Hypnosis Articles

Formal hypnotic inductions are designed to introduce an experiential change in the subject. Although stage hypnotists nowadays use all sorts of spectacular-looking rapid inductions, and although there seem to be about as many (largely interchangeable) variations of those as there are hypnotists, the traditional hypnoti

Putting a positive spin on coping with disappointment is easy when you use a few simple tricks. Here are 10 easy-to-use techniques to keep in mind when dealing with disappointment: 1. CONGRATULATE YOURSELF Yes, that's right, congratulate yourself for having enough hope in the first place to have gotten disappointed. Ma

Remote Viewing For You Is there life on other planets? Why not go and see for yourself. And that goes for anywhere else you'd like to travel, whether on Earth, the moon, the sun, quasars, pulsars, black holes, and so forth, including the Akashic Records. The whole Universe is available for you ...

Affirmation is a statement of an idea you desire to \"make firm\", to impress upon your subconscious mind, so that eventually it begins to work for you automatically. \ There are many different ways to practice self-hypnosis, and writing affirmations is one of them. As you keep on working with ...

"There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?" -Peace Pilgrim \ We come into this world freely expressing ourselves, and then slowly but ...

When anger is repressed, it is accompanied by self destructive thoughts and a feeling of dissatisfaction. The loss of self esteem is of central importance to those suffering from depression (repressed anger can lead to depression). Boys are taught to release their anger and girls are taught it is the social norm to con

Success in most personal endeavors, especially striving for school excellence, has much more to do with motivation and good work habits than it does with innate abilities. The vast majority of people certainly have the mental faculties and capacity to learn necessary for success in school. The ...

Covert hypnotic techniques can be difficult to master since there are so many parts to each technique that you must learn, and be confident in, in order to see positive results.n One of the main mistakes people make when practicing covert hypnotic techniques is that they will perform a script, ...

Would you marry a man or woman with untreated bipolar disorder? \ Bipolar disorder is characterized by mental highs and lows. For some sufferers, the highs and lows can last for months. For others, it's relative in that the highs can last for hours and the lows can last for hours. \ Dating a bipolar individua

Most of us experience hunger as anything but joyful. When pangs of hunger strike, most of us experience them as the enemy. Often hunger makes us confused, tired, and irritable. Worst of all; hunger pains can lead us to overeat, or to eat sweets and other junk food. Under the dire influence of hunger, we fear we will lo

Are you continually worried about paying the bills? Have problems and family situations? Frustration, concerns? Are you burnt out?

The Psychology of a Confident Golf Swing Part one. \ Before focusing on the subject of developing confidence with ones golf swing I want you all to think about this notion; you cannot just \"Think\" yourself a wonderful golf swing. Otherwise, we would all just think about pots of gold arriving in ...

If you're a visual person by nature, you can probably appreciate the power of visualization during hypnosis. When we see things, they become much more real to us than if they are simply described. This is why most hypnotherapists, and self-hypnosis recordings, make good use of visualization, in order to deepen and enha

Controlling your weight and avoiding weight gain as you get older are important ways to prevent a host of weight-related health problems. Indeed, if you are more than 20 pounds over your ideal weight, you are at greater risk for a rogues’ gallery of potentially deadly conditions, including diabetes, high blood pressu

People often debate the effectiveness of hypnosis, NLP or subliminal messaging. Some even dispute that one or all of these techniques work at all. So it is only natural to be skeptical and ask yourself if listening to audio recordings can benefit you in any way. \ What are subliminal messages? \ For those

With an increasing number of vehicles traversing the highways of the world a higher degree of driving confidence is required to enable one to step out of their usual comfort zone. To drive on an unfamiliar road can be very daunting to many a driver. Roads and road systems can be very different from one side of a town t

A SURVIVOR'S STORY When Joe came into my office last February, he was very distraught. He had already failed the Bar once and his confidence was at an all time low. Each time he took a practice test, he would just freeze up. Joe had all of the classic symptoms of test anxiety. Since there were ...

The death of a loved one is always a devastating experience, and no one can be expected to come to terms with it quickly. With our aging population, many Baby Boomers are now caring for aging parents who pass away in their care. Grieving is a natural process that allows us gradually to take in the reality of our new si

What is self-talk? Self-talk is the internal voice that each one of us has inside our head. Sometimes it says positive things and at other times it says negative things. This voice acts as a narrator as we think about and interpret situations on a day-to-day basis. This internal self-talk ...

I would like you to consider this for a moment. As you sit there and read this expose, information is entering your mind through your eyes. But you are also absorbing various sounds, feeling bodily feelings like the pressure of the chair touching your buttocks and back, the feeling of the ...

Being stalked on facebook is not a pleasant experience. I wonder in actual fact how many people have been stalked on facebook? When one thinks about stalking the first scenario which pops to mind is one of a man obsessively following a woman with some sort of physically abusive intent. r

Chronic pain can be debilitating, and even pain that isn't lasting can severely impact our quality of life. For this reason, the ability to control pain with hypnosis has come into the public eye a great deal recently. Many of us live with pain every day. Arthritis, fibromyalgia, and depression are just a few chronic d

Making Peace with Yourselfr By Dr, Janolyn F Moore, PhD "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Do not be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Do not let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And, most important, have the co

Here is a script I have written that helps the patient to relax. This session takes the patient on a journey to the sea, to swim with dolphins. The patient may take many different benefits from this session, it is often quite a personal experience. Often patients benefit from feeling calmer and more relaxed, and gain s

I was doing a presentation about entering hypnosis as a profession to a group of sixty or so teenagers, when it happened. I mentioned that I had helped a number of people get rid of unusual fears, and one of the young women in the audience stood up and announced that she had an unusual fear. Then she insisted that I help her with it right then and there. I hesitated, because there was only a brief bit if time left before another group was due to use the room. However, she wa

There are five stages that need to be carried out to effectively hypnotize someone... 1) Induction - This is where the willing victim is put into a state of mind where their sub (or un) conscious is paying more attention than their conscious is. This means that the person will not only be more susceptible to your commands but also because their conscious mind isn't paying attentions they won't even remember it! Induction is typically done by making the participant concentrate

Hypnosis is a fascination field of study - it's a way of exploring the unchartered territories of our minds.n Hypnosis has been successfully used for medical, therapeutic, business and personal matters.n Just a couple of months ago, the Queen Fabiola of Belgium at the age of 80 years used ...

Andrew was a very handsome and fit twenty-seven year old. He self-referred for therapy because he confused about what to do with his relationship. He had first met Cherie five years ago when they had an instant attraction, but because she was already in relationship, they only saw each other as friends and did not have

A few years back…well actually more than a few… I practiced traditional therapy. I used to call it peeling the onion. It took months, even years to slough off layers of denial, misinformation, myths, fears and get to the often forgotten root cause of an issue. Although my clients’ efforts were highly productive,

Anxiety and guilt about sex often relates to masturbation. Common judgements and old wives tales include warnings that your hand will shrivel up and fall off, or you’ll grow hair on the back of your hand or your hair will fall out. Apparently, the earliest Encyclopaedia of Sex advises that masturbation will cause you

The surprising fact is that many conditions can be improved by visualization and weight loss is one of them. It works like this: you keep a vision in your mind of how you want your body to look, and subconsciously you will begin acting in a way that will go in that direction. You become much more positive about your bo

A fear of lifts may take many forms. Sometimes this fear can be felt as a vague unease, whilst at other times these tingles of anxiety can morph into a full blown panic attack. Anxiety over anything does indeed tend to escalate over time; what begins as a vague feeling of discomfort turns into a completely debilitating

How many inner conversations have you had with yourself about your smoking addiction? How many times have you mentioned to family and friends that you want to stop but seem to go on smoking despite the dangers and the expense? And how many therapies have you tried that just didn't succeed? If you are like most people a

Whether you can or you cannot do something usually depends upon your chosen patterns of thought. If you put yourself down you will find that your own thoughts are what get in the way of your happiness and success. When you put yourself down you set in motion a cycle of negative effect. From an individual perspective yo

Visualization is a great technique to have in order to make yourself more focused and driven to complete your objectives. If you find it difficult to maintain your concentration, then you might be carrying some very unhealthy thoughts that keep you from optimizing your ability to make mental projections of your desires

Are you looking for a way to make your thoughts better organized, so that you can process new information more efficiently and learn new things faster? You have probably tried several techniques for this, but you just cannot seem to get anywhere near where you want to be. It is only natural to experience difficulty whe

Most people who say they can’t be hypnotized don’t really understand what hypnosis is. Take Joe, for instance. He had been suffering from insomnia for years. When he came into my office, he was skeptical about whether hypnosis could help. He said he didn’t think he could be hypnotized, but that ...

The article “Hypnosis in Treating Symptoms of Major Depression” by Michael Yapko was recently republished in the Australian Journal of Clinical Hypnotherapy & Hypnosis after having appeared in the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis. The article outlines some of the current treatments available for depression and

Why Diabetics Don’t Take Better Care of Themselves And What Can Be Done About It By Devin Hastings, President of the MN. Institute of Advanced Communication Skills A common complaint among all health care professionals who deal with diabetics is that many diabetics just don’t do the simple thin

People who started from the bottom and were able build their own fortunes share a similar mindset. They are highly driven and very proactive towards going after opportunities that will allow them to increase their wealth. There is a way to get into this frame of mind, listening to a millionaire mindset hypnosis mp3 wil

Self hypnosis can be a powerful tool when used correctly. Unfortunately, many people fall into a deadly trap that sabotages their success and prevents them from achieving the results they want. If you've tried self hypnosis and have not achieved the results you want, this article will explain why. This article is one in a series on how to write your own self hypnosis script. The insights you'll gain from this article will be equally valuable for uncovering and avoiding self s

If you've ever had an argument with someone you know how easily things can go sour. Everyone has deeply held beliefs and convictions they don't like to have challenged. If I could show you a simple way to persuade someone without challenging their beliefs would you be interested? If so, read on. In any situation there

Understanding Depression Symptoms \ Feeling sad, or down every so often is a normal; we live in a fast paced, demanding, stressful society, a we often have little or no social support system. Life can sometimes be depressing, but when these mild feelings of depression linger, you may be suffering from a real depr

OCD hypnosis – ok, enough of that but you get the point OCD can be a very, very big problem for anyone who has it. There are few mainstream treatments for OCD and they only suppress the disorder. Meaning they don’t actually treat the OCD, hypnosis however can not only suppress the condition but actually it can get rid of it.rn rnHow does OCD hypnosis work? Hypnosis for OCD works just like any other hypnosis, if you have OCD it is probably because at some point when you we

Has it ever occurred to you that you can possibly utilize self hypnosis as your tool for your weight concerns?|To alleviate you of your weight problems, has it ever occurred to you that you could make use of self hypnosis? If ever you have, then perhaps your are not the sole individual who is assuming that. In point of fact, there are a lot of people all around the planet who have either been interested in the process while they are deciding to lose weight, or have by now mad

One of the most debilitating things of all must be to suffer from agoraphobia. To not be able to go out and walk around freely, or to just pop to the shop to buy a pint of milk or simply cross a street makes life very, very difficult. People who suffer from agoraphobia are affected in varying degrees. For some the anxi

If you are trying to quit smoking cigarettes, you know how challenging it is to crush this harmful habit. However, it is possible, and half of all adult smokers are able to succeed in quitting smoking forever. Many smokers succeed in quitting smoking cigarettes by replacing them with new, ...

Motivational interviewing (MI) refers to a counselling approach in part developed by clinical psychologists Professor William R Miller, Ph.D. and Professor Rollnick Ph.D. It is a client-centered, semi-directive method of engaging intrinsic motivation to change behavior by developing discrepancy and exploring and resolv

Ever thought about about all the treatment plans that are available with regard to ADHD? Despite the fact that psycho-stimulants will be the standard treatment of ADHD, people still need a lot of questions regarding the basics. Mothers and fathers are searching for options to traditional ADHD remedies, yet need unbiase

Many people email me wanting to know how to increase luck and abundance, and how to speed up manifestation time, and perhaps even have what they need appear instantly. \ In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I wanted to a share few stories about the power of gratitude to change your experience of luck and abundance rapid