As a hypnotist, you have a “superpower” like ability to help other people overcome challenges, break habits and be better versions of themselves.
When you think about it, you’re really quite fortunate. You work in a profession that has meaning and adds real value to the lives of others, not to mention yourself.
In short, the work you do is nothing short of inspiring.
So to bring some additional inspiration to your day, we wanted to put together a list of some of the wisest hypnosis quotes from the greatest minds in the field of hypnosis, past and present.
Below you’ll find 50 of our favorite hypnosis quotes from the likes of Igor Ledochowski, Milton Erickson, Richard Bandler, Dr. David Spiegel, Émile Coué, in addition to a few philosophers, psychologists and top thinkers.
We hope you enjoy!
The Most Inspiring Hypnosis Quotes Of All Time
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“All problems in life are problem trances, and all solutions are solution trances.”
–Igor Ledochowski, master hypnotist and co-founder of the Hypnosis Training Academy
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“Allow yourself to see what you don’t allow yourself to see.”
–Milton H. Erickson, revered American psychiatrist who specialized in medical hypnosis and family therapy
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“The unconcsious mind records all 1001 little details the conscious mind neglects.”
–John Grinder, co-creator of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
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“Since most problems are created by our imagination and are thus imaginary, all we need are imaginary solutions.”
–Richard Bandler, co-creator of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
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“People don’t come to therapy to change their past, but their future.”
–Milton H. Erickson, revered American psychiatrist who specialized in medical hypnosis and family therapy
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“We’re terrible at realising what goes on in other people’s heads because we are trapped inside our own.”
–Derren Brown, famous mentalist and illusionist
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“Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.”
–Émile Coué, French psychologist & pharmacist who introduced “Conscious Autosuggestion”
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“What if you create one sentence or question that’s so loaded with hypnosis and assumptions that it totally blows out a person’s problems?”
–Igor Ledochowski on NLP “Bullet Therapy”
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“Our client’s problem is that they have lost rapport with their unconscious mind. Our job is to help restore that relationship.”
–Milton Erickson, revered American psychiatrist who specialized in medical hypnosis and family therapy
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“The easier you can make it inside your head, the easier it will make things outside your head.”
–Richard Bandler, co-creator of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
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“Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.”
–Eckhart Tolle, Renowned spiritual teacher and best-selling author
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“There’s always room for a great story that can transport people to another place.”
–J.K Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books
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“You always call it hindsight. Two weeks too late to think of the right retort to make. You lead with your unconscious; you make that retort immediately… Trust your unconscious; it knows more than you do.”
– Milton Erickson, revered American psychiatrist who specialized in medical hypnosis and family therapy
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“Don’t put your fish in their pond.”
– Igor Ledochowski, master hypnotist and co-founder of the Hypnosis Training Academy
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“You can’t affect the cards that are dealt, but you can determine how you play them.”
– Milton Erickson, revered American psychiatrist who specialized in medical hypnosis and family therapy
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“We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.”
– David R. Hawkins, respected authority within the fields of consciousness reearch and spirituality
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“Brains aren’t designed to get results; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don’t, then someone else will.”
– Richard Bandler, co-creator of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
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“Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.”
– Lao Tzu
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“Each person is a unique individual. Hence, psychotherapy should be formulated to meet the uniqueness of the individual’s needs, rather than tailoring the person to fit the Procrustean bed of a hypothetical theory of human behavior.”
– Milton Erickson, revered American psychiatrist who specialized in medical hypnosis and family therapy
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“To be as successful as you can be in your life and career, it’s crucial that you’re able to lead, manage, convince, influence and persuade other people.”
– Igor Ledochowski, master hypnotist and co-founder of the Hypnosis Training Academy
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“When you believe yourself to be master of your thoughts, you become so.”
– Émile Coué, French psychologist & pharmacist who introduced “Conscious Autosuggestion”
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“Patients are patients because they are out of rapport with their own unconscious… Patients are people who have had too much programming – so much outside programming that they have lost touch with their inner selves.”
– Milton Erickson, revered American psychiatrist who specialized in medical hypnosis and family therapy
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“Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.”
– Napoleon Hill, famous self-help author
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“People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.”
– Anthony de Mello, Indian psychotherapist, spiritual teacher, writer and public speaker
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“Every person’s map of the world is as unique as their thumbprint.There are no two people alike. No two people who understand the same sentence the same way… So in dealing with people, you try not to fit them to your concept of what they should be.”
– Milton Erickson, revered American psychiatrist who specialized in medical hypnosis and family therapy
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“We possess within us a force of incalculable power, which if we direct it in a conscious and wise manner, gives us the mastery of ourselves and allows us not only to escape from physical and mental ills, but also to live in relative happiness.”
– Émile Coué, French psychologist & pharmacist who introduced “Conscious Autosuggestion”
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“Our job as a hypnotherapist is to make sure that the seed we plant is firmly planted, and we have all the nutrients surrounding the subconscious so it can deal with things in life.”
– Igor Ledochowski, master hypnotist and co-founder of the Hypnosis Training Academy
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“An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.”
– Goi Nasu
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“The power of thought, of idea, is incommensurable, is immeasurable. The world is dominated by thought.”
– Émile Coué, French psychologist & pharmacist who introduced “Conscious Autosuggestion”
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“Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.”
– Milton Erickson, revered American psychiatrist who specialized in medical hypnosis and family therapy
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“The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can’t, but in the things you’ve never considered doing.”
– Richard Bandler, co-creator of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
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“Persuasion is often more effectual than force.”
– Aesop, Storyteller and slave from Ancient Greece
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“The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straightforward and honest. It hasn’t got all of this facade, this veneer of what we call adult culture. It’s rather simple, rather childish It is direct and free.”
– Milton Erickson, revered American psychiatrist who specialized in medical hypnosis and family therapy
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“Once you’ve mastered regression therapy, you’ll have a superpower-like ability to ignite serious transformations in the lives of your clients.”
– Hypnosis Training Academy
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“You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn.”
– Milton Erickson, revered American psychiatrist who specialized in medical hypnosis and family therapy
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“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking ever will.”
– Zig Ziglar, famous author, salesman and motivational speaker.
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“The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person’s motivation.”
– Milton Erickson, revered American psychiatrist who specialized in medical hypnosis and family therapy
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“Until you’re willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never grow bigger, better or more useful.”
– Milton Erickson, revered American psychiatrist who specialized in medical hypnosis and family therapy
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“When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence.”
– Gangaji, spiritual teacher and author
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“Even evil and evil-doing can be overcome by suggestion.”
– Émile Coué, French psychologist & pharmacist who introduced “Conscious Autosuggestion”
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“Remember the power of pauses. Don’t get so consumed by the probing questions you’re asking that you’re so busy thinking up a clever question whilst missing everything that’s going on right in front of you.”
– Igor Ledochowski, master hypnotist and co-founder of the Hypnosis Training Academy
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“Life isn’t something you can give an answer to today. You should enjoy the process of waiting, the process of becoming what you are. There is nothing more delightful than planting flower seeds and not knowing what kind of flowers are going to come up.”
– Milton Erickson, revered American psychiatrist who specialized in medical hypnosis and family therapy
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“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”
– Aristotle, ancient Greek philosopher and scientist
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“The important thing for you to remember is that it does not matter in the least how you got the idea or where it came from. You may never have met a professional hypnotist. You may never have been formally hypnotized. But if you have accepted an idea – from yourself, your teachers, your parents, friends, advertisements, from any other source – and further, if you are firmly convinced that idea is true, it has the same power over you as the hypnotist’s words have over the hypnotized subject.”
– Maxwell Maltz, author of Psycho-Cybernetics
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“We can make, to ourselves, very much stronger suggestions than anyone else can, whoever that person may be.
– Émile Coué, French psychologist & pharmacist who introduced “Conscious Autosuggestion”
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“The law of successive approximations is about breaking down your ideas or suggestions into smaller bites, and as each tiny step is accepted, it will eventually lead to larger steps being accepted and accomplished. I can’t stress enough how valuable that law is!”
– Igor Ledochowski, master hypnotist and co-founder of the Hypnosis Training Academy
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“Doubt is a form of self-suggestion that undermines the creation of a new reality.”
– Hypnosis Training Academy
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“The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.”
– Mary Catherine Bateson, writer and cultural anthropologist
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“Hypnosis is to consciousness what a telephoto lens is to a camera.”
– David Spiegel, Associate Chair of Psychiatry at Stanford University & respected expert in the clinical use of hypnosis
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“Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born – the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people’s experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things. That which, in the language of religion, is called “this world” is the universe of reduced awareness, expressed, and, as it were, petrified by language.”
– Aldous Huxley, English writer, novelist and philosopher
Pretty inspiring stuff, right?
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