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Social Hypnosis

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Social hypnotism is also named as covert hypnotism in which you hypnotize others without asking for any permission. The person being hypnotized does not even know that he is being hypnotized. The hypnotist uses the radar hypnosis and peeps into the mind of the person being hypnotized and then takes over his mind. The person who uses covert hypnosis is most of the time very experienced and master of his art. Social hypnosis is of great use for those who know how to use it because many a times when a person is into a trouble he can hypnotize him and get out of the problems.

In feuds and fights social hypnosis is of great help because it becomes the weapon for the person who is being attacked. The other name of this hypnotism technique is conversational hypnotism. We all are aware that hypnotism has been used in various fields. It is used in the medical world by surgeons and neuron specialists for making the patient numb from pain. In other fields also hypnotism has found its applications. Social hypnosis is in a way different from the regular hypnotism that is used in problem solving situations because social hypnosis is practiced without any consent or permission from the person who is being targeted.

Though it has more disadvantages rather than advantages because of the way and situations it is used. Most of time people use social hypnosis tactics for robbing off people and for doing other such activities. The situations in which social hypnosis is helpful also exist but are not high in number. Because of its use for negative tasks social hypnosis has been given a bad name. For the same reason, for a lay person, hypnotism is something which is bad. Like any other field and therapy hypnotism also has its share of pros and cons but the fact that it is so helpful in many situations can not be avoided because of this.

Apart from social hypnosis, hypnotism over all is a solution to most if our problems in life.

Self Hypnosis Old Books

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For all those who just learnt about self hypnosis and this hypnotic world, it is necessary for you to also know that hypnotism is not at all a new concept. It has been in practice from the ancient times. You will even find its practice in bible and other old spiritual versus. The best way to gain any knowledge is through books and resource material. Books are perfectly called as man’s best friend. There are many hypnotherapists who have learnt and mastered this art by reading books. If you go out on searching for books on self hypnosis then you may find yourself under piles and piles of books. Since hypnotism is a very popular niche therefore there are hundreds of writers you wished to cover this topic in their writings. 

The reason why you are here reading my writings is that you are curious to read a few self hypnosis old books and you are finding it difficult to search for it. If this is the main reason then do not worry your quandary will come to an end here. In the next few lines you will find some names of self hypnosis books which were written way back and thus will comprise some excellent information. This list has been prepared after thorough research.

  1. Secrets of self hypnosis
  2. New age self hypnosis
  3. The secrets of the self
  4. Instant self hypnosis: How to hypnotize yourself with your eyes open
  5. Self hypnosis for a better life

 All these 5 books are the most read and hence popular. They are enough for giving you quality information on hypnotism techniques and self hypnosis. These books will surely prove beneficial to you as they are filled with great information. If you read them with full concentration then you might master some tricks to self hypnotize as well.

Hypnosis Positive Changes

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Hypnotism is a life changing therapy and a solution to many of our problems. Can’t quit smoking? Finding it hard to lose weight? Are you addicted to food? If you are facing with these or similar other problems then your best solution comes in the form of hypnotism. Hypnotism is for everyone. Those who are depressed, those who are finding it difficult to concentrate in life and for those as well who have lost focus in life, for all of you hypnotism can be the solution. Unlike it has been presented in movies and videos as an art to rob off people hypnotism is something which can bring in positive changes in your life.

You might be wondering how hypnotism can bring in positive changes in your life. Since hypnotism is a great tool your molding your subconscious mind it can very powerfully alter your thinking, attitude and beliefs. You must know that most of the times your reactions are guarded and prompted by your subconscious mind. If you use hypnotic techniques for bringing in positive changes in your life then subconscious mind will surely work according to it because hypnotism directly works on your subconscious mind. As your subconscious mind is the most powerful part of your mind you will surely see some concrete outcomes. 

Many a time’s hypnosis techniques are regarded as self improvement tools because this technique is powerful and effective. If you use it for enhancing your own life rather than destroying other’s you will surely enrich some great positive changes. If you have tried every other technique and therapy for bringing in some positive changes but everything got futile then try hypnotism for sure results. Hypnotism can never fail and if done perfectly has no side effects. So it is absolutely safe and it gives your life a new direction.

Fear of Hypnosis

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Honest criticism and a sincere difference of opinion are always welcome. But criticism must be well-founded from a scientific point of view and not stem from an emotional reaction. You have probably heard the remark, “I won’t let anyone hypnotize me.” What are they really saying, and what does hypnosis represent to such an individual? To them, hypnosis represents some sort of “magic spell” which invokes a state of complete helplessness and dependency upon the hypnotist. We previously discussed how this erroneous conception can take place because of the manner in which hypnosis is usually interwoven with bizarre fictional stories.

For many, the hypnotic state represents a period in which the conscious guard is dropped. They feel they may compulsively reveal the darker side of their nature, confess their hostility or relate information they would never voluntarily divulge to anyone. This is the real danger they see in hypnosis. To protect themselves from it, they attack it. It is much like the fanatic vice crusader who militantly attacks sin in order to alleviate his own feelings of guilt stemming from the fact that vice actually attracts him.

Fear of hypnosis takes different forms, but basically it is the fear of revealing one’s true feelings. An employee, for instance, at a gathering which included the employer he dislikes, would never volunteer as a subject for hypnosis if the occasion arose. He would be afraid he would do or say something which might endanger his position. Hypnosis for him would be “dangerous” because he would be afraid to take the chance. The truth is, however, that this individual would be taking no chance. The hypnotic state is not a confessional period. The subject is aware at all times of what he is saying. If the subject does not wish to pursue a line of questioning, he tells the hypnotist. If the hypnotist persisted further along this line, the subject would shake off the hypnotic state.

Suggestions are Being Filtered into the Subconscious Mind

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I think we should make it clear that whether we call it autosuggestion, positive thinking, meditation, yoga, affirmations or self-hypnosis, we are, in reality, talking about the same thing. All require certain basic prerequisites before they will work effectively for the individual.

What should be remembered is that the suggestions are being filtered into the subconscious mind which does not question, doubt, analyze or dispute the efficacy of these beneficial thoughts. You can be sure that the constant repetition will have its effect. Hasn’t the mind, in the past, accepted the individual’s diagnosis when he said, “I’m sick,” “I have an inferiority complex,” “I can’t stop smoking,” “I can’t lose weight,” “I can’t concentrate,” “I can remember a person’s face, but I can’t remember names,” “I have a difficult time falling asleep,” “I just can’t seem to relax.” Isn’t such an individual, in effect, usingself-hypnosis? And hasn’t the person convinced himself of the validity of his present state? This is truly dangerous. It is negative hypnosis.

The question that I raise is: “Why shouldn’t the subconscious mind be even more convinced and respond strongly to suggestions which are in conformity with the natural desire to be of sound body and mind?” I have never been able to find a logical answer.

I think this is what happens many times. A person seeks help with a problem which, in reality, has nothing to do with hypnosis. His cure is not contingent on being hypnotized or on suggestions he or the hypnotist feel are indicated. You will read in nearly every book and article dealing with hypnosis that “hypnotism is not a cure-all.” No one has suggested or implied that it should be used exclusively for allemotional problems. You may read a newspaper article warning about the “dangers” of hypnosis. It may tell of a person who rid himself of one symptom and developed another in its place. You usually get a grossly distorted picture of what happened, with many aspects of the case not included. It’s a matter of taking what you want to prove out of context. Propagandists use this technique all the time to get across their message. It’s the old story of telling a half truth.

Are the Results of Hypnosis only Temporary and Sypmtomatic?

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Lewis R. Wolberg, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry, New York Medical College, recently canvassed 30 experts in the field of hypnosis and found a few who felt symptom removal was “irrational, temporary–or outright dangerous.” The large majority, however, “employed symptom removal where indicated, and minimized or ridiculed any possible bad effects.”

A further objection to hypnosis is that the results are temporary as well as symptomatic. It is well to remember that most medical therapy is specifically directed to symptom removal. How permanent is most medical treatment? Once you couple hetero-hypnosis with self-hypnosis, you afford the patient the opportunity of utilizing suggestions for his own benefit any time they are needed. This, of course, can make symptom relief permanent. As an example, I would see no harm in teaching a patient self-hypnosis for symptomatic relief from a problem of insomnia.

It would certainly be better than physically depressing the higher brain centers with sleeping pills to produce unconsciousness every night. I needn’t tell you that millions of dollars are spent every year onsleeping pills and patients become dependent upon them, needing more and more pills in order to produce sleep. Many accidental suicides stem from an overdose of sleeping pills. Yet, despite the inherent dangers of sleeping pills which are glaringly apparent, they are prescribed by the millions, to say nothing of those that reach the market through illegal channels. Furthermore, how much effort is really made to get the patient off the sleeping pills? There are also more voluntary suicides by sleeping pills than by any other method. Perhaps if these drugs weren’t so readily available, many of these unfortunate individuals would be with us today.

What about the often-quoted statement that “you might do some damage”? Let’s explore this area. I assume that the reader is somewhat familiar with the work of Emile Coué or at least has heard of his famous autosuggestion formula of “Day by day, in every way, I’m getting better and better.” During our time, thousands upon thousands of seemingly helpless and hopeless cases have been cured by repeating this affirmation over and over again, day after day, as the individual falls asleep.

The Dangers of Hypnosis-Is Hypnosis Dangerous?

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One of the objections that you hear to hypnosis is that it can be dangerous in the hands of those not trained in the psychodynamics of human behavior. Inasmuch as psychiatrists and clinical psychologists are the only ones who are thoroughly trained in the analysis of human behavior, this objection, if valid, could limit hypnosis to a comparative handful of therapists. Fortunately, it is not valid. This was proved several years ago when the “Bridey Murphy” craze gripped the country. Despite the fact that thousands of amateur hypnotists were practicing hypnosis, little or no harm resulted. I have personally instructed several thousand medical and non-medical individuals and have yet to hear of a single case where a crisis was precipitated or anything of a dangerous or detrimental nature occurred as a result of hypnosis. I have also taught several thousand persons self-hypnosis and can  report the same findings.

Many patients who seek treatment from competent psychiatrists, psychoanalysts and psychologists do not always obtain satisfactory results. This doesn’t mean that everyone should stop seeking help fromthese specialists. Even a specialist doesn’t have a perfect record of successful therapy.

What then is the objection to hypnosis? The theory that if you get rid of one symptom another symptom will take its place really holds no truth and is usually advanced by those who have had little or no experience in the hypnosis field. However, a difference of opinion does exist even with those practicing hypnosis in this area. Some hypnotists “trade down” symptoms by replacing a serious symptom with a minor one, while others just remove the symptom. The latter is what a doctor does when he recommends aspirin for arthritis. He knows the aspirin will not cure the arthritis, but he wants to alleviate the symptom. To say that another symptom will replace the pain is unscientific–and untrue. The same is true of hypnosis.

How to Hypnotize Yourself to do Anything

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We know that the easiest way to achieve self-hypnosis is to be hypnotized and given a posthypnotic suggestion that you will respond to hypnosis by a key word, phrase or gesture. I have tried to point outsome problems that can arise. Needless to say, these problems do not always arise, and the attainment of self-hypnosis can be a relatively simple procedure. There is usually some way of reaching a subject who does not respond in a reasonable length of time.

Now we come to the point where the subject wishes to hypnotize himself. What happens in this situation? It would appear that the subject would go under hypnosis immediately. After all, isn’t he controlling the hypnotic session? Of course, this does happen time and time again, and the results seem miraculous. I receive mail constantly from readers of several of my other books on hypnosis telling me how they were able to achieve certain goals that they never dreamed possible. They write that they have achieved self-confidence and complete self-mastery and have been able to overcome problems that have plagued them for many years.

These problems not only include strictly psychological troubles but many psychosomatic symptoms as well. Many have remarked at the ease in which they were able to achieve self-hypnosis and the results they wanted. For them it was as simple as following a do-it-yourself book.

Others write about the difficulty they encounter and ask what to do about it. It is my hope that this book will shed some light for those who have experienced difficulty in learning self-hypnosis. We shalldiscuss many phases of hypnosis with the emphasis on self-hypnosis.

We’ll discuss its many ramifications and try not to leave out anything helpful in our discussion. If you follow the instructions and exercises that I give you assiduously, you should be able to achieve a depth of self-hypnosis suitable for solving many of your personal problems.

How to Tell if you can be Hypnotized

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The hypnotist is usually endowed by the subject with an omniscience and infallibility which logically is unjustified. The subject is naturally extremely disappointed if he doesn’t respond immediately. If he loses confidence in the hypnotist, he may never achieve hypnosis with this particular hypnotist. I have hypnotized subjects who have been to several other hypnotists without success, and I have had some of my unsuccessful subjects hypnotized by other hypnotists. How and why does it happen? I believe that some of the reasons are so intangible that it would be impossible to explain all of them with any degree of exactitude.

I once saw an individual about 12 times who wanted to learn self-hypnosis and had been unsuccessful in every approach. I asked him if he would volunteer as a subject for a class in techniques of hypnosisthat I was teaching for nurses. He readily volunteered and showed up at the designated time. Much to my amazement as well as his own, he responded within a relatively short time as one of the nurses hypnotized him before the group. She had used a standard eye closure technique, requesting him to look at a spinning hypnodisc that I had previously used with him every time he was in the office. Her manner was extremely affable, she had used the identical technique I had used unsuccessfully,and the subject responded excellently to cap the climax. He was the first subject the nurse had ever hypnotized, since this was only her third lesson.

How would you account for it? Here was one of my students with two weeks’ experience hypnotizing a subject where I had failed while using every procedure that I felt would work. Was it because she was a better hypnotist? Perhaps! However, I’d like to recall at this time our discussion about subconscious responses. I’m inclined to feel that being hypnotized by a middle-aged female nurse created certain favorable unconscious responses which accounted for his going under hypnosis at that time. It created the initial break-through which was needed. I was able to hypnotize him easily at his next appointment, and he acquired self-hypnosis readily from that time on.

I have tried the same approach with other subjects who did not respond favorably and have failed to attain the success that I did in the above case. Why the impasse? It is one of the difficulties that we encounter in hypnosis, and as yet it has not been resolved.

Self Hypnosis Induction

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There are various ways through which a person can reach to a deeper trance of hypnotism. Induction is a method which induces hypnosis into a person and allows him to go deep inside his subconscious mind. For attempting self hypnotism you need to understand ways through which you can induce hypnotism. Self hypnotizing can become easier if you are aware of methods of hypnotism induction like deep breathing, fractional relaxation and many others. For getting into the initial stages of hypnotism you need to first calm yourself and stop worrying about other things in life. For this these induction techniques might prove great help.

For beginning self hypnotism you need to first take up a position or stance in which you most comfortable. Self hypnotizing in a comfortable position makes things easy. Now you have to start deep breathing for relaxing yourself and also for removing all the extra unwanted vibrations from your body. Fractional relaxation is the next method on our list which means you have individually relaxes all the parts of your body. This will help you move a bit deep into the hypnotic trance.  Relation and calming the body are two most important things what must be done before self hypnotizing. 

After fractional relaxation you may start concentrating on a particular thing in your surrounding. It may be a sound or a touch or may be any sort of feeling. Try to feel it with complete concentration. This way you can move on for self hypnosis induction. Initially you may find it very difficult to concentrate but gradually you will find it easy. The more you attempt it the more you learn and benefit. Once you feel that you are focused then you must start giving directions to your mind. Bring in changes that you want and order your subconscious mind to accept them.