Autohypnosis Made Easy

Years ago I intuited the importance and potential of hypnosis in regards to helping me with my dream work, and so I made an appointment with a local hypnotist who came very highly recommended, mostly for her success with helping people to quit smoking and with over-eaters to make them less voracious at table.

I told her what I was looking for and so she offered that she could take me through a course of hypnosis and instruction that would give me the capability of being able to hypnotize myself – Auto-hypnotism.

These are some of the very important essentials that I learned:

First, the most basic thing to remember is that the mind is most receptive when it is calml and the body relaxed. So the most important key to success in Auto-Hypnosis is simply relaxing the body and quieting the mind.

Yes, of course, everybody already knew that. But here is a trick. One can make it so much easier to arrive at that essential deep level of relaxation by using one’s initial sessions of Auto-Hypnosis in order to suggest that one be able to relax and quiet one’s self almost immediately and on a trigger command. Ordinarily it might take one a number of minutes to fully relax. But if one takes the time to Auto-Suggest a rapid Relaxation in response to a pre-determined Trigger Phrase, then one can put one’s self into a highly suggestible trance state in a mere moment.

So, what my Professional Hypnotist taught me was to suggest on a backward count from 10 that I would be entirely relaxed and my Mind entirely quiet and open to the Auto Suggestion I had planned to give to myself, and then, immediately afterward, that I should come back to full alertness, refreshed and cheerful.

Now, yes, you can all go to a Professional Hypnotist and be instructed in about the same kind of Program. But you could do this yourself by yourself, if only you have a good sense for the principles involved and the confidence that you can set goals and achieve your objectives through well planned efforts and pointed acts of will. Trust yourself.

Also, do not go into the practice of Hypnotism with any false preconceptions. In many cases people expect that they will not consciously remember the Trance Phase of the Hypnotism session. Well, why shouldn’t you? One only be relaxed and calm. One may still be entirely alert. Or not. It hardly matters. You see, there is the distinction that can be made between Mind and Consciousness. We can understand Consciousness to be a kind of Light which allows us to see the Mind, or that part of the Mind in near proximity to the Light of Consciousness. But whether illuminated by consciousness or not, the Mind can be influenced by hypnotic suggestion equally well.