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A complete, best-selling course! Gives background of self-hypnosis, teaches principles, develops mental tools, and offers step-by-step instructions for trance with creative alternatives for results, Plus, clear applications: learning, sports, weight-control, pain, fears, habits, stress. The tape leads listener into hypnosis and teaches relaxation. Ideal for anyone including professionals. Also available as a book/CD combination (ISBN: 0976816008) and as book only (ISBN: 0967911303)
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About the Author
C. Alexander Simpkins Ph.D. and Annellen M. Simpkins Ph.D. are psychologists who have specialized in understanding the mind. They have devoted many years to the study of hypnosis with Milton H. Erickson, Ernest Rossi, and G. Wilson Shaffer. They have taught self hypnosis and meditation to people of all ages. They are authors of numerous books: Principles of Self Hypnosis, Principles of Meditation, Living Meditation, Meditation from Thought to Action, Zen Around the World, Simple Zen, Simple Taoism, Simple Confucianism, and forthcoming Simple Buddhism.
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Effective Self-Hypnosis is a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of self hypnosis. Step-by-step instructions offer a gradual personal experience to learn self-suggestion and trance phsnomena. Applications show how to apply self hypnosis to enhancing learning, gaining self-control including weight, quitting bad habits such as smoking, handling pain, overcoming fears, achieving personal best in athletics, and stressing less. Creative individualizing is encouraged through out. This book will appeal to anyone who would like to learn how to use self hypnosis for self improvement. The accompanying 55 minute audio tape, "Steps to Self Hypnosis" answers questions about hypnosis, suggestion, and trance on side one and then offers a relaxing and enjoyable trance experience on side two.
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From the Introduction
There are many books written about hypnosis, but self hypnosis is unique, requiring special skills. The individual attempting self hypnosis must be both the hypnotist and the subject simultaneously. The dilemma in self hypnosis is how to voluntarily do the involuntary, to deliberately be spontaneous and regain rapport with your own inner self.
Self hypnosis returns you to balance. Both the conscious and unconscious can learn to work together for orienting and problem solving in hypnotic work. You will learn to return to natural functioning with your unconscious and to cooperate with your inner needs in a healthy and positive way.
Self hypnosis facilitates constructive responses and better use of potentials. Normally, we have routine patterns of thoughts, attitudes, concerns and feelings. Like a television set receiving only three channels, this becomes the limited spectrum of possibility for television viewing. We tune the TV to these channels only, ignoring any other signals. Then, one day we become curious about new possibilities for input and decide to put a satellite dish on the roof. Suddenly new channels become available with new programming options. Similarly, our assumptions limit us to a certain range of experiences. Other mental events are either disregarded or experienced as meaningless static. Openness to the unconscious through hypnosis draws in more data and new perspectives. These new potentials may be integrated to expand the horizons of experience.
People vary on how they respond to hypnosis ... Once you become familiar with your own personal response to hypnosis, you can broaden and evolve to learn other responses. Rather than programming your mind with direct suggestion, the traditional stereotype of hypnosis, this book teaches you how to sensitize to intuitions from your unconscious processes. Paradoxically, this may result in desensitization to learned limitations, as will be shown later. Spontaneous responses occur, rather than redundant conditioning. Throughout we invite you to interact with your responses and use them creatively.
About this Book
This book is divided into four parts. Part I, The Story of Hypnosis shows the evolution and expansion of self hypnosis, growing out of the traditions of hypnosis itself. Included are early developments and clinical applications along with later research findings. Part II, The Pillars of Hypnosis, explains the fundamental tools used in hypnosis: the unconscious mind, the mind and body working together, and suggestion. Exercises are also offered, so you can develop the skills used in self hypnosis. Part III, Pathways to Trance, gives step-by-step instructions for inducing hypnosis in yourself. Find your way into trance by trying varied self hypnostic experiences. We encourage you to experiment with the many kinds of exercises. These are opportunities to try out new skills. Special work with resistances can help people who find it difficult to develop a trance or respond to self suggestion. Part IV, Navigating the Sea of Life, offers approaches to specific problems, using and developing the self hypnotic skills taught earlier in the book. Self Hypnosis can be a practical tool for specific target areas while also facilitating a general constructive process within. These applications can also be viewed as paradigms for more generalized personal development. ..We hope you will be able to find your own positive potential for growth and development through the use of this book.
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