“Congratulations on taking the first step to finding someone to help you live a happier and healthier life more fully.”
Peter R. Dufour
Board Certified Hypnotherapist
“Congratulations on taking the first step to finding someone to help you live a happier and healthier life more fully.”
Peter R. Dufour
Board Certified Hypnotherapist
Learn what hypnosis is, and what it is not.
Hypnosis is a safe and relaxing way to change your life. Peter Dufour has been using hypnosis in Corvallis since 1990 to help people live a happier and healthier life more fully.
How do I get Started? Call hypnotherapist Peter Dufour at 541-619-4469 for your initial free 5 minute consultation and to make an appointment.
It's that simple.
Introduction to Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy
What Hypnosis Is
- Hypnosis is… a state of deep relaxation
- Hypnosis is… a state of concentration
- Hypnosis is… a natural state of mind
What Hypnosis Is not
- Hypnosis is not… sleep
- Hypnosis is not… loss of consciousness
- Hypnosis is not… surrender of the will
- Hypnosis is not… loss of self-control
There are many misconceptions about hypnosis and hypnotherapy. A simple definition of hypnosis is that it is a state of increased suggestibility and concentration. Do not expect to go to sleep or lose touch with reality. Remember, you’re safe and in control at all times.
Hypnosis has been recognized and approved by the American Medical Association and the American Psychiatric Association as a valuable therapeutic tool in medicine. Many physicians and dentists use hypnosis to help promote patients’ healing.
More people are finding “do it yourself” ways of improving themselves. They are seeking better physical and mental health and wish a fuller and happier life. Hypnotherapy or hypnosis is one way of achieving better health.
You will find hypnosis to be a relaxing and enjoyable experience. Remember, however, we need your cooperation since all hypnosis is self-hypnosis. All a hypnotherapist does is guide you into it.
A Brief Explanation of Hypnosis (All Hypnosis is Self-Hypnosis)
When you are in a hypnotic state, you are deeply relaxed physically, yet mentally you are many times more alert than in your normal state of awareness. You hear and respond to everything, and you are an active participant in the therapy. You have greater control over what you will or will not do, and could instantly reject any suggestion that you might find uncomfortable.
When we like and want the suggestions being given, we allow the suggestions to enter into our subconscious mind. This part of us is like a computer and responds to [our] suggestions.
We are all what the programming in the subconscious mind perceives us to be. If this part of the mind views us as fat, we become fat. If it perceives that we smoke, we smoke, and so on… Yet, if the mind perceives that we are a non-smoker or are slim, then we become that which we perceive.
Using Hypnosis, we are able to access the subconscious computer and re-program ourselves to be whatever we wish to be.
Just imagine all the wonderful things you could do and be.
Finally
Hypnosis is a very powerful tool. The effectiveness depends on a person's ability to take responsibility for themselves and their ability to be ready for change. It also produces the ability to experience thoughts and images as real.
My goal as a hypnotherapist is to assist you in achieving your potential, your goals, and improve your performance in your work and your personal life.
How do I get Started?
Call Peter Dufour now at 541 619 4469 for any additional information or to make an appointment. If Dr. Dufour does not answer, please leave a message and he will telephone you back, as soon as he is able, to begin your free 5 minute telephone consultation.
Yes, Dr. Dufour's initial 5 minute telephone consultation with you is free. Call today!
It's that simple.
