We cannot exercise free choice responsibly without examining alternatives. Self-actualization is authentic to the extent that it fulfills the purpose of our life, which it is our responsibility to determine. Integrates your extra-rational capacities with your rational ones. Facilitates awareness of unconscious beliefs that thwart your exercise of free will. Further facilitates the exercise of your free will by changing those dyfunctional beliefs that hold you back.
Hypnotic trance is empowering, even apart from the use of suggestion which augments it.
It helps you face yourself and thus be more authentic. You thus expand the actualization of your human potential.