Hypnosis for Beginners

by William W Hewitt

  1. Record hypnosis routines A, B, C, D, E, F, G, U, and V

  2. Replay the tape and allow it to hypnotize you and take you to your own private inner room. (You will be in your room after routine V finishes.)

  3. Stay in your room for as long as you wish. This is where you will do your consulting with higher authority. Don't be concerned about the tape running; it has nothing on it and will automatically shut off at the end of the reel.

  4. While in your room, invite whomever you wish into your room. You can issue your request mentally or out loud.

  Here is how I do it. After I am in my room, I mentally say, "I ask that my friend, consultant, and guide Mohandas Gandhi enter my room and help me. I need your wisdom and counsel at this time." Then I press a button I have in my room that opens a door through which my guest may enter.

  When Gandhi enters, I talk to him just as I would anyone. I explain my problem or question and listen for advice. We communicate. When I have what I need, and if he has no further things to say, I thank him for coming. He leaves and the door closes.

  I do all this silently in my mind, but you can do it aloud if you wish. I find the sound of my voice is sometimes distracting, so I most often speak mentally or in a whisper, and sense my guest's reply mentally.

  This method works because your higher mind is in direct contact with the higher mind of your guest. For that reason, you could consult with a newborn baby and receive intelligent, valuable information. The baby's higher mind is part of cosmic intelligence even though the baby's conscious mind has not yet developed.

  This whole experience is really a spiritual one and is powerful. Gandhi has given me a great deal of valuable help. So have some others I have invited into my room.

  Each person has her or his own unique experience in inviting someone into their room and consulting. Some see the person enter and hear her or his voice (I usually do). Some sense the presence and the information, but do not actually see or hear it (I have had this experience also). Some do not see or sense anything, but they pretend the presence is there and carry on their conversation (I have done this many times). All of these situations are valid and work.

  Sometimes you get the information you need right then and there in the room. Other times you seem to get nothing at the moment, but later when you least expect it, the information comes booming into your mind. Don't give up; it works, and it is exciting.

  I have had the information I requested come to me while driving my car hours (or even a day or two later) after the session in my room. Always, you should receive the guidance you need within seventy-two hours after consulting with your guest. If not, repeat the consulting session. Persist until you get what you want. Each time it becomes easier and more effective.

  Often the guidance you seek can come to you in subtle or strange ways. I buy a newspaper only on Wednesday and Sunday because those two issues contain all the ads, recap of the week's news, and the best comics. One Sunday evening I went to my room to consult with Ernest Hemingway. I wanted to quit my current employment and devote my life to writing, lecturing, and helping people through hypnosis. I was greatly reluctant to take the chance. I had been with my employer for eighteen years and was an executive with a comfortable salary. To quit for something as nebulous as I envisioned seemed foolhardy. I explained my situation to Hemingway. He said absolutely nothing; he just listened. I thanked him for coming, and he left.

  The next morning while driving to work, I had an overpowering urge to purchase a newspaper. To me, the Monday morning paper is the most useless of all daily papers, and here I was buying it on impulse. I browsed through it later at lunch. Buried in one of the inside pages was a filler article. It read, "There are many excellent ways to achieve failure, but not taking a chance is the most successful" Those words leapt off the page and told me what I needed to know. I would take a chance and quit my job, and I would be successful at what I wanted to do. So I did, and I am.

  I recommend you explore this great communication path with higher intelligence.

  SLEEP

  There is one more very powerful, easy-to-implement usage for hypnosis: going to sleep while listening to a hypnosis tape you have recorded. I'm not just talking about using it to help you sleep better-although you can use it for that also-I am talking about any purpose you desire.

  Neither your subconscious mind nor your hearing faculties ever go to sleep. Therefore, even though you fall asleep while your tape is playing, your mind absorbs everything on the tape and begins the process of making your reality materialize. While asleep, you are in a deep hypnotic state, so the tape works wonders. Follow these three steps.

  1. Record routines A, B, C, D, E, F, I, G, U, and V followed by specific suggestions you wish to have become reality.

  2. When you lay down to go to sleep, turn on the recorder and drift off to sleep while it plays.

  3. The recorder will automatically shut off at the end, not causing you to wake up.

  In these bedtime tapes I do not include visualization instructions, only verbal suggestions. It works quite well. For example, suppose you have a job interview scheduled for the next day. Make the tape and put in appropriate suggestions for your success in giving a good interview. You will be calm, speak intelligently, be charming without being gushy, etc. (see chapter 9 for some good interview suggestions). Then go to sleep while your tape does the work. The next day you will have a fine interview.

  Everything you've read up to this point enables you to enrich your life in whatever manner you choose using hypnosis and self-hypnosis. This chapter provides information to launch yourself even further than the wonders of self-hypnosis into the awesome realm of psychic experience.

  THE PSYCHIC REALM

  Words such as visualization, alpha, and theta have appeared throughout this book. Many references have been made to something beyond hypnosis and you've been told that your abilities are nearly limitless. Strong hints have been made that there are things you can do in addition to the marvelous, exciting things already discussed. You've already learned how to tailor and reshape your entire life in every respect if you choose to. What more could there possibly be?

  If your hypnosis learning experience were likened to our traditional school system, at this point I would say, "You have just graduated from kindergarten!" Reflect on that a moment. You have just learned one of the most powerful, useful, and exciting skills imaginable-and I say that brings you through kindergarten. You must conclude then that there must be an awesome amount to experience beyond what we call self-hypnosis.

  Indeed, there is an awesome amount to experience. You have the ability to develop your sixth sense (your psychic sense) and use it just as readily as you use self-hypnosis. Hypnosis takes you to, and through, the door to the psychic realm in some of the exercises in this book. For example, going into your room in routine U and communicating with other intelligent beings is in the psychic realm.

  The psychic realm embraces such things as mental telepathy, psychic healing, clairvoyance, psychometry, and much more. You already have a sixth sense (innate psychic ability) given to you as a birthright, but you haven't developed it and used it to its fullest extent. Hypnosis gives you an excellent start in entering into psychic development. Hypnosis training and experience are not required in order to develop your psychic ability, but you can develop your psychic ability much faster and go into deeper, more meaningful experiences if you first have hypnosis training and experience.

  Ponder for a moment about where we live, who we are, and what life is all about. You experience life as a human being in just one dimension on a tiny planet in one incredibly vast universe out of many universes. How many dimensions are there? We don't know, but we know there are many. How many universes? Many. When you think about these things, it makes you feel very insignificant. Well, we are insignificant-physically.

  We are really not physical beings. We are merely housed temporarily in a container that we call a body. We are intelligent beings-sp
iritual beings-living, eternal energies that always have been and always will be. We are a significant part of the total cosmic intelligence, and as such we have access to any of the information within that cosmic intelligence. Now you don't feel so insignificant any longer, do you?

  Well, you should never feel insignificant because you are a participating member of all that is. Be humble, yes. Modest, yes. But never insignificant.

  The implications of what I just said are enormous and mind boggling. Did I just imply that somehow you have access to information from other dimensions, from other worlds, from other minds? Yes, that is exactly my implication. It is more than just an implication-it is truth.

  How?

  You have already made a start with your self-hypnosis. If you care to go even further into the psychic realm, I recommend you read my book Psychic Development for Beginners (Llewellyn Publications, 1996).

  Visualization

  Visualization is the key to success in your self-hypnosis and to entering the domain of psychic experience. The more vividly you can visualize, create, and hold mental pictures, the greater your ability to connect with any intelligent experience. You can converse with Gandhi by going to your room, inviting him in, and visualizing him there. Gandhi's temporary house, his body, is dead, but he lives on as an intelligent energy in some dimension, and he is available to you. All intelligent energies are available to you without restriction.

  You can go anywhere at a mental intelligence level without your physical body leaving the room. This is astral travel. Visualization helps achieve this.

  Alpha

  You can achieve every thing discussed in the first fourteen chapters by going to the alpha level-anywhere in the alpha level. The deeper you go into alpha (lower frequency), the closer you get to theta, and the more profound your experiences become. To go into the psychic realm, you need to function in the theta level for the most profound experiences. It is possible, however, to also have psychic experience in the alpha level.

  Theta

  At this level, you are able to experience astral travel, communication with other minds or intelligence sources, tap the resources of universal intelligence, and experience profound enlightenment.

  Getting to theta is relatively easy. First, become very skilled at self-hypnosis so you have your mind trained to drop into alpha instantly by a mere wish to do so. This will happen for you automatically if you practice self-hypnosis at least fifteen minutes every day with integrity; at some point you will just know that all you need to do to go to alpha is to will it so. This is what I do-I just will it to be. You can buy instruments that signal you when you reach alpha and theta, but I don't recommend them for two reasons. First, they are expensive, and second, the instructions in the next several paragraphs place you always in control and independent of any gadget. My thrust is to enable you to be totally self-sufficient and independent.

  When you become as skilled at self-hypnosis as I've described, program yourself so that you will be able to go to theta whenever you enter your room and then count down from ten to one as you visualize the numbers.

  After you have done the ten to one countdown in your room, attempt to retrieve some specific information or make a specific contact. You should have planned the specific project in advance (make it a rather simple project to begin with). If you succeed, you have reached theta. If not, continue programming and trying daily until you ultimately succeedand you will succeed if you do not give up. Sometimes, you will not get your answer immediately, but if you did reach theta, you will receive it within seventy-two hours.

  Once, I needed to consult with higher intelligence for some direction in a personal matter. Nothing happened, and I knew I was in theta. The next day while driving my car I was suddenly visited with the intelligence I had sought. The key words are: Patience, Perseverance, and Practice.

  Literally, the world is at your command if you want to develop your skills high enough to make it happen. Go as far as you wish. It is your choice.

  SUMMARY

  You have examined a great many hypnosis routineslong ones and short ones. You have read case histories and the routines used. You have read examples of improvising and modifying routines and sequences, and probably have the idea of modifying and improvising pretty well clear in your mind.

  Following are some important points I want you to keep in mind.

  The hypnosis routines in this book are ones I use. They are good and they work, but there are hundreds of others that work just as well. Each hypnotist develops his or her own routines and sequences.

  Use the routines in this book to help you get started and master your skills, but do not feel locked into them. Feel free to alter, change, or eliminate as you see fit, in light of your own increasing knowledge and experience.

  Improvising is limited only by your imaginationuse self-hypnosis to expand your own imagination.

  Use visualization to achieve results. In chapter 10 I had the little girl with the earache create a third eye and look at her ear from the inside. Then she lit up her ear like an electric light in a cave. Often the more unusual or bizarre your visualization techniques, the more effective the results. Do not restrict yourself by conventional thinking. Unfetter your mind.

  The one important caution: Always use positive, constructive statements in your routines and suggestions. Always say what you want, and not what you don't want. For example, if you are helping a woman overcome her fear of water by having her visualize herself swimming. You might say,

  "Now visualize yourself wading out into the water. It is warm and relaxing. It is a beautiful day and you are happy. You lean forward in the water and gently stroke your way across the pool. It is a good feeling. You are a good swimmer....."

  Do not say,

  "You won't drown because you are a good swimmer"

  Or,

  "Don't be afraid, the water isn't deep."

  Use of the words drown and afraid automatically condition the subject to expect the worst, and you will reinforce the fear rather than get rid of it. So think your words through very carefully before using them. Another key word to avoid is can't.

  Whenever I program for something, I always conclude with: And with harm to no one. I recommend that you do the same. You don't want to achieve something that could cause harm to others or to yourself.

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