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It’s easy to get started with hypnotherapy at Gary Schwantes Hypnosis. First, book a free evaluation. Then, book your first hypnotherapy session. Why wait? Start your hypnotherapy program today. GET STARTED NOW BOOK A FREE EVALUATION HOW IT WORKS EASY STEPS TO GET STARTED WITH HYPNOTHERAPY First, book a free evaluation Please book a free evaluation before you book your first hypnotherapy session. The evaluation can be done either by phone or Zoom video call. This gives me an opportunity to learn about your situation, answer your questions and make some recommendations. Then, book your first hypnotherapy session Hypnotherapy sessions are by appointment only. Booking is done on the Book a Session page . Choose either in-person or online sessions and you'll see available times on the calendar. Choose the date and time that works best for you. You’ll also see the rates and pay in advance for your session. How many sessions? Clients who come for help with a specific issue like getting rid of a fear, changing a habit, preparing for an exam, etc. typically see me for 3-4 weekly hypnosis sessions and get a great result. Once clients experience the benefits of hypnotherapy, they may discover other areas where it could be helpful, so the door is always open for more hypnotherapy sessions if desired. Another way for us to work is ongoing coaching and hypnotherapy. This is common for sports, entrepreneurs, performing artists and general personal development. For this work we may spread our hypnotic sessions over a longer period of time and have an ongoing relationship. Each session will start with a brief discussion and then proceed into the hypnotherapy change work. We'll be making changes and addressing your concerns right from the start. About Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy Hypnosis has a long and interesting history. Studies have shown it to be a safe and effective process that has many applications. Today it's being used in a wide variety of settings including medicine, sports, business, personal development, performing arts, psychology, sales and more. Hypnosis allows us to access aspects of our mental processes that run below our level of conscious awareness. Why is that important? Because many studies indicate that most of our emotional responses and primary behavior patterns are driven by unconscious processes. Along with unconscious protective responses we also have an amazing ability to instantly recognize and remember patterns in our environment and to learn complex behaviors and skills to the point they become automatic. Examples of automatic behaviors and skills include things like walking, driving, job skills and spoken language. Examples of automatic responses include things like "gut feelings", sense of direction, fears, panic, anxiety, excitement, attraction, and blushing. Once the behavior or response is encoded it may run automatically whenever the triggering pattern is recognized. Overall, this works really well for us. It puts many things on autopilot so we can go about our business. But sometimes error creeps into the system and we end up with unwanted responses and behaviors. Examples of this include things like phobias, bad habits, anxiety etc. How does that happen? Anytime we're feeling a strong emotion, or receive a shock we may associate whatever's in the environment with that feeling or take in whatever suggestion is offered, especially if it's given by an authority figure like a parent, doctor or teacher.. We can also receive unwanted "training" of our unconscious via ads, peer pressure, social media, movies, family members and parents. Unwanted automatic behaviors and responses can be hard to stop using conscious methods like willpower or by simply talking about it. But when we use hypnosis, we can get to the root of the problem and change things easily. Hypnotherapy allows us to guide and retrain your unconscious processes so they serve you better. So how exactly does hypnotic work accomplish that? By communicating with the unconscious using its natural mode of communication. Through emotions, physical sensations, symbols, powerful words and a sense of involuntary or automatic behavior. Our work will leverage these elements through a variety of exercises and techniques to get the results you want. Our work will also bring certain things into your conscious awareness that will really help you. This is where Cognitive Skill Building comes in. You'll learn mindset tools you can use in certain situations to get the results you want. Some of our work will be very interactive with a lot of conversation, while other techniques will be more like “classic” hypnosis. In certain cases I may ask you to bring your tennis racket, golf club or musical instrument to the session. We may even have a session at a golf course, auditorium, airport or other location where you've experienced a problem. When a set of sessions is completed, you'll enjoy the benefits of our work and also leave with a set of skills that will empower you far into the future. Is the information disclosed in the appointments confidential? Yes, absolutely. Your privacy will always be respected. Any reviews and testimonials shared have been done so with the permission of the clients who wanted to share their positive experiences to encourage others. Can you make me quit smoking? I don’t make people do things. I simply provide the opportunity and the means for my clients to make the changes they want to make. Do you give any kind of guarantee? I can guarantee that you will receive the highest quality care and service, and the highest level of professionalism on my part. I will do my very best to get you the results you want. You will be treated with respect and benefit from the most effective techniques the field has to offer. Enter your answer here If this description sounds good, I encourage you to book a free evaluation. The evaluation is a 15 min. phone call or Zoom session where you can share what's going on and we can decide together whether Hypnotherapy is a good fit for you. There's no obligation to book a session on the call. I look forward to speaking with you! -Gary BUSINESSES AND GROUPS PROGRAMS AVAILABLE FOR LEARN MORE

Hypnotherapy can help you reset your relationship to food so you can reach your ideal weight without struggling or feeling deprived. You'll feel inspired as you regain control over this area of your life.  GET STARTED NOW BOOK A FREE EVALUATION BE YOUR IDEAL WEIGHT GET STARTED NOW BOOK A FREE EVALUATION RESET YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD Hypnotherapy can help you reset your relationship to food and reach your ideal weight without struggling or feeling deprived. Perhaps you've tried to lose weight in the past and found it difficult. You're not alone. Maybe you've struggled with special diets or other complicated weight loss processes like weighed portions and calorie counting. While these things can be very useful at times, they're difficult to keep up long-term. It's much easier to reach and maintain your desired weight if healthy eating becomes a natural, automatic behavior. A program of targeted hypnosis, coaching and cognitive skill-building can help you interrupt habitual patterns of binging or eating unhealthy foods and allow you to create new, healthy patterns. Along the way, underlying factors that may have been driving your food problem can be discovered and released, clearing the way for results that are truly long-lasting and life-changing. SMART GOALS BREAK BAD HABITS MINDSET TOOLS Your body is constantly giving you feedback about what you're eating. Our hypnotherapy sessions will help you take advantage of this incredible resource and let it guide you. You'll discover that the diet that makes you feel great and keeps you in vibrant health is the same diet that allows you to maintain your ideal weight easily. We understand intuitively what foods are good for us, but we can get pulled off track by many things including advertising, food industry tactics, and family or cultural influences. We'll also address the emotional connections you have with various foods. These can be powerful drivers for your eating habits. Our hypnosis sessions will help you make the changes that allow you to reach your goal quickly and to maintain it without feeling deprived. In fact, you'll feel inspired as you regain control over this area of your life. Who knows what other positive impact it might have? Of course, if you have special medical considerations you should consult with your physician or nutritionist to tailor a specific diet for your condition. But whether you design your diet by yourself, or work with a physician or nutritionist, our hypnotherapy sessions will help you stick to your plan while you have an amazing voyage of self-discovery and reach your goals sooner than you thought possible. You'll feel inspired as you regain control over this area of your life. GET STARTED NOW BOOK A FREE EVALUATION BOOK NOW "My life has really improved since going to Gary. Without getting into specifics, it has really changed my life and I'm forever grateful. I like that you see immediate changes and I'm a very practical person so I like that it's changes that people notice right away. He's very caring but most importantly effective." - Nhieu W. << Back to Services

This hypnosis audio session is specifically designed to help you prepare for any upcoming Important Event in your life.  A great preparation tool for: Job Interviews, Public Speaking, Artistic Performances, Weddings, Reunions, Meetings, Conferences, Negotiations, Social Situations, Art Openings, Exams.  LEARN ABOUT PRIVATE SESSIONS BOOK A FREE EVALUATION PREPARING FOR IMPORTANT EVENTS HYPNOTHERAPY AUDIO This Hypnosis Audio session is specifically designed to help you prepare for any upcoming Important Event in your life. A great preparation tool for: Job Interviews, Public Speaking, Artistic Performances, Weddings, Reunions, Meetings, Conferences, Negotiations, Social Situations, Art Openings, Exams. Listen to this session in advance of any upcoming event where you want to be at your best. Your inner state is the key to getting great external results. High performing professional athletes, musicians, actors and business executives know this well. The perfect state of mind will produce optimal body language, posture, eye contact, recall, fine motor co-ordination, brilliant conversation, creative insights and much more automatically. As you learn some interesting background information and listen to stories, you'll be gently guided into a state that opens the door to your unconscious mind. Then you'll do some exercises, building rock solid confidence. You'll program your mind for success. As a result, you'll be free to relax and enjoy yourself when the important day comes, knowing that your desired state will be available automatically when you need it. Don't be surprised when everything goes even better than you imagined. So find a spot where you won't be disturbed, and allow yourself to take a break from the day. You can listen to the recording while sitting or lying down. Play the track at a low but comfortable volume, through stereo earbuds or headphones. Don't worry about trying to remember what I say. Just let things happen. Your unconscious will notice and remember the things that are important for you. You can listen to the recording as many times as you like. Each time you listen, you may discover something new. Gary Schwantes MFA, CCH, CHt., California Teaching Credential, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, NLP Master Practitioner Rising Star Personal Development Services www.risingstarforhange.com <<Back to Products

Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy are being used more and more in hospitals, dental offices, major sports franchises, business coaching programs and many more areas. As the followup data comes in, patients, doctors, hospitals, educators, coaches, corporations and  insurance companies are realizing the value and efficacy of this non-invasive, cost effective modality. HOW CAN HYPNOSIS HELP? BOOK A FREE EVALUATION HYPNOSIS RESEARCH MOVING INTO THE MAINSTREAM Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy are being used more and more in hospitals, dental offices, major sports franchises, business coaching programs and many more areas. As the followup data comes in, patients, doctors, hospitals, educators, coaches, corporations and insurance companies are realizing the value and efficacy of this non-invasive, cost effective modality. Here are some studies indicating the effectiveness of Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy. Hypnotherapy is more effective than nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation: Results of a randomized controlled trial http://www.complementarytherapiesinmedicine.com/article/S0965-2299(13)00210-0/fulltext Big tobacco fuels nicotine replacement addiction, UCSF study shows http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Big-tobacco-fuels-addiction-with-nicotine-11882030.php Hypnosis to Manage Stress Related to Medical Procedures: A Meta-Analysis https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2739386/ Boosting Human Learning by Hypnosis https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/23/4/801/343536/Boosting-Human-Learning-by-Hypnosis The Effectiveness of Adjunctive Hypnosis with Surgical Patients: A Meta-Analysis http://journals.lww.com/anesthesia-analgesia/Fulltext/2002/06000/The_Effectiveness_of_Adjunctive_Hypnosis_with.52.aspx Clinical Hypnosis in the Treatment of Post-Menopausal Hot Flashes: A Randomized Controlled Trial https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3556367/ Guided imagery to improve functional outcomes post-anterior cruciate ligament repair: randomized-controlled pilot trial. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21564307 Hypnotherapy and IBS https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844022040397

Participants in our workshops have the opportunity to experience, learn and practice powerful tools for ethical influence and personal development. INTERESTED IN PRIVATE SESSIONS? BOOK A FREE EVALUATION CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS FOR OFFICE, BUSINESSES, OR GROUPS Therapeutic Langauge for Medical Professionals On-site or Online Effective therapeutic communication is a form of hypnotic language. As a medical professional, you are viewed as an authority figure by your patients and as such you are in a position to deliver suggestions that can have a powerful therapeutic effect. Effective languaging can lead to better outcomes, greater patient satisfaction, and increased referrals. Classes conducted on-site or online. The format is entertaining and engaging and participants will come away with skills and knowledge they can use immediately. Contact Gary to discuss and arrange times. LEARN MORE WORDS THAT WORK Effective language and messaging for sales, non-profits, groups On-site or Online Learn skills that not only improve business performance but also promote greater personal satisfaction for employees and better relationships with customers. A few simple changes to the language you use, your non-verbal communication and the sequencing of the customer experience can help you avoid alienating and losing customers needlessly. Instead, you'll create customer satisfaction and loyalty that is real. If you have a great product or service that offers real value to others, you owe it to yourself, your customers, and your team to let the world easily understand it and easily buy it if they want it. I can teach you some powerful communication techniques that will positively transform your business interactions and the results you get. And you can start using them right away. This is soft skills technology that works. Empower your team with the soft skills they need to succeed. LEARN MORE

This Hypnotic recording is designed to activate powerful unconscious resources that can help you reach a personal goal, overcome an issue or improve performance in a certain area. Along the way, it also encourages your body and mind to heal any physical or emotional issues that might be holding you back. LEARN ABOUT PRIVATE SESSIONS BOOK A FREE EVALUATION TARGET THE LIFE YOU WANT HYPNOTHERAPY AUDIO This recording is designed to activate powerful unconscious resources that can help you reach a personal goal, overcome an issue or improve performance in a certain area. Along the way, it also encourages your body and mind to heal any physical or emotional issues that might be holding you back. Carefully crafted suggestions and symbolic exercises are integrated with music created specifically to enhance the process. Pick a specific goal, issue or area to work with each time you listen. You may want to do multiple sessions on some areas. As you enjoy a wonderfully relaxing, refreshing, and revitalizing experience, you’ll be developing resources and building mental skills you can use for a lifetime. As you're guided through the simple steps, you'll be invited to create a “symbol” which might be visual, or it may take some other form like a phrase or a physical sensation. This symbol will represent the best possible outcome of an important goal or issue. Later in the process you'll invite your unconscious to experiment with the symbol and what it represents. As the days and weeks unfold, enjoy the insights and solutions that seem to “pop into your mind” and turbo-charged progress toward your goal. <<Back to Products

It's time for you to move in a clear direction with a clear destination. With this hypnotherapy program, every day will bring you closer to your goal while you enjoy the process more than you thought possible. GET STARTED NOW BOOK A FREE EVALUATION TARGET A GOAL LEVERAGE THE POWER OF HYPNOSIS Sometimes we reach a point in our lives, where we know deep down that something has to change. We either need to up our game if we want to advance on our current path or choose a different path that suits us more. You may be experiencing a lack of fullfillment at work, or have dreams that you'd love to realize but you can't seem to get started. Maybe you have a skill you're really good at, but seem to have reached a plateau. Maybe you just feel plain stuck and you're not sure why. Guess what? You have a secret superpower. It's your unconscious, your "deeper mind." The neurological processes that run in the background 24/7 below your conscious awareness. Most of the time when you make a decision, you have a gut feeling about it, right? That's the deeper mind bringing something to your conscious awareness. The more we pay attention to these messages, the more we can leverage them. These are clues and opportunities you can use to reach your goal. DISCOVER YOUR PATH UNCONSCIOUS RESOURCES ACT WITH CONFIDENCE Your brain is constantly receiving sensory input, making connections and making calculations. Conscious awareness has a limited capacity for simultaneous processing, so the brain filters out things deemed by past experience to be impossible, inconsistent with your belief system or not essential to your survival and well-being. An enormous amount of information remains outside of conscious awareness by default all the time. It's a survival mechanism and it works. This narrowing of awareness makes it possible for us to adapt to the fast pace of modern life, but it also makes it easy to get stuck with limited possibilities. Especially problematic for our personal development are limiting beliefs that filter out possibilities before we can truly consider them. I can help you break through the limiting and outdated beliefs that may be holding you back. Hypnosis can stimulate awareness of new possibilities, while coaching and cognitive skill-building will help you put them into action. All of this will give you a feeling of regaining control, of being back in the drivers seat with a tremendous sense of confidence and empowerment. Our hypnotherapy sessions will help you move in a clear direction with a clear destination. Every day bringing you closer to your goal while you enjoy the process more than you thought possible. Guess what? You have a secret superpower...your deeper mind. GET STARTED NOW BOOK A FREE EVALUATION BOOK NOW We worked together a few years ago, the hypnosis I believed helped me quit smoking and graduate college. Hopefully you can help me with weight loss and stress relief. Thank you, -Kevin S << Back to Services

Our hypnotherapy and personal development products can be used as enhancements to your hypnotherapy sessions or as stand-alone tools for personal development. LEARN ABOUT PRIVATE SESSIONS BOOK A FREE EVALUATION HYPNOTHERAPY PRODUCTS "Gary is a fantastic hypnotherapist...I had wonderful sleep that night...The recorded session helped me tremendously reduce my pain during labor......." Kun L. HYPNOTHERAPY AUDIO PROGRAMS Target the Life You Want $11.99 This hypnosis recording is designed to activate powerful unconscious resources that can help you reach a personal goal, overcome an issue or improve performance in a certain area. Along the way, it also encourages your body and mind to heal any physical or emotional issues that might be holding you back. DOWNLOAD NOW Sleep Now $11.99 This hypnosis recording will help you rediscover your natural ability to enjoy deep, refreshing, restorative sleep. Listen when you're in bed and ready to sleep. Or if you wake during the night, you can listen to help you go back to sleep. Within a few days, or even sooner, your subconscious will begin learning to make the adjustment for consistently better sleep. DOWNLOAD NOW Preparing for Important Events $11.99 This hypnosis audio session is specifically designed to help you prepare for any upcoming Important Event in your life. A great preparation tool for: Job Interviews, Public Speaking, Artistic Performances, Weddings, Reunions, Meetings, Conferences, Negotiations, Social Situations, Art Openings, Exams. DOWNLOAD NOW NATURAL STONE JEWELRY TO ENHANCE YOUR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT JOURNEY MADE WITH LOVE AND INTENTION -simplygems_by_m BROWSE JEWELRY

Learn language patterns that can increase treatment effectiveness, lead to greater patient satisfaction and generate more referrals. LEARN MORE CONTACT GARY THERAPEUTIC LANGUAGE FOR MEDICAL AND DENTAL PROFESSIONALS Learn language patterns that can increase treatment effectiveness, lead to greater patient satisfaction and generate more referrals. Doctors, dentists, office staff and other medical professionals can increase their effectiveness and patient satisfaction through the skillful use of therapeutic language. As a medical professional, you are viewed as an authority figure by your patients and as such you are in a position to deliver suggestions that can have a powerful effect. The language you use with your patients has a tremendous impact. Every day is busy in the medical world and after repeating the same materials many times over, office staff and even doctors often take it for granted that patients will understand the good intentions behind their words. Unfortunately these brief exchanges are sometimes misinterpreted and may have an effect that actually makes your job harder and more stressful and your work less effective. Research shows that the mindset of a patient can have a huge impact on the outcome of any medical treatment. More and more medical professionals are becoming aware of the tremendous benefits good therapeutic communication provides. It can provide more patient comfort, less need for supplementary medications, and a feeling of empowerment and participation. It can also have a major positive impact on outcome and recovery time which leads to greater patient satisfaction, more referrals and fewer problems. The mindset of a patient can have a huge impact on the outcome of any medical treatment. Here's how I can help you develop powerful therapeutic language skills: Options for a Medical Office 1. Introduction to Therapeutic Language Concepts Therapeutic Communication Concepts is a 60-90 min. online or onsite introductory class for medical staff conducted at lunch break or another available time. The format is entertaining and engaging and participants will come away with skills and knowledge they can use immediately. Contact Gary to discuss and arrange times. 2. Therapeutic Language Intensive Workshop Therapeutic Communication Intensive is a 3.5 hr online or onsite intensive workshop on therapeutic communication for medical staff. Time and location will be as arranged by the medical practice. The class can be done online or in-person. The class combines break out practice of each hypnotic language pattern in an entertaining and engaging format. This is a more in-depth training that allows the skills to be drilled and internalized. Participants will come away with skills and knowledge they can use immediately. This is soft-skills technology that works. << Back to Services LEARN MORE PROGRAMS FOR MEDICAL AND DENTAL PROFESSIONALS

Fear is a powerful emotion that often serves a useful purpose as an effective survival mechanism. But there are fears that can become unreasonable and irrational. They serve no useful purpose and can make it hard for you to do the things you want to do. The response can seem automatic and out of your control. The good news is you can get rid of the automatic response very quickly under the right circumstances--and our hypnosis sessions will provide those circumstances. GET STARTED NOW BOOK A FREE EVALUATION GET RID OF IRRATIONAL FEARS AND ANXIETY WITH HYPNOSIS Fear is a powerful emotion that often serves a useful purpose. It's an effective survival mechanism. It makes us aware that a potential threat might be close by. When we have a healthy relationship to fear, we can allow it to serve this protective function and sometimes let it motivate us or inspire us to do something great, to stretch our boundaries. But there is a different experience of fear that serves no useful purpose and might be diminishing your quality of life. These are fears that become unreasonable and irrational. They can make it hard for you to do the things you want to do. These types of fears can include: unreasonable fear of driving, of plane flights, of crossing bridges, of enclosed spaces, of elevators, public speaking, spiders, heights, social situations, musical performance, abandonment-- the list goes on. Why do we develop these fears? Typically, when something threatening happens you have a reaction. If the emotional charge is strong enough, your brain takes a "snapshot" of that threat and from that point on, anything that remotely resembles it will trigger an automatic response. Sometimes it's a series of similar events rather than one event that results in the automatic response. SOLIDIFY THE CHANGE DEPOTENTIATE THE RESPONSE EMPOWERMENT The amazing thing about these fears is that they illustrate the power of your brain to learn and respond without your conscious intervention. But the good news is that you can get rid of the automatic response very quickly under the right circumstances--and our hypnosis sessions will provide those circumstances. We'll work together to dissolve the negative responses and create positive, empowering responses instead. If irrational fear and anxiety is interrupting the flow of your life and there's no positive purpose to it, why keep it? Now is a great time to let it go. You can get rid of the automatic response very quickly under the right circumstances--and our hypnosis sessions will provide those circumstances. GET STARTED NOW BOOK A FREE EVALUATION BOOK NOW "Hi Gary, I am very appreciative of the work you have done with me in our first two sessions. I feel like it is working well. My compliments to you on your expertise and thoughtful, personalized interventions, it is really touching and resonating with me." - Don P. << Back to Services

INTERESTED IN PRIVATE SESSIONS? BOOK A FREE EVALUATION ARTICLES AND UPDATES Here are some articles about hypnosis, hypnotherapy, personal development and the power of the mind. Feel free to leave a comment or contact me with any questions! What Does Hypnosis Feel Like? The Answer May Surprise You. What does hypnosis feel like? So many people are curious about this, and there are many misconceptions about it. For me, "hypnosis"... Procrastinating? Stop Pretending and Set Goals That You Really Want. Are you feeling stuck? Perhaps you have some goals but you're having trouble getting started on them. You brain keeps finding a million... Afraid of Public Speaking? Read This. Many people feel extremely uncomfortable when they are asked to speak in front of a group. Sometimes to the point where it interferes... Hypnotherapy for Weight Loss: Why Does it Work? Perhaps you've tried to lose weight in the past and found it difficult. You're not alone. Maybe you've struggled with special diets or... Break Free from Anxiety and Boost Self-Confidence Anxiety, worry, stress, self-doubt. These are words used to describe thoughts and feelings that all of us experience from time to time....