When I was in my teens I read a book about Edgar Cayce. If you’ve never heard of him, Cayce was a devout Christian, but many consider him the founder of the New Age Movement. For forty-three years Cayce would put himself into a self-induced state of relaxation which enabled him to answer questions (readings) and diagnose people he had never met.

With only the name and location of a person, Cayce would speak in a normal voice and give readings to any questions about that person that he was asked. Most of the readings were given for people who were sick, and many of the cures he recommended are still in use today.

Of course this peaked my curiosity about hypnosis, and I built up quite a library on the subject.

There are plenty of stories about hypnosis being used in negative ways as well, and frankly these stories are what kept me on the fence about using it personally for a number of years.

In his book, The Man Who Invented Hitler, historian David Lewis revealed that Adolf Hitler was once hypnotized. Apparently, Hitler lost his sight near the end of World War I due to hysterical blindness. Through hypnosis, a doctor suggested to Hitler that through will power he could make himself see again. It seems that the suggestion worked.

What finally got me off the fence was my own competitiveness. I wanted to do well at a school debate, and I was tired of losing — well repeatedly coming in second — to the same person. When you need an edge you’ll try anything once, and I did. I tried a self hypnosis session, and I got the result I was after. Since then, hypnosis is part of my self-help arsenal.

In truth, hypnosis isn’t good or bad — it’s neutral. It might help you and change your life forever, or you may be completely unchanged after a session. It may only work for a period of time. Your results will depend on factors such as motivation and determination. Your destiny is still in your own hands.

When you set out to write a self hypnosis script, you probably already have a goal in mind, but exactly how you define your goal has more impact on your success than many people realize. The more carefully you define your goal, the more effective you can be in preparing your subconscious mind to focus on what you really want and boost your chances of creating the result you want.

Here are four power questions to ask yourself when defining your goal for a self hypnosis script. Use these questions to clarify your goal and focus your subconscious mind on achieving exactly what you want.

What do you want? Write down what you want to accomplish.

What will having this do for you? Ask this question to make sure that you have identified what is most important to you. For example, if your goal is to increase your income by 50%, ask yourself what would having that do for you. If your answer is that it would give you more time with your family, you may want to focus on your real goal of having time with your family rather than making more money. Focusing on making more money could easily take you away from having more time with your family. So if you set the wrong goal you could end up sabotaging your real success. For this reason, it’s important that you define your goal as your real desired end result rather than some intermediate means to an end.

How will you know when you have it? Write down the specific things that will be your evidence for success. These may be tangible things like “I will lose 5 pounds by January 31″ or intangible things like “I will wake up feeling good about myself.” The more specific you are here, the more precisely your subconscious mind will know what you want to achieve. If you cannot answer this question easily, stick with it until you have a clear answer that will give exact guidance to your subconscious mind. The more clearly you define your evidence of success in sensory terms – things you can see, hear, feel, smell and taste – the more useful the guidance will be to your subconscious mind through your self hypnosis script. Your subconscious mind really cannot relate to something abstract like having an income of $5,000 per day, but it can relate to something sensory like waking up feeling good about your accomplishments every morning.

Where, when and with whom do you want it? Define the specific contexts where you want to accomplish this goal. For example, if you want to be more self confident, with whom do you want to feel confident, in what situations, while you’re doing what activities? When you answer this question, you should be able to vividly imagine yourself in the exact situations and with the specific people you want to accomplish this goal. The more vividly you can image the end result, the more your subconscious mind will have to work with to create what you want.

Once you have identified your goal using the questions above, make sure that it is written in positive rather than negative terms. For example, a negative goal statement would be “Stop feeling bad about myself” while a positive goal statement would be “Start feeling good about myself.” Research has shown that people who focus on positive goals are significantly more successful than people who focus on negative goals.

This is especially true when setting goals that will be given to your subconscious mind during your self hypnosis session.

Now that you have defined and clarified the goal for your self hypnosis script, you’re ready for the other steps of designing and writing your most powerful self hypnosis script possible, which is covered in another article in this series on how to write your own powerful self hypnosis script.

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Past Life Regression (PLR) appears to be on the increase within the Hypnotherapy community with many therapists offering it as an additional service to clients. From a therapeutic standpoint PLR can be very beneficial, however much of what takes place in a PLR session can be tied back to events in a clients life that has been ’shut off’ into a previous life persona. Working within the reference of a Past Life can be very beneficial, but what it isn’t, is a real historical personal history.

I have no doubt that this will sit badly with those people who want Past Life Therapy, or want to relive their ‘history’, but I am a realist, and I work extensively with clients who have real problems in the here and now and I would much rather solve them in this lifetime, than one that didn’t happen.

There are 2 clear issues with Past Life Regression, the first is the matter of the numbers. There have been more people alive in the last 50 years than in all of the rest of history put together. What this means is that a very small percentage of people can have a past life beyond the 50-year mark, and certainly far less can have multiple past-lives.

The second issue relates to those population figures and is highlighted by what happened in my practice some years ago. In July of 2007 I had 2 women visit on different days, for different conditions, during both session spontaneous PLR happened, both regressions back to the same person – Cleopatra. I know that she is supposed to have been quite disturbed, but it’s no wonder as she obviously had far to many people in her head!

Fortunately in both cases I was able to resolve the their problems, which (unsurprisingly) was found to have its roots in their ‘past life’, by working on solving it in the present rather than leaving it in the past.

This showed that PLR therapy is useful and helpful for some clients, what it is not is a therapy in its own right, and offering it as a service undermines what can really be achieved with Hypnosis.

Past Life Regression has a (small) place in Clinical Hypnosis, but let us be clear on what that place is and not fall foul of the mumbo-jumbo and mysticism that has held Hypnosis back for centuries.

About the Author

Lee S. Avery is a professional Clinical Hypnotist with close to 20 years experience. He has worked extensively in business, medical and private practice working with a wide range of conditions and currently runs a private Clinical Hypnosis practice in Northamptonshire, England. Free Hypnosis resources and additional articles on a range of personal change subjects can be found at his website at http://www.achievinggreatness.co.uk

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Many people who have not done well at weight loss hypnosis programs usually do not have a good picture or have a realistic expectation of what the hypnosis therapy session can bring to them or what it can help to do to their bodies. It is those same bunch of people who thinks that their years of accumulated fat in their body will just disappear with just one session of hypnosis for weight loss program.

Going into such a program without a realistic expectation will most certainly cause the program to fail. No matter you are taking up a new diet program or a gym routine, you need to know what exactly the program is going to do for you and how long it takes and what are the milestones that you can measure against so you know you are making progress.

Taking up a weight loss hypnosis program thinking its a miracle pill is foolhardy. However, if used correctly, the program will give you the extra edge in gaining control over your weight. Engaging a good qualified hypnosis therapist will be tremendously helpful to you. One of the advice that they will give is that weight loss hypnosis is not something that you can use by itself, in that you cannot simply “think” your pounds away. If it was that simple, there would not be a need for the existence for gyms and diets. Does that mean that weight loss hypnosis is useless ? Nothing can be further from the truth.

Modern hypnosis techniques has been used and perfected over hundreds of years. They are used to build self-confidence, change and modify habits, stop smoking problems, improve memory and of course, helping people lose and manage weight. Many people who have picked up a diet or gym routine initially finds that their weight may be dropping slightly. They get so happy and lose their head and starts to overindulge in food again and their weight shoots back up. This cycle continues on and on, and they continue picking up new diet and exercise books to try it out, without realizing that the cause of the weight problems is in themselves.

Weight Loss Hypnosis complements your diet or gym routine by modifying the self-defeating thoughts hidden deep in your subconscious mind. It is in your subconscious mind that your feelings and emotions are kept. Many studies have shown that feelings and emotions are almost always stronger then logic. That’s why sometimes you know you should not be eating but then you “can’t help” but eat it anyway. All our habitual and behaviour controlling our thoughts resides in the subconscious mind. During a hypnotic session, a qualified weight loss hypnosis therapist will induce you into a relaxed, hypnotic state. Then the therapist will attempt to “re-program” your habits and inner thoughts to make you more aware of what you are eating, how much you are eating and how to control your appetite in a safe and natural way.

However, going for a hypnosis session is not the means to an end. For you to gain the most out of your hypnotic weight management sessions, the motivation to change must come from within you. Hypnotic suggestions should be repeated on a regular basis until you notice a change. You can either go for regular hypnotic sessions or you can purchase hypnotic cds for weight loss so you can listen to it every day till you notice a change. The key to succeeding relies on you wanting to change.

Weight Loss Hypnosis may sound tedious at first, yet, if done correctly, you will realize that suddenly you can follow any diet or gym routine that you have picked up for yourself without forcing yourself through it. You will learn to enjoy the diet routine because of your changed mindset towards food. No longer will you have uncontrollable cravings or overeating sessions. No longer will you skip your gym sessions because you are tired.

The hypnosis programs re-programs your thoughts and habits to make following your diet and gym sessions a second nature to you. This re-programming of thoughts and habits is even more important then just simply losing the weight because this is the part where it keeps the weight off for the rest of your life.

Hence, weight loss hypnosis is a powerful tool in helping you combat your weight management goals and it is a formidable partner in complementing any of your diet or exercise programs.

Alvin has been researching weight loss hypnosis programs and runs a weight loss hypnosis website which has reviews, information and cds.

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Nicotine Replacement Patches? Gum? Pills? There are many stop smoking “products” on the market that you can choose. So why should you consider hypnosis?

1) Hypnosis is a “process”, not a “product”

Hypnosis permanently changes your attitude towards smoking. Its power comes from your desire to become a non-smoker. Hypnosis literally “switches off” any thoughts of smoking.

Patches and Gum do the opposite – by using these products you are subconsciously saying “There is something that I need in a cigarette, therefore I need to substitute the cigarette with something else.” You may replace one habit with another.

2) Hypnosis is Healthy and Safe

You’re trying to rid your body of toxins … so why would you replace the nicotine in cigarettes with the nicotine in gum or in patches? Nicotine is a poison?

3) Hypnosis is Fast and Easy

Using Hypnosis you can be a non-smoker in one hour or less. Patches and Gum often require weeks or months of treatmene

4) Hypnosis is Permanent

Because Hypnosis permanently changes your attitude towards smoking you have very little chance of relapse at any point in the future. You become a non-smoker.

With other products this mental change has not taken place and therefore you are at best an “ex smoker” continually having to consciously fend off and fight the urge to smoke. Making a relapse more likely.

When the shift to becoming a non-smoker takes place with Hypnosis one no longer has to battle against cigarettes. They will simply fade away as an “enemy”.

5) Hypnosis may be Tax Deductible. Patches and Gum are not.

If you are US taxpayer, you can deduct the cost of smoking cessation programs from your taxes.

From the IRS website (http://www.irs.gov/faqs/faq-kw139.html)

Are expenses for smoking cessation programs deductible?

You can include in medical expenses amounts you pay for a program to stop smoking. Unreimbursed amounts you pay for participation in a smoking cessation program and for prescribed drugs designed to alleviate nicotine withdrawal are expenses for medical care that are deductible subject to the 7.5% of adjusted gross income limitation if you itemize deductions on Form 1040, Schedule A (PDF), Itemized Deductions.

However, you cannot include in medical expenses amounts you pay for drugs that are designed to help stop smoking that do not require a prescription, such as nicotine gum or patches.

6) Hypnosis is more effective than Patches or Gum

Hypnosis has a 70-80% success rate for those committed to becoming a non smoker. Because the burdens on the patch or gum user are so great, those manufacturers can only boast a 50-60% success rate.

Furthermore most reputable hypnotherapists will offer a guarantee (see http://www.freshstartmethod.com/guarantee.php )of effectiveness stating that if you do not become a non smoker, you do not pay.

And thats not something you’ll see on a box of nicotine replacement products!

Matt Godson, Clinical Hypnotherapist http://www.freshstartmethod.com Godson runs FreshStart(tm) the internet stop smoking solution
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Losing weight with hypnosis is something fairly new. Hypnosis is most commonly done by a hypnotherapist. Hypnosis usually consists of letting yourself get in a very relaxed state of mind and body.

Many hypnotherapists will have the patient to think of a very relaxing place such as a beach or forest. Once the patient is in a deep relaxed state, the hypnotherapist suggests things about eating food. For example, the hypnotherapist may say something like, “When sad or depressed you think food will make you feel better but, in reality, a small walk or a couple deep breaths will be the best help”. Suggestions such as this are made, helping the subconscious to change your thinking and help to lose weight.

Hypnosis for losing weight is not magic. Hypnosis can help with a weight loss goal, but it cannot change the way you choose to eat. It is important to set goals for weight loss and add exercise along with hypnosis. Hypnosis can help a person to look at food differently and has been proven to help with weight loss.

Besides hypnotherapists there are also CD’s available for hypnosis. However, CD’s are not as effective as individual hypnotherapy. Individual hypnotherapy can focus towards you particularly. CD’s deal with common issues people have with food. It would be best to go to a hypnotherapist if considering hypnosis for losing weight.

Motivation is the key when you want to lose weight. You have to really want to lose weight in order to lose it. Losing weight consists of changing the way you live. Changing the way you live can be hard at first, but after you reap the benefits you will never want to go back to the way you were living.

By changing the way you live you should start eating healthier foods, start doing more physical activity and stop eating when you’re not hungry. The key to doing this is to start a little at a time. Don’t expect to change over night. It took this long to get the lifestyle you have now and it will take time to change it. Start small and set goals.

In order to help you reach you weight loss goal, read about the fastest way to lose weight on my weight loss blog. Visit http://fastestwaytoloseweightfast.com for more informative details.

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The art of hypnosis has been around for hundreds of years. In the modern world hypnosis has been use to cure patient with acute mental illnesses. Hypnotherapists also use the same process to help people who lack self confidence and to overcome phobias. A lot of people are very intrigued with the science of hypnosis and wander how they can hypnotize someone. This article will provide some information on the basic skill of hypnotism.

If you are keen to learn this new skill, you must first understand the different forms of hypnosis. One of the most popular techniques is known as Covert Hypnosis or Conversational Hypnosis. Covert hypnosis is the process of subtly leading to a person we are talking into a serene, safe and comfortable feeling known as a “trance”. A hypnotist is able to do so by first building a strong rapport. When a person goes into a trance, his subconscious mind is hyper sensitive and is very susceptible to suggestion. To hypnotize someone, all you have to do is use certain powerful suggestion words or body gestures and the other person will be inclined to follow your instruction.

Learning how to hypnotize people is not as difficult as you might think. There are a certain skill and process you must understand before you can easily influence someone in a casual conversation. A beginner hypnotist usually would not be able to influence anyone when they are starting. However, you can cut short your learning curve by practicing your skill under the supervision of a covert hypnosis coach or teacher.

Do you want to learn more about hypnosis? Find out how to hypnotize someone discreetly, without them being aware of it by learning the art of Covert Hypnosis. You can find out more by clicking the following link – http://www.constanthypnosis.com.

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Hypnosis induction is an art to alter the brain and the behavior of some other individual. There exist 2 main types of hypnotic induction – the concealed and an open one.

The main difference is as follows: with a covert hypnosis induction of the person that is being hypnotized, does not know what is happening, and with the open method the person knows it.

Depending on your needs, you would have to decide which form of induction you need to gain the skill of.

For example, the open hypnosis induction could be used to crack up people at parties – pick an individual (in case you are taking your first steps, pick people that you see for the first time in your life, rather than someone from your family members or friends). You would tell this individual that you are a hypnotist and that you can hypnotize her/him right there and then, if he/she would like to be hypnotized.

As a starter, you would ask this individual to stand up, to put both his/her hands straight in front of her/him and to close his/her eyes. Then you would say that on the count “one” (counting backwards from “three”) she/he is going to feel: 1 – a heavy weight, pulling stronger and stronger at the right hand of the individual, making it go down; 2 – a large balloon, pulling stronger and stronger at the left hand of the individual, making it lift up.

The individual will usually not feel the hands moving and for that reason will be really surprised to see that the hands have indeed moved in two opposite directions, after opening her/his eyes.

As to the convert hypnosis induction – you will not tell anyone about that you are going to hypnotize someone.

You will plainly use one of the robust covert conversational hypnosis methods to induce the chosen individual to like you, to follow your lead and to say “yes” to your suggestions.

All of this you would fulfill with a particular type of a talk, during which you would make the peripheral awareness of the individual diminish, at the same time “embedding” certain triggers in the brain of the hypnotized individual.

All you have to do next is to use the triggers that you have embedded; it’s as simple as that.

This brief overview can not teach you how to use this ultra powerful hypnosis induction – the concealed one.

But one of the CDs, which I have researched in depth and reviewed Side-by-Side on this page – Hypnosis Induction Reviews – can.

Make sure to visit this page to see the Most Powerful Hypnosis – Covert Conversational Hypnosis!

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Need to lose a few pounds? Hypnosis for weight loss is a great way to shrink the waistline. Hypnosis for weight loss allows you to change yourself in several healthy ways.

The first thing hypnosis for weight loss helps you lose weight is retraining your body to not need so much food. Your body may become addicted to food for several reasons, you may have eaten due to boredom, to be social or to make yourself feel better. Eating for reasons such as the ones previously mentioned is unhealthy and can lead to health problems. With hypnosis for weight loss you can retrain your sub conscious back to a natural state.

The second thing hypnosis for weight loss can do is make you have the energy you need to work out. Working out is important when losing weight, because the scales do not tell you how much muscle you have. Without muscle, you may lose weight but you become fat on the inside, which is more dangerous to your health than fat on the outside. You can use hypnosis for weight loss to gain the energy you need to keep your cardiovascular system running smoothly.

The third thing weight loss hypnosis can do for you is allow you to get a better nights sleep. With less time sleeping because of weight loss hypnosis, you will have more time. With this time you can use it on more weight loss hypnosis, exercising or spend it with the family or doing tasks you otherwise wouldn’t have the time to do.

Weight loss hypnosis, its for your health.

Discover how you can lose weight with hypnosis

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The Self-Hypnosis Diet: Use the Power of Your Mind to Reach Your Perfect Weight

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Like many of the commonly used techniques of hypnotism, hypnosis for weight loss is a natural way of changing a persons habits and beliefs about a healthy diet. The actual technique of hypnosis for weight loss is actually basic common sense and involves getting back in touch with your bodies natural cycles.

From how most overweight people overeat to avoid painful emotions, how our stomachs are designed for only eating full meals every few days, how to tune your taste buds for portion control and the basic formula for healthy eating. The article will explore the many exciting aspects of the basic technique of hypnosis for weight loss.

When it comes to hypnosis for weight loss there is only one single reason why people overeat. People will only overeat to avoid or suppress negative feelings or emotions. By over eating to the point of being full and satisfied one temporally eliminates any painful emotion or experience. It is through this basic principal that this technique works on.

The common western diet is much different from the diet of our early man ancestors. Our stomachs are designed to be filled completely with food only once a day. In fact our ancestors often didn’t eat a completely filling meal for up to thee days at a time. In between hunts our ancestors ate leafs, vegetables, sprouts, fruit, nuts, seeds and berries. When you do hypnosis for weight loss; the main objective will be to resolve this one issue.

As you start practising this technique on a regular basis you will be able to tune your senses. That is the beauty of this technique of hypnosis for weight loss, with practise we tune our taste buds to make appropriate decisions a use portion control. We eat when we are hungry, we enjoy the food and when we are full, no more food passes our lips. The basic idea is as follows.

The Technique

Follow these suggestions fully and completely each time that you sit down to eat and when ever you are hungry. Hypnosis for weight loss includes four specific steps.

1. Whenever you are hungry for food you should be sure to eat something healthy. Never starve yourself of deprive yourself when you are hungry (this is important).

2. Don’t eat what you think you should, just because it is in front of you, eat what you want until you are full.

3. With each bite of food you take, chew carefully and fully. Enjoy each and every mouthful of food. Pay attention to your food as you eat it and make sure to chew the food completely, up to thirty times per mouthful.

4. As soon as you think you are full make sure you slow down the eating or even stop completely. It can take a few minutes for the feeling of fullness to catch up to you, so it is helpful to stop eating just before the feeling of fullness comes.

As you can probably tell by now this technique is basic, and gets right to the point. Regardless of whether you lean the hypnosis for weight loss technique when you are deep in trance or simply by consciously repeating the process in your daily life, the process is simple. Always be training yourself to eat when you are hungry, enjoy each bite completely, eat until you are full and then stop eating. Remember less is more.

About the Author

Peter Hill is a hypnotist, write and public speaker on the subject of hypnosis for weight loss. He runs an informational website with articles, podcasts, and hypnosis mp3s. To take advantage of all this and more make sure to check out Peter’s site at http://www.hypnosisweightlossnow.com

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