SELF HYPNOSIS
Self-hypnosis is no magic. It is a suggestible state of induced sleep. To hypnotize yourself does not require too much expertise or practice. During day to day life you have been hypnotizing yourself and others without even realizing it. Any successful sales talk has a hypnotic effect on the buyer. When you make yourself do a thing against your wishes, you have in all probability hypnotized your mind into accepting the new situation.
When does hypnosis take effect? Imagine the concentration points in your mind (the seat of which is the brain). Usually in the waking state, these points are scattered around so it is difficult for you to submit your conscious mind to the ultimate level of supreme concentration. In the hypnotic state these scattered points are brought to a concentrated point that your mind becomes alert. It is receptive to any suggestions at this level. Once the suggestions are given, they take effect in the sub conscious and remain there for future reference.
During my stress management classes I teach the patients to reach this level of receptivity and imbibe positive suggestions for relaxation. Whenever they enter the relaxation mode, their subconscious accepts the message and becomes completely unwound.
While practicing with the audiocassette I have provided, at the height of relaxation you can insert your own suggestions for your specific problems, viz, health problems, smoking, lack of confidence, inability to concentrate, etc.
The only thing you have to remember is that suggestions used during the hypnotized state should be always possible. For example, do not say from now on I will not become angry, say instead, from today onwards whenever I feel angry I will take a deep breath and star counting down from one hundred and my anger will naturally melt away!