All About Self-Hypnosis
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Design your ideal life—easily and safely.
Self-hypnosis is a rewarding and highly effective way to change patterns of behavior and create the life you desire. Whether you want to boost your confidence, improve your memory, release negative emotions, or banish unhealthy habits, you can use self-hypnosis to reprogram your subconscious and achieve anything you want.
Based on decades of study and refinement of his proven methods, Richard Webster tells you everything you need to know about self-hypnosis—a practice that’s a lot easier than you might think. Using simple terms, Webster describes how hypnosis works while dispelling common myths surrounding it. He then offers practical, step-by-step guidance, including relaxation exercises and sample scripts that you can use and adapt for your own goals. Learn how to:
—Ease yourself into and out of self-hypnosis
—Tell when you have entered into a state of hypnosis
—Incorporate positive suggestions into your subconscious mind during hypnosis using affirmations, keywords, visualization, and scripts
—Write your own scripts to attain just about any goal
Richard Webster
Richard Webster (New Zealand) is the bestselling author of more than one hundred books. Richard has appeared on several radio and television programs in the US and abroad, including guest spots on WMAQ-TV (Chicago), KTLA-TV (Los Angeles), and KSTW-TV (Seattle). He travels regularly, lecturing and conducting workshops on a variety of metaphysical subjects. His bestselling titles include Spirit Guides & Angel Guardians and Creative Visualization for Beginners. Learn more at Psychic.co.nz.
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All About Self-Hypnosis
by Richard Webster
Why Do It?
I’ve been using self-hypnosis since I was a teenager. I suffered from lack of confidence, and learned self-hypnosis to help overcome this problem. Since then, I’ve used self-hypnosis in many different ways, such as improving my memory, visualizing goals, motivating myself, and improving my health. I regularly use self-hypnosis as a form of mental rehearsal before an important meeting, or a radio or TV interview.
Self-hypnosis can be useful in many areas of life. It can help you eliminate negative behaviors and beliefs, and replace them with a positive approach to life. It can help you manage stress, anxiety, and most emotional problems. It is frequently used to control and manage pain. Self-hypnosis can increase your learning ability and memory recall. It provides relaxation to your body, mind and soul. It can help attract abundance in all its various forms, such as love, happiness, positive family relationships, good friends, success, and wealth.
I used to suffer terribly from jetlag after long flights. As I live in New Zealand, but travel frequently to Europe and the United States, this was a major concern for me. This problem ended when I started using self-hypnosis on airplanes. I’m embarrassed to admit that I discovered this particular use of self-hypnosis by accident. I was on a long haul flight, and couldn’t fall asleep. I thought that as sleep was impossible, I might as well hypnotize myself to help pass the time. Once in a hypnotic state, I told myself I’d arrive at my destination feeling refreshed