Don’t Forget Your Greatest Ally: Self-hypnosis

Finally, here are some additional hypnotic suggestions you can use when working on overcoming emotional eating and having healthier responses to stress.

Emotional eating

• I am in control of my emotions.
• I chose to experience love and joy in my life.
• I am at peace with myself, the world and everyone in it.
• I am excited about today.
• I am excited about my life.
• I love my life.
• Food nourishes my body; love nurtures my heart and soul.
• I eat only when I am physically hungry.

Stress control

• I am calm and relaxed in all situations.
• I see things in their true perspective and keep them in proper proportion.
• Whenever I feel the beginning of any tension, anxiety, or fear, I automatically use the Relaxation Response taking a deep breath and exhaling slowly. I instantly feel a wave of relaxation cover over me and through me from the top of my head down to the tips of my toes.
• I am more relaxed each and every day.
• I am free of stress.
• I remain calm, cool and collected at all times.
• I am balanced, relaxed and poised always.
• I am relaxed and calm in all situations.
• I feel profound peace.
• I relax frequently throughout each day by breathing deeply.
• I give time to myself.
• I recognize and control my negative emotions.
• Peace and inner calmness pervade my being.
• The past is gone; I am creating my future now.
• I am living in the present moment.
• I stop worrying about the future.
• I am becoming more aware in the present moment.
• I stop several times each day to breathe deeply and to focus on my important goals.
• I do everything with love, joy and laughter.
• I give myself time to relax.
• I enjoy what I am doing.
• I am emotionally calm and settled.
• My mind is becoming clear, calm and composed.
• I confront and handle any problem calmly and easily.

Becoming Slender For Life pages 123 – 124

Many people come to a hypnotherapist thinking there is something about trance that is different than their normal state of consciousness, but this simply is not the case. A light trance feels no different from relaxation. No matter how deep into trance one goes, there is a feeling of familiarity. Do not expect to feel hypnotized. Do expect to feel relaxed. Learn about hypnosis by reading Moore On Hypnosis.

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Life Is A Web of Trances

People live their lives playing a hypnotic tape in their subconscious mind that is often giving them negative messages and self-limiting beliefs. With hypnosis, we have the opportunity to change that inner dialogue. It’s like taking out an old cassette tape and putting in a new one. You can seize control of your thoughts and change your behaviors by giving yourself new messages.

With hypnosis, much of what we are doing is undoing old habit patterns, old perceptions—and beginning new habit patterns and creating new perceptions. It changes the lens through which we view the world. More importantly, we are creating a new relationship with ourselves.

So how do you create a new relationship with yourself using hypnosis? It’s a return to consciousness—mindfulness. The return to consciousness is allowing yourself to experience both the pain and the joy in life.

It is to really be alive: to love and to fear.

None of us lives in a sterile world. Even with our best intentions and best efforts, we slip into old trances, old patterns of behaviors, back into unconsciousness. Life is a tapestry of trances, but most of us are letting everything and everyone else choose the colors and pattern in the tapestry and then we complain about what we create.

“Life is a web of trances, ranging from light to the deep.” ~Adam Crabtree

In Trance Zero, Adam Crabtree writes, “Traditionally, the phenomenon of trance has been associated with a special state called hypnosis. There is no basis for believing that these phenomena are limited to this special trance state. We all have the capacity to produce these phenomena, and we can experience any of them at any moment in our everyday existence. So, as it turns out, the phenomena of trance are simply the phenomena of life.”

Crabtree believes that we are constantly going in and out of trances of various kinds, and he further states that “Life is a web of trances, ranging from light to the deep.”

With hypnosis, you are always in control, even though it appears that you are giving up control.

What you are really doing is shifting control from the conscious level to another part of yourself, allowing the conscious mind and the subconscious mind to work together. Working together, powerful results may be attained. The conscious mind was formed to deal with life in the world and puts practical focus on the present moment with immediacy and urgency. The subconscious mind concentrates on the inner world and is aware of the whole range of inner experiences.

With hypnosis (all hypnosis is self-hypnosis), you are exercising control over yourself. Hypnosis is a path to a destination. Your focus simply changes from the conscious to the subconscious world. The conscious mind deals with rationality and determination. Reason dominates conscious experiences and willpower provides the force to get things done.

Just making a conscious decision to change is not enough. Willpower only goes so far. Dr. Shelley Stockwell, describes it this way: “Thought, behavior, and emotion originate in the subconscious mind. If you ask your conscious mind to change a pattern that has its origin in the subconscious mind, it’s a little like calling in a plumber to fix your electricity.”

Your subconscious mind’s world is very real. Its realities have a quality of presence and vividness every bit as insistent as that of the physical objects and people of the conscious world. In fact, the subconscious reality often seems more real than that of the conscious world. For example, in my 20s I was a college graduate, president of corporations and employer of 100 people, yet I was living my life as not good enough, not capable enough. Regardless of my real world, my inner-world reality was not good enough.

And though with hypnosis you are exerting control over yourself, hypnosis is not power over another person. It is a complex interaction, a cooperative act between the hypnotherapist and the client. It is two people cooperating for a mutual end, which is to establish better communication with the unconscious mind. The hypnotherapist is just the facilitator. Only you can hypnotize yourself. Hypnosis is not a “do to” process, rather, it is a “do with” process. Hypnosis is the induction of a profound change in your state of consciousness through a cooperative flow of energy and ideas.

From Becoming Slender For Life pages 45 -47

How is your inner dialogue? Is it a positive one that moves you forward towards success or do your thoughts and emotions hold you back? Clients in my Seattle hypnosis and Bainbridge Island hypnosis offices learn self-hypnosis so that they can undo those old perceptions and thoughts and seize control of their thoughts and emotions. Are you ready to clean out those old cobwebs? If so, give me a call.

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Do you know how to get to Phoenix?

We talked in Chapter Three about commitment. Are you really clear on what you are committing to? As I listened to Gerry in group one night, it became clear that he had no idea where he was going. He had no clear goal in mind. He sounded lost. When I pushed him for clarity, he could not tell me about life at his goal weight or why he was going there. When I asked if he ever just got into his car and headed off down the road on a vacation with no destination in mind, he made it clear that he plans the entire itinerary and stresses when he gets off schedule. He also said that he didn’t allow any unplanned or unscheduled side trips. Gerry told how he has noticed more unconscious eating and lack of focus.

I put two dots on the flip chart. One dot was Seattle and the other Phoenix. I stated that as I flew last week from Seattle to Phoenix, the pilot or the autopilot had to make continuous course corrections. There was turbulence along the way that kept blowing us off course. If there were no course corrections, we might have ended up in Oklahoma City instead of Phoenix. In life there is turbulence. There are relationship changes, job changes, holidays, birthdays and other bumps in the road of life. All too often, people move aimlessly from one bump to the next and never make course corrections. They never get to Phoenix.

Too often, people experience turbulence in life, they get off course and then use that as a reason to continue going off course. They never make it to Phoenix, because they are heading towards Fargo!

Your self-hypnosis is course correction. You refocus your mind and get back on track.

As we continued this discussion in the group, Patty told how she had no idea what it would be like to be at her ideal weight. People like myself who had been overweight all their lives have no frame of reference for their ideal weight. They have never been to Phoenix. The only time previously in my life that I have weighed what I do now was in grade school! This woman had dieted previously and lost a lot of weight rapidly, only to discover that her life was still there with all its challenges, and weighing less was not a ticket to the Garden of Eden. Patty had put the weight right back on. So she asked the question, “Do you believe that people can really change?” “Yes,” I replied. “But you have to know what you want and you have to want it. It gets back to that issue of need and motivation.”

Then Brenda asked how to deal with life’s turbulences, and I asked her what it would be like for her to be a Principled Leader of Self. What would it be like for her to be at cause and no longer at effect, to no longer be a victim in her life? When you have a clear goal, a clear plan for your life, then you can be that Leader of Self. You can be at cause, not a victim. You take back your power from food, people, work, events, life and circumstances.

I challenged the group to take some time in the coming week to write, draw or paint a realistic picture of what their Phoenix—their destination—would be like and to bring a copy in the next week. The next week people came in with compelling reasons for obtaining their goal weight. Some were very detailed and others vague, but everyone was clarifying their Phoenix.

Becoming Slender For Life, second edition, pages 196 -197

Do you have compelling reasons to achieve your goals? Are you really committed to your goal to lose weight or to quit smoking? With self-hypnosis you can help you commit to your goals and help you to make the course adjustments to achieve your goal. Use self hypnosis and take back your power and get on course!

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Part 2

Discovering the Wizard Within is this weeks featured radio show from the Hypnosis Health Radio archives. Dr. A. M. Krasner is one of leader in the history of hypnosis. I consider my self privileged to have had the opportunity to study with Dr. Krasner and to have come to know him as a friend and mentor. If you are interested in learning how to hypnotize please visit Roger Moore’s Institute of Hypnotherapy.

Show #22: Discovering the Wizard Within

Dr. A.M. Krasner is the author of The Wizard Within and founder of the American Board of Hypnotherapy. Listen as one of the legends in hypnotherapy shares how you can discover the wizard in you. Be sure to watch Dr. A.M. Krasner in Meet the Wizard.

Hear Show #22: Discovering the Wizard Within

Roger Moore’s Institute of Hypnotherapy offers mental health counselors, hypnotherapists and other health and wellness professionals the finest in advanced clinical education. Learn how to hypnotize.

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Moore on Hypnosis

I know that the next World Hypnotism Day isn’t until January 4, 2012, but the Hypnosis Health Radio Show #5 featuring Robert Otto is worth your listening at this time anyway. Hypnotherapy is no longer just for stage shows and Hollywood. It is now being used in major medical settings. If you are curious about self-hypnosis or have any thoughts of wanting to learn hypnosis for personal or professional use, then this show is for you. I am proud to be the host of the upcoming Seattle Counseling and Hypnotherapy Conference Fall 2011, with Richard Nongard on ending the cycle of addiction and Melissa Roth and me, Roger Moore on Taming the Chronic Illness Monster (Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Fibromyalgia and Autoimmune Disease).

Show #5: World Hypnotism Day

With me on the phone from Laceyville, Pennsylvania is Robert Otto, CEO of the International Medical & Dental Hypnotherapy Association, the International Association of Counselors & Therapists and the International Alliance of Professional Hypnotist. We talk about exciting developments in the art and science of hypnotherapy.

Listen to Show #5: World Hypnotism Day

Attend the Seattle Counseling and Hypnotherapy Conference Fall 2011 and find out how you can use hypnosis to end the cycle of addition and take the suffering out of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Fibromyalgia (FMS) and autoimmune diseases. The Seattle Counseling and Hypnotherapy Conference Fall 2011 is for counselors, therapists, other healthcare professionals and anyone living with addiction or chronic illness. No prior hypnosis experience is required. At the conclusion of this course you will be able to integrate effective hypnotic methods across a variety of treatment modalities.

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Powerfully Creating A New Path

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