The Everything Hypnosis Book: Safe, Effective Ways to Lose Weight, Improve Your Health, Overcome Bad Habits, and Boost Creativity

by Michael R Hathaway

Overview

Getting that promotion at work or losing those last five pounds can be a struggle, but goals like these can be accomplished with self-hypnosis! Whatever obstacles you want to overcome or goals you aim to achieve, this book can help you do it. With this informative resource, you will learn to: break bad habits like nail biting; ease severe pain, such as from migraines or labor during childbirth; ensure confidence and success in business and personal matters; quit smoking for good; lose weight and keep it off; improve memory retention; and reduce stress--in relationships, at home, and at work; and more! Written by a board-certified hypnotherapist, this authoritative guide can help you create your own self-hypnosis scripts to create the life you always wanted. From tearing down mental roadblocks to making permanent changes, you will be on your way to success in no time!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440522475
Publisher:	Adams Media
Publication date:	01/01/2003
Series:	Everything
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	1 MB

Table of Contents

	Introduction	xi
Chapter 1	You Are Getting Sleepy	1
	Mystique of Hypnosis	2
	Development of Hypnosis in the Twentieth Century	3
	Trance States	5
	Hypnosis Concerns	6
	Suggestibility Tests	7
	Stage Hypnosis	10
	Hypnosis Inductions	11
	A Relaxation Exercise	12
Chapter 2	Your Mental Makeup	17
	The Mind Is Like a Computer	18
	The Sense of Sight	18
	The Sense of Hearing	20
	The Sense of Touch	21
	The Sense of Taste	22
	The Sense of Smell	23
	The Importance of Sensory Imagery	24
	Relaxation Exercise	27
Chapter 3	Your Conscious and Unconscious	29
	Conscious and Unconscious	30
	Communication and Storage	31
	Time Zones of the Mind	31
	Recalling the Past	32
	Projecting into the Future	33
	Living in the Present	37
	Flooding Technique	39
	Sleep on It	41
	Universal Consciousness	42
Chapter 4	Instant Hypnosis	43
	External and Internal Influences	44
	Posthypnotic Suggestions	45
	Self-Hypnotic Anchors	46
	Recognize Negative Anchors	47
	Develop Positive Anchors	48
	Benefits of Instant Self-Hypnosis	49
	Automatic Response Exercises	50
	Surround Yourself with External Anchors	53
Chapter 5	Building a Model for Change	57
	Thinking Models	58
	What Works for You?	58
	What Is Your Comfort Zone?	62
	What Doesn't Work for You?	63
	Comparing Negative and Positive Models	64
	Other Self-Hypnosis Tools	65
	Big Picture, Little Picture	67
	Permission to Treat Yourself Positively	69
Chapter 6	Changing a Bad Habit	71
	What Is a Habit?	72
	Identifying Your Habits	73
	Reasons to Change a Habit	75
	Imagine Yourself without the Habit	77
	The Ecology Check	80
	Installing the Change	80
	Reinforcing the Change	81
	A Case Study: Changing a Habit	82
Chapter 7	Hypnosis and Stress	85
	What Is Stress?	86
	The Effects of Stress	86
	Internal and External Stress	89
	Identifying Stress	90
	Resolving Stress	92
	Unresolved Past Stress	95
	Current Stress	96
	Future Stress	97
	Keeping Stress Under Control	97
Chapter 8	Stop Smoking with Hypnosis	99
	The History of Tobacco	100
	Addiction	100
	The Word Quit	101
	The Benefits of a Smoking Lifestyle	102
	What Do You Dislike about Smoking?	103
	Going Back to the Roots	104
	Begin to Change Your Habit	105
	The Model for Change	108
Chapter 9	Weight Loss	111
	The Word Diet	112
	The Eating Trance	112
	Examine Your Eating Habits	113
	Who Controls the Food You Eat?	114
	Understand the Food You Eat	115
	Reframe Your Eating Habits	119
	Balance Your Mind, Body, and Soul	122
Chapter 10	Improving Your Health	123
	Establish Your Wellness Habit	124
	Hypnosis and Pain Control	127
	Hypnosis and Surgery	130
	Depth Testing	132
	Hypnosis and Oncology	134
	Hypnosis and Other Areas of Medicine	134
Chapter 11	Overcoming a Fear or Phobia	137
	Social Phobias	138
	Specific Phobias	138
	The Phobia Habit	139
	Roots of a Phobia	140
	Resolving a Phobia	144
	Cognitive Behavior Therapy	144
	Interrupting the Phobic Trance	146
	The Benefits of Fear	147
Chapter 12	Improving Your Sports Performance	149
	Hypnosis and Sports Psychology	150
	Working with Your Natural Abilities	151
	Your Mental Makeup	152
	Self-Hypnotic Imagery Relaxation Exercise	154
	Self-Hypnosis Mental Training Model	157
	Make a Habit of Mental Training	159
	In the Sports Zone	161
Chapter 13	Developing Your Creative Abilities	163
	Creativity: A Gift or a Curse?	164
	What Are Your Talents?	164
	Your Creative Strengths	166
	Your Creative Weaknesses	169
	Develop Your Creative Gifts	170
	Where Does Creativity Come From?	172
	Enhance Your Creativity	174
	Strike a Balance	175
Chapter 14	Becoming a Better Student	177
	How Do You Know What You Know?	178
	Learning Environment	181
	The Parent's Role in Learning	183
	The Teacher's Role in Learning	184
	The Student's Role in Learning	185
	Self-Hypnotic Learning Trance	186
Chapter 15	Hypnosis and Work	189
	Hypnosis at Work for You	190
	The Mental Makeup of Others	191
	Working with Other People	194
	Self-Hypnosis and Your Work	195
	A Career Is Not Just a Job	198
	Self-Hypnosis and Career Goals	199
	Using the Imagery of Hypnosis at Work	200
Chapter 16	Improving Your Personal Relationships	203
	Sailing the Waters of Life	204
	Family Relationships	205
	Clean Up the Clutter	206
	Social Relationships	208
	Rejection of Human Relationships	209
	Your Soul Mate	210
	Understanding Relationships	212
	Self-Hypnosis for a Balanced Relationship	214
Chapter 17	Understanding Your Past Lives	217
	Do You Believe in Past Lives?	218
	Influences of Past Life Soul Memories	220
	Childhood Memories	222
	Cycles of Souls and Karma	223
	Past Life Regressions	223
	Deepening the Past Life Regression	225
Chapter 18	Increasing Your Psychic Ability	229
	Psychics Through History	230
	Who Is Psychic?	231
	Psychic Ability and the Senses	233
	Psychic Trance Tools	235
	Receiving Information	236
	Past, Present, and Future	236
	What to Do with Too Much Information	237
	Recognizing Your Psychic Trances	238
	The White-Light Psychic Trance	239
Chapter 19	Writing Your Own Hypnosis Scripts	243
	Hypnosis Scripts	244
	Scripting Your Goal	247
	Connecting with Guides, Angels, or Universal Mind	250
	Scripts for Pain Control and Stress Relief	250
	Scripts for the Universal Mind	251
	Scripts for Your Life's Work	252
	Past Life Scripts	253
	Continual Scripts	253
Chapter 20	Hypnosis: A Way of Life	255
	Everything Hypnosis	256
	The River of Life Self-Hypnosis Meditation	260
	You Are Now a Self-Hypnotist	263
	Should You Hypnotize Others?	263
	Hypnosis Is a Lifelong Study	264
	Just Imagine	265
Appendix A	Glossary	267
Appendix B	Additional Resources	273
	Index	277