12/17/2025
When I work with clients who are dealing with pain, illness, or long-standing emotional struggles, I see how hard it can be to imagine anything different.
Pain is loud.
Symptoms are persistent.
And the messages people receive are often discouraging:
“You’ll probably have to live with this.”
“This is just what happens as we get older.”
“You’ll need to manage it, not change it.”
I get it. When something is constant and in your face, it feels real and final.
And yet… that story leaves out something essential.
It ignores the reality of the brilliant, adaptive, responsive body you live in.
It ignores what we now know from neuroscience, epigenetics, and mind-body research: that our internal state influences our biology far more than we were ever taught.
Research shows genes are not destiny. The signals our cells receive matter.
And one of the most powerful environments your body responds to is your emotional and mental state.
Decades of neuroscience now confirm that when people repeatedly shift their inner state—their thoughts, emotions, and sense of identity—the brain and body reorganize themselves in measurable ways.
This isn’t wishful thinking.
It’s neuroplasticity.
Your brain is not fixed.
Your nervous system is not stuck.
Your body is not as fragile as you were told.
What Opened My Mind Years Ago
Back in the 1980s, I read research on what was then called multiple personality disorder. The clinical observations challenged everything I had been taught about the mind and body.
The research documented cases where the same person’s body expressed very different physical characteristics depending on their internal state.
In some individuals:
• One personality showed diabetic blood sugar patterns, while another did not
• One personality required corrective lenses, while another demonstrated normal vision
Same body.
Different internal state.
Different physiological expression.
Wow.
Later studies, published in journals such as The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, confirmed measurable differences in vision, pain perception, and physiological responses across identity states.
This wasn’t magic.
It was biology responding to neural, emotional, and autonomic signaling. When we change internally, we become different people, and our physical and mental state change us.
Why Hypnosis Works
Hypnosis works directly with the subconscious patterns that shape our nervous system, habits, emotional responses, and sense of identity.
Instead of fighting the mind, hypnosis works with the brain’s natural learning and change mechanisms.
In a hypnotic state, brain activity shifts in ways that make the nervous system more receptive to change. This allows us to work at the level where:
• Stress responses are conditioned
• Fear and anxiety patterns are learned
• Habits and cravings are reinforced
• Pain perception is regulated
• Healing responses are either activated or suppressed
Decades of clinical research show that hypnosis supports real, measurable change in both mental and physical health. Studies and clinical outcomes have shown hypnosis can:
• Reduce chronic pain, including migraines and stress-related headaches
• Help calm inflammatory responses linked to autoimmune and stress-driven conditions
• Support healthier heart function by lowering stress reactivity and improving nervous system balance
• Decrease anxiety, panic, and phobic responses
• Help release unwanted habits such as alcohol use and binge eating
• Support changes in allergic responses by retraining stress and immune reactivity
• Improve emotional regulation, resilience, and overall well-being
• Strengthen immune system functioning by reducing chronic stress signals
Hypnosis isn’t a placebo.
It’s the brain and nervous system responding to new, repeated signals of safety and regulation.
Hypnosis helps shift the body out of survival mode and into a state where healing, clarity, and healthier choices become possible.
Why Repetition Matters
One session can create relief or insight.
But ongoing hypnosis sessions, hypnosis meditations, and self-hypnosis can rewire neural patterns tied to identity, allowing the body and mind to move beyond conditions we once believed were permanent or unchangeable.
Over time, people don’t just feel better.
They think differently.
Respond differently.
And they become different, better versions of themselves.
When I think of my clients who’ve experienced the most profound changes, they consistently share the same thing. They listened to their hypnosis recordings daily and practiced self-hypnosis regularly.
Research in clinical hypnosis, neuroscience, and behavioral change shows that hypnosis can create rapid improvements in pain, habits, anxiety, and emotional regulation.
What determines whether those changes continue is not willpower, but reinforcement.
The brain does not rewire from a single experience alone. It changes through repetition, emotional engagement, and real-life application over time.
Without reinforcement, the nervous system naturally returns to familiar patterns. Old habits, stress responses, and thought loops quietly re-emerge, especially when life becomes busy or challenging.
This is why people often say, “I know what to do … I just don’t do it.”
The understanding is there.
The follow-through simply has not been rewired.
Ongoing hypnosis sessions, hypnosis recordings, and self-hypnosis rewire who you are.
Each time you listen, you are not just relaxing, you are rehearsing a new response, you are teaching your nervous system what safety, calm, and choice feel like, until those states become natural.
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There is no greater gift than feeling good in the now moment.
With love,
Sharon
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