Self-hypnosis

To understand how hypnosis works means to be able to control your state of consciousness.

People sometimes are confused about the difference between hypnosis, trance and meditation but whether you call it hypnosis, meditation, or altered state doesn’t really matter.The important fact is that we learn better when we are in an altered state than we do when we are in our normal state of consciousness.

Hypnosis and meditation are very similar states. The difference is that hypnosis has an outcome that you have decided before you begin to go in a trance, while meditation is more formless.

When you go in an altered state you may want to do something, you may want to know when you are going in, when you are coming out and what you are doing while you are there.

When you are hypnotising other people, in fact whenever you are communicating with someone else, even if you are simply trying to share a good memory, you are trying to induce in them an altered state and if you are sufficiently effective as a communicator, you induce an altered state in them. Knowing exactly how to induce an altered state and doing it with precision is what makes someone a good hypnotist.

If you want to achieve anything with self-hypnosis, you plan it out before you begin and then you start to put yourself in hypnosis.

When you want to enter in self-hypnosis you can follow these easy steps:

1-Stare at an object in front of you

and then

2- change the focus of your eyes by staring at something else behind this object

but

3-keep staring at the object at the same time, which is out of focus now while you are focusing your eyes behind it

For instance:

1-Stare at your right hand

and then

2-shift the focus of your eyes to the wall few metres behind your right hand

but

3-keep staring at your right hand that is out of focus now while you are focusing your eyes behind it.

In a matter of few seconds your eyes are going to feel tired and they are closing while you enter in a trance smoothly, deeper and deeper.

Learning more about to go into a trance

The first important thing to do if you are new to hypnosis is to practice going in and out of trance.

The easy way to learn to do this is to get an experienced hypnotist to put you in a trance and then to set up a sensorial trigger (anchor) while you are in a trance. This can be done by the hypnotist asking you to press your right forefinger on your right lap in a very specific point while you are in trance.

The hypnotist gives to you also the following post-hypnotic suggestion:

“Every time in the future when you will want to go in trance, all what you will have to do will be to touch your right lap by your right forefinger in that specific way”. When you came out of the trance you can use this anchor to enterin trance again by pressing the same point on your lap. This way you will fire the trigger for this specific state.

While you are going into a trance the quality of your voice changes, your breath changes and you displays some specific physical cues, which are signs of developing trance. These cues influence powerfully and unconsciously the people next to you.

The signs of developing trance

The more hypnosis you do the more easily you will recognize the signs of developing trance.

You need to focus on only few of the most evident signs:

1-The rhythm of breathing slow down

2-Pupils get dilated

3-Lower lip engorging with blood

4-Slowing and slurring of speech

5-Increased f.laccidity of the facial muscles

6-Evident change of the rhythm in blinking the eyes, faster or slower

7-Limbs become motionless, apparently inert. Movements slow down and limbs move as if “hesitant” in a very recognisable way.

8-Eyelids start flattering or closing naturally.