Welcome to Bliss Hypnotherapy and the practice of Dr. Lynne Zimmerman

You have at this moment, right now, the capability to shape and direct your physical and emotional health. When we direct the subconscious mind with specific focus, we can heal chronic pain that has responded to no other treatment, eliminate depression and despair, reduce stress, release addiction, alter our metabolism and reverse the aging process. What exactly is the subconscious mind? It is the part of you that functions like a computer, simultaneously recording and storing information, and driving critical processes that power your thoughts, your beliefs and every system in your body. You can connect intentionally with your subconscious mind in therapeutic hypnosis, giving it new programs that change the way your body systems work, enhancing your immune system, healing injuries faster, normalizing heart rhythm and minimizing bleeding and recovery time after surgery. By consciously communicating with the subconscious mind, you can excavate phobias, anxiety and limiting beliefs, get to the root causes and release the problems that keep you from being your happiest, most vibrant self. Directed by you, your subconscious mind can vitalize the energy of your thoughts, your words and your actions. This changed energy causes you to consistently think and act in ways that potentiate your desires. Genuine, lifelong transformation is possible at any age through the deep and energetic power of therapeutic hypnosis.

Recognizing that every person is unique, Dr. Z. actively involves the client in the process of discovering what is needed to effect the changes they are seeking in their life. In this way, they are empowered and directly in touch with their own ability to heal.  By following current life issues to the source, they discover what is needed to move beyond their unconscious motivations. Through this process, they are able to step into a life affirming relationship with themselves and the world around them.  This website is dedicated to education, illumination and enlightenment for those who wish to participate in their own healing, realize their greatest personal potential, amplify their joy in life, and experience bliss every day.

Hypnosis has been shown to be effective in the relief of many different medical conditions. Some known uses of hypnosis are in the areas of addiction, weight loss, smoking cessation, stress, anxiety, chronic pain, hypertension, headaches, asthma, chronic fatigue, insomnia, surgery preparation and recovery, and phobias.  More and more the medical community is recognizing the profound power of our minds.  Hypnosis has also been shown to be effective in the areas of self-esteem, relationships, performance enhancement, test anxiety, job coaching, career changes and life transformations.  Stress, fear and anxiety play an important role in the processes of the body, mind and emotions.  

Change your mind and change your results.

"Hypnosis has been used in Western medicine for more than 150 years to treat everything from anxiety to pain, from easing the nausea of cancer chemotherapy to enhancing sports performance," says Carol Ginandes of Harvard Medical School.   A list of applications she provides includes treatment of phobias, panic, low self-esteem, insomnia, stress, smoking, colitis, headaches, and high blood pressure.

"All these functional uses may help a person feel better," Ginandes continues. "I am also interested in using hypnosis to help people get better physically.

That means using the mind to make structural changes in the body, to accelerate healing at the tissue level." Four years ago, Ginandes and Daniel Rosenthal, professor of radiology at the Harvard Medical School, published a report on their study of hypnosis to speed up the mending of broken bones. They recruited 12 people with broken ankles who did not require surgery and who received the usual treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

In addition, Ginandes hypnotized half of them once a week for 12 weeks, while the other half received only normal treatment. The same doctor applied the casts and other care, and the same radiologists took regular X-rays to monitor how well they healed. A radiologist who evaluated the X-rays did not know which patients underwent hypnosis. The result stood out like a sore ankle. Those who were hypnotized healed faster