Hypnosis for Fertility

Question asked me via Facebook:

Q: How can hypnosis help with fertility?

A: It's the whole mind/body connection. The mind is very powerful and can have a profound impact our our physical health. Just think of how you feel when you're depressed versus when you're happy. Here are a couple of other examples. I love to eat lemons...the sourer and juicier the better. Just hearing me talk about lemons gives my husband the shivers. For another example, there are people who hate fingernails on chalkboards so much that all you have to do is describe the action and the sound and they are writhing in discomfort. In both of those examples, the person with the reaction isn't actually tasting the lemon, or actually hearing fingernails on a chalkboard, but their bodies are reacting to it anyway. That demonstrates how powerful the subconscious is.

Hypnosis for fertility goes beyond just giving suggestions under hypnosis. There is a lot of guided imagery involved and often a lot of interactive work where we ask the subconscious questions and it answers back and we resolve issues that way. How does that help fertility? Well first and foremost it relaxes the woman. When women are trying to conceive and having difficulties, they get very stressed out, and it often overtakes their lives and sometimes damages their relationships with their partners. People are telling them to just relax but they find it hard to do. Do you know women who were told that they couldn't have children so they adopt a child only to get pregnant on their own afterward? I know of a few women who this happened to. I also know someone who had 2 children through IVF and then had a surprise third baby naturally. Some women too might have a subconscious block toward getting pregnant, being pregnant, childbirth, or being a parent. Sometimes that stems from past traumas such as abortion, miscarriage, sexual trauma, abuse as a child, or any number of reasons. Hypnosis will resolve those issues too.

It's not just for women who are trying to get pregnant naturally. Hypnosis helps create a sense of mind/body balance that helps them work with any steps along the way if they are getting medical assistance for conception. It also helps them deal with their disappointment and/or conflicted emotions should they find out that donor eggs, IVF, or adoption are the only options for them.

Hypnosis: is it a scam or is it for real?

Well, since I'm a hypnotist and a very truthful, ethical person, I can honestly say hypnosis is for real. Hypnosis refers to a state of mind where the subconscious is highly open to suggestion. We drift in and out of hypnosis naturally many times throughout the day. Basically our conscious mind takes a mini-vacation and "zones out" for a few moments. If you've ever been driving your car and arrived safely at your destination with no recollection of the trip there, you've experienced "highway hypnosis". Maybe you daydream at work or school. Maybe you meditate. Maybe you've experienced this sensation during prayer.

When we're in these states of awareness, we're highly open to suggestion. When we are highly responsive to the hypnotic state, we will see, hear, feel, smell, or taste in accordance with the suggestion given. A popular demonstration I've seen is one where a subject gets hypnotized, he is handed a raw onion, and he receives a suggestion taht he is biting into a sweet, juicy apple. The subject then bites into the raw onion and since he believes he's eating an apple, he reacts as if he is actually eating an apple. In hypnotherapy, we deliberately achieve this same state in order to enable positive suggestions to go straight to the subconscious.

All hypnosis is self-hypnosis. Hypnosis itself is a tool that if used correctly can help someone make positive changes in his or her life. The key point here is that the subject really desires to make the changes and really gets involved in the process. Hypnosis is not something that is done TO you. As a hypnotist I am not waving a magic wand at you and making you change. I just guide and develop the hypnotic state. I'm like a tour guide to the subconscious. I guide you to the necessary points of interest within your subconscious, but you have to be on the tour with me in order to be successful.