This medical treatment is widely misunderstood, but can be unexpectedly effective for many conditions. Here's what happens to your body when you get hypnotized.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This fall, finding myself in need of a good jump-start, I decided to try something new and slightly scary: hypnotherapy. Hypnosis ...

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Suspend your disbelief about hypnosis, and while you're at it, forget about swinging watches and the phrase "You're getting sleepy." Despite the fact that people have been using hypnotherapy for ...

It forces you to get specific about the issue you want to address and really envision what success would look like. This is what's so great (and so annoying) about hypnotherapy — about all therapy, ...