Self hypnosis for control

by Steve McKeown MIAPH

Self Hypnosis – So What Can You Achieve?
The Natural Phenomenon of Self Hypnosis and Meditation

Meditation and self-hypnosis have a certain similarity. Meditation has been described as a process of freeing the mind of its normal clutter to allow creative or supportive thoughts and visualization to flow in. A person trained and skilled in self-hypnosis can use such abilities to add power to meditation. Further, using techniques of self-hypnosis, meditation can be directed rather than merely allowed to "flow in" at random. Meditation and its powerful impacts have captured the attention of the world, filling books, videos, lecture programs, seminars, schools and homes. The world is beginning to discover the tremendous power of the mind, and to use it. Meditation permits us to establish communication with our own instincts and intuitions. Hypnosis adds direction and power.

Achieving Your Potential

Self-esteem and self-confidence are essential to human progress. Self-esteem is fundamental to friendships, work, love relationships, ambitions and goals--even health, itself. A person must like, respect and admire the person he/she sees in the mirror. Self-confidence is necessary to achievement; however, it requires self-esteem to be effective.

Controlling Your Life

Being able to think and act positively is achieved through an awareness of being in control. The positive attitudes, which are elements, are vital factors in the achievement of success. The individual who feels in control of life, events, emotions and personal progress is relatively free from problems involving stress, anxiety, fear, inadequacy and other characteristics of "out-of-control" people.

Self Hypnosis can create or enhance the confidence, assuredness and sense of personal competence that go with being in control. Self-doubt, negative imprints from events in childhood, effects of past failures can be converted to positive, aggressive outlooks and awareness of control. Self Hypnosis can help implant cues to reinforce suggestions of power and strength, resulting in the complete turnaround of lives and fortunes.

Make Learning Easier

Poor study habits, poor memory, absence of reward, effects of medicines and drugs, and fear--these are the elements that adversely affect learning, resulting in poor comprehension slow progress and low grades.

Hypnosis can help reduce or eliminate problems in any or all of these areas. Study habits, including time management, can be improved through hypnotic suggestion. Retention of words, ideas and concepts can be enhanced along with overall functions of memory. Hypnosis can stimulate the desire to learn, to progress, and to achieve one's full potential. In the utilization of hypnotherapy for learning improvement, self-hypnosis skills can be acquired, which will provide lifetime benefits useful in achieving goals in the future.

Success in Sales

The highest career incomes are found in professional sales. Yet job hunters avoid sales positions, particularly commission sales. Why? Such positions involve contacts and communications; these are areas which, for success, persistence and the ability to view rejection as progress is essential. All of these characteristics can be developed or enhanced through hypnosis. Attitude modification is the doorway to success.

The shy or sensitive person can acquire an essential attitude: the viewpoint which regards potential customers as friends needing to be helped by whatever product or service is offered. The experience of rejection can be viewed, as is the practice of most successful sales people, as a progressive step toward the inevitable achievement of a closed sale. Hypnosis can provide a means to maintain the enthusiasm required for success in sales.

Career Advancement

Stalled out? Stuck in your job? Being passed over for advancement? Insecure employment situations create stress. So does failure to advance or move forward in your work. What can self hypnosis do to help? First, motivation is vital. You won't advance unless you really want to. Self Hypnosis can stimulate motivation, fire you up to meet and welcome challenges.

But self hypnosis can also help you develop assertiveness, confidence and leadership. Self Hypnosis can help you become comfortable at meetings, speaking up and expressing your ideas, it can help you learn new skills, techniques, procedures necessary to perform in advanced positions; it can help you develop the communication abilities so vital to supervision. Doors will open; opportunities will develop. And you will be ready, willing and able to fill the needs.

Improve Athletic Performance

In 1980, tests of world class Russian athletes showed that mental training was far more productive of improvement than physical training! Electro-physiological testing had indicated the dramatic value of mental imaging as early as 1932.

Hypnosis cannot make unskilled people into champions, but it can generate performance at or near "personal best" levels.

Self Hypnosis to improve athletic performance deals with four categories: goal setting, relaxation, concentration and rehearsal. Goals need to be written down; relaxation relieves tension; concentration removes distractions; mental rehearsing has proved more productive than physical practice. Olympic athletes use it often with superb results. Mental processes do not remove the need for physical training and practice, but can maximize productive results.

Your Memory Is Great!

Where did you put your keys, your watch, your notes, the item you had in your hand just moments ago… or maybe last week? What was the funny story your friend told you - it was great and you want to share it. What were you supposed to bring home from the store? Who were the people you met at the party?

Your mind has gone blank. The harder you try to remember, the more forgetful you feel. You get mad at yourself but you don't need to.

Every event or experience of your life is engraved in your subconscious mind. Through hypnosis you can become able to recall short-term memory, and if desired re-experience long-term memories and you can do it all by yourself. The memories are there. You can learn to Access them. It really boosts self-confidence.

Emotions and Reactions

When anger consumes you, anger controls you. Words spoken in anger usually are regretted. Actions prompted by anger likely will prove to be ill advised. The same applies to bitterness, jealousy, guilt, and desires for revenge. Emotions and reactions cloud issues, obscure causing-factors, destroy wisdom and judgment. Out of control emotions compound problems. Self hypnosis is a highly effective means of recapturing lost emotional control and in the process avoiding further complications, achieving mental balance and assuming control of the problem situation. Learning self-hypnosis can enable you to recognize and deal with emotional distress at the onset, which is of course a major factor in maintaining control in relationships.

Managing Pain

Most Hypnotherapist work with pain problems primarily in conjunction with appropriate healing arts professionals. This is because pain often is a symptom of a problem rather than the problem itself. A headache might be migraine; it also might be a brain tumor. A medical diagnosis is important.

However, properly used, self-hypnosis can reduce pain, alleviate anxiety, remove fears of dentistry or surgery, eliminate or reduce the need for injections or other applications of chemical anesthesia promote comfort and healing and expedite recovery. It is becoming more common in dentistry, obstetrics, burn treatment and emergency room trauma. In accomplishing the above, it is evident that hypnotherapy can prove dramatically effective in dealing with medically-related stress situations.

Dealing with Relationships

All human beings are involved in relationships, often several simultaneously. Whether such involves child-parent, husband-wife, employer-employee, teacher-student, lover-lover, friend-friend or individual-group, relationships can and do develop problems, misunderstandings, differences, changes of feelings or other disturbing elements.

Relationship problems can affect home life, work, education, health, attitude, motivation, even the desire to live. Symptoms may include anger, sadness, hurt, loss of self-esteem, depression and even violence. Self-hypnosis can ferret out the causes of such problems bring the healing power of understanding. Self hypnosis can eliminate feelings of rejection, hurts, frustration and resentments. Communication can be re-established, confidence restored and creative solutions developed.