The can opener analogy.

Imagine you’ve gone on vacation to a lovely little cabin in the woods, far from anywhere. You have food, you have all of your friends, and you are excited to make a delicious dinner and just relax with your friends.

You’re going to make a pizza, because for some reason this snazzy place has a wood fire pizza oven in the back! But, surprise, you forgot to bring a can opener! You didn’t even think of it, but of course you brought canned tomato paste. So you try a knife, but you only make little holes in the can, and almost cut yourself. You go full Boy/Girl Scout, and dig around in your bag for a Swiss Army Knife. Nope! None of your friends have one either.

Dang it!

For 20 minutes you just stare at the can, frustrated. You consider a rock, but, no way that’ll work. A bigger knife? Oh, you’ll google it! Wait, you specifically looked for a place that had no internet … that’s right. What was I thinking? You wanted a nice quiet place to just be, that’s what you were thinking. In desperation you start looking for tools. A hack saw would probably put a bunch of metal shards in your food, but at this point, you’d consider it, just out of spite! To hell with that frickn can!

Well, it’s a moot point because there are no tools.

“I could run it over with the car,” you think. You are really getting desperate!

You start to think about driving the hour and a half to the nearest store, but it’ll be almost midnight before you’d be able to eat … dang it.

“Hey, I found a can opener,” some angel sings.

And in 2 minutes you have two cans of tomato paste open (it took a little longer to open the can with all the stab wounds).

It was so easy! Ridiculously easy!

Hypnosis is like that can opener. A problem can seem so difficult, so frustrating, so overwhelmingly hard that there is no way to deal with it. However, when you show up and do hypnotherapy (at least with 5-PATH Hypnosis) those problems don’t explode in a shower of light and thunder, they simply disolve like cotton candy on your tongue, to the point where you may think to yourself, “Well, that wasn’t really a problem, because there was really nothing there!” However, before hypnosis, you were so frustrated and defeated. You almost lost hope that you’d ever solve this problem!

5-Path hypnosis works, but one of it’s flaws is that it dosen’t really feel that profound. (Well, after the emotionally charged hypnosis session fades from your memory a bit). There are no fire works, there is no parting of the clouds with angels singing in the rays of the revealed golden sun. After a while you may think to yourself, “Did that even do anything?”

Well, yes, it did. You’ve just moved on with your life and forgotten how hopeless you felt, because your issue is not a problem any longer!

But without that simple can opener …