My Experience With Hypnotherapy

How my four sessions of hypnotherapy went.

Hypnotherapy is it fake or does it really work on your subconscious. Well from experience going to one for a few sessions I can give you a detailed account on how it went, how I felt during, and if it really made any difference in how I thought. It took me a while to finally admit that I needed help again with therapy, but this time I wanted to try something new and different. Hypnotherapy the supposed benefits was it help shift your thought process by way of hypnotizing you and talking to your subconscious. I did my research and it did seem legit. there were a lot of cases of people successfully coming out of depression, quitting alcohol and drugs, and even changing there life around for the better. So yeah I had to try it.

Why did I need to go? Well a lot of it is personal, but the things I will divulge like every other person I was dealing with a lot of pressure with work and my personal life was dead, plus all my friends decided to abandon me. It got so bad I moved states for a couple of months just to get a breath out of my troubles. Though I hold no ill will for anyone it was a extremely hard time for me emotionally and mentally. So when I finally realized that constantly working out and fighting wasn't helping me I decided to take other options to help my mental health.

I actually got the idea from the Youtuber "Command & Charisma" because he told of his accounts of being with a hypnotherapist and how it helped him see, and understand a lot of things that was going wrong in his life (You can watch his video on his channel "Are you good enough"). So there I was searching for a hypnotherapist near me, and I found one. She was this old lady working out of her house and doing hypnotherapy for about twelve years I believe. I booked the session, and I believe I paid about one hundred dollars for a three hour consultation. the following sessions were about twenty-five dollars per hour. Though this is from my experience I can't promise you these prices. (Delaware is cheap as hell) 

I was really skeptical about the whole process, and before I even went I contemplated if I should even go to this. But I decided to just go. So when I got there I was greeted very kindly by a elderly lady, for some reason I felt like I was going to a witch doctor and she was going to cast some spell on me. But she was very kind and welcomed me to her house. Her office consisted of a therapy chair, a desk, a lot of weird mystical items, and salt lamps. So yeah immediately I assumed I made the biggest mistake going here. I scoffed in my head thinking "Oh God shes going to tell me all this weird crap that I do not want to hear". But I was there so why not just get the session over with, and say I tried it.

Everything wasn't what I expected, she sat me down and explained the details on hypnotherapy how it worked, and I filled out a bunch of forms before we even began to start. After all that was done I was ready to just lay down and get hypnotized and feel good as new. Well it didn't really work like that, we sat down had some tea, and for two hours we talked about EVERYTHING. We talked why I came to see a hypnotherapist, how my childhood was, how my teenage years played out, etc. For the most part she just let me talk and rant about all my problems while she smiled nodded and listened. Like any therapist she asked simple but detailed questions. And I found myself rambling on for every single question. 

She gave me detailed answers on why I probably felt the way that I felt. And yeah she did have really good advice. She even gave me a compliment saying that I was really not bad emotionally and just a few things needed to be corrected. She did tell me I have a problem of overthinking everything. She right, she right.

So after that whole two hour talk it was time to get hypnotized. At this point I was extremely excited and ready for everything in my life to change. Oh man the excitement I had was palpable. She laid me down on the couch told me to close my eyes. And then she counted down from thirty telling me "You are on a beach" "you are in a safe place" etc. My eyes were closed and my whole body was light and then she said "one now you are in the deepest part of your mind". And what I felt was...

Nothing. I hate to be blunt but I wasn't hypnotized. I really really was in a relaxed state, but nothing more I could open my eyes whenever I wanted to, my mind was fully conscious. And half the time I was thinking "is something wrong should I feel anything" but I just went with it and thought something would happen later on, but nothing happened I felt as if I was just closing my eyes and someone was just telling me positive and motivating things. It kind of felt like I was back in wrestling and I was relaxing before a match and my teammate was hyping me up.

After about thirty minutes of this she decided to "wake me" from my hypnotism she counted back up from thirty and on the last second she told me passionately to "Open my eyes and start my life" I did and for me it just felt weird. Everything was going so well why did I not feel anything? Was she really a quake or was it me that had the problem. She was so lovely that I felt like I didn't want to hurt her feelings telling her I didn't feel a difference. She asked me very excitedly on if I felt all that. I panicked I ended up lying to her saying "Oh yeah that was a intense strange feeling" time has passed and realized it was wrong of me to lie to her, but it is in the past now. 

I decided to give it another go and told myself I probably was not relaxed enough or I was pushing the hypnotism away with my subconscious. I tried three times and in all of them I got the same result. I didn't feel hypnotized, I really didn't feel anything but her bad old lady breath whispering in my ear positive things. It just started getting weird after that, so I decided it was best for me to part ways with it.

Did it help me? is it worth doing? Well having someone listen to your problems is always nice but I believe that since I did it. I really didn't need any of it. She even told me I was already in the right path. I felt like I did all the reading and already had the mindset to improve. The hypnotherapy part did not work on me at all. I am not sure if it was her or maybe it was just me, I just know it did not work. I can't speak for you so if you want go ahead and try it out go for it. Personally I believe its better to struggle by yourself and do your research yourself. Because at the end of the day you choose how you feel and how to take action in your own life.

It may help you who knows there are still a lot of believers out there, maybe my mind is to thick or maybe I was just overthinking everything. So that was my experience with hypnotherapy. I am sort of glad I tried it, but you probably wont see me back there again.

-Andrew Paul Caasi