I honestly cannot tell if I’m asleep or not. Or even under a form of meditation cover yet. Maybe I’m just somewhere in-between. Yet here I am lying in bed, listening through earbuds to my friend Nick ...

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 ...

If you’re like most people, your idea of hypnosis comes from the movies or TV. You might think that hypnotherapists can use hypnosis to control your mind and make you do things you wouldn’t otherwise ...

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Postmenopausal women who listened to self-guided hypnosis recordings daily for six weeks saw meaningful improvements in hot flash symptoms.

Self-administered clinical hypnosis reduced hot flash frequency and severity by more than 50%, according to the results of a recent study published in Obstetrics and Gynecology.