What is self hypnosis, you ask? Many say this is the process by which you hypnotize yourself.
Instead of the hypnotist suggesting what you should do, the inner part of ourselves takes over.
The deeper into the hypnotic state you go the more connected the mind and body become.
Many times this method is used for helping to control certain feelings experienced that often times are just medicated with prescription drugs.
This is not a new concept and many people believe it is quite possible to treat many problems with hypnosis rather than medications.
While it may be possible one thing is certain, self hypnosis can be relaxing and help us to manage stress.
This has been proven and once you are in a relaxed state, the same as when you are hypnotized by a professional, the mind can perform miraculous feats.
This is one of the ways that therapists help people to deal with issues they have buried in their subconscious which may be causing problems later in life.
Many people believe that all hypnosis is self hypnosis because they say it is not possible to be hypnotized unless you allow yourself to be.
Have you ever caught yourself 'spacing out'? This can be considered day dreaming but what it actually means is you are in a hypnotic state.
Many people do this several times a day.
Everything around you fades away and even though you may hear people talking, it is like a background noise that you really do not even notice.
Your mind can wander at any time.
If you are not truly interested in something you are doing, the next thing you know you may be caught up in a moment when your mind is blank and you do not hear anyone speaking to you.
This is a form of hypnosis.
The techniques for self hypnosis are not that hard to follow and once you know that you have been hypnotized, there are many aspects of your life you may want to change using self hypnosis.
There are different help tools if you feel this is what you need to use.
Cds are available as well as audio and the ones that you can read are referred to as scripts.
The scripts are fairly long but basically what they do is to ready you and help you to hypnotize yourself.
The technique starts out with relaxing all the muscles in your body from your toes all the way up to your arms and hands and chest.
While counting backwards from 10 the relaxing is stopped at just about 7 when you should be in a very relaxed state and your muscles should feel.
From this point on you should be in a very relaxed state with nothing bothering you.
The next step is to imagine someplace in your mind that has many aspects to it so that you can recall all of them.
For instance a field with a barn in the distance, flowers, trees, hills - anything that you can think of that is in the field.
After thoroughly checking out this place, the next step is to find an exit to this world and go to a place that has an elevator that can be taken down as far as you want to go.
This is the area that will be used to put everything bad that you want taken out of your conscious mind.
All of this is designed to allow you to relive childhood and sometimes adult memories that may have been painful.