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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.

 

Geri Halliwell (singer):

Slimmed down and toned up with help from visits to a hypnotist.

 

Winston Churchill (prime minister):

Stayed awake all night when required for planning and strategy meetings – using hypnosis to avoid tiredness and stay alert.

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.

Matt Damon (actor):

Quit smoking with help from hypnosis, later claiming it was “the greatest decision I ever made in my life”.

 

Sarah Ferguson (former royal):

Used hypnosis to lose weight after struggling for years with her weight.

 

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.

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.

Jackie Kennedy (president kennedy’s widow):

Used hypnotherapy to help her to get over the tragedy of her husbands assassination.

Lord Tennyson Alfred (poet):

Wrote complete poems while under the influence of hypnosis.

Ellen DeGeneres (celebrity):

Experienced hypnosis live on her chat show and successfully quit smoking.

 

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”.

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.

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.

David Beckham (soccer pro):

Visited a hypnotist privately to help him to confront some of his personal problems.