Some Famous Users of Hypnosis


Historical Figures
Mozart apparently composed the famous opera Cosi fan tutte while hypnotized.

Goethe (writer and scientist) and Chopin (pianist and composer) both took classes in hypnosis at the University of Strasbourg.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson repeated names to himself as a hypnotic mantra in order to access different states of consciousness in which whole poems came to him.

Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud developed modern psychiatry as a result of learning about (and practicing) hypnosis.

Thomas Edison (inventor), Henry Ford (car manufacturer), Albert Einstein (physicist), and Aldous Huxley (novelist) all used trance states to develop their ideas.

Jackie Kennedy-Onassis used hypnotherapy to 'relive and let go of' tragic events in her life.
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Sports/Athletes

Phil Jackson (NBA head coach) insists that the Chicago Bulls practiced daily self-hypnosis when he coached Michael Jordan and the Bulls to their 6 NBA Championships.  Later, after coaching the Los Angeles Lakers to a win in Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals in 2002, Jackson credited his morning practice of self-hypnosis, meditation, and visualization with giving the Lakers the belief that they could win.

Boxer Ken Norton used hypnosis training before his famous victory over Mohammed Ali.

Mark McGwire (baseball player/home run champ) uses hypnosis to help him relax.

Other popular major league baseball players such as Rod Carew, George Brett and Damion Easley have used hypnosis to improve their games.  

The entire 1983 Chicago White Sox team used hypnosis to help win their division and reach the playoffs that year.

Eleven hypnotherapists accompanied the Russian Olympic team in 1956.

Jimmy Connors used hypnosis in winning the U.S. Open Championship.

Tiger Woods' mental coach, Jay Brunza, hypnotizes him to block out distractions and focus on the golf course.

Jack Nicklaus claims that his success is entirely owed to practicing concentration and visualisation.
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Performers/Entertainers

Matt Damon recently appeared on the Tonight Show and told Jay Leno that he used hypnosis to quit a 10-year, two-pack a day smoking habit.  His quote:  "It's amazing.  I didn't even want cigarettes any more."

Mark Knopfler of  Dire Straits reportedly beat his smoking habit through hypnosis.

Kevin Costner flew his personal hypnotist to Hawaii to cure his sea sickness during the making of the film "Waterworld".

Sylvester Stallone, after using a hypnotist, finally got the courage to submit his "Rocky" script to a major Hollywood producer and while on location "would lie down and listen to a specially made subconscious motivation tape."



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