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Use Hypnosis to Change Your Life and to Achieve your Goals

April 17th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

Did you know that you can use hypnosis to change your life and achieve your goals? Hypnosis is an amazing mind-body state. Although it’s been understood for thousands of years, no one quite knows how or why it works as well as it does, or even what it is.

In this article, we’re going to look at how hypnosis, which is essentially just deep relaxation, helps you to success.

Start by creating a goal you’d like to achieve. This goal may be simple: you may want to eliminate a habit like over-eating, or procrastinating. Or your goal may be larger. Perhaps you want to increase your income, eliminate debt, or gain self-confidence.

Although hypnosis is a widely popular method for removing phobias and bad habits, you can also use it to become the person you’d like to be.

Write down your goal.

Hypnosis Reprograms Your Mind

Hypnosis works by reprograming your mind. The hypnotherapist induces a state of deep relaxation and then makes suggestions to you.

We’re all susceptible to the power of suggestion - we receive suggestions all day every day, from advertising, from our friends and colleagues and from ourselves. However, when you’re awake and alert, you’ll dismiss most of the suggestions you receive. This is just as well, otherwise your life would be unbearable.

In hypnosis, the analytical part of your mind is temporarily in abeyance, so suggestions are accepted by your subconscious mind, and your behavior changes accordingly.

Achieve Any Goal You Set

Hypnosis is a low-stress method of changing your attitude towards your goals, and changing your behavior so that you actually start working towards achieving those goals.

Using hypnosis, you can set goals in any area of your life. You can improve your working life, your social life, your health and your finances.

Learn Self-Hypnosis

The easiest way to use hypnosis to achieve your goals is to learn self-hypnosis. In self-hypnosis, you become your own hypnotherapist. You can create your own inductions (the preliminary stage of hypnosis, during which you relax completely) and your own scripts.

Once you’ve created a script, you can either repeat it to yourself once you’re deeply relaxed, or you can record the script, and can play it to yourself.

When you’re learning self-hypnosis it’s useful to have one or two sessions with a hypnotherapist, so you know how it feels to be hypnotized. When you first become familiar with hypnosis, it’s common to feel that “nothing’s happening”, until you realize that your behavior has indeed changed.

Three Weeks to Success

Sometimes hypnosis works instantly. You have one session, and get the results you want. However, usually you’re want to have multiple sessions. This allows the suggestions to sink deeply into your mind, and your new behaviors to become deeply integrated.

Therefore, when you buy a hypnosis CD or tape, use the program several times a week for at least three weeks. It takes three weeks to change a behavior. You will find that you’re changing well before the end of three weeks, but keep listening to the program.

Hypnosis is a powerful tool. If you take the time to learn self-hypnosis, you will have a tool you can use for life, to create the life of your dreams… simply by relaxing, and listening.

You can put anyone under your spell - use hypnosis on others and get them to do what you want.

How to Learn Self Hypnosis

July 30th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

Want to learn self hypnosis? It’s an excellent skill to acquire, especially if you’re by nature a tense person, or are under a lot of stress.

You can learn self hypnosis from books, CDs, or DVDs.

The process has three steps: relaxation, the suggestions you give yourself, and finally the return to waking consciousness.

Many people make use of self hypnosis scripts, which they read into a tape recorder, and then listen to. However, for a simple set of suggestions, a script isn’t necessary, although it does help to write down your suggestions so that they’re clear in your mind.

The suggestion phase

Once you’re completely relaxed, you can give yourself your suggestions.

Just talk to yourself and sell your subconscious mind what you want to achieve.

You might say, “I am eating less and losing weight daily.”  Your suggestions are like affirmations in a sense - they’re in the present tense, and they’re positive statements.

Self-Hypnosis And Relaxation

July 24th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

Relaxation is an essential part of the hypnosis induction process, so in self-hypnosis, the it’s important that you begin with relaxation exercises to completely relax physically.

Using a body scan to relax as part of a hypnosis induction

One of the easiest ways to relax completely is to use a body scan. Focus your attention on each part of your body in turn. You can start at your toes, and finish with your scalp, or start at your scalp, and finish with your toes.

A complete body scan should take you around five to ten minutes, so go slowly, and mentally tell that body part to relax.

When you feel completely relaxed - your body feels heavy, and you don’t want to move - begin a relaxation visualization.

Imagine that you’re lying on a tropical beach, with the sun beaming down on you, and a soft breeze playing over your body…

Now you’re ready to give yourself the suggestions that you’ve prepared earlier. If necessary, you can read them from a sheet of paper. Just open your eyes and read. You could give yourself the suggestion: “even though I am opening my eyes and reading, I remain in a state of hypnosis, and my mind absorbs the suggestions I give myself.”

Hypnosis scripts: what are they?

June 29th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

Hypnosis scripts are texts that someone can read to you to hypnotize you, or you can read to someone else, or even yourself, if you want to give yourself suggestions.

You can write the scripts yourself if you wish; they’re easy to create. Indeed the scripts you create for yourself may be the best ones to use for self-hypnosis, because you know what you want to achieve with hypnosis.

The three parts of a hypnosis script

A hypnosis script consists of three parts: the induction, suggestions, and a return to normal waking consciousness.

The induction relaxes the subject, and prepares him to receive the suggestions. If you’re working with someone who is new to hypnosis, you may want to include a longer induction. If you’re experienced in self-hypnosis and are writing a script for yourself, the induction can be very short.

The suggestion phase of the script is the part where you plant the suggestions to which the person will respond later. You can add an anchor here - some bodily movement which will help the person to achieve a mind state. Planting anchors is useful if your aim is to help someone to overcome an addiction like smoking.

Finally, the return phase of the script wraps up the session, returns the subject to waking consciousness, and includes a suggestion that the subjection will feel great.

Discover Self-Hypnosis: End Weight Worry Forever

June 22nd, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

Although self-hypnosis is easy to learn and to use, it’s a very powerful tool, especially if you want to lose weight.

As a weight loss tool, you can use self-hypnosis in two ways: firstly to discover what’s causing you to overeat. This is valuable knowledge. Secondly, to give yourself hypnotic suggestions which will help you to lose weight, such as that you’re in control of food, and that you’re highly motivated to lose weight.

You’re Hypnotized Every Day - So Take Control Now

Self-hypnosis is just autosuggestion (suggestions we give ourselves), and we all respond to suggestion. After all, we may have piled on our weight because we responded to suggestions from TV commercials, and tempting aromas wafting from a bakery, and from memories of the sensual pleasure of eating. It’s time to discover how to give yourself suggestions which will help you to lose weight.

You may be amazed when you realize that you’re hypnotized many times each  day. For example, have you ever completed a task completely without thinking? Or lost yourself in a movie or book? You were hypnotized. Learning self-hypnosis just means discovering a method which allows you to consciously do what you do very well already.

Self-Hypnosis Is A Powerful Tool For Investigation And Accomplishing Weight Loss

Once you learn the basics of self-hypnosis, you’re in control of your weight. You’ll want to analyze your eating habits while you’re in a slight trance. This enables you to be non-judgmental, and to discover what’s driving your weight gain.

For example, let’s say that suddenly you realize that you’ve eaten an entire container of ice cream. Instead of being hard on yourself, imagine putting yourself in a slight trance and thinking about what led up to your eating binge. You may discover that you had a stressful day, and that you ate to calm yourself.

With this new knowledge, you can choose to get stress relief from another activity: perhaps calling a friend, going to a movie, or going for a walk. You can immediately instill this new behavior with self-hypnosis. Now the next time you have a hard day, you impulsively call a friend you’ve been meaning to call for weeks - this new behavior happens completely automatically, you don’t have to think about it, any more than you thought about reaching for the ice cream.

Intrigued about the potential of self-hypnosis to help you to lose weight? The best way to learn self-hypnosis is with the instruction of a hypnotherapist. Check your local phone book. Or, if you’re a do-it-yourself kind of person, you can learn self-hypnosis from tapes, CDs, DVDs, or books. 

Learn Self Hypnosis: it’s a useful tool

June 12th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

For most, the path to learn self hypnosis includes learning how this whole process began.  It is noticed that in the animal world there are creatures that hypnotize their prey.  The cobra is a well known example of a creature with this capability. Over the centuries there have been descriptions of this ability of a “trance like” state where a person’s inner self can be reached; and then influenced to create positive change.  To learn self hypnosis, the ability to tap into this state, is a learned process.

The first step to learn self hypnosis is to figure out what kind of courses you are interested in.  Self hypnosis is taught in a variety of methods.  There are institutes that offer courses and then certification to become a hypnotherapist. This can lead to a career that can be used to assist other people as well as the patient, by teaching methods of hypnosis.  Hypnotherapists have practices around the world. If the desire is to just learn self hypnosis, for an individual’s improvement then an initial step can be by discovering books, cd’s and information from the internet.  There are many resources available to interested parties that want to learn self hypnosis.  These can even include Hypnotherapist that offer courses.

When deciding to learn self hypnosis, there are a variety of applications that hypnosis can be used for.  Some people want to learn self hypnosis in order to assist with pain management in their lives, stop smoking, change diet habits and even help them get to sleep.  Hypnosis has long been a tool to help implement change in a person’s life.

For many people, hypnosis has been the answer they have been searching for in helping them become successful in overcoming fears and other obstacles in their lives.  Many different branches of the psychology field use hypnosis and feel it is an acceptable means of therapy.

Hypnosis is used everyday by many different people.  To learn self hypnosis, can be the stepping stone a patient needs in order to make positive changes in their lives.

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