Hypnosis for Beginners

by William W Hewitt

  At the moment you can see nothing except the silver fog.

  Now I am going to stop talking. You can now take total control. Begin your journey back in time. Have a nice trip.

  (Turn off tape recorder; keep the rest of the tape blank.)

  Some people who use this self-hypnosis regression procedures may have such extensive, detailed experiences that they may have good material to write a magazine article or book.

  Some may find answers to questions they have about their current lifetime.

  Most at least should have an enjoyable time, and learn something in the process.

  As a bonus, you can go to the beach of time and just stay there in the present moment while meditating, praying, programming goals, relaxing, or whatever you wish.

  This chapter contains a collection of suggestions appropriate for a variety of purposes. Use the explanations and wording of each suggestion on your clients or on yourself in self-hypnosis. Although this list isn't all inclusive, it provides you with a start upon which you can enlarge or modify for your specific needs.

  STRENGTHENING YOUR AURA

  Your aura radiates from you with the strength and colors that you decide by your mental, physical, and emotional condition. You choose to be in such a positive, healthy, balanced state that your aura is powerful, clear, and brilliant with the beneficial energy you desire.

  Visualize your aura as you wish it to be and command your higher self with these words: "I am now becoming the kind of person I need to be to radiate the aura I visualize and desire."

  IMPROVING CONCENTRATION AND MEMORY

  You will feel a tremendous and intense concentration power with everything you do, and you will remember more effectively everything you concentrate on.

  Your mind will be like a soft, absorbent sponge and everything you concentrate on you will absorb like a sponge. When you want to remember anything you have concentrated on, you will squeeze your mind like a sponge and you will remember everything you have concentrated on.

  You will feel a tremendous amount of energy with a tremendous concentration power.

  You will feel a tremendous drive and concentration power with everything you do.

  You have an excellent mind, and you will use it more effectively from now on every day.

  DEALING WITH DEPRESSION

  To help prevent or overcome depression, say and think these words: "Positive thoughts bring me benefits and advantages I desire."

  You will direct and allow your mind to drift to positive, happy, constructive thoughts.

  You will not allow anyone or anything to determine how you are going to feel. You are in control, and you choose to feel happy, important, and worthy.

  You are the most important person in your world, and you will not allow anyone or anything to take that dignity away from you.

  You are a fighter, and you fight for your birthright to be happy and in balance in your entire being.

  CONTROLLING THE USE OF ALCOHOL

  You will feel relaxed, your fingers will be relaxed, and you will not reach for alcohol to drink. You have made a decision to not drink alcohol. You will feel free of the desire to drink alcohol, and you will not drink it.

  You will feel the strength to stay away from alcohol, and you will stay away from alcohol.

  GAINING SOCIAL CONFIDENCE

  When you see people, you will feel very talkative and very happy, and you will talk and you will smile.

  You will push yourself to go out and mix socially with people. You will feel very at ease in the presence of people.

  You will push yourself to meet people. You will take the initiative. You will feel the drive to go out and meet people, and you will start the conversation with ease.

  You will feel the energy, drive, and desire to go out socially, and you will go out socially.

  You will feel positive that everything in life will work out for you, and you will feel good about it.

  You will feel confident that you are just as intelligent as anyone else and even more so. You will realize that you can talk and think just as intelligently as anyone else, and you will feel confident in all situations.

  AIDING THE HEALING PROCESS

  When you are injured, all you need to do to relieve the pain and promote healing is to place either hand on the injured area and say or think the word "gone," visualizing the area to be normal and healthy while healing energy from your hand penetrates the area.

  You can promote healing in any area of your body by visualizing that area to be flooded in healing white light and visualizing the area to be normal and healthy.

  You can help maintain and promote good health by saying and thinking these words every day: "Every day in every way I am getting better, better, and better"

  When confronted with a possible illness, you can rally your body's natural powers to defeat the illness by slowly scanning your body with your visual intelligence from head to toe, pausing briefly at each portion of your body to visualize health, normality, and perfection. If your intelligence detects an abnormality, you can immediately correct it to be normal in your mind. Your body's function and balance will follow the directions you visualize and command in your mind.

  You are now committing to yourself to think only positive, healthy thoughts because you know that your body will respond by being healthy and in balance.

  A healthy thinking mind creates a healthy body.

  IMPROVING LANGUAGE STUDY

  When you study Spanish (insert other language as appropriate), you will intensely concentrate as you study, and you will remember all the Spanish you have concentrated on.

  When you attempt to speak Spanish, all the Spanish you have studied will come to you easily and quickly, and you will speak Spanish with great ease and confidence.

  You will feel a tremendous desire to learn the Spanish language, and as you study this language you will feel a tremendous concentration power, and you will remember everything you concentrate on.

  INCREASING LONGEVITY

  You desire a long, healthy, happy life, and your mind will direct your activities and thought patterns so you will realize this goal.

  You are what you think. You are now commanding your mind to always direct you to lead your life in such a manner as to promote a long, healthy, happy life. And you will listen to and follow the beneficial dictates of your mind.

  INCREASING LOVE AND TRUST

  You will take people as they are. You will radiate warmth, and you will see people radiate it back.

  You will feel the natural freedom to love mentally, and you will feel free of fear and free of rejection.

  You will not categorize or stereotype people as being like other people you have experienced because you will realize inherently that they are not like other people.

  Each person you meet is unique, and you are learning to appreciate each person as a worthwhile individual on their own merits.

  IMPROVING SPEAKING SKILLS

  When speaking in front of a group of people, you will intensely concentrate on your speech and you will remember easily the entire subject matter of your speech. You will speak with confidence and be free of self-consciousness.

  You will speak out easily on everything you want to say in front of one person or in front of a group of people.

  When you are performing in front of people, you will feel that you are performing just as well or even better than anyone else performing. You will feel free of the thought that people are just watching you. You will feel relaxed regardless of who watches.

  When talking to people or in front of a group of people, you will feel a tremendous and powerful concentration power. You will remember everything with ease, and you will talk with ease. Your throat and chest will be relaxed, and you will feel free of all dryness and choking sensations.

  When you speak publicly, you will feel relaxed and confident that you will sound very natural and very intelligible. You will speak with great ease.

  You will feel very rel
axed and yet very alert.

  Every day in every way you will feel better, better, and better.

  Positive thoughts bring you benefits and advantages you desire.

  You are in control.

  IMPROVING MONEY MANAGEMENT

  You are now making a commitment to yourself to budget your money wisely by not ever allowing yourself to spend or commit to spend money you do not actually have in your possession.

  You are now resolving to completely eliminate impulsive buying. You will go shopping only when you need specific items which you have listed on a paper, and you will not allow yourself to purchase any item that was not originally on your list, no matter what.

  The words "bargain" and "sale" no longer entice you. You realize those words are used by someone else to get your money. You purchase only what you truly need, and you do not allow merchants to decide what you need or want.

  INCREASING PHYSICAL EXERCISE

  You will have the desire to physically exercise. You will find time each day to physically exercise, and you will exercise your body vigorously. And when you have done this you will feel simply great.

  DEALING WITH PHOBIAS

  You will feel relaxed and at ease in an airplane (insert other phobia as appropriate). You will feel relaxed, confident, and free of fear, and you will be free of fear.

  STOPPING PROCRASTINATION

  You will not put off doing the things you have to do. You will organize the things you have to do, and you will do them and get them out of the way.

  IMPROVING READING AND STUDYING SKILLS

  You will read faster and comprehend easier everything you read.

  You will look forward to going to school, and you will have a serious interest in all the courses you take.

  You will feel a desire to study your courses. You will concentrate tremendously on your study, and you will remember everything you concentrate on.

  You will feel confident that when you take the (insert the name) exam, you will be relaxed. You will easily remember the answers you already know without tension. Right before and during the exam you will feel relaxed and confident and everything will come to you.

  IMPROVING TIME MANAGEMENT

  You are now making a commitment to yourself to not put off until tomorrow what can and should be done today.

  You will become consciously aware every time you want to procrastinate, and you will immediately resolve not to procrastinate. You will immediately do what needs to be done.

  You are becoming more conscious of time and of what you can realistically achieve in any period of time. This enables you to plan more effectively and to execute those plans more efficiently. You are becoming a better and better planner every day.

  INCREASING SELF-CONFIDENCE

  You will think of the present and future only.

  It will be so easy for you to achieve the success and happiness you want and deserve. For you are the product of your own thought patterns. Think success, and you are a success. Think beauty, and you are beautiful. Think strength, and you are strong. Think positively and constructively, and your life becomes a positive and constructive experience. These things are your new image... the new you... stronger and stronger every day.

  You are now learning to be in total control of every aspect of your life. You will always be relaxed and calm and in control. No longer will you allow others to exercise control over you. You are in control.

  You are a beautiful, intelligent, and worthwhile person. And every day from now on you will become more completely the person you really want to be. You will be confident, relaxed, poised, charming, optimistic, and firm in your resolution to do what you want for your own happiness.

  Never again will you be a slave to anything, to any person, or to any job. You are your own person, and you are in total control.

  IMPROVING SEXUAL PERFORMANCE, FEMALE SUBJECT

  When you have sexual relations, you will feel relaxed and you will reach a climax.

  You will feel a natural physical attraction toward the opposite sex.

  When you have sexual relations, you will not block. You will not fear failure. You will feel positive and confident that you will have an orgasm, and you will naturally have an orgasm.

  When you have sexual relations with a man, you will feel tremendous physical desire for him. When you feel him penetrate your body, you will experience heightened excitement and enjoyment, and will have multiple orgasms during the entire lovemaking period.

  NOTE: The following two suggestions are especially helpful for frigidity.

  You will always find that the touch and sight of your male companion is exciting and sexually stimulating. Even the slightest physical contact with your love companion will cause you to desire sexual relations, and you will reach a climax and have multiple orgasms.

  Every day your sexual appetite will be stronger and stronger, and you will feel better and better. You will find yourself becoming more and more sexually responsive to your love partner by easily becoming aroused and experiencing orgasms.

  IMPROVING SEXUAL PERFORMANCE, MALE SUBJECT

  When you have sexual relations, you will feel relaxed and you will achieve erection and ejaculation.

  You will feel a natural physical attraction toward the opposite sex.

  When you have sexual relations, you will not block. You will not fear failure. You will feel positive and confident that you will have a firm, lasting erection and have a satisfying ejaculation.

  Whenever you have sexual relations with a woman, you will have a powerful ejaculation and a complete release of semen.

  When you have sexual relations with a woman, you will feel a tremendous physical desire for her. When you penetrate this woman you will have a very stiff, rigid erection. You will maintain this erection until the woman has climaxed, and only then will you have an ejaculation.

  When you have physical relations with a woman, you will have a very stiff, rigid erection. You will feel great pleasure, and it will feel good.

  NOTE: The following two suggestions are especially helpful for impotence.

  You will always find that the touch and sight of a female companion is sexually stimulating. Even the slightest physical contact with a consenting woman will cause you to desire sexual relations, and your penis will become firm and erect.

  Every day your sexual appetite will be stronger and stronger, and you will feel better and better. You will find yourself becoming more and more sexually responsive to your love partner by easily getting and maintaining a rigid erection.

  IMPROVING SLEEPING HABITS

  When you go to sleep this evening, you will quickly drop off into a deep, sound sleep for eight hours. The next thing you know, it will be daylight, and you will awaken refreshed and alert.

  QUITTING SMOKING

  Regardless of what happens at work, you will feel relaxed. You will feel free of the desire to smoke the entire working time.

  You are in total control of every aspect of your life. Cigarettes no longer have any part in your life. You are now a non-smoker. You will remain a non-smoker the rest of your life. You have made this healthy decision, and you are happy with that decision. You are in control. Cigarettes have no control over you any longer. You have resolved to break the bad habit of smoking, and you have broken that bad habit.

  CONTROLLING WEIGHT

  You will feel satisfied with very small quantities of food, and these small quantities of food will satisfy you completely.

  You will feel the strength to stay away from, and you will stay away from unhealthy foods such as sweets and starches.

  You will have no desire to eat anything between meals or after dinner at night. After dinner, you will have no desire to eat anything until breakfast tomorrow morning.

  All the calories in the foods you eat will be completely utilized by your body and not stored as unnecessary fat.

  You will strictly follow the diet you prescribe for yourself, eating nothing between meals or after dinner. You wil
l eat only the foods prescribed by your diet, and when you have done this you will no longer feel hungry.

  IMPROVING WORK SUCCESS

  You will handle all situations on the job in a very relaxed, calm, and sensible manner free of tension.

  During your working hours you will feel relaxed and calm. Regardless of what happens, you will handle every situation in a relaxed, calm, and sensible manner free of tension.

  You will make decisions on the job, and you will feel great confidence in your decisions.

  In your working hours on the job, you will feel a powerful and intense concentration power on your work. You will work very, very fast with a tremendous amount of energy.

  You will look forward to the job interview. You will feel completely at ease during job interviews. You will feel confident that you will radiate all the personable and knowledgeable qualities and work interest that the employer seeks. You will speak in a calm, concise, and meaningful manner without tension.

  You will feel an intense interest in your work, and you will feel a tremendous drive to perform to the best of your ability.

  You are a successful person, and you enjoy your success. Part of your success is your ability to manage your time efficiently. You plan your time and your projects, and you execute your plan promptly without allowing yourself to be distracted.

  You will provide honest and sincere service for your customers, knowing that your rewards will follow as a result.

  You are capable and efficient, and your creative mind knows what you can do. Your creative mind will find a way to lead you into the right circumstances and situations to best take advantage of your abilities.

  You are learning to relax... to release all anxiety and relax and let go. For you are in control of all aspects of your life now. No longer will you allow anxiety, tension, or nervous energy to impede you. Every day you will notice yourself relaxing more. You will notice yourself becoming more calm and more in control than ever before.

  You will notice every day that your attitude is becoming more and more philosophical and free of serious concern about life's daily problems.

  You are an excellent salesperson, and each day you will feel yourself becoming even more successful as the new, confident, relaxed YOU becomes more and more prominent in your personality.