In popular imagination, hypnosis is misinterpreted as something that is done to people, as if they were put to sleep. Hypnotherapy is also misinterpreted as something that is done to clients' problems, as if the therapist could handle or cure them unilaterally. In a refreshing departure from common perceptions, Douglas Flemons offers another perspective, expressing relational ideas about how mind and body communicate and learn. In his characteristically relaxed and concise manner, Flemons explains and illustrates how hypnosis, like meditation, is invited and not imposed, and how hypnotherapy involves altering and unraveling complex experiences rather than controlling or eliminating identified conditions. The therapist synchronizes with clients so that together, they can spontaneously facilitate changes in unwanted thoughts, urges, feelings, sensations, or behaviors. This book brings you to the heart of hypnotherapy, in the respectful and playful practice of utilizing clients' flow of experience for the mutual discovery and creation of opportunities for bodily learning and therapeutic change.