For many people, hypnosis is best known as a party trick or a bit of entertainment: A hypnotist on stage asks for a volunteer who undergoes hypnosis, then, at a snap of the hypnotist’s fingers, the ...

Clinical hypnosis has shown to be effective in the treatment of pain, anxiety, stress, cancer treatment side effects, phobias and habit control problems, such as smoking and weight control, according ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although hypnosis can help with a number of medical conditions, it doesn't work for everything. Paula Connelly/iStock via Getty ...

If you could resolve your school-age or teenage child's anxiety, chronic pain, insomnia, bedwetting, or other health issues with a treatment that has no side effects, would you use it? Most people ...

What hypnosis is—and isn’t. Hypnosis is an interactional process between two people that often creates fascinating shifts in perception and behavior. Such changes are often highly compelling: Hypnotic ...

The yips and dystonia aren’t a lack of skill they’re a nervous system interruption of an already learned movement.

A strange mystic swings a pocket watch back and forth, repeating the phrase "You're getting sleepy, very sleepy," giving them absolute command over their subject. That's not how hypnotism really works ...

For best results, you would want to work with a person who is trained and licensed to perform hypnosis properly. The therapist then utilizes a soothing tone, repetition and imagery to get you into a ...

Hypnosis, prayer and meditation offer unique pathways to altered states of awareness, self-reflection and healing. Exploring relationships, similarities and differences among them will help us appreci ...

Hypnotherapy is one creative way to keep those new year’s resolutions. This month, the Irvine Barclay Theater is using hypnosis as a way to entertain theater-goers too. “Hyprov: Improv Under Hypnosis” ...

Can long, mundane stretches of driving lull you into a trance-like state? Dec. 4, 2013— -- If you've ever read an article on your computer screen and stopped to realize you have no idea what you ...