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Self Hypnosis: benefits and the technique
Hypnosis sometimes appears to be exotic, mysterious, and even perhaps a bit magical. So it is tough for many people to even consider using self-hypnosis, and to grasp how they can personally benefit from the guidance of a skilled hypnotist. The truth is - hypnosis isn't magical, and it is only confusing when you do not know how it works.
Hypnosis is no more exotic or puzzling than watching a movie. Why do you think you can get so engrossed in a film and connect deeply with the characters? It is because you are in a light state of trance and the film become believable at an unconscious level. It is a totally natural phenomena.
In fact, hypnosis is totally a natural state that everyone experiences on a daily basis. At a minimum, you are in a hypnotic state at least twice a day and almost always more!
You will also experience differing levels of trance and self hypnosis as you gaze into your television set! In fact the TV is the greatest hypnotist on planet Earth!
You also experience hypnotic states when you drive to a well known destination but do not remember the actual drive because you were engaged in some other mental activity!
You pass a trance state just before you fall asleep, and just as you are waking.
It is true that stage hypnosis can be extremely funny and highly entertaining. The comedic antics of hypnotized audience members can have you rolling about the floor with laughter as the hypnotist works conscientiously to keep hypnosis mysterious because it’s all part of the show.
Easy self-hypnosis
But if this is the only exposure you have had to hypnosis you are missing out on a lot!
Self hypnosis has lots more practical uses that can greatly benefit many areas of your everyday life.
Here is 5 simple ways you can use self hypnosis to help in your life:
1. Restful Sleep!
Hypnosis is incredibly effective for curing insomnia. The vast majority of people need just one session. Even those who have suffered from insomnia for many years have experienced immediate positive changes in their sleeping patterns.
2. Altering Beliefs
This is one of the best uses for self hypnosis. Actually changing negative beliefs that have held you back can dramatically improve your life. Your beliefs are the things that determine your thoughts and your actions. Change your beliefs and you change your thoughts and actions and thus you will change the results you get in life!
3. Eliminate a Bad Habit
Would you like to stop – smoking, biting your nails, or some other habit that you have been unable to break? The subconscious mind is responsible for maintaining the desires that drive these habitual behaviours and accessing it, through hypnosis, means you can change those desires!
4. Cure a Phobia
Almost everyone has some sort of phobia from a fear of heights to a fear of spiders. Well a fear is merely a learned reaction to a genuine, or imagined, event. The fear takes place in the mind and therefore can be changed in the mind through self hypnosis!
5. Pain Relief
This is the most common medical use for hypnosis. The mind seems to play a very important role when it comes to the body. It seems to have direct control over just about every aspect of your physical self. Through the power of self hypnosis some people have cured ailments and removed discomforts.
However, even if you cannot cure the body through the power of hypnosis you can certainly remove pain! Pain is merely the brains interpretation of electric impulses sent from the body and it can be trained to ignore them – thus removing the sensations of pain!
(Written by Michael, http://www.personal-development.info/blog/index.blog/1373948/benefits-of-self-hypnosis/)
Easy self-hypnosis
10 Steps to Self-hypnosis
Self-hypnosis allows one to communicate with the subconscious mind and reprogram it for positive and permanent changes and even self-healing.
Here are the elementary steps:
1. Ensure that you are alone in a quiet room. Wear comfortable clothes. Lie back in a reclining chair.
2. Place a picture of concentric circles (or a shining object) a few feet away and stare at it.
3. Repeat slowly: "As I stare at this picture (object), I am going deeper and deeper into a trance. Deeper and deeper, deeper and deeper. My eyelids are getting heavier and heavier, heavier and heavier. My eyes are closing slowly as I fall into a d-e-e-e-e-e-e-p trance."
4. "As I slowly count backward from ten to one, I will go deeper and deeper into a trance. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one…"
5. "In body and mind, I am totally relaxed, relaxed." Repeat.
6. Repeat positive affirmations. For example, if you are nervous and edgy, keep saying: ''At all times, I am totally calm, cool and in control.'' Never use negative affirmations like: ''I am never nervous and edgy.'' The mind will concentrate on 'nervous and edgy' and you will be just that.
7. Now say: ''My body is getting lighter and lighter, lighter and lighter. Waves of relaxing cosmic energy are now entering my body, spreading from the toes upwards. A light, tingling, relaxing, energizing sensation is now flooding me.''
8. Give a post-hypnotic suggestion that "the desired response occur even after you come out of the trance". This will deepen the beneficial effects by subconsciously inducing the desired behavior.
9. Give yourself another post-hypnotic suggestion: ''Hereafter, each time I induce self-hypnosis, I will be able to do so easily and faster.''
10. You can then come out of the trance by counting from 1 to 10, having affirmed that after the count of each digit you will awaken gradually. On reaching ten, open your eyes slowly.
(Taken from article 'Hypnotherapy - Trance World', published by Life Positive, Oct. 2001, http://www.lifepositive.com/mind/psychology/hypno-therapy/hypnotism.asp)
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