Hypnosis is a deeply relaxing and imaginative process that helps you quiet your inner critic to more easily direct the changes you want to make in your mind and your life. In hypnosis, you'll experience what is called a trance.

Hypnotic trance is a natural state that we enter all the time! Have you ever driven home and as you turned the car off, realized that you had no memory of the drive itself? That’s a hypnotic trance!

Have you ever been watching a movie or TV show and the rest of the world seemed to disappear, you're so engrossed in the emotions of the story, and you lose track of time? That’s also a trance!

We are constantly moving in and out of that state of flow and focus, feeling “in the groove” in every day life. This is a state of being involving focused attention and deep relaxation. 

The practice of hypnosis uses this focused & imaginative state of consciousness to open the subconscious mind up to suggestion and transformation.

Hypnosis uses a combination of relaxation and focus strategies to open up the imaginative, subconscious mind. This is essential because our automatic functions - like habits, core beliefs, emotions, memories, and stress-based associations - exist within the subconscious mind.

And guess what? The subconscious mind takes up 95% of our brain function. In order to truly want to make lasting change in the majority of your life, it is essential to work with the subconscious.

Hypnosis allows people to access and make changes in the subconscious mind more easily through the use of suggestion, which helps you harness your abilities to reduce stress, build confidence, and enhance creativity and flow, align your brain with your goals, improve your overall wellbeing, and so much more.

In a typical session, you'll be invited to relax your mind and body and focus your attention, and then you'll be offered suggestions to explore images, ideas, imagined experiences to help you reach your unique goal.

In every hypnosis session, you are fully in control. You have the power to choose which suggestions you'd like to accept, and which ones you'd like to reject, putting you in the driver's seat of your experience.

Absolutely not! Hypnosis is often depicted in the media as a form of manipulation, and that is simply not true. Hypnosis is a highly collaborative process in which you are in control the entire time.

In fact, hypnosis makes you more in control of your own mind than ever before, because it allows you to directly access your subconscious without the buzzy thoughts and beliefs from the outside world that have been conditioned in your mind. 

As a hypnosis practitioner, it’s my job to offer you suggestions, and that’s all they are. They aren't commands or demands, they’re simply suggestions, and you have full ability to accept or reject any suggestion that is offered as you go through a hypnosis session. Just like if I were to tell you to take a deep breath right now, you could choose not to. It’s the same in hypnosis. 

Nope, you're awake when you are in hypnosis!

Even though your mind and body are highly relaxed, and you might look like you’re asleep, you are in fact awake and able to open your eyes and walk away at any time during hypnosis.

You may hear hypnotists use the suggestion "sleep" in their sessions. This is simply a tool to suggest a deeper state of relaxation in the mind and body, rather than actual deep sleep.

If you'd like guidance to help you fall asleep or overcome insomnia, there is a library of Sleep Hypnosis sessions in Doddle that are designed to help you drift off to sleep with ease. 

An oversimplified explanation might describe hypnosis as a highly customized, suggestion-based guided meditation with a specific goal.

However, there's more to it than that. 

Meditation aims to focus and strengthen the conscious mind by increasing a person's conscious focused attention on the present moment. For example, you might consciously focus on the sensations of your breath, a mantra, or physical sensations. 

In doing this, meditation allows you to cultivate a sense of deep acceptance for the present moment,  and over time it will become easier for you to accept the circumstances in your life without judgment.

Hypnosis, on the other hand, access the subconscious. Using relaxation and focus techniques, an individual experiencing hypnosis is likely to become less concerned with their present moment surroundings, less mindful of the moment so that they can open up their mind to new ideas, transformation, and change. 

In other words, meditation is about accepting the present moment, and hypnosis is about changing it .

That being said, a lot of folks find the experience of hypnosis to be quite similar to meditation. Both are deeply relaxing, empowering, and leave folks feeling calmer and more confident. Everyone responds differently to hypnosis, so give it a try and see how it feels for you!

Yes! Hypnosis is a heavily researched, science-backed clinical tool. It has been shown to help with...

• pain management
• replacement for anesthesia
• recovery from chronic illness
• migraines and headaches
• behavior change
• adopting healthy habits
• addiction
• fears and phobias
• athletic and artistic performance
• insomnia
• anxiety
• nervous system regulation
• depression
• trauma recovery 
• irritable bowel syndrome
• skill enhancement
• pregnancy
• public speaking
• creativity
• exercise and strength
• productivity
• confidence
• resilience
• self esteem
• stress management
• goal setting
• happiness
• beliefs
• and so much more

We recommend starting by downloading the Doddle Hypnosis app and listening to at least one hypnosis recording each day.

Training the brain is like training the body, so the more you show up for yourself and engage in these sessions, the faster you'll start to see change in your life.

Doddle  has sessions in a wide variety of topics, including:

- Stress relief & relaxation
- Goals & Future Self
- Sleep
- Focus, Motivation & Habits
- Morning
- Evening
- Health, Energy, & Healing
- & more!