How to Be Low-Stress (Group Hypnosis)

Shared group sessions at The Morpheus Clinic for Hypnosis are an easy and low-commitment way to experience hypnosis for the first time, to maintain a positive mindset after you’ve been a private client with us, or to receive more of the ideas discussed in our free podcast, How to Be an Adult.

This group for learning how to manage stress and anxiety meets on Thursday nights at 6:30 p.m., at The Morpheus Clinic for Hypnosis at 49 Elm Street in downtown Toronto.

Each of our nightly classes is unique, since they are live and unscripted experiences. Since we are leading from the front and speaking to the group’s common concerns and shared humanity, there’s no need to share your private thoughts with other participants, unless you really want to: this is not group therapy. It’s essentially “guided meditation,” but we use the word hypnosis because it’s a more candid description of what’s happening when we give you guidance for your inner world (we’ll leave meditators alone to quietly observe their own thoughts).

Clarity about what isn’t really you gives you the freedom to identify and live as your most authentic self. After a few visits, it will no longer be a mystery how some of your neighbours and colleagues can exist on the same planet, in the same year as you, and be much more relaxed. The content of each session will vary depending on the group, since we take requests at the start of the class, but the core message will be centred around these suggestions:

• Your mind–body link is real and accessible, so you will intentionally use your self-talk to cause yourself comfort, not distress.
• Self-love, self-respect and self-acceptance are the real deal, and they fulfill very real emotional needs.
• In every imaginable situation, you can hold your head up high, since your worth as a human being is constant and inviolable.

Depending on the consensus of the group, we sometimes focus on limiting the influence on the inner critic or outside influences (such as current events) in addition to the above.