We all seek ways to improve certain things about life. Most methods are difficult and don't work all
that well.
Will power is one of the worst ways to try to change because you are fighting with yourself and therefore
YOU simply can't win. No matter what happens in some way YOU lose.
Hypnotherapy works but many people feel afraid when they imagine being under the control of a
hypnotist. They've heard it is safe but they just don't want to risk it. That is understandable but unfortunate.
Self-hypnosis is gentle, non-invasive and often very fast. You can learn it from a book or a tape
or you can attend one or more sessions with an accomplished hypnotherapist. Either method will teach you the basic skills
you need to change your life, meet your goals, and solve your problems.
Self-hypnosis will resolve or greatly improve:
- smoking
- overweight
- procrastination
- shyness and lack of self-confidence
- insomnia
- restless sleep
- many forms of depression
- difficulties with anger management
- many other emotional, personal, and even financial issues.
Is Hypnosis Dangerous?
Hypnosis is sometimes associated with stage tricks and worse. Ordinarily, hypnotists harm no one.
Only a few people (about 5% of the population) are extremely susceptible to quick, deep hypnosis. Those are
the volunteers chosen at shows and even they rarely have a bad experience.
A few unethical hypnotists claim to be able to put people "under" without their knowledge. Even
so, no one will do something against their own moral code while hypnotized. The first stage hypnotist I ever saw attempted
to make a friend of mine look down from an airplane to view a nudist colony. My friend enjoyed the airplane ride but flatly
refused to look at the nudists. Of course, everybody had a big laugh at his expense but, luckily, he was not a shy person
and I know he enjoyed the laughter and applause. Who else but a bit of a show-off would volunteer to be hypnotized on
stage?
If you are unlucky enough to meet an unethical hypnotist who also means you harm, he might be able to somehow
trick you into a deep trance (light trances are NEVER dangerous) and then convince you that, for example, a high place is
actually just one step from the ground. Obviously, the results could be catastrophic. Still, hypnotism can't compare to driving
a car, for example. Does knowing that an accident, or even a car jacking, might happen keep you off the road. No, because
the benefits are too great.
Hypnosis is a lot safer than driving on a modern highway. Still, lots of people just don't want to be hypnotized.
Luckily there is an alternative. It's called self-hypnosis.
What is Self-Hypnosis?
It is not much different than being hypnotized by someone else excepet YOU DO IT. Nobody else is even in the
room with you. Most people buy a cd or record a hypnotic script on tape. Basically, nothing can go wrong.
Is Self-Hypnosis Really Safe?
Yes, because you are the person in control and you are not about to consciously harm yourself. You set the goals,
you develop the script and listen to yourself read it, you create the schedule, you start when you want and stop when you
want. How much safer can it get?
You may very well find it hard to believe that you were really under hypnosis. After all, you were aware and
under your own control throughout.
In many years of experience with self-hypnosis, I have only encountered one person who did himself harm. He hated
studying and used self-hypnosis to FORCE himself to spend endless hours hitting the books. One day, he flipped. Nobody got
hurt except some furniture but here's the lesson: don't do that. All successful hypnosis depends on respect and that
includes respect for yourself.
