Self Hypnosis to help you sleep.
Do you ever suffer from occasional Insomnia? Are you stressed out so much that you can’t fall asleep? Here is sample from our powerful sleep self hypnosis session “RememberSleep”.
Not only will this recording relax you completely, when you listen to the full version repeatedly, it will become easier and easier to fall asleep when you want.
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How often do you receive compliments? How many people today told you that you can achieve anything or that you are a wonderful person? Personally I don’t think we hear the good stuff enough. This podcast offers a relaxing listening experience that will give you many positive affirmations.
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This podcast features a sample from our Weight Loss Program “Begin To Be Thin”. Here we pick up at session 4.
Begin To Be Thin is a weight loss coaching audio program that features 6 weight loss coaching sessions and 3 hypnosis audio sessions. Altogether the program has over 4 hours of powerful audio and comes with a 65 page personal workbook.
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With what’s happening in the World and the pressure that people find themselves under to make ends meet, it’s no wonder that people are stressed out. Being stressed continuously can put significant strain on our bodies and cause adrenaline trickle which leads to a feeling of tiredness and lack of energy. The strain of being stressed out can also affect our health be reducing the effectiveness of our immune system. The result is we get sick more often and potentially open the door to more serious conditions.
If you want to reduce the amount of stress in your life, the first thing to do is turn off the noise. Stop listening to News and Commercial Advertising on the TV and Radio. The news is filled with stuff that will keep you stressed, sometimes ignorance is truly bliss. Besides, if something really important happens and it becomes necessary to evacuate your city, I’m sure someone you know will tell you all about it, whether you ask or not.
Commercial advertising uses a wide variety of imagery, words and sound to get you to link potential pleasure or avoiding potential pain to the products being offered, even though the relationships of the product or service to the pain or pleasure may not really exist. The information is also streamed to you at a very high rate, including images that change so quickly that it becomes difficult to follow them consciously… but your unconscious sees everything. So if you like being manipulated and programmed, keep on watching… after all how to you spell relief? Feel young have a…. and what is the REAL THING?
Take time to relax and put your body into a state of rest and repair. Guided Hypnosis relaxation is a great way to relax and let go of stress. Why does Hypnosis work so well for relaxation? It’s the language and tone that is used that allows you unconscious mind to accept suggestions for complete relaxation without evaluating or criticizing the suggestions. Options are given such as “in a moment you may notice that your right leg may become more relaxed that your left leg, or perhaps its the left leg that’s the right leg for you to just let go now”. This type of language delivered in a soothing tone is just nice to listen to and pretty soon as you listen you’ll just feel yourself letting go and relaxing to a level that is way deeper that you can typically achieve on your own.
So if you are stressed out and need to relax, get re-centered and grounded, then give Guided Hypnosis a try.
Here are some of our recordings that can help you.
A Walk Along the Beach – Nothing is more relaxing than a walk along the beach!
Have more energy with Hypnosis – Perfect for after work relaxation and de-stressing
Positive Affirmations II – Nothing but positive affirmations and relaxation
Hypnosis for Self Confidence – Build self confidence while you relax completely
Improve your self confidence in 15 minutes
I used to be frighteningly under confident in social situations. And although people who know me now would never believe I used to doubt myself so much I literally had to learn confidence until it became a natural part of me. I can tell you relaxed optimistic confidence is just, well so much more fun.
Here I’ll tell you about the things that made the most difference to my confidence levels…
Some people have naturally high levels of confidence but everybody can learn to be more confident
Firstly, it’s important to get a clear idea of what self confidence really means, otherwise you won’t know when you’ve got it! So, self confidence means:
1) Being calm. For every situation in life you need to run on the appropriate level of emotion. Too much emotional ‘leakage’ into a experience can spoil the experience. You make great strides towards confidence when you begin to relax in a greater range of situations.
2) Being cool. The second part of self confidence is about being able to relax with uncertainty. To be ‘cool’ in a situation really means relaxing with not knowing how things will pan out. If you truly tolerate uncertainty, you can do pretty much anything.
3) Not being too concerned with what others think of you. You know when you imagine what some place is going to be like before you go there but when you get there it is totally different to your imagination? That’s how reliable your imagination is! Stop trusting your imagination so much. I’ve long since stopped bothering to imagine what others think of me because so often I’ve turned out to be wrong.
4) Being specific – where do you want confidence? ‘Confidence’ is meaningless until you tie it to something specific. You are already confident that you can read these words or can switch a light on and off. So you don’t need more confidence everywhere. To get what you want in life you have to establish exactly what you do want. Where do you want confidence in your life? Think about the specific situations now and write them down. You beginning to steer your brain towards confidence.
5) Understanding that what you expect is what you get. Your brain is an organ that needs clear goals to work towards. When a task has been set in your brain it will do everything it can do to bring about the completion of that task. If you’ve tried to recall someone’s name but can’t, hours later you’ll often find their name pops into your head.
The ‘trying to recall’ experience set the task or blueprint for your brain’s future subconscious behaviour which eventually produced the name for you – when you weren’t thinking about it consciously. You can use this natural mechanism to start feeling more confident. But, to ensure you set the right task for your subconscious mind, the next point is vital.
6) Don’t task your mind with negatives. Instead of: ‘I don’t want to screw up’ (which sets the task of ’screwing up’ for your brain), set the blueprint for what you do want! Your brain doesn’t work towards what to do by being told what not to do. And nature has given you a wonderful natural tool to set the right task blueprints with.
7) Use nature’s goal-setter: Now you understand how vital it is to set the right task for you brain, you need to know how to do this reliably. Good hypnosis will strongly ‘program’ the right blueprint in your mind through the use of your imagination. If you powerfully imagine feeling confident and relaxed while in a relaxed hypnotic state it will be hard for your unconscious mind to do anything else. The blueprint for relaxation has been set firmly into your subconscious mind.
3 simple strategies to get you feeling confident quickly:
1) Think specifically of the time/place/situation you want to feel confident in. Remember ‘confidence’ doesn’t mean anything until you attach it to something specific.
2) Focus on words in your mind right now that describe how you do want to be in that time and place. Maybe words such as ‘calm’, ‘relaxed’ or ‘focused’. Remember your brain works on clear positive instructions.
3) Close your eyes for as long as you like and think about how those words feel. Then, imagine the situation itself and rehearse it in your mind feeling confident and relaxed. This way you set the right blueprint or ‘task’ for your unconscious mind.
You can repeat this often to make it more effective and use it with as many areas of your life as you need to. If you listen to a hypnotic cd or download that can make the benefits even more powerful (see my profile below). So if you feel like you’d be blessed with less confidence than some other people you can start redressing the balance by using your mind in the right way right now.
It took me years to learn how to be more confident – now you can do it in a fraction of the time. Good luck!
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Article by Mark Tyrrell of Hypnosis Downloads.com.
7 Public Speaking Survival Tips
I used to be terrified of public speaking – now it’s natural and fun.
Dry mouth, fast heart, sweaty palms, blank mind – yeah I’ve been there! It’s easy to fear public speaking. But I was never just content with overcoming fear. I wanted to be a great speaker. What I needed was a way of calming down and applying simple techniques and strategies to talk like a pro.
When I’d learned to relax (more of that later) I learned and applied the following four steps.
How do you become confident enough to apply the four steps?
Here’s some tips some of which are practical some of which are to do with the way you think about your public presentations and also how you can start to change the way you feel about them.
Tip One
Breath your way to calm. When you breath out you relax that’s why people sigh when they’re stressed.
Breathing in without breathing out causes hyperventilation and worsens anxiety. Just before your speech take five minutes breathing in to the count of seven and out to the count of eleven (quick count-not seconds!). On the out breath hold it a second before breathing in again. This will produce quick and lasting calm. Remember extending the out breath calms you down.
Tip Two
You have a responsibility as the presenter but relax you don’t carry all the responsibility. Presenting is a team effort. Audiences are responsible for politeness, extending their attention and attempting to learn. It’s not all you-it’s a meeting of two halves. Never mind how they judge you. How do you judge them?
Tip Three
Use metaphor and stories. We all experience life metaphorically. The most technical logical person spends at least two hours a night dreaming! Talk detail if necessary but present patterns with metaphors. Folk from 4 to 104 love stories. Use em.
Tip four
Captivate attention by using words that evoke all the senses. Describe how things look, sound, feel, smell and taste. Paint pictures and sensations in their minds with your words.
Tip Five
Vary your voice tonality and speed of delivery. Keep them alert and engaged. Convey energy when need be and slow down when you need to ‘draw them in close.’ You are the conductor to their orchestra. And pepper your talk with humour. Your willingness to be funny shows personal confidence and confidence is contagious.
Tip Six
Tell them what they are going to get. What they are currently getting and then what they have got from you. Sell your sizzle!
Tip Seven
Watch and learn from other great speakers until compelling, relaxed speaking is a part of you.
Rehearse positively. You need to rehearse how your going to feel as well as what you are going to present. Don’t think about your forthcoming presentation whilst feeling nervous as this creates an instinctive association between fear and presenting. This natural negative self-hypnosis is very common with nervous speakers.
Hypnotically rehearse your speech whilst feeling relaxed. This produces the right ‘blueprint’ in your mind. In fact when you do this enough times it actually becomes hard to be nervous!
All great speakers know how to use great self-hypnotic rehearsal. Hypnosis changes attitudes and can bring emotion under control. I used hypnosis, to change my instincts around public speaking. Now I just can’t get nervous whether it’s 50 or 500 people. The world needs great communicators. Go for it!
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Article by Mark Tyrrell of Hypnosis Downloads.com.
Reassuring Reasons why Hypnosis is your Friend
Believe the hype or think for yourself
For too long hypnosis has had a bad or ‘difficult’ press. If a person doesn’t understand something they have 3 options open to them.
1) They might be sceptical and therefore save the trouble of looking further and possibly benefiting.
2) They may conclude it is dangerous and to be avoided at all costs.
3) They may spend time discovering the truth behind the hype.
If you don’t know much about a topic it’s easy to be suspicious. Some people assume hypnosis is akin to a carnival side show, others consider it mystic mumbo jumbo or ‘mind control.’ For those who look beyond the hype the truth is far more illuminating.
The most powerful tool you possess
There are potentially huge benefits for those who use hypnosis as part of everyday life. When you understand hypnosis you start to see its potential to improve human performance in the physical, emotional and intellectual realms. For me, rumour, gossip and suspicion weren’t good enough.
I determined to learn all I could about hypnosis – I learned every fact and practised every technique under the sun. I took several training courses – some good, some terrible. I invested thousands of hours of devoted study to hypnosis and discovered just what is possible. I hypnotised friends, neighbours and work colleagues. Hypnosis greatly changed things for me on a personal level
How hypnosis helped me
I used to be shy. Thanks to hypnosis I can now talk to thousands at a time and can approach anybody calmly and confidently.
I used to have poor concentration and procrastinate; thanks to hypnosis I can instantly motivate myself.
I used to find physical work outs and exercise exhausting but because of hypnosis I am now in the best shape of my life.
Incidentally I also stopped myself blushing with hypnosis. Now if ever I have a difficult call or conversation coming up, something I may naturally feel reluctant to do (you know the kind of thing) I spontaneously self hypnotise and rehearse the upcoming situation feeling good, with myself remaining calm. In this way I habitually set my own emotional ‘blue prints’ for up coming situations. Having said that it’s naturally that some people have concerns or half digested ‘hand me down’ ideas regarding hypnosis. A common one is the one about ‘mind control.’ However what does this really mean?
Why you are more in control of yourself in hypnosis
If someone expresses concerns about being ‘controlled’ in hypnosis what they mean is they don’t want to be like a robot, an automaton that is forced to obey the every whim of the hypnotist. We can’t help but influence others but we don’t control them. To understand why you need to understand hypnosis better.
So what is hypnosis like?
Hypnosis isn’t like a coma. It’s not unconsciousness – more a subtle shifting of consciousness. In hypnosis, you can still think logically but you also have access to the ’software’ of your mind so that you can update instinctive emotional and physical responses. In fact the hypnotised subject (not the hypnotist) calls the shots. When I hypnotise someone I need to go at their speed and respond to their needs and expectations. Hypnosis will give you more control in your own life because of what it enables you to do.
How can I be so sure?
Because over the decades I’ve seen all kinds of people, all ages and from all backgrounds turn their lives around thanks to hypnosis. When you use hypnosis for yourself it improves confidence in all kinds of ways. When you use it to change other’s lives it just blows you away. This is what I mean.
When I first hypnotised someone to feel no sensation in a painful arthritic arm it was an incredible feeling. When I first cured life long phobias quickly and comfortably I was astounded. When I stopped hardened alcoholics from drinking and even got a heroin addict off the stuff and back into mainstream life again I started to feel angry that people could just associate hypnosis with entertainment.
With the aid of hypnosis I (and many people I have trained and worked with) have helped severely depressed people feel strong and positive again. The rewards and satisfactions are hard to describe. I’m going to take a stand against ignorance and short sightedness around hypnosis and here’s why.
Why you need to reclaim hypnosis for yourself
Hypnosis is your birthright. It’s nature’s optimum learning tool. In fact to learn and perform anything well you need to experience a natural focussing of attention, a natural kind of hypnosis. To be successful hypnosis needs to be your companion and friend.
Successful people use it naturally all the time because hypnosis is natural. It’s the way we learn new responses. Unlike medications its side effects are purely positive – one expectant mother I worked with to feel relaxed during child birth later reported that she was also more relaxed when flying!
Hypnosis is easy to learn and every body can benefit. Hypnosis is a safe environment to ‘try out’ new behaviours and emotional patterns before you experience them for real. So the young man can ask a woman out for a date many times in calm relaxed hypnosis so that by the time he does it for real it feels real and natural and relaxed. Sports people who use hypnosis learn new quicker and more accurately. So hypnosis gives you more control of yourself and your life, it’s natural and gives you instant benefits and it’s a way of ‘trying on’ and establishing new patterns of emotional response and behaviour, Hypnosis enables you to develop yourself as a human being.
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Article by Mark Tyrrell of Hypnosis Downloads.com.
What are eye access cues and how can we use them to help us build rapport and engage people in conversation more deeply? Learn how watching someone’s eye movements can provide you with important information on their decision strategies, enable you to tell if they are lying and even seem like you are able to read their mind.
The fact is that when people communicate they access a variety of different areas of the brain in order to create internal representations such as pictures, sounds and feelings. Knowing how the eyes move can provide critical insights for sales people, relationship building and more.
Do you find yourself out of control when it comes to food? Do you CRAVE certain foods and feel you have no control? This video will teach you a really powerful technique to help you elminate unmanageable food cravings. First we’ll examine how a craving in created in the mind, then we’ll learn how to change the process so that the craving can be reduced to a managable level or even eliminated.
There are always different ways to look at any situation in life. This nlp video blog entry explores reframing and how we can use a different perspective to get new ideas about how to handle the problems in our lives. When we change the way we look at things, the things we look a change.
Learn about anchoring and how to create positive and powerful states whenever you need them. In this video blog entry, Master Hypnotist and NLP Practitioner Alan reveals how you can use positive anchoring to change your mood and be more resourceful in any situation. NLP provides us with the ability to instantly change our state and be the best we can be in any situation.
Sit back and experience some real hypnosis as Master Hypnotist Alan guides you into a state of mental and physical relaxation. In this Hypnosis experience, you’ll get a sense of what hypnosis is all about and how it’s not a process that someone is doing to you, but rather something you do to yourself with the hypnotist acting as a guide and facilitator. All hypnosis is self hypnosis.
Listen and enjoy feeling relaxed and at easte
Exploring how your can change Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic ( VAK ) elements in past memories and experiences to reduce the emotional impact of negative past events while increasing the emotional impact of positive events so those strengths can help us to be more resourceful.
Watch this amazing card trick and you’ll really be amazed to discover the real secret behind this amazing trick. In life we often get what we focus on and this demonstration proves this to be true. Those who are skilled in directing your attention can either show you what they want to you see, or hide what they don’t. Being aware and not relying on your raw senses can help you to discover the truth about many situations you may find yourself in.
In this edition of my Hypnosis and NLP video blog, we take a look at cause and effect. Are you making things happen in your life or are you just along for the ride? Knowing how to move to the cause side of the “cause and effect equation” can help put you in the driver’s seat of your life.
Have you ever been frustrated because your two year old won’t do what you want them to? Have you ever wished you knew what to say to avoid an argument or tantrum? With Talking to Toddlers you can significantly reduce the stress of raising a child, which in turn will reduce the amount of stress in your household and your relationship.
Talking to Toddlers is a 3 hour audio program that teaches parents how to effectively use NLP patterns in their communications in order to improve their children’s behaviour. According the the author, Chris Thompson, “My audio program will give you the tools you need to fix these problems forever. The best part is that your kids will want to do what you ask. You’ll all be much happier, and the screaming can stop.”
Here are just some of the problems you may be experiencing with your child:
This audio program will teach you how to communicate in new ways that reduce resistance, turn fights into laughter and allow you to get back to enjoying your child!
To learn more about Chris and the Talking to Toddlers audio program Click Here!
Is it possible to be having a conversation with someone without even being aware that this person is giving you suggestions, winning you over and controlling the direction of the conversation? Yes it is!
Although people are generally trying to persuade people all the time, conversational Hypnosis interweaves Hypnotic techniques in a seemingly normal conversation to persuade the listener at an unconscious level. When a listener is aware of the techniques, it can help them by reducing the effect and giving them the opportunity to end the conversation if they choose.
Technique 1:Linking one thing to another.
Although there is no relationship between two subjects, the trained conversational hypnotist can create one by saying something like… “An the fact that you’re here now listening to me means that you can make that decision easily”…what? What does the fact that your there, listening have to do with making a decision…everything now, because as the person says “you are here now listening…”, you’re internally agreeing with the statement because it’s true…and while your agreeing, the rest gets accepted at an unconscious level more easily. After all, the fact that your reading this article means that you’ve already begun to feel better about strengthening your defenses against such tactics…doesn’t it?
Technique 2: Imbedded commands.
When having a conversation, the Hypnotist can deliver messages that will be recognized as independent commands by the Unconscious mind. This is achieved by change tone, timing or analog marking a statement within a conversation. For example someone might say “It’s a nice day to go to the park. I like it there because…you can really relax….in a place like that.” In this example, “you can really relax” is the command that is being given. This is said with a slightly different pace or tone, or the person may change the way they look at you when they say it. This marks out that part of the statement just enough for you to notice unconsciously. If you are listening to someone who is really good at imbedded commands, you won’t consciously know that you’ve been given a command at all, unless you know what to look for and now you do and can…feel good about it!
Technique 3: Vague language.
Hypnotists use vague language to allow people to relate their own experiences to what is being discussed. For example, “there have been times in your life when you enjoyed learning something new, times when you just found that…learning is easy… and allows you to…experience a sense of satisfaction…that is empowering and makes you…feel good… about all the decisions you make.” In this example we used vague language…”times in your life when you enjoyed learning something” could be applied to anything learned and even though we don’t know what the listener has picked as an experience, we link it up with the embedded commands…”learning is easy”, “experience a sense of satisfaction” and “feel good”. Later in the conversation when we ask the same person to make a decision, they are more likely to….feel good…. about the decision they are making, aren’t they?
This gives you some idea about how people can use these 3 techniques to persuade you during what appears to be a regular conversation. By having an initial outcome in mind (knowing what they want out of the conversation), these technique can be used in even more powerful ways to persuade the listener to make supportive internal representations, relate past experiences to future decisions and give direct instructions to the unconscious mind with through embedded suggestions that lead to the outcome they have in mind.
Would you like to learn how to use the power of Self Hypnosis to Relax, De-Stress and make personal changes? Here’s one step by step method to put yourself into a deeply relaxing trance.
Step by Step Self Hypnosis Instructions:
1 ) Find a quiet place where you can sit or lay down and not be disturbed.
2 ) Say OUT LOUD how long you want the trance to last. ie: “I am going into trance for 20 minutes”.
3 ) State OUT LOUD the purpose of going into trance. ie: “I am going into trance so that my unconscious mind can find new ways to help feel more relaxed every day”.
4 ) State OUT LOUD “when I awaken I will be wide awake, alert and refreshed”, or if going to sleep soon, “when I awaken I will be relaxed and ready for a wonderful night’s sleep”.
5 ) Make sure your hands and feet are not touching each other (this can make trance difficult).
6 ) Pick a spot on the ceiling or wall just above your natural line of site (so your eyes have to look in a slightly upwards direction in order to focus on the object). If you are outside then perhaps you can pick a spot on a tree or a single bright star if it is in the evening.
7 ) Fix your eyes on the object you are looking at and begin to notice everything about how the object looks. Notice the colour, the shape, how the light reflects off it, focus on it an notice everything about how it looks.
8 ) Close your eyes and continue to imagine you can still see the object (if you lose focus, open your eyes and look at the object until you are ready to close your eyes and continue to imagine or visualize it).
9 ) Stay focused on the image of the object in your minds’ eye as you begin notice all of the sounds around you. Notice each sound, notice the volume, the pitch and even notice the sounds within the sounds or the silence in between the sounds.
10 ) As you keep noticing the object and the sounds, also notice how your body is being supported, how you hands feel, the temperature of the air, notice how comfortable you are and then allow yourself to become even more comfortable by allowing your muscles to relax..
11 ) As you continue to focus on all of these things, you will push your conscious ability to keep track of them to the limit. Since we can consciously only focus on 5-9 things at any given time (for NLPers 7+-2) pushing the conscious awareness beyond this causes trance to occur.
12 ) Now you can notice more internal things such as your breathing and your internal thoughts as you just let it all go… after all it is far to much trouble to keep track of all those things….
After just a few minutes you will find yourself in a dream like state that feels really nice. Your senses will be heightened not hindered and you will be aware of everything around you even though you won’t care about any of it. Of course, should anything happen that disturbs you or requires your attention, you can end the process at any time.
When doing this the first few times, you can set a cell phone alarm or something to make sure you don’t stay in trace too long. Doing this will help you to not pre-judge whether or not it’s time to come back to the surface. It’s amazing how accurate your internal clock is. If you trust your unconscious mind, you will come out of trance at the time you stated. Beginners may find that they consciously wonder if it’s time yet… but just trust the REAL you to know when.
Self Hypnosis is great for de-stressing, relaxation, improving performance, helping with weight loss, increasing optimism and helping you fall asleep. However, for more serious issues, you may wish to enlist the services of a Certified Hypnotist/Psychotherapist or Psychologist that uses Hypnosis.
Listening to Hypnosis Recordings are a great way to learn how to go into a trance. Once your unconscious mind learns how to go there, it’s amazing how quickly and easily to can acheive this state on your own, virtually anywhere.
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