5 Steps to Successful Self-Hypnosis

Self-hypnosis, or auto hypnosis, is a form of hypnosis which is self-induced. It is traditionally used therapeutically alongside hypnotherapy but these days is increasingly used to improve sports performance, for personal motivation and so on.

Here are five tips which will help you to get the most out of self-hypnosis

1. Know what you want

It is very important to think positively, focusing on what you want rather than what you don’t want. It is generally more effective if you can focus on feelings associated with the thing rather than on the thing itself.

2. Take ownership

Once you have figured out what it is you want, try to imagine and especially feel that you already possess it, and use as many of your senses as you can to reinforce this feeling, whilst you are in a hypnotic state.

3. Remove obstacles

Large goals can seem unachievable, and in this case the best approach is to break the goal down into several smaller and more easily achievable goals. You need to work out the things that get in the way of you getting the thing that you want and then you need to actively work to remove these fears and doubts by thinking and feeling your way around them while under hypnosis.

4. Trust the power of your own mind

This is the hardest step for many people. Having put things in place, as described above, you need to relax and let go of things, and wait for your unconscious mind to work on achieving your goal. This is a little like when you try to look at a very faint, far away star. Sometimes the more you try to look at it the less able you are to see it and actually the best way to bring it into focus is to look at another star a little distance away (but still close) to the one you are trying to look at.

5. Recognise success when you see it.

Sometimes the thing you are looking for will appear in a recognizable form, but sometimes it will appear in a slightly different way. For example, you might be hoping to have a child and start to think about fostering and realize how good a foster parent you would be, and how the experience of fostering would be extremely rewarding for you. You need to know your own mind.

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