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Tiger Woods (golf pro):
Has used hypnosis and mental imagery techniques since a young age to help him to focus and “get in the zone”. |
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Orlando Bloom (actor):
His mother took him to a hypnotist as a child to help him to overcome his addiction to chocolate and help him to shape up. |
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Sophie Dahl (model):
Lost a massive amount of weight with help from hypnosis and a new healthy lifestyle, going from a size 16 to an 8. |
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Steve Hooker (athlete):
Won a Gold Medal at the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games in the Pole Vault after using hypnosis to visualize his success. |
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Lily Allen (singer):
Used hypnosis to lose weight – dropping 4 dress sizes! |
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W.A. Mozart (composer):
Historical sources state that Mozart composed the famous opera “Cosi fan tutte” while actually under hypnosis. |
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Aaron Eckhart (actor):
Claims that hypnosis “changed his life forever” after he used to to beat smoking and alcohol addictions. |
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Geri Halliwell (singer):
Slimmed down and toned up with help from visits to a hypnotist. |
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Winston Churchill (prime minister):
Stayed awake all night when required for planning and strategy meetings – using hypnosis to avoid tiredness and stay alert. |
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Ashton Kutcher (actor):
Used hypnosis on two different occasions – once when he was in college to help him to focus on starting his career and “becoming famous”, and again more recently to help him to stop smoking. |
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Jimmy Connors (tennis pro):
Uses hypnosis techniques to practice his winning serve and tennis strokes prior to important tournaments. |
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Matt Damon (actor):
Quit smoking with help from hypnosis, later claiming it was “the greatest decision I ever made in my life”. |
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Sarah Ferguson (former royal):
Used hypnosis to lose weight after struggling for years with her weight. |
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Kevin McBride (boxer):
Has a hypnosis session before every fight to get into a solid mental state of mind, where he is full of confidence and free from fear. |
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Jack Nicklaus (golf pro):
Openly claims that hypnotherapy and visualization techniques are the sole reason for his improved levels of concentration during play. |
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Tara Palmer-Tomkinson (celebrity):
Used hypnosis to overcome her life-long fear of snakes. |
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Jackie Kennedy (president kennedy’s widow):
Used hypnotherapy to help her to get over the tragedy of her husbands assassination. |
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Lord Tennyson Alfred (poet):
Wrote complete poems while under the influence of hypnosis. |
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Ellen DeGeneres (celebrity):
Experienced hypnosis live on her chat show and successfully quit smoking. |
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Ben Affleck (actor):
Quit smoking with help from hypnosis, later stating “ I feel a huge difference in my health now that I don’t smoke. I feel like I’m in better shape than I was five years ago”. |
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Rachmaninov (composer):
Reports state that he composed one of his concertos following a simple hypnosis session. |
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Kevin Costner (actor):
Had a hypnotist fly out to Hawaii (while filming Waterworld) to cure him of his sea-sickness. |
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Albert Einstein (physicist):
Used trance states and regular hypnosis sessions to develop his ideas. It is claimed his theory of relativity came to him during one of these sessions. |
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David Beckham (soccer pro):
Visited a hypnotist privately to help him to confront some of his personal problems. |