Welcome to Hypnoticon West in Los Angeles

Our First Convention was a great success, and we were convinced to bring it to the West Coast.  Our idea is to have a unique flavor, mixing interesting speakers and entertainers, bringing together the best Speakers and ideas from all over America.

Our programming includes seminars and workshops by noted experts in the mainstream hypnosis and NLP community. In addition we have an “Alternative” track that delves into areas of hypnosis that may, at times, push the envelope. Metaphysical, Experimental, and Adult Sexuality are all to be found here, presented in a tasteful and professional manner. Check the program for specific topics.

We have an awesome program for all of you advanced hypnotists, and a beginners class for all of the newbies. In addition, we have three scheduled hypnosis shows planned for the evening’s entertainment.

Guest speakers will be presenting on very diverse topics as well as participating in panel discussions. In addition to notable guests, there is an open-submissions track for participants to submit their own presentation proposals.

Keep checking as the guest list and line up are growing every day!

We’re excited to announce that Wendi Friesen and Mary Lee LaBay have just been added!

When a person hears the word “hypnosis”, many tend to think only of what they have seen on TV or at a stage show. If you have ever been to a stage show though you may have found it very fun to either engage in or watch as people’s inhibitions are set free. On television hypnosis is portrayed as something where you look deeply into someone’s eyes and your mind it taken over and controlled. Television and media have distorted what hypnosis is all in the name of either ratings, making a story interesting, or just from a lack of knowing what hypnosis really is in the first place. Hypnosis is not used to take control of anyone’s mind and make them do something they would have an objection to morally. When a person understands hypnosis is really quite something else it really opens up possibilities to new ways of experiencing the world.

There are many kinds of trance states that people experience naturally all day long. The most common examples are driving somewhere and suddenly realizing you are at your destination without memory of how you got there or the things you saw on the way. You may have been lost in thoughts, yet at the same time your other than conscious (OTC) took over and automatically took the correct route to your destination. Daydreaming, becoming absorbed in your thoughts, getting involved in a good movie, or book where you become unaware of your surroundings, time and distractions just seem to fade away. There are also many different kinds of trance states we put ourselves in which are highly focused, and it may not always be pleasant, such as a worry, or anger. That is where becoming aware of your states of trance is useful, because you then can change it to a more pleasant state when you choose to. There are love trances, laughter trances, dreamy trances, and creative trances where your focus becomes so intense that everything else around you seems to dissipate. Although there is yet another kind of trance state achieved by a formal trance as when someone goes to a hypnotist. These are all types of trance states.

For most issues where hypnosis is used to create a change, a person could go into only a light state of trance. While for some issues a much deeper level of trance is required. The hypnotist is only a guide and the subject is in cooperation toward an end result, which usually means trance is achieved by the subject and helpful direct communication with the other then conscience (OTC) by the hypnotist. Going into trance is a cooperative effort and a choice anyone makes.

Hypnotism has been utilized as a tool in health for centuries. It seems to have originated with the Hindus of ancient India who often took their sick to sleep temples to be cured by hypnotic suggestion as also found to be the case in ancient Egypt and Greece. Hypnotic-like inductions were used to place the individual in a sleep-like state, although it is now accepted that hypnosis is different from sleep. The word “hypnosis” originates from the Greek word “hypnos” which means sleep. A person under hypnosis may look like they are asleep, yet that is far from the case. They are actually in a heightened state of awareness and focus.

Hypnosis and trance states are experienced at different levels from a very light trance, to a profound deep trance. This state of trance may be very brief or it could last for quite some time. The more aware someone becomes of different trance states, the more a person can utilize the tools within hypnosis to make some awesome, powerful changes in your life. Hypnosis can be utilized to change a habit, reduce stress, remove anxiety, phobias, improve study skills, and many more positive changes. It is all dependent on how much you want these changes and are willing to allow yourself to make them. A hypnotist is a guide to help you get where you want to go, yet at the end of the day, the choice is always yours to make.

In hypnotherapy, trance is induced using a range of methods but trance is a cooperative effort between the subject and the hypnotist. While a person is in a trance state the hypnotist communicates directly with the OTC giving suggestions in order to attain the end goal the subject wants. It is important here to use “clean language” (another topic) while guiding and giving suggestions, because the conscious mind may be in a deep hypnotic sleep, but the OTC is hearing and processing every word being suggested.

While the western world of medical science is slow to accept hypnosis and all its benefits you can take a more rapid approach and learn more about how you can benefit by utilizing it in your own life. Who’s to say you should wait for the medical sciences to catch up to the rest of the world when you can use this thing called hypnosis to achieve a richer fuller life. Knowing what trance is and how to change the trance you might find yourself in is only the start.

We at Prestigious Minds believe that everyone has the ability to learn and become aware of your positive, infinite, choices. We utilize Hypnosis and NLP, to help you achieve your goals, guiding you to new understandings that will ultimately allow you the positive choices to move forward, while at the same time giving yourself freedom. Freedom to be who you want to be, alleviating limiting perspectives, and helping you attain the tools necessary for a positive change in your life.

Are you ready to be the best that you can be? Prestigious Minds is here to help you achieve your goals. We implement hypnosis, NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), and Reiki sessions. For your convenience there are pages for Hypnosis FAQ’s, and Reiki, please visit them if you have any questions.

The Practitioners at Prestigious Minds are Certified Hypnotherapist, Master NLP Practitioners, and Usui Reiki Masters. Our intent is to provide a comforting atmosphere working one on one with you, to help you achieve your goals, increasing self-esteem, giving you more choices to become motivated in a positive direction that is right for you.

Hypnosis and NLP is empowering for you, because it gives you skills that you can use for the rest of your life, where a person can be free of a phobias, overcome panic attacks, stress, anxiety, or lose weight and enhance your self esteem, while giving you choices to live a healthy, happy, positive life, which in turn gives you freedom of mind.

“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

So what problems can NLP and hypnosis help with?

For a start, a problem is only a frame (a perspective). All frames can be changed, so NLP and hypnosis can be used to develop a more resourceful perspective on ANY problem.

But that may not be what you are asking. Ask yourself if you know people with the sorts of problems you have in mind. If so, does one person deal with these issues better than another? Does one person heal more effectively than another? From an NLP perspective, one of the things we are interested in is what are the differences in belief, attitude, resources between those individuals and how can we assist the one to develop the positive resources of the other.

But that may not be what you are asking. Here is a list of problems that hypnosis is commonly sought help for (though it is by no means exhaustive)

• agoraphobia
• anxiety/anxiety state
• confidence boosting
• depression
• embarrassment
• emotional pain/guilt
• exam nerves
• fear of flying
• insomnia
• interview nerves
• migraine
• motivation
• memory and learning
• nail and finger biting
• nervous problems
• nightmares
• panic state, panic attacks
• pain control
• performance anxiety
• phobias (all kinds)
• public speaking
• relationship problems
• shyness
• smoking
• social anxiety
• sports performance
• stage fright
• stress and related problems
• weight loss