Full conscious awareness is where we spend most of our waking hours. In this state our mind is attentive and uses logic to assess, reason, and evaluate. Unfortunately, when making life changes, the conscious minds often get in the way. Hypnotherapy is the use of hypnosis, trance states, and suggestion to address a diversity of problems, including pain, anxiety, phobias, and emotional problems. It can also help to break habits like smoking. Today hypnosis is generally viewed as a form of highly focused concentration in which external or peripheral events are omitted or disregarded.

Those who experience hypnotherapy are able to use the resources of the unconscious mind to bring about psychological and physical benefits.