Ultimate Mind Control

Making fear your best friend....

Have an idea of how you will present your suggestions to yourself before you lie down and are relaxed, otherwise it may interrupt your hypnotic state.

• Writing out your suggestions before induction can be very effective, as a visual list of what you choose to work on can sometimes be more easily remembered than even carefully assembled thoughts.

• Another way to relax your muscles is to physically tense and hold for ten seconds before releasing; you should feel as well as imagine the tension leaving.

• Some find that imagining yourself in a peaceful natural setting will relax your mind sufficiently before counting down. For instance, you may imagine yourself wandering through a forest, smelling the trees and hearing the wind. Alternatively, you could imagine yourself walking along the ocean shore and feel the grit of the sand beneath your feet, the cool water washing against your ankles and sounds of the surf.

• When you want to sleep and find you cannot, then after you count down from ten (or go down your staircase), allow your mind to remain in this pleasantly relaxed state and keep your eyes closed while you are lying down and you will sleep much easier.

• For those of you who like to meditate but can't sit still long enough, just use this as a form of meditation but insert a period of quiet mental time in between counting down from ten and counting back up to ten.

• It is impossible to gauge your own depth of hypnosis. Hypnosis is naturally occurring and easy to achieve. Trust that you have reached a state of hypnosis; you probably have!

• If you are certain you cannot hypnotise yourself, you may wish to use sound or music to induce the relaxed state necessary to create hypnosis.

• It often helps to go to a professional, licensed hypnotherapist for a session first, to see what it feels like.

• A common element of a trance is a deeply relaxed feeling, coupled with a tingling all over the body, quick eye movements and deep breathing and exhalation.

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