved her fastest timing after one session of hypnosis

I am obsessed with MTB and so I thought if I would have the right mental fitness, I will have a better advantage. It is not just thinking positively. Joe help me through with techniques that help prepare and develop imaginery track design to get ready for any circumstances. With constant feedback , we quantified which works extremely well and which needs more effort to develop to the next level. After the 1st session, I achieved my fastest timing and was 2nd placing in a Malaysian MTB race.

10 ways hypnosis can help you at work

  • Build your confidence
  • Learn to deal with difficult people with no stress
  • Improve your awareness
  • Learn from criticism
  • Be comfortable as a public speaker
  • Improve your concentration
  • Reinforce your positive habits and relinquish your negative ones
  • Expand your consciousness by increasing sensory response
  • Increase your motivation
  • Overcome your limiting beliefs about your ability
Testimonials
J , Creative agency business owner dealing with profitability issues

When you talk about confidence in the work place, or the lack thereof, one often associates this with public speaking, presentations, sales calls and so on. In many small creative agencies like mine however, there is a more insidious form that this lack of confidence takes which erodes the bottom line.

And this is simply the notion of self-worth being translated into a tangible financial form. For years we undervalued our own work and under-quoted work - work which even the clients acknowledged to be exactly what they wanted. Something always held us back from charging the sort of fees we should have been.

I saw Joe when I’d started a new agency with a partner and was thus more motivated to make it profitable. A single session helped me value my own work much more, and I now approach potential projects with a more acute sense of personal value - positively impacting our bottom line.

10 ways hypnosis can help you in education

  • Improve your concentration
  • Develop your self confidence and self-power
  • Aid your memory
  • Increase your motivation
  • Diminish your mental blocks
  • Reduce your anxiety (and exam stress)
  • Encourage original and divergent thinking in you
  • Change the way you feel about a subject
  • Reinforce your positive habits and relinquish your negative ones
  • Expand your consciousness by increasing sensory response
Testimonials
Mum and Son dealing with exam stress

After my first session with Joe and hypnosis, I felt compelled to study for my upcoming exams. That feeling came instantaneously. When entering the exam hall the first day, I felt positive and convinced that I was going to do well. Thanks Joe!

Hypnosis has been a perfect tool to assist our son in improving his concentration, more focused attention and exam stress. Under pressure (during exams) he feels he has become better in recalling already learnt knowledge... Thanks Joe; this was exactly what he needed!

Mum of a 10-year-old who hated Chinese with a vengeance

Hi Joe, I feel better :), C has an improvement in Chinese. When I asked him did his homework on Sat, he took out his Chinese spelling and told me he wanted to learn few more days before the spelling test. I was sort of surprised. He repeated it many times and wanted to get it all right and finally he got it all correct for today test. Thanks Joe!

From the Mum of a 16-year-old, who wanted to improve his memory, the structure of his essays and manage exam stress

A ... had his last exam today; He has been amazed by how much easier he now recalls his already learnt knowledge/facts in the different subjects - which again has made the exams more fun to do. He has noticed how much more enthusiastic he has been every morning before the exams - like he has been eager to get them done :0) What a change!

10 ways hypnosis can help you in life

  • Overcome fears and phobias
  • Lose weight
  • Stop smoking
  • Increase your confidence
  • Deal with stress
  • Get rid of emotional baggage - of family or broken relationships
  • Renew your zest for life
  • Change the way you experience pain to comfort
  • Overcome the blues - feelings of sadness, loneliness, grief, anger, etc
  • Improve sex life - overcome frigidity, get over childhood programming about “dirty shameful” sex, etc
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