More Instant Self Hypnosis
More Instant Self Hypnosis
More Instant Self Hypnosis
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Copyright 2010 by Forbes Robbins Blair All rights reserved worldwide. No part of this may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information by storage retrieval systems except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews without permission in writing from the publisher. This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information for the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher and author is not engaged in offering medical or psychological treatment or professional advice. If you are in need of professional services, please seek the services of a competent professional. Published by Forbes Robbins Blair Edit, design & layout by Robert Morrison
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Contents
CONTENTS .................................................................................... 4 DEAR READER ............................................................................ 10 WHATS IN IT FOR YOU? ............................................................... 10 PREFACE ..................................................................................... 12 MY STORY .................................................................................. 13 MORE INSTANT SELF HYPNOSIS OVERVIEW ................................. 15 THE EASY 1-2-3 MORE ISH TECHNIQUE ........................................ 16 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................... 17 GROUNDING FOR THIS EBOOK IS ESTABLISHED............................... 18 WHATS NEW IN THIS EBOOK ......................................................... 19 PLEASE DONT SKIP AHEAD IN THIS BOOK! ..................................... 21 ONE FINAL REQUEST ................................................................... 22 CHAPTER 1: CHANGE YOUR MIND, CHANGE YOUR LIFE ...... 23 BATTLE OF THE MINDS.................................................................. 23 REPROGRAMMING MADE EASY WITH HYPNOSIS .............................. 29 WHAT ELSE YOU CAN CHANGE WITH HYPNOSIS ............................. 31 CHAPTER 2: HYPNOSIS -- THE BARE ESSENTIALS ................ 33 WHOS AFRAID OF HYPNOSIS? ...................................................... 33 CAN I REALLY BE HYPNOTIZED? ................................................. 37 RECIPE FOR HYPNOSIS ................................................................. 39 SELF-HYPNOSIS FOR PERSONAL IMPROVEMENT .............................. 45 THE IMPORTANCE OF PRACTICE AND PREPARATION......................... 47
CHAPTER 3: THE DISCOVERY OF THE INSTANT SELF HYPNOSIS (ISH) METHOD .......................................................... 49 WHY ISH WORKS SO WELL .......................................................... 51 CHAPTER 4: YOUR FIRST SESSION AND THE MASTER INDUCTION 2.0 ................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. THE MORE ISH METHOD: HOW AND WHY IT WORKS ................ ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. YOU MAY OR MAY NOT FEEL HYPNOTIZED... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. YOUR FIRST SESSION .................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. PREPARATION AND READING INSTRUCTIONS ... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. DONT WORRY, DONT THINK, JUST READ! ..... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. MASTER INDUCTION 2.0 ............... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. WAS I REALLY HYPNOTIZED WITH MASTER INDUCTION 2.0? ..... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. AFTER MASTER INDUCTION 2.0 WHAT DO I DO NOW? ........... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. CHAPTER 5: FORTY-EIGHT (48) MORE ISH SCRIPTS ..... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. FOR EXCELLENT RESULTS, ADOPT THE YES ATTITUDE ........... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. ARE YOU MOTIVATED? ................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. REACH YOUR GOAL BETTER BY REPEATING YOUR SESSIONS ...ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. HOW TO FAIL WITH MORE ISH ........ ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
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Stop Worrying ........................ Error! Bookmark not defined. BONUS SECTION ............... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. ABOUT THE BONUS SECTION ..................................................... 55 BONUS #1: ENHANCE THE IMPACT OF THE SCRIPTS ......................... 56 BONUS #2: DEEPER INSTANT SELF-HYPNOSIS ................................ 58 Super Deepening Script ......... Error! Bookmark not defined. Ultra Deepening Script ........... Error! Bookmark not defined. BONUS #3: ABOUT RAPID ISH INDUCTION .... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. Rapid Induction Script ............ Error! Bookmark not defined. BONUS #4: SCRIPT TO INSTANTLY HYPNOTIZE OTHERS .......... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. Modified Version of Master Induction 2.0 .... Error! Bookmark not defined. BONUS #5: EVERYDAY SELF-HYPNOSIS ......... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. How I Discovered Everyday Self Hypnosis .... Error! Bookmark not defined. Achieving Everyday Self Hypnosis Easily Step by Step Error! Bookmark not defined. Combining Techniques for Optimum Impact.. Error! Bookmark not defined. More Information Available ................................................ 59 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ........................................... 60 ABOUT THE AUTHOR ................................................................. 62 ABOUT THE EDITOR-DESIGNER ............................................... 63 BOOKS AND PROGRAMS BY FORBES ..................................... 64
Instant Self-Hypnosis: How to Hypnotize Yourself with Your Eyes Open ............................................................................ 64 Self-Hypnosis Revolution: the Amazingly Simple Way to Use Self-Hypnosis to Change Your Life........................................ 64 The Genie Within: Your Wish is Granted ............................... 65
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Dear Reader
I want to welcome you to this natural expansion of the topic made popular by my best-selling book, Instant Self-Hypnosis: How to Hypnotize Yourself with Your Eyes Open (called ISH). Over the years, my readers wanted more scripts, tips and techniques. So I figured it was time for a sequel. Im very excited to present this book to you. This More Instant Self Hypnosis eBook (called More ISH) provides you with a greater number of fresh suggestion scripts -- 48. It also includes an improved Master Induction (I call it the Master Induction 2.0). And this is a more effective treatment of "eyes-open self hypnosis," so you reach your goals faster and easier. I chose to release this first as an eBook because so many readers wrote explaining why they wanted a digital edition. Some didnt want to wait for a book to arrive in the mail. Some didnt want to brave their local traffic, only to have to wait in long lines at the brick-andmortar bookstores. And several had worn out the first book anyway. So this eBook sequel is overdue.
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practical self-change youre after, this is a powerful, fast and easy method. In fact, many people start noticing positive changes the very first day they apply this method toward their goal. Isnt that something to get excited about? Id love to hear about your successes with this too. So please visit me at my website and share your experiences. Use your future success well, . . . Forbes Robbins Blair . . .
http://www.forbesrobbinsblair.com
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Preface
First, lets look at some reasons why you might be reading this book: * Youre disappointed with typical self hypnosis books, audios and methods, and you want an uncomplicated, yet effective technique. Maybe a friend recommended this book to you. Or you saw positive reviews from satisfied readers of Instant Self Hypnosis, and now youre hoping this sequel will work for you. Thousands of the readers of the original book talk about how it helped them to reach their goals. I think youll be find More ISH even more effective, in different ways. * Youre new to the self-hypnosis method. You might have heard about how easy it is to reach your goals with self hypnosis, but you havent tried it yet. Did you know that hundreds of self-growth goals can be reached or even exceeded with it? You can lose body fat, stop smoking, quit slouching, relieve stress, feel more attractive and sexier, stay positive and less anxious and support your health better. In fact, More ISH covers 48 physical, mental, emotional and even spiritual issues. And it has solid, easy-to-learn and apply techniques. If its very practical, fun and autopilot self-help you want,
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youve really found the right book. Youll understand self-hypnosis much better very soon too. * Youve already benefited from Instant SelfHypnosis and you want more ISH scripts (and a few things that werent in the first book). In this volume, youll discover three things: 1) dozens of fresh and unusual scripts not found in ISH, such as Finding Misplaced Objects, Better Golf Score, Remember Past Lives and many more, 2) a bonus script to hypnotize someone else! 3) secrets to make this hypnosis-as-you-read method even more successful for you. No matter what your reason may be, you will get results fast. After all these years, the results still surprise me.
My Story
One day in 1997, a short time after receiving my certification in hypnotherapy, as I was reading a script designed to hypnotize one of my clients -- I accidentally hypnotized myself. And this got my wheels turning. What could I learn from this? How could I make this a method that could help other people?
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I decided to experiment with this new self hypnosis method which produced such powerful results for me. I had lost my stubborn body fat, stopped procrastinating, controlled my pollen allergies, and a few other goals I was working on. And I thought, Think of the possibilities for my friends and clients! This new eyes-open self hypnosis method worked much faster and better than the traditional eyes-closed methods. I wasnt falling asleep during self hypnosis sessions anymore. And my results blew away the so-so results from the typical hypnosis audios I was using. Excited, I began to research and develop it further. Then I started teaching it at an adult learning center and at various self improvement seminars on the east coast (USA). Those testing grounds built up the number of satisfied local ISH enthusiasts to such a point, I thought, Why not make it available to as many people as possible all over the world by turning it into a book? So I wrote the book INSTANT SELF-HYPNOSIS, How to Hypnotize Yourself with Your Eyes Open, which became a bestseller and has been translated into several languages. In fact, people from all over the U.S., Europe, Australia, India, New Zealand and Japan have contacted me to tell me how my hypnosis-as-you-read method has helped them to enhance their lives. I couldnt have been happier with its success.
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Even so, I didnt stop there. Over the years that followed, I wrote more scripts, developed the method further, and improve it more. It was time for this book sequel, Im happy to say.
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With More ISH, you set your goal, apply the hypnosis induction and script appropriate for it -- and the results will materialize for you automatically.
Thats all there is to it. Just read to succeed.
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Introduction
Im sure the readers praise of my 2004 book INSTANT SELFHYPNOSIS: How to Hypnotize Yourself with Your Eyes Open has been a head-scratcher for some hypnosis professionals and self hypnosis authors. They probably thought, Who the heck is Forbes Robbins Blair? What kind of mysterious power does he possess to get people so excited about his rather simple eyes-open hypnosis method? Even Ive been surprised at the effectiveness of the ISH method and scripts. When people email to tell me that theyve: finally stopped smoking with the ISH Stop Smoking script -- after 13 years of trying with other methods lost 27 pounds in just a few months very easily by using your ISH Lose Weight script... I think, Wow! Thats incredibly gratifying! True Story: A Fortune 500 CEO encouraged me about how good the original ISH scripts really are! One of my ardent clients is a CEO of a large computer firm. He was amazed when he stopped smoking after using Instant Self-Hypnosis. He
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commissioned me to write many custom ISH scripts for him and his employees. He told me I am a different person today because of the method from your book and your scripts. He also had me write scripts for his family members, and the results were very good for them too. I felt great that my method really worked for him and his circle of influence. This is a very busy man with no time to waste on techniques that fail to deliver quickly.
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paternal suggestions containing words like no, dont, wont, because they can be very effective for a greater number of people myself included.). There is a sort of recipe for my suggestion scripts that I wont reveal here. Would a good chef reveal each of his best secrets? Another reason I believe the original book remains successful is: I kept the explanations short. Ill do the same in this book. That way, after the short opening chapters, youll be ready to put this method into practice. There will be little jargon and certainly no fluff. Just enough information to make sure you understand what youre doing. Then Ill make sure youre ready to take action correctly.
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Youll also find a new induction script, called the Master Induction 2.0. Its an improved version of the original. I recommend it to everyone new and previous readers of ISH alike. Youll find it works more effectively and faster to induce the trance state better. Chapter 5 contains (48) forty-eight scripts covering a wide variety of topics. Youll use them in conjunction with Master Induction 2.0 to reprogram your inner mind safely and effectively. Among them are scripts that address changing bad habits, improving your sex life, attracting wealth, and many more subjects. Although the scripts in the original book for smoking cessation and weight loss have been very successful for readers, Ive also included fresh ones in those two categories which are more effective and time-saving. Youll also find a Bonus Section where there are easy ways to go even deeper into hypnosis to make the scripts work better. This is an advanced section for those familiar with ISH. Heres whats included: * Theres a script for entering the hypnotic state even faster (but its for those who have been using the basic method for some time).
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* Youll discover a modified induction to hypnotize others very easily. * Youll be taught a special technique to use alongside More ISH that uses your everyday activities to catapult you to your goals faster and with less effort. * Finally, the book answers some frequently asked questions about the original method and it anticipates your questions about this book too. Whats not included: An explanation for how to create your own ISH scripts. If youd like to do that, please seek out your bookseller to get my first book, Instant Self Hypnosis.
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These opening chapters prepare you to get excellent results with More ISH to help you get closer to achieving your goals with this method!
Itll be concise and important to your success. So please take a few minutes to read the next few chapters before you get to the scripts. Itll really be worth it.
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For instance, some people come up with all sorts of logical reasons they like to smoke. They could say it makes them feel calm and relaxed, even though nicotine calms no one. For many people, the real reason they smoke is because at one time smoking helped them feel a sense of belonging to a group of peers. They smoke to tap into that sense of security all over again. When smokers hear and accept from others the nonsense about how calming smoking is or how difficult quitting is because of how addictive cigarettes are, the conscious mind clings to these rationalizations to justify the behavior. Dont feel bad, by the way, if youre a smoker who does this. We all have rationalizations for unhealthy or undesirable behavior patterns. I know I do. However, the first step in getting free of smoking, or any other undesired behavior, is to understand how our minds have fooled us into staying stuck. Once weve done that, often we may decide to finally do something about our old bad habits. Experiment: Recognize Your Rationalizations the First Step. Think for just a moment about an undesirable behavior pattern and see if you can find any rationalizations that have you justifying that habit. Then ask yourself, Do I want to stop this
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habit? Be honest with yourself. This is your first important step. Another function of the conscious mind is what people refer to as willpower. You already know what that is of course. You really use it to make every single decision throughout the day. When it comes to changing a longstanding behavior, you might have felt you were in a tug of war with your mind. Like me, you might have said, Im going to only have two or three French fries and let the rest go. But then, before you can even blink, youve eaten all the French fries! Thats why its so hard to will a habit away. When you only use your conscious mind, you limit yourself. With what part of yourself do you have battles like this? You guessed it: the part of your mind self hypnosis communicates directly with your subconscious mind. The subconscious mind runs most of your bodys functions without your conscious assistance. It stores and accesses all of your habits, emotions, beliefs, memories and preferences. Its like a computer youve been programming since you were born based on your experiences and reactions. Right now, as you read this, you are adding to the programming of your computer your subconscious. Pretty terrific thing to know, eh?
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The problem we face when consciously trying to change a habit, belief or preference is that were at odds with the old programming. We attempt by sheer willpower to override it. Sometimes were able to carry it off for a short time until our conscious mind begins to weaken, and then we return to the old ways of doing things. Self hypnosis can really help you to make your changes stick. The good news is that the problem bad habits has nothing to do with willpower. It has to do with the imagination of the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind loves the use of imagery to get things done. For example, the reason you continue eating the calorie-heavy fries is because youve previously programmed it (whether meaning to or not) to imagine how delicious and satisfying it would be to taste and swallow another French fry . . . and . . . another. Of course, you might imagine what it might be like to stop after eating just two or three fries. Because the anticipated pleasure of eating more fries is more appealing and rewarding than the dreaded stopping at two or three fries, guess what you do? You keep eating them nonstop! Thats mostly at the subconscious level of your mind. So heres a lesson:
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Whatever appeals to your subconscious imagination exerts great influence over your behavior. Communicating with that part of the mind effectively is the key to your successful change and improvement.
Theres always a reason why we do what we do, even if were consciously unaware of our true motivations. Ultimately, your subconscious steers you toward pleasure or away from pain. When youre in pain, the subconscious attempts (often quite successfully) to protect you from some real or imagined danger. True Story: How False Rationalizations Nearly Derailed One Womans Weight Loss Attempts. I remember a hypnotherapy client of mine named Carole who had gained about 50 pounds over just the last couple of years. When I asked her why she thought she had gained body fat, she rationalized it was because she was in the change of life that happens to women her age. And she thought that weight gain was a natural consequence of hormonal change. So I asked her to recall when she first started gaining weight and whether anything significant had changed in her life.
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She revealed that she had just gotten divorced. I then asked her if she had plans to remarry. She said yes, but she was afraid to because she never wanted to go through the pain of a divorce again. It became apparent to me that her subconscious was trying to protect her with those layers of fat to make her less appealing to men, so she could avoid the possibility of another marriage ending in divorce! Once she understood how the rationalization was a cover-up for solving her problem with excess body weight, it became easy to strategically use effective hypnotic suggestions to help her lose those 50 pounds. Last I heard from her, she had lost 43. Maybe shell even keep finding ways to improve her life. By the way, it doesnt really matter whether the imagined pain or pleasure is realistic. It makes no difference to your subconscious mind as it processes some imagined thing. As far as its concerned - its all true! So unless we change our programming and get our subconscious to imagine different and better things, our behavior is unlikely to
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change for good. Because just using direct conscious willpower is a poor way to reprogram the subconscious imagination. Fortunately, theres a better way
Hypnosis bypasses the critical filter of the mind, leading to a condition of heightened suggestion.
Like a computer, your mind has its own security system to prevent anyone from tampering with the inner programming and creating chaos. This is the critical and analytical part of the conscious mind. You should welcome this security system, because without it, you'd respond to every idea and suggestion that passed your way and your life would be in total confusion. When we want to present requests and ideas to the inner mind (the subconscious) to change ourselves with strong purpose (like when we do imaginative suggestions), the critical filter of the conscious mind is like a security guard which faithfully stands watch at the doorway to a luxurious mansion.
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You might say that hypnosis provides a way to relax and distract the security guard (the conscious mind) for short periods of time, so we can slip inside to make changes through the use of specific suggestions. When were finished, we just leave the way we came, restoring the security guard to full alertness, and then go about our business. Then changes in mind, body and behavior show up for us automatically. For instance, we could use hypnosis (and hypnotic suggestion) so when we are faced with a plate of those French fries, our subconscious imagines and feels the rewards of a flat stomach by limiting the number we consume to three. We discover in actual life we no longer even want to eat more than three fries at a time, much less the whole plate. So, no more tug-of-war with your willpower, you see? True Story! (warning: not for the squeamish.) Craig was a 45 year old client of mine who was addicted to a popular candy bar. And he ate six king-sized bars every day with his coffee -- and gained 35 pounds of body fat as a result. He came to me for hypnotherapy help. His situation was extreme. His personality was resistant. So he needed some "special" aversion therapy hypnosis.
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With his approval, I reprogrammed his subconscious imagination to make a correlation between the general length, shape and color of the brown candy bar and (how do I put this delicately?)... well... feces. This is known as an aversion suggestion. It proved quite effective for him. After that hypnosis session, he never again had the slightest interest in eating that candy bar. The sight of those candy bars disgusted him.
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When the subconscious is re-programmed through hypnotic suggestions to: safely and incrementally raise the metabolism to burn more calories, for instance, the subconscious mobilizes the bodys resources to make it a reality. Its unnecessary to understand how your mind works on your body to make the desired change happen. Its enough to know that your subconscious fully understands your body and how to alter it. All you need to do is clearly tell it what you want. And it will use its own intelligence to manifest your wishes!
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effectiveness relies on illusion and deception. His (or her) participants really are in control at all times, and they can hear and remember everything. The chosen audience members just choose to participate in the fun and do what the hypnotist suggests as long as he doesnt ask them to do something truly humiliating or dangerous (each of us has a natural morality-based off-switch). So lets set the record straight to reduce your fears about what therapeutic hypnosis is and what it does for you * Hypnosis wont make you lose control. It doesnt make you want to tell secrets or do anything you find offensive, embarrassing or dangerous (each person has her/his own subconscious moral compass that prevents bad hypnotic control, so to speak). * Hypnosis isnt magic or version of trickery. Hypnosis is an authentic mental phenomenon where you are in a state of heightened suggestibility with your approval. Its not a hoax. Its not supernatural. In fact, its effectiveness is backed by valid, numerous scientific testing thats been done for many decades throughout the world. * Hypnosis isnt a kind of sleep. During hypnosis, you are awake. Many hypnotists use phrases like
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Youre getting sleepy, just to relax the body and mind of the participant. Alternatively, theyll use the command to Sleep! as a pre-determined cue for a willing person to enter hypnosis more quickly. * Hypnosis doesnt automatically result in amnesia. Unless someone decides to accept a suggestion to forget some part of a hypnosis session, it is unlikely she or he would experience it. They hear and remember everything that is said and done while hypnotized. No one gets stuck in hypnosis either. Its a natural condition from which each healthy person naturally and easily emerges. * Hypnosis doesnt feel strange. Experiencing hypnosis, for most people, is subtle. Some people dont even know they were in hypnosis, it feels so natural to them. Experiment: What Hypnosis Feels Like. Would you like to know what hypnosis may feel like for you? Why don't you try this little experiment? Go ahead and try it right now Put your feet flat on the floor. Draw a slow deep breath, and as you exhale,
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close your eyes, relax, and count to five. Now, open your eyes and keep reading. Did you follow the instructions exactly? You probably didnt feel anything in particular. Even so, you decided to obey the suggestions because you want to get something out of this book, and you figure the best way to do that is to follow my instructions. Lets try it again Now, make sure your feet are flat on the floor. Get comfortable. Draw a slow, deep breath and when you exhale, relax even deeper while you also think the words hypnosis now as you close your eyes and count to five. Then, open your eyes and continue reading. Do it when youre ready. Now -- quack out loud like a duck! Go ahead. Quack three times out loud. I mean it!
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Did you quack? If not, why didnt you? Let me guess: Perhaps because it made you feel silly, right? Or . . . if you did, why did you? Because I asked you and you decided that obeying those suggestions was in your best interest since you want to improve your life? Either way, I took you through this experiment to point this out:
Hypnosis wont make you do anything you dont agree to do. It just makes what you want to achieve easier for you to attain.
You may or may not feel any differently when you are hypnotized than you do normally. And even when youre hypnotized, you will only accept and perform suggestions that you want. Any suggestion you think is stupid or immoral or unwise is simply and instantly discarded by your subconscious mind.
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If youve enjoyed suspending your critical mind as you watched an exciting movie or read a good novel, then youve experienced a kind of hypnosis. Any activity that deeply engrosses you to the exclusion of all else is arguably hypnotic. Weve all experienced hypnosis in one form or another. So its a given that most of us are hypnotizable (the exceptions include the mentally retarded or those who, for various medical or emotional reasons, cannot concentrate at all). But with a hypnotist you are hypnotized on purpose to absorb specific life-enhancing suggestions. The key to being hypnotized on purpose is to decide that its something you want to do, and then just commit yourself to follow the directions offered by the hypnotist. The rest is easy and automatic. So please remember this:
Hypnosis is not something you have to try to do. Its something you just allow.
The state of heightened suggestibility and critical bypass which defines self hypnosis is achieved by following simple directions that predictably will take you there. Its not a whole lot different than following a simple cooking recipe. If you want to make cookies, do what the cookbook tells you. Collect
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and add the ingredients step-by-step with exactness, and by the end, you would expect excellent cookies. But if you decided to change or not go along with the recipe, then your cookies would probably not to turn out as you planned. In fact, they might not even resemble cookies at all!
The only real blocks to being formally hypnotized are unwillingness and/or fear.
So you must ask yourself: Do I want to be hypnotized? Have all my fears about being hypnotized been completely dissolved? Am I willing to follow easy directions without adding or discarding anything? If the answer is yes to all three questions, then you can be hypnotized on purpose when youre ready. Its really up to you.
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Step #1: Relaxation. Most hypnosis sessions begin with some sort of relaxation exercise to release the body from surface tension. One common technique is called progressive relaxation in which a person concentrates and relaxes the body one muscle group at a time until the entire body is calmed. This tends to induce a light hypnotic state or hypnoidal condition, as its termed. There are two types of progressive relaxation: passive and active. The passive kind requires only a mental idea or command to each body part to relax. Active relaxation, on the other hand, works by having you tense and then relax each body part -one at a time. Experiment Active Progressive Relaxation You may do this experiment with your eyes open, though you may have to look away from the screen at one point: Start by placing your attention on your feet and tense all the muscles there for the count of three. One . . . two . . . three. Now relax all the muscles of your feet completely.
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Place your awareness on your lower leg muscles (the calves). To the best of your ability, contract the calf muscles for the count of three. One . . . two . . . three. Relax the lower legs thoroughly before moving on to the upper legs. When youre ready, strongly tense the upper legs for the slow count of three. One . . . two . . . three. Utterly relax your upper legs. Notice how good it feels to relax your legs and feet. Now, concentrate on the buttocks. Right where youre sitting, tighten the butt firmly for the count: one . . . two . . . three. Then release all stress from the buttocks. Now take your time and do the same thing with your stomach . . . then your chest . . . then your arms and hands . . . then your face. Do this slowly and thoughtfully. When youre finished tensing and relaxing your face, notice how utterly relaxed your entire body now feels and how all the surface tension is gone. Step #2: The Induction. After physical relaxation, a common hypnotic procedure (or induction) takes
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place to relax the critical mental processes. There are dozens of possible induction methods, most of which are designed to redirect or distract the conscious minds critical filter so the subconscious mind can absorb those suggestions unhindered. Many inductions include some sort of counting, because the numbers may be used as a measurement of levels of relaxation and hypnosis. Note: The willingness and expectation of the participant play a vital role for an induction to be effective though. Experiment Sample Induction This experiment will only work if you willingly use your full imagination. You may close your eyes if you wish, or just imagine with your eyes open: Pretend you see a magical staircase which, as you descend it, makes your mind feel utterly relaxed and free. There are five steps in all, and each step causes you to feel twice as deeply relaxed as the step before. Imagine going down the stairs now. One... the first step. Use your imagination and allow yourself to feel very relaxed, physically and mentally. Two... you descend another step. This time you relax mentally two times as deeply, as
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though your mind and body feel very heavy and tired. Three... twice as deeply as you take the third step. Pretend your mind is slowing down and clearing away all thoughts except for this experience. Four... twice as mentally relaxed as the third step. Pretend your mind is utterly calm and in a state of blissful serenity. Five... you take the last step now, and step into a deep condition of mental relaxation in which you are completely open to the positive suggestion required to change your life. Step #3: Hypnotic and Post-hypnotic Suggestions. Once a satisfactory level of hypnosis has been achieved, the person is ready to accept suggestions from the hypnotherapist. Sometimes, the first suggestions offered are that the person should go deeper into hypnosisthat they should mentally relax to a greater extent. This can be done with a simple statement, Youre going deeper into hypnosis now or some more elaborate suggestion. The condition is sometimes tested with various suggestions to see whether the person is compliant. But when the desired level is achieved, suggestions for immediate or future change are offered through
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verbal suggestions. Here's an example: You are now and shall remain a non-smoker. There might also be suggestions designed to be triggered in the future such as: Whenever you see a cigarette, you will find the look and smell of it acrid and repugnant. This is what is known as a posthypnotic suggestion. Many suggestions may be offered in a single hypnosis session, but they typically center on a single topic (e.g. smoking cessation, weight loss, confidence). Experiment Hypnotic Suggestion: Pretend you have successfully entered hypnosis all by yourself, and that you wish to tell your subconscious mind how successful youll be with the method and scripts of More Instant Self-Hypnosis. Say out loud in a gentle but sincere tone, I am very successful with eyes-open self hypnosis and succeed with any script I use to reach my goals. After you say that, think to yourself: Thats a fantastic suggestion and I know it will work for me! Step #4: Emerging from hypnosis. Finally, the person is emerged or awakened from hypnosis. This is different from being awakened from sleep. It's simply a return from the hypnotic condition to the
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everyday state of mind. And there is no danger of being unable to emerge from hypnosis. In fact, while the term awaken is convenient, it is slightly misleading. It is more accurate to say that one returns or emerges from hypnosis. To return to the everyday state, suggestions to that effect are offered and followed. Experiment Emerging from self hypnosis. Pretend youve been hypnotized. The suggestion for success has already been imparted to your subconscious mind. And youre ready to emerge from hypnosis: With your eyes open or closed, count from one to five and tell yourself when you reach the number five that youll return to the everyday state of mind, feeling refreshed and alert. Again, use your imagination to make this happen.
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anything more than self-talk. But, let me share a story that changed my mind: True Story: I found out just how real self hypnosis really is! One day I was experimenting with traditional self hypnosis. It all took place silently with my eyes closed. I began with progressive relaxation, followed by a simple induction and then I gave myself suggestions to go deeper and deeper. Although I often fall asleep using traditional self hypnosis techniques, on this occasion I managed to stay awake and alert. Furthermore, I really wasnt sure I believed I was self-hypnotized. I did feel exceedingly relaxed though. So I thought, I wonder what would happen if I gave myself a suggestion that my nose felt itchy. Can you guess what happened next? Thats right. My nose began to intensely itch. The sensation was real and strong, and it startled me! Even so, it didnt worry me, because in the next moment, I simply exerted my conscious control just a bit and told myself that my nose just didnt itch anymore. And the itching immediately went away.
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This illustrates that a person can resist, dismiss or negate any hypnotic suggestion, just as I did. You dont have to worry that some unwanted idea will take hold of you and not let you go. During hypnosis, your own mind will alert you to any suggestion it finds questionable. If a suggestion is made while hypnotized tht you dont particularly care for, you would just say no mentally and its effect would simply dissolve away. Im glad I had that itching experience, because it demonstrated to me that self-hypnosis can be as effective as hypnotherapy. It also underscored that the hypnotic state I was in was profound enough that I could strongly affect not just my mind but my body also. So, for the record
Self hypnosis is an authentic, achievable method of self improvement and it works on the mind, body, spirit and emotions!
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This can be a problem for many people. Because even when you prepare adequately, by the time youve hypnotized yourself to a sufficient degree, the relaxation is so deep that its common to forget the suggestions or why you chose to hypnotize yourself in the first place! Again, I know this because its happened to me on numerous occasions. Maybe it sounds funny; but if it happens to you, it can be frustrating and discouraging. Fortunately, theres a way around these common problems as youll learn in the next chapter. ~~~
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symptom of hypnosis called atmospheric hyper acuity, a term which means that while hypnotized, distractions around you become magnified and disturbing. As I looked up from the script, I could feel myself in a daze. Everything in the room seemed distant or unreal, as though it was a holographic projection. Because of my professional training though, I knew immediately that I was in a significant state of hypnosis (near somnambulism). I realized I had hypnotized myself with my eyes open while reading the script aloud! And it made perfect sense to me as a clinical hypnotherapist. I was reading in a soothing, lulling tone of voice. The words I was reading were specifically composed to hypnotize someone. So there I was, hearing my voice, listening to my words and completely engaged in what I was doing. Thats a recipe for hypnosis if I ever knew one! (We professional hypnotherapists are certainly not immune to our own devices. Quite the contrary: I recognized long ago that I frequently enter into the
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hypnotic state while hypnotizing my clients. Its hard not to be especially as I listen to the sound of my voice and the words Im saying while watching clients relax deeper. You see, hypnosis is such a pleasurable experience that I look forward to that happening. Its an extra benefit I receive when I hypnotize other people for their issues. Anyway, back to the story) Once I realized that Id hypnotized myself while reading aloud, I began doing research about others who might have had the same experience. However, I found nothing in the literature. There was no data at all about reading a hypnotic script aloud as a means to achieve self-hypnosis. And thats when Instant Self-Hypnosis was born!
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For one thing, its impossible to fall asleep while applying it. As I mentioned earlier, its all too easy to fall asleep while performing traditional self hypnosis or while listening to a hypnotic audio. But its extremely difficult to fall asleep while reading something out loud! So this eyes-open method works better because that problem is completely eliminated. Another reason it works better is that no memorization or significant preparation is needed. With ISH, you simply read an induction script out loud, then you read a suggestion script, and then you emerge from hypnosis. Thats all there is to it. No great knowledge about self-hypnosis is required. You dont have to remember anything. Theres built-in personal involvement in the hypnosis as you read technique, especially compared with most hypnosis audios. That involvement doubles the chance for success for people whove not been successful with traditional self hypnosis. Though hypnosis audios can be of great value, theres a tendency for people to be somewhat aloof and not fully attentive while listening to them. With eyes-open self hypnosis, attention is constantly required to read the scripts and get the results. Often hypnosis is partially defined as a narrowed or heightened state of awareness. Therefore, because of the passive nature of
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listening to hypnosis audios, sustained awareness is many times not achieved. My method changes that. Many people have asked me if they can record the ISH scripts and play them back to get the same results. While that is certainly doable, you might still falling asleep while listening or still be listening only half-heartedly. I know that results are much better if youre involved completely. So if you want to experience the success that so many others have with this system, use the read aloud approach youll be taught in the next chapter. Its really worth the effort!
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When you purchase the full-version of More Instant Self Hypnosis, youll get Chapter 4 and 5 (which includes the Master Induction and all of the suggestion scripts. 48 in total). - 48 - and two of the bonuses in this free version. Remember to look at the Table of Contents to see all thats included when you purchase this eBook. Go to this site to find out more about More Instant Self Hypnosis: http://www.forbesrobbinsblair.com/_mish3613.html
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You may use the same tone of voice as you did when reading the first time, or you may add a bit of emphasis to make the suggestion even stronger for you. The repetition has a compounding effect and makes a very powerful impression on the subconscious. It will marginally lengthen the duration of your session, but its well worth the time.
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studies strongly show the importance of using just one suggestion script in a single session. If you still insist on doing two at a time (youll lessen the results from each), I dont recommend more than a total of two sessions a day. * When is the best time of the day to use ISH? Choose a time when you wont be disturbed. Many people report excellent results when using it just before bedtime. But, any time of the day produces great results. Do whats most comfortable for you. (There are more questions and answers in the paid version. For more info and ordering, go to this site please: LINK.)
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