Hypnosis for Beginners

by William W Hewitt

  "Of course you can. You can also do self-hypnosis in the bathtub while bathing. There is no limit."

  I go on to explain that self-hypnosis can be practiced anywhere anytime successfully. In fact, when you really become good at it, you can do it with your eyes open with people and distractions all around. When you reach this point you will really have mastered a powerful tool that you can use instantly for virtually anything.

  (You are probably getting the impression that the potential for using your altered state of consciousness goes far beyond the scope of anything covered in this book-that is a correct impression. This book is just the beginning. Your mind, your thoughts have a very real potential that far transcends diet control. For now, master the things covered in this book. When you do, the next stage of your development will automatically open up to you and you will know what to do.)

  Occasionally, you will encounter a client who is unwilling to make any good faith attempt to practice the self-hypnosis or follow the diet. This person has a vast number of reasons and counter reasons for not doing so. No matter what you say or explain, her reply is, "Yes, but..." When I encounter a completely noncooperative client such as this, I say something like: "Well, if you want to pay me good money for my services and then not cooperate with those services, that certainly is your privilege. Just be aware that you will have zero results for your time and money. I do not enjoy taking money when the client is not trying to do her part. Therefore, if this continues I will probably ask you to discontinue the sessions and save your money. Think about it. The choice is yours. Now let's proceed with today's session." I have only had to say this sort of thing twice in all my years of practice. Both times the clients stopped playing games and started cooperating with ultimately satisfactory results.

  SESSION 3 consists of 14 routines in the following sequence: A, B, C, D, E, F, I, G, H, R, L, S, T, Q.

  Routines A and B are found in chapter 2. Routines C, D, E, F, G, H, L, and Q are found in chapter 3. Notice that the sequence is slightly different than in session 2.

  ROUTINE I

  As you breathe in, imagine that you are breathing in a pure, clean, odorless anesthesia. This anesthesia is flowing all throughout your body now, a warm, numb, tingling feeling. And the more you breathe in the more you want to breathe in, and you allow your breathing to become even deeper now, bringing in more and more of this peaceful, relaxed, tranquil feeling. From now on until the end of the session, with each breath you will allow yourself to relax more and more completely.

  ROUTINE R-1 (use only with female subjects)

  As you go on floating, drifting smoothly and gently more and more deeply relaxed with each breath, focus your attention on the tip of your nose. Keep your attention now focused gently and lazily on the tip of your nose until you reach a point where your entire attention is on the sound of my voice. When you reach that point you can forget about the tip of your nose and just go on listening to my voice and allowing yourself to relax more and more deeply. As you keep your attention gently focused on the tip of your nose, I want you to imagine for a minute. Imagine yourself as you really want to be, slender and pretty, looking so good and feeling so fine, so full of energy and vitality, wearing the gorgeous clothes that look so good on your slender, beautiful body. This is you. This is the lovely woman you are now becoming. Every day from now on you will be more and more completely the woman you really want to be. You will be relaxed and calm no matter what is going on around you, and anything that does happen you can handle in a relaxed and sensible manner. And you will feel so good. You will have all the energy you can use every day, and you will find it very easy to stay on your diet strictly every day, no matter where you are and no matter what you are doing.

  ROUTINE R-2 (use only with male subjects)

  As you go on floating, drifting smoothly and gently more and more deeply relaxed with each breath, focus your attention on the tip of your nose. Keep your attention now focused gently and lazily on the tip of your nose until you reach a point where your entire attention is on the sound of my voice. When you reach that point you can forget about the tip of your nose and just go on listening to my voice and allowing yourself to relax more and more deeply. As you keep your attention gently focused on the tip of your nose, I want you to imagine for a minute. Imagine yourself as you really want to be, trim and healthy, looking handsome and virile, full of confidence, energy and vitality, wearing well-fitting clothes that look so good on your proportioned, firm, trim body. This is you. This is the handsome, virile man you are now becoming. Every day from now on you will be more and more completely the man you really want to be. You will be relaxed and calm no matter what is going on around you, and anything that does happen you can handle it in a relaxed and sensible manner. And you will feel so good. You will have all the energy you can use every day, and you will find it very easy to stay on your diet strictly every day, no matter where you are and no matter what you are doing.

  ROUTINE S

  You will always eat very slowly, and when you have eaten just a little bit of the proper, sensible foods you will feel full, stuffed on just a little bit of the right foods. That is all your body needs now, and that is all you will want. You will have no desire at all to nibble or snack in between meals or after dinner. You will have no desire for sweets or starches or rich greasy foods of any kind. And the longer you stay on your diet, the easier it will be. For you are now beginning to form the habit of eating correctly for your own body. And as your body responds to this habit, as your stomach keeps on shrinking a little bit every day, you will feel comfortable with less and less food, and your weight will keep on going down even faster than before. So fast, so smooth, and so easy. Every day you will keep on getting smaller and lighter and prettier, and you will feel simply marvelous every single day. (Where the word "prettier" is used, you may find it more appropriate to use "attractive." If the subject is a man, use "handsome.")

  ROUTINE T

  You will continue to practice the self-hypnosis exercise faithfully as often as you can every single day, and each time you go through the routine in self-hypnosis you will relax completely. You will go just as deep as you are now, and whatever suggestions you give yourself will be stronger and go deeper all the time. By continuing to practice your self-hypnosis faithfully every day, you will have perfect control over your own appetite. You can dissolve away any hunger. You can dissolve away any tension, any craving for food or drink you should not have, any fear or anger or unnecessary pain. For you are in control now, and whatever you set your mind to do, you can and will do it. You will be completely successful and you will enjoy your success. You will enjoy looking better and feeling better every single day.

  Session 4 is probably the most powerful and valuable of all six hypnosis sessions covered in this book. In this session, you develop a mechanism to enable the subject to vastly improve her self-image and deal with her problems. The mechanism is the creation of a personal, private room that the subject can always go to for problem solving.

  As with other sessions, start this one by talking with the subject to find out how she is progressing with her self-hypnosis and her diet. Help her with any problems she may have encountered, then proceed with the induction.

  SESSION 4 consists of 14 routines in the following sequence: A, B, C, D, E, F, I, G, U, V, W, X, Y, Q.

  Routines A and B are found in chapter 2. Routines C, D, E, F, G, and Q are found in chapter 3. Routine I is found in chapter 4.

  ROUTINE U

  This routine is one of the most powerful and useful tools for hypnosis and self-hypnosis. It creates a personal place-a private room or private templewhere scientific re-programming is done. Here, the routine is used within the context of the diet control program. The use of this routine for self-hypnosis is found in chapter 13.

  I want you to imagine now that you are standing on the top step of a heavy wooden staircase. Feel the carpet under your feet. The carpet can be any kind and color you wish... create it. N
ow extend your hand out and touch the railing. Feel the smooth polished wood of the railing under your hand. You are standing just ten steps up from the floor below. The stairs are curving very smoothly down to the floor below. In a moment we will walk down the stairs. With each step down you will allow yourself to relax even more deeply. By the time you reach the floor below you will be deeper than you have ever gone before. Take a step down now, down to the ninth step smoothly and easily. Feel yourself going deeper. Now down to 8, deeper still. Now down to 7...6...5...4...3...2...1. Now you are standing on the floor below. There is a door in front of you. Reach out and open the door. And from the room beyond the door a flood of light comes streaming out through the open doorway. Walk into the room, into the light through the open door. You are inside the room now, look around you. This is your room, and it can be anything you want it to be. Any size, any shape, any colors. You can have anything in this room that you want. You can add things, remove things, rearrange things. You can have any kind of furniture, fixtures, paintings, windows, carpets, or whatever you want because this is your place.. .your very own private inner place and you are free here. Free to create, free to be who you are. Free to do whatever you will, and the light that shines in this room is your light. Feel the light all around you, shining on the beautiful things in your room. Shining on you; feel the energy in the light. Let the light flow all through your body now. Going in through every pore in your skin. Filling you completely. Pushing away all doubt. Pushing out all fear and tension. You are filled with the light. You are clear and radiant, glowing with the shining light in your room.

  ROUTINE V-1 (use only with female subjects) While you are standing in the light in your room, I want you to build an image. An image of yourself as you really want to be. Not as someone else wants you to be, but as you really want yourself to be. See your image standing in front of you in the light. Your image is slender, beautiful, serene and free, wearing all those gorgeous clothes that look so fine on your beautiful body. This is you. This is the real you. This is the woman you are now becoming. Walk closer to your image now. Walk closer. Now walk into the image. Let it blend into your very body. Your own best self, a living part of you now. Stronger every day.

  ROUTINE V-2 (use only with male subjects)

  While you are standing in the light in your room, I want you to build an image. An image of yourself as you really want to be. Not as someone else wants you to be, but as you really want yourself to be. See your image standing in front of you in the light. Your image is trim, healthy, handsome, calm and free, wearing well-fitting clothes that look so fine on your nicely proportioned body. This is you. This is the real you. This is the man you are now becoming. Walk closer to your image now. Walk closer. Now walk into the image. Let it blend into your very body. Your own best self, a living part of you now. Stronger every day.

  ROUTINE W

  From now on every day you will be more and more completely the woman you really want to be. You will be relaxed and calm. And no matter what is going on around you, you can handle it in a relaxed and sensible manner. And you will feel so good. You will have all the energy you can use every single day. And it will be so easy to stay on your diet strictly every day no matter where you are.

  (For a male subject, replace "woman" with "man.")

  ROUTINE X

  You will always eat very slowly, and when you have eaten just a little bit of the proper, sensible foods you will feel full, stuffed on just a little bit of the right foods. That is all your body needs now, and that is all you will want. You will have no desire at all to nibble or snack in between meals or after dinner. You will have no desire at all for sweets or starches or rich greasy foods of any kind. All that is in the past for you now. Your body does not need that, and you do not even want it. For you are now forming the habit of eating correctly for your body. And your body is adjusting to this habit more and more completely every day. As your stomach continues to shrink a little bit every day, you will feel full and comfortable on less and less food. And your weight will keep on going down, even faster than before, so fast and easy. Every day you will keep on getting smaller and lighter and more pretty. And you will feel simply marvelous every day.

  (Where the word "pretty" is used, you may find it more appropriate to use "attractive." If the subject is a man, use "handsome.")

  ROUTINE Y

  You will continue to practice your self-hypnosis exercise faithfully as often as you can every single day. And each time you go through your little routine in self-hypnosis you will relax completely. And very, very swiftly. Within just a few seconds you will go just as deep as you are now. Even deeper. And whatever suggestions you give to yourself will be stronger and deeper all the time. For you are in control now. Whatever you choose to do, you can do. Whatever you set your mind to achieve, you can and will achieve. You will be completely successful, and you will enjoy your success. And you will enjoy becoming more and more attractive every day. You will enjoy feeling beautiful, more and more your real self every day.

  SESSION 5

  Session 5 is strictly a reinforcement session; all of its routines have been given in previous chapters. Session 5 is nearly identical to session 4; session 4 had one additional routine (V) that is only presented once to a given subject.

  This is the session I usually record on cassette tape because it is an exceptionally powerful and effective session. I give the tape to the subject to keep.

  During your initial dialog with the subject, remind her that the room she created in session 4 (and which is reinforced in session 5) is an especially important tool. She can return to this room via her self-hypnosis anytime she wants for any good purpose she wants. In this room, she can create her own reality for a better and more enriching life. She is in direct contact with her own higher mind in this room, so she will be able to get results more effectively.

  SESSION 5 consists of 13 routines in the following sequence: A, B, C, D, E, F, I, G, U, W, X, Y, Q.

  Routines A and B are found in chapter 2; routines C, D, E, F, G, and Q are found in chapter 3; routine I is found in chapter 4; routines U, W, X, and Y are found in chapter 5.

  SESSION 6

  Session 6 is also primarily a reinforcement session. Twelve of its routines have already been given in previous chapters. The new routine, Z, which I call the Mountain Trip, is a very important one. This routine allows the subject to expand her creativity and begin to explore her own higher mind and the vast resource of higher intelligence available to her. I have seen some beautiful, powerful, mind-blowing experiences occur during the experiencing of this routine.

  SESSION 6 consists of 13 routines in the following sequence: A, B, C, D, E, F, I, G, Z, W, X, Y, Q.

  Routines A and B are found in chapter 2; routines C, D, E, F, G, and Q are found in chapter 3; routine I is found in chapter 4; routines W, X, and Y are found in chapter 5.

  ROUTINE Z: MOUNTAIN TRIP

  Find yourself lying on a soft, green meadow of grass with the bright sun overhead. Notice the flowers around your head. The gentle breeze gently blows across your body. Notice the grass and flowers spring up to about a foot above your head. See how the breeze gently blows the blades of grass back and forth. Smell the fragrance of the flowers.

  Now stand up and look to the north. See a majestic mountain at the end of this meadow. Let's take a trip up that mountain. There is a stream on the right of you. Bend down and notice the cool water. Take a drink of this absolutely pure clean cool refreshing water. Listen to the rush of the small rapids on this bubbly brook.

  Since the stream seems to come from the mountain, let's follow it. Now we come upon a pond that is at the head of this stream. Notice how warm the water is here. Since at this level of mind we are all expert swimmers, lets go for a swim. Feel the warm sun. Feel the warm water surrounding your body as you quietly move through the water.

  It is now time for us to continue up the mountain. As we climb, listen to the birds chirping. Smell the pine trees. Look at
the rocks on the bank to our left. Once in awhile, we can see the valley and our meadow on the right between the trees. We are halfway up the mountain now. Lets stop to rest on the rock to our right. Our meadow is in full view from here. It is now time to continue up to the top of the mountain. Listen to the squirrels chatter in the trees above.

  The breeze is blowing the smell of the small cedar trees to us as we near the top. We are on the top now. We can see a deep canyon on the other side. There is a sign on the top of our mountain. It says, "Yell the questions you most want answered into the canyon below, and see the answer written in the sky above. So yell your question now... and see the answer in the sky above. Now ask another question. See the answer in the sky above.

  Now it is time for us to return to our meadow. See the sun starting to set on the hills to the left. If we hurry, we can be off our mountain before it gets dark. Halfway down the mountain now, and we stop to rest on our rock again. We can watch the beginning of the sunset. Start on down the mountain again. Hear the chirping of the small night animals. Passing our pond, we see the reflection of the sunset in its mirror surface. Our small stream is cool and refreshing as we pass along its side. Now we are back to our meadow. Lie down again in the tall grass. Smell again the flowers' fragrance. Notice the grass and flowers return to their original height as our meadow and mountain now gently fade from view.

  Regression is a trip in time to an earlier periodeither an earlier period in this current life or a past life. Hypnosis is an excellent tool for making this trip backward.

  You should not attempt to regress someone until you have become a reasonably experienced hypnotist. This is because an inexperienced operator can cause the regression to be a traumatic and unpleasant experience for the subject. For example, suppose you regressed a person to a past life just at the moment he or she was being beheaded? That could be a terrifying moment for your subject because it is a real experience. The regression routine outlined below shows how to prevent and/or handle such events in a subject's past life.