"What… hypnotise myself? What do you mean? How can I hypnotise myself? You're talking nonsense, aren't you?"
It can seem strange to talk about self-hypnosis, and yet that's exactly what millions of people throughout the world have learned to do. It can reap great rewards, and really help you change beliefs, habits, thoughts and behaviours that you struggle with.
Taking Control
Learning self-hypnosis is about learning to stop for a bit, and take control of your own mind.
Stop and think for a moment. And when you think, how do you do this? You will most likely think in a mixture of sounds and words (do you ever talk to yourself?), pictures and feelings, possibly even smell and taste. Some people use more of one than the other.
Your mind is constantly trained by these pictures, these words and these feelings. It's a way of training yourself. The problem is that most of the time our thoughts are on automatic pilot. We are training ourselves, not carefully and with forethought, but randomly according to whatever pops into our minds. Something we saw on TV; something we heard someone say; and so on.
Self-Hypnosis and Results
When every really successful person that I've ever read or spoken to speaks of 'visualisation' in some form or another, and then goes on to describe the very process of self-hypnosis, then I think that we need to pay attention.
The good news is that self-hypnosis, or tools that have the same effect, are easy to learn and to put into practice.
Now, imagine if you were to take a little time each day, and choose how you thought. You choose your pictures, you choose your words, you choose your feelings. Instead of accidentally training your brain to think in any old random way, you now train your brain exactly as you want it.
Self-Hypnosis
Self-hypnosis is a way to teach your own brain. Add the right tools, and it's also a way to plan your own life. Think about it: Most people spend more time planning their holidays, or even their TV shows, than they do planning their entire lives.
You can, of course, just use self-hypnosis for fun. It's quite fascinating to ask your brain to make your finger move by itself, or to make your arm stiff so that you can't move it! And because you're in control, you decide when it happens, and for how long.
