Self-Hypnosis

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Permalink Reply by Katherine Zimmerman on December 16, 2009 at 10:56am

Making a recording for yourself will certainly help. I have a home study version of my self hypnosis class (which I've taught for 20 years). If you send me your private email address I will email you a copy of the program. I'm at info@trancetime.com

Merry Christmas!

Katherine Zimmerman
www.trancetime.com

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Permalink Reply by Jan Krüger on December 16, 2009 at 11:03am

The technique part of self-hypnosis isn't actually the difficult thing.
I think doing the standard Elman induction on yourself isn't the best choice. After all you're trying to make yourself relax numbers out of your mind, but at the same time you want to keep part of your consciousness there so you can give yourself suggestions... that doesn't fly too well.
There is a much simpler technique that I like very much. Just close your eyes and focus on your right arm... and imagine what it would feel like if that arm was very relaxed and felt a bit heavy. Recall situations that had your arm feel like that (perhaps a nice long bath, perhaps lying on the couch and relaxing after you get home work from... whatever works for you). Once you feel a change in the arm (and for that you have to pay attention to the arm, of course), you know that you've gotten a suggestion "through". In the beginning, just a small change is more than enough.

Anyway, at that point, simply give yourself more suggestions, and do a fancy termination part at the end (suggest that you'll feel great and awake and alert and refreshed when you "come back", then do a count-up or something like that). Then go do other things, knowing that perhaps changes won't happen immediately, but that you've planted a seed that will grow every time you practice this stuff.

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Permalink Reply by Connor Wyatt on December 16, 2009 at 11:56am

That's very kind Katherine I will private message it to you.

And Merry Christmas to you too!

Conca

Katherine Zimmerman said:

Making a recording for yourself will certainly help. I have a home study version of my self hypnosis class (which I've taught for 20 years). If you send me your private email address I will email you a copy of the program. I'm at info@trancetime.com

Merry Christmas!

Katherine Zimmerman
www.trancetime.com

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Permalink Reply by Connor Wyatt on December 16, 2009 at 11:57am

Thank you I will try that technique in a moment. After I do the arm heaviness, do I have to do it to every part of my body or just that arm?

Conca

Jan Krüger said:

The technique part of self-hypnosis isn't actually the difficult thing.
I think doing the standard Elman induction on yourself isn't the best choice. After all you're trying to make yourself relax numbers out of your mind, but at the same time you want to keep part of your consciousness there so you can give yourself suggestions... that doesn't fly too well.
There is a much simpler technique that I like very much. Just close your eyes and focus on your right arm... and imagine what it would feel like if that arm was very relaxed and felt a bit heavy. Recall situations that had your arm feel like that (perhaps a nice long bath, perhaps lying on the couch and relaxing after you get home work from... whatever works for you). Once you feel a change in the arm (and for that you have to pay attention to the arm, of course), you know that you've gotten a suggestion "through". In the beginning, just a small change is more than enough.

Anyway, at that point, simply give yourself more suggestions, and do a fancy termination part at the end (suggest that you'll feel great and awake and alert and refreshed when you "come back", then do a count-up or something like that). Then go do other things, knowing that perhaps changes won't happen immediately, but that you've planted a seed that will grow every time you practice this stuff.

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Permalink Reply by Jan Krüger on December 16, 2009 at 3:09pm

Just the arm. The only point of doing it at all is that it demonstrates to you quite clearly that your suggestions are having an effect. Once you get used to the way of presenting things to yourself that changes the feeling in your arm, and you get so used to it that it happens almost instantaneously when you start doing self-hypnosis, you can actually stop doing the heavy arm part and go straight to the suggestions you wanted to give yourself.

Conca said:

Thank you I will try that technique in a moment. After I do the arm heaviness, do I have to do it to every part of my body or just that arm?

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Permalink Reply by John Cleesattel on December 16, 2009 at 4:02pm

Conca,
A recording will help you with self-hypnosis. You have to understand that you will need to "learn" how to go into deeper trance and learn where deeper trance is for you. Repetition is the key to success. The more you do it, the easier it gets. The other piece of advice I have for you is to not try and "help" yourself go into trance or go deeper by trying to "make" it happen. Trance is about automatic reaction to outside input. You would do well to establish some triggers of your own; establish what the trigger is, and what it will do (in a moment, I will say the name of a color, when I do, you will notice that "this" happens, and it will feel very good.) Make the recording and just follow your own instructions.

Here is an easy induction that will work well for you using on yourself. Modify it to your own wants/needs and make a recording of it. Then just follow your own instructions. Make sure you include the pretalk part as written in the discussion topic.

http://www.hypnothoughts.com/forum/topics/716892:Topic:98342

Once you get the idea of what to do and how it works on you, you can then do your own self-suggestions and eliminate the need for a recording.

I hope this helps you
John

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Permalink Reply by Connor Wyatt on December 16, 2009 at 11:11pm

Thank you Jan, I tried it last night and after I gave the suggestions I emerged myself and I felt great so I think it's working for me.

Conca

Jan Krüger said:

Just the arm. The only point of doing it at all is that it demonstrates to you quite clearly that your suggestions are having an effect. Once you get used to the way of presenting things to yourself that changes the feeling in your arm, and you get so used to it that it happens almost instantaneously when you start doing self-hypnosis, you can actually stop doing the heavy arm part and go straight to the suggestions you wanted to give yourself.

Conca said:

Thank you I will try that technique in a moment. After I do the arm heaviness, do I have to do it to every part of my body or just that arm?

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Permalink Reply by Connor Wyatt on December 16, 2009 at 11:12pm

I'll try making a self-hypnosis recording too and try and combine the two.

Conca

John Cleesattel said:

Conca,
A recording will help you with self-hypnosis. You have to understand that you will need to "learn" how to go into deeper trance and learn where deeper trance is for you. Repetition is the key to success. The more you do it, the easier it gets. The other piece of advice I have for you is to not try and "help" yourself go into trance or go deeper by trying to "make" it happen. Trance is about automatic reaction to outside input. You would do well to establish some triggers of your own; establish what the trigger is, and what it will do (in a moment, I will say the name of a color, when I do, you will notice that "this" happens, and it will feel very good.) Make the recording and just follow your own instructions.

Here is an easy induction that will work well for you using on yourself. Modify it to your own wants/needs and make a recording of it. Then just follow your own instructions. Make sure you include the pretalk part as written in the discussion topic.

http://www.hypnothoughts.com/forum/topics/716892:Topic:98342

Once you get the idea of what to do and how it works on you, you can then do your own self-suggestions and eliminate the need for a recording.

I hope this helps you
John

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Permalink Reply by Jan Krüger on December 17, 2009 at 2:23am

Conca said:

Thank you Jan, I tried it last night and after I gave the suggestions I emerged myself and I felt great so I think it's working for me.

That's wonderful. You seem to be quick at picking this up. Good for you! Now keep practicing and sooner rather than later you may be amazed at what starts becoming possible. (Convoluted semi-hypnotic language there ;))

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Permalink Reply by Stephen Gruber - www. ask-the-hypnotist.com on December 17, 2009 at 3:48am

Conca,
Learning (and using regularly!) self-hypnosis is one of the best gifts you can give yourself.

You can experience self hypnosis with a free mp3 downloadable from my site. It is designed to be used for whatever issue you want to work on. People report success with this from around the world.

http://www.ask-the-hypnotist.com/Learn-self-hypnosis-free-online.html

You can use the recording to train yourself to go into hypnosis at your own signal if you would like to be able to experience hypnosis without listening to an mp3.
Enjoy the experience!
Stephen

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Permalink Reply by Connor Wyatt on December 17, 2009 at 7:44am

Thank you, I like the semi-hypnotic language too, very encouraging!

Conca

Jan Krüger said:

Conca said:

Thank you Jan, I tried it last night and after I gave the suggestions I emerged myself and I felt great so I think it's working for me.

That's wonderful. You seem to be quick at picking this up. Good for you! Now keep practicing and sooner rather than later you may be amazed at what starts becoming possible. (Convoluted semi-hypnotic language there ;))

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Permalink Reply by Connor Wyatt on December 17, 2009 at 7:45am

Thank you Stephen, I will download the MP3 and use it as well.

Conca

Stephen Gruber - www. ask-the-hypnotist.com said:

Conca,
Learning (and using regularly!) self-hypnosis is one of the best gifts you can give yourself.

You can experience self hypnosis with a free mp3 downloadable from my site. It is designed to be used for whatever issue you want to work on. People report success with this from around the world.

http://www.ask-the-hypnotist.com/Learn-self-hypnosis-free-online.html

You can use the recording to train yourself to go into hypnosis at your own signal if you would like to be able to experience hypnosis without listening to an mp3.
Enjoy the experience!
Stephen

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