For hypnosis to effectively take hold and make someone quit smoking or eat less, the opposite is true. The subject has to want to do what’s being asked, and for Bonk he wanted out of the habit that plagued him nearly his whole life.
The results were so immediate and so real, Bonk wanted to learn more about what happened to him. He began taking classes at the Hypnosis Motivation Institute in Tarzana to learn about hypnosis – and to learn how to do it. His day job fraying after a company buy-out, Bonk eventually decided to go pro.
Today his main practice is in helping people quit smoking. He chose this discipline because the results are immediate – and he says 20 of the 22 clients he’s seen for smoking issues have quit. As World No Tobacco Day approaches on May 31, Bonk expects that number to rise.
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Ms. Dawson plays a hypnotherapist whom Mr. McAvoy visits not because he wants to quit smoking or lose weight, but because he has misplaced a multimillion-dollar Goya painting that he has liberated from his daytime employer, a fancy auction house in London.
As Elizabeth, Ms. Dawson has a remarkably commanding physical presence, capable of hypnotizing on many levels. There is the kind of hypnotism that all women are capable of when it comes to men, which is to pay attention to you for one beat too long, and you are theirs,” Mr. Boyle said. “But Rosario, I thought, because she is so smart, was able to pull off the complicated task of making the hypnosis in the film seem credible.
She certainly worked at it. Ms. Dawson did research at the Hypnosis Motivation Institute in Tarzana, Calif. I went there only understanding the gimmickry and show business aspect of hypnosis, Ms. Dawson said. I quickly learned to appreciate the profound effects that hypnotherapy can have. That it isn’t about trickery but using the subconscious and suggestion to help people gain control of their lives.
