Guidelines To Self Hypnosis
Posted by admin on March 21st, 2011 filed in Uncategorized
Self-hypnosis does not mean a lot of hard work. It’s actually easy if you know how and can provide lots of people with a helping hand to create the change they desire in their lives. There are multiple ways to carry out self-hypnosis including, weight loss, giving up smoking, increasing self-esteem or other traits that you may want to get rid of. Self-hypnosis is not something limited to a select number of people. Everybody can do it with just a little bit of practice.
When hearing the word “the mind” most of us instantly thinks of the brain. Well, we have two parts to our mind, the conscious and the sub-concious. Round about 75% of all our brain activity is sub-concious, meaning tasks completed by our brains without us knowing. It goes on behind the scenes all day. Every one of us have certain things we like and don’t like, habits or views of life as we see it. As we enter into adult life these traits tend to remain unchanged because they have been programmed into us from when we were young. People we have met, skill-sets we have attained, experiences we have had, these all have influenced our core programming and made us into who we are today. Most of us like who we are in general, but may feel that if we made a few changes (losing weight, stopped smoking, stop biting our nails etc.) things would just be that much better.
Our greatest hurdle is that even though we would prefer to consciously change things it does not mean that our sub-concious will allow us. Think about a smoker for a moment. They know consciously that smoking is bad for them. Still, does this mean that because they know that quitting is the preferred option, they listen? No, because our sub-conscious mind will always take over in times of struggle (and changing our old ways IS tough) and most of the time the sub-conscious mind says “keep smoking”, so smoking it is. Self-hypnosis is the solution. Why? Because it provides you with an access to your sub-conscious mind and the tools to re-write the program.
The first thing you will learn in self-hypnosis is simply shutting your eyes, relaxing and counting down from 10 to 0 whilst exhaling. When doing this, the majority of people will fall into a light hypnotic state. This does not mean that you have no control and do not know where you are. It just means you have found a place of rest and relaxation where you are slowing down and shutting out your conscious mind. This state of rest may be taken a bit further by visualizing a calm place, such as a beach, forest or maybe in your mothers lap. The main idea here is for you to find a place where you feel safe. Through visualization we can actually have a great effect on emotional, mental and physiological states of the human body, to the same magnitude as if we were there. When we are in this state of calm and visualization our brain cannot tell the difference between what is real and what is not.
I am not going to lie to you and say that self-hypnosis is real easy and that five minutes of practice makes you a master at it. What I will say however, is that it is a skill just like any other, and with good practice can be matured and perfected. When going to see a hypnotherapist, they will act as a guide to help you through your mind. With self-hypnosis, you are the specialist and you provide your own therapy. That way, you choose when to start, how long to go for, and when to quit. This is a very important point and should be repeated. Prior to starting any self-hypnosis session, you have to make your mind up on what it is that you want out of it, how you are going to achieve it and also how you will feel once you’re done. It may help to simply write a script or create a map of the journey through your mind. Once in a hypnotic state you will repeat the script numerous times whilst following your plan. This way you will stay on target and won’t get lost.
The vast majority of us don’t even realize that they fall into this state of hypnosis several times a day. This may happen while enjoying a book, playing a computer game or simply doing work. This state allows you to sharpen your focus of your attention and makes your brain absorb the information much better. The main goal of self-hypnosis is to create an access point for you to the part of your brain (sub-concious) that controls the behaviours, habits or attitudes you want to change.
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