Hi, i’am Mathieu Genty

Master Practitioner in Ericksonian Hypnosis

And I am here to guide you in your journey

Trained and graduated for many years, I have the pompous but official title of Master Practitioner in Ericksonian Hypnosis.

I definitely practice solution-oriented hypnosis. In many cases, I don’t even need to know the “why”. My goal is not to look for problems in the past, even if it is sometimes necessary, but to find solutions for the future.

Be careful though, I am not a magician. I will accompany you towards change, I can help you to trigger transformations, but in the end, it is you who does the job. Consciously or unconsciously. And that’s the beauty of it. You will not be under the control of anyone else but yourself.

Hypnosis, Explained

by Mathieu Genty

Video transcript

My name is Mathieu, and I am a hypnotherapist. I’ve been thinking and experimenting a lot about how to start this video to introduce you to what I do, and, in fact, I think we should start by diving straight into the main topic, that is, hypnosis.

Why hypnosis? Well, it’s an incredible tool. It is a tool for change that is extremely powerful, and it is a tool for change that is extremely fast. That’s why I chose this technique to guide people. I’ve been helping people for a very long time now, on all sorts of issues, but I’ve never seen anything as powerful as hypnosis.

Hypnosis is a tool that allows you to do an update. It will allow you to update all the automatic things you’ve been doing but don’t want to do anymore. You know, all these behaviours that you feel you can’t do anything about, that it is just the way it is. Well, it is not. There actually is a part of you that triggers these behaviours. The problem is that this part is inaccessible to you when you are in the normal state of consciousness, that means that the person I am talking to right now does not know how to get to this part. And that’s the problem. Smokers have that exact same problem: a part of them knows they have to stop smoking, that they want to, while another craves that cigarette, often for a good reason. The only thing is that these two parts, that define the unique being that you are, do not communicate. And so, if they do not communicate, they do not have a common strategy, and you find yourself struggling to change things that appear so easy to change.

People are often told that it’s only a matter of willpower, that “if you really wanted it, blah, blah, blah”. All of this is bullshit. It is not a question of willpower, quite the opposite. Willpower is on the conscious side of the mind, and the more willpower you put into it, the more you strengthen your conscious mind, and the less you have access to your unconscious. Therefore, what you need to do to change, and what humans have been doing for centuries through a whole range of techniques, is to pause the conscious mind for a few moments, to let it rest, in order to be able to go and talk to your unconscious part, which manages all of our automatic behaviours. All these things that, fortunately, you don’t need to always think about: when you walk, you don’t look every time which step you are taking, or where you are putting your foot. You can fall asleep and continue to breathe, which comes in extremely handy. But sometimes, there are behaviours that have simply become automatic and that we no longer want.

I have devoted many years to figuring out what makes people change. What is the process? And why now? Why is it that there are moments when it’s the right time? The literature is full of it, from shamanism to magic, to Sufism and other forms of religion. We have this framework, this kind of source code of change. What makes us change? Why is it that there is a before and an after? Essentially, what I do with hypnosis is nothing more than a simplified version in terms of beliefs and “decor”, let’s say, of these ancient techniques.

Often, when hypnosis is concerned, there is the question of control. Will I take control over you, will you lose control? Well, no. The good news is that it is the other way around. In other words, thanks to my action, you will regain control over functionalities to which you do not have access in a normal state of consciousness. Let’s actually talk about states of consciousness, because thanks to the hypnotic trance, I am going to allow you to enter a modified state of consciousness, or an enhanced state of consciousness, if you like, which is going to give you access to functions of your brain to which you do not usually have access. This control that you are going to obtain will allow you to change behaviours that you have, in the long run; to improve skills that you already have. It can also help you to get over traumas that you can’t get past, because there is a part of your brain that cannot cope with it. And what we’re going to do, with hypnosis, is that we’re going to help you get through this phase so that you can move on. It also has therapeutic virtues on the body because the brain, as I imagine you know, has a very extensive control of the body. As a result, we can treat physical pathologies through hypnosis, without any direct action on the body. If you suffer from this kind of problems, I suggest you try it; you’ll see, it can be truly incredible.

However, hypnosis is not magic. For it to work, I need you, I need to know you, I need to interact with you. And it’s the interaction between you and me that will create this environment conducive to change, helped by the hypnotic trance, which is something incredible, a very, very powerful tool, which you will master. I will take you there, and you will then be in control of this tool which, in addition, will allow you to soothe many things, to transform many things, and I have no doubt that you will have a wonderful journey in this hypnotic trance.

I look forward to seeing you there.