QUANTUM SELF HYPNOSIS
Awaken the Genius Within
Jo Ana Starr, PhD
Copyright 2011 JoAna Starr PhD
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Self Hypnosis: An Introduction
2 The Magic of Your Mind
3 History of Hypnosis
4 Hypnotic Influences
5 What is Self Hypnosis
6 How Self Hypnosis Works
7 Master Self Hypnosis Inductions
8 Self Hypnosis Session Scripts
9 Writing Your Own Self Hypnosis Scripts
10 Setting the Stage for Success
11 Adjusting to the New You
12 Assuring Your Success
CHAPTER 1
SELF HYPNOSIS: AN INTRODUCTION
A Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and Executive Director of the New England Institute of Hypnotherapy, Dr. Jo Ana Starr PhD, trained in 1987 with the American Institute of Hypnotherapy under the tutelage of the esteemed Dr. A.M. Krasner. She later earned a PhD in Clinical Hypnotherapy and holds a Doctorate in Divinity as well. Her undergraduate work was in English and Psychology. Dr. Starr has made numerous appearances on both radio and television programs to discuss topics such as Hypnosis and Wellness. She is in the process of completing 3 other books on related topics, and has authored 8 training programs, all focused on hypnosis, prosperity, diet and wellness.
If you are like many others, you've heard that Self Hypnosis has helped millions of people achieve their goals. You were likely skeptical, with images of stage hypnotists making volunteers look positively silly up there on the stage. In spite of that, you may have considered investigating Hypnosis more thoroughly to see if it could help you with a few issues of your own. In fact, that is probably the reason you bought this book. You hope to learn more about Hypnosis and to see whether it’s a good fit for you. Good for you! I think you’re on the right track!
The reasons that you and others find their way to Hypnosis or Self Hypnosis are a varied as we human beings are. Maybe you'd like to lose weight, or just lose your love of donuts. Maybe you want to learn to stay motivated and working at your current priorities, or to stop smoking once and for all. For some folks, work or business related challenges bring them to Hypnosis. Hypnosis used for sales success, for example, is a great application and one that has helped thousands of sales people improve their sales numbers.
Or maybe you're feeling stressed out with the economic woes in our country and in the world. Maybe you'd like to find a way to let go of your worries and to find positive outlets for your concerns, getting free of stress and anxiety. Accomplishing these ideal outcomes with Self Hypnosis is entirely doable; in fact, it’s both pleasant and easy.
The ideal applications for Self Hypnosis are almost limitless. Some individuals live under the dark cloud of mental confusion; whether hormonal or chemical; working with less than full brain power makes all their tasks harder than they should be. How much would your life improve if you could quickly, pleasantly and easily gain focus and pinpoint concentration? Would you like to lose those “senior moments” that I’ve even heard 30 year olds complaining about? Many of us some aspect of our lives and our belief systems that could use a bit of upgrading. Self Hypnosis is the fastest, least expensive and easiest way to give your life a facelift.
Many individuals want to experience Hypnosis but hesitate to go to a stranger for help. And the image of the poor stage hypnosis subjects being made to feel silly doesn’t help at all, either, does it? It can be hard to walk into someone’s office and share information that may be personal and sensitive. And frankly, there are good Hypnotherapists and the opposite out there too, so how do you know which one you will find?
There are probably as many valid reasons not to go to a professional Hypnotherapist as there are reasons to go to one. Some of the reasons that keep individuals from taking the plunge and seeing a Certified Hypnotherapist are these:
- Time - It can take hours with drive time.
- Cost - It can be really expensive.
- Trust issues - It can be tough to opening up to a stranger.
- Performance anxiety – Can this work?
- Fear - Change can be scary.
It’s a shame that these concerns and others keep a lot of individuals from experiencing the healing power of Hypnosis.
Well, I have great news for you! The purpose of this book is to help you to become a Self Hypnosis Master, able to access all the genius abilities hidden in your mind and put that genius to work, helping you to get free of any barriers that may be blocking the way to your highest good.
Imagine having all the tools and training in your own hands to create the changes in your life that you want in a timely, cost-effective way. With someone you trust, with all the time in the world to work with hypnosis until you are entirely comfortable with the process. Quantum Self Hypnosis takes you by the hand and shows you how to use Hypnosis to massively improve the quality of your life easily, pleasantly and effectively!
This book provides you with 5 Master Self Hypnosis Inductions, including Quick inductions, Classic inductions, and a new percussion-based induction as well as 20 full length professional behavior and belief modification Self Hypnosis session scripts. These are not shortcut inductions. These are full inductions that will take you as little as 20 minutes all the way up to 45 minutes depending on your needs. Even more importantly, you will learn how to create your own custom behavior modification sessions for topics not covered in the provided Self Hypnosis session scripts. You will learn how to create powerful sessions for any application you can imagine.
Please do not confuse Quantum Self Hypnosis with other books or audio programs about Hypnosis or Self Hypnosis. This book is a condensed version of an 18 hour professional Hypnosis Certification training program that has been fine-tuned into a nuts and bolts book for laymen, designed to turn each and every reader into Self Hypnosis Masters. There are no gimmicks here- no Immediate Hypnosis or Underground Hypnosis or any of the other forms of Hypnosis or "sort-of Hypnosis" that are currently being marketed online.
This is a bottom line book that gives you insider’s access to the training material taken directly from a $300 professional Hypnosis certification program!! And don’t think it’s going to be too complex for you. It’s not; all of the training information is designed to help newcomers create effective Self Hypnosis sessions that will change their lives! As this is not the usual Self Hypnosis book that tells you all about Hypnosis without actually teaching you how to use it; Quantum Self Hypnosis fully prepares you to use Self Hypnosis the way that trained professionals use it. This book is complete and it includes everything you will need to succeed, other than a comfortable chair, some time, a quiet spot and an audio file or CD.
As if that were not enough, to assure that you have quick success with your Quantum Self Hypnosis project, we have created a Free Readers' website that only purchasers of the print or e-book can join. There are several great reasons you might want to do that. First of all, the member website should be fully operational in January 2012 with ,occasional email updates for members, other related opportunities, but mostly to get the Free $59 Audio Self Hypnosis session created by Dr. Starr. Using this session is a great Hypnotic pre-conditioner to your own sessions by preparing your mind to experiencing Hypnosis and totally immersing you in the natural cadence of Hypnosis. This Quantum Self Hypnosis session suggests that you easily grasp the material taught in the book, that you feel comfortable using Self Hypnosis, and that your success is assured.
If you’ve already read a lot of books on Self Hypnosis, this is probably the one you’ve been waiting for. Easy to read and easy to implement, this revolutionary book offers you many of the same benefits that trained professional Hypnotists enjoy. You are getting insider access to training material that has proven itself over the last 16 years. Your success is assured!
You are clearly someone who wants to find effective tools for positive personal change or perhaps someone is considering the possibility of beginning a career as a Hypnotist or Hypnotherapist; maybe you just want to help friends and family. We congratulate you on your choice of what we believe to be the most powerful, pleasant, effective and easy-to-use self-help tool - Self Hypnosis. It’s exciting to think of all the wonderful changes you will create in your life.
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CHAPTER 2
THE MAGIC IN YOUR MIND
If you are reading this page, you have just made one of the best decisions of your life! Taking a chance by trying something new is a way of declaring loudly to the Universe “I trust that I can accomplish whatever I set my mind to.” This is one of the most ratifying viewpoints a human can have. Making a commitment and trusting that you can succeed moves you closer to your goal.
Don’t worry; there’s no cliff-diving here, but any new action or commitment holds within it the possibility of great success or the opposite. With our guidance, we are confident that each of you is poised at the edge of revealing and using your Inner Genius to create magic in your life.
I’m excited for you; you have a great inner journey ahead that can bring you peace and happiness and whatever else you desire. I can only imagine how dreary my life might have been if I had not dug and dug until I found the information that changed my life and that’s going to change yours, too.
Oh, and by the way, welcome to the 10% Club! Statistics show that 10% or less of the population actively uses their minds to create value for themselves and others. Whether you are using that much brain juice right at this exact moment doesn’t matter. You will be soon and that’s what matters.
We will go into the mechanics of Self Hypnosis later but right now let’s define Hypnosis a bit. First of all, Hypnosis is an induced state of relaxation in which expectation and belief play a part. Being in a hypnotic state looks and sometimes feels like being asleep although in the beginning it feels like being a bit zoned with someone talking to you very slowly in the background. In the case of Self Hypnosis, that someone is you. Self Hypnosis is the process of your working with yourself using some sort of audio recording or audio file that allows you to act as both the client and the Hypnotist.
So you’re probably wondering how you can be talking to yourself and in a deeply relaxed state at the same time, and the answer is you can’t. You can, however, record a “session” and replay it as a cd on your computer or an mp3 player. Now again, don’t get nervous. You will learn all the ins and outs of this process as we go along, so relax.
Let’s get back to defining Hypnosis. Hypnosis is a high-learning state in which the subject is induced into a deep state of relaxation, allowing him to move beneath the conscious mind and to awaken the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is the creative, subjective part of the brain and responds to symbols, color, sounds, smells, and light. The subconscious mind is child-like, open and receptive to new ideas and thoughts. This is the part of your brain that allows you to create poetry, take great photos, draw, paint, and imagine, etc. The subconscious mind is usually associated with the right hemisphere of the brain or the right brain and the conscious mind is usually associated with the left hemisphere of the brain, or the left brain.
The reason we want to move beneath the conscious mind is that in human beings, the conscious mind’s job is to maintain homeostasis or to keep everything the same. The drive to maintain homeostasis is the opposite of change, as you know. Easy, fast and permanent change requires the Self Hypnotist to access the subconscious mind because this childlike aspect of mind loves change and the creative process. In fact, the subconscious mind is designed for change and learning.
You can think of the conscious mind in terms of the inner adult, logical, objective, engaging in orderly behavior, orderly tasks with full awareness of time and schedules. Your conscious mind is kind of your inner grownup whereas your subconscious mind is more like your inner child.
You will hear people say, “Jack is really a left-brain kind of guy. He’s very orderly, neat, likes statistics, keeps a tidy desk, and seems to value order about all else.” As you might imagine, certain careers would hold great appeal for this person such as working as an attorney, accountant, engineer, bookkeeper, statistician, scientist, researcher, software engineer, soldier and so on.
You will also hear people say, “Sally is so creative; she can make anything by hand but she can’t balance her checkbook or remember to get to appointments on time. She’s like a kid. She’s scatterbrained a lot of the time.” We’ve all known people who are so creative and child-like that functioning in the real world is hard for them. Careers that attract these folks are naturally art, photography, graphic design, fashion, elementary school teaching, landscaping, architects, builders, and so on.
The ideal would be balanced brain hemisphere use and thus a balanced use of the conscious mind and subconscious mind, but truly balanced mind-brain function is pretty unusual. Most people have predominant brain use that is either right or left brain, although most of us access both hemispheres of the brain many times daily.
This information is helpful to you for identifying which of these groups you and friends or family fit into. Right-brain dominant individuals are generally easier to hypnotize; these are the creative types. They are curious about the process and when you use a variety of suggested sounds, smells, colors and light images, they are very easy to engage. Left-brain dominant folks usually need a bit more time to get into a full state of hypnosis and prefer a bit less imagery. Of the included Master Hypnosis Inductions, some work better with one group than the other and we try to indicate that information with each Master Self Hypnosis Induction.
No matter what you’ve read, I want you to know that everyone who is a hearing individual with an IQ above about 85 can be hypnotized. Unusually intelligent or highly intellectual people are easy to hypnotize as long as you give them (or you) a long slow induction; the boredom of it all drops them like a rock. Interestingly, these folks usually think that they will be difficult to hypnotize.
And if you can’t figure out which category you or someone you might work with falls into, don’t worry. Use a long, slow induction and a slower behavior modification suggestion phase, and watch for respiratory changes. When you are working exclusively with yourself, you’re all set. One of the big advantages of Self Hypnosis over Hypnosis is that we all like to hear our own voices playing in our heads; we believe what we’re saying, and we usually go easily and deeply into just the right state because we trust ourselves.
In summary, Hypnosis is an induced state that allows the subject to enter a highly-creative, high learning state. Self Hypnosis uses the same techniques Hypnosis does, except that the individual hypnotizes himself by listening to a self-created CD or audio file.
Here’s an important question we are asked all the time. Why go to all the trouble of learning Self Hypnosis when you can buy a CD online at Ebay for $9.99? And the answer to that question is both simple and complex.
The simple answer is another question. Why do you eat steak when dog food would probably provide the same nutritional value at a fraction of the cost of steak? Well, I would argue that at least we know what’s in the steak; one can only imagine what’s in the dog food. Also the steak tastes much better and it’s a much more pleasant experience. Ditto your custom Hypnosis session versus the Ebay $9. CD. When you produce your own CD, you have absolute control over the quality of the session. You can make specific suggestions that reinforce the rewards and reasons that motivate you to want to make certain changes. A generic CD is not a perfect fit for you, but if it’s well-done it’s probably better than nothing. Conversely, a self-created Hypnosis session is generally better than anything else because it’s created specifically for you, and by the person who cares the most about the quality of your session. You.
The complex answer is this. Hypnosis works. Whatever the purchased CD suggests, will affect you and your life. Since the Ebay CD might actually put you into Hypnosis, you will not know exactly what the speaker is saying. You also won’t know if that person is well trained or trained at all, and that session most certainly was not custom designed for you. We’re dealing with your mind here, arguably the most important part of your body; so this isn’t something you want to get wrong. Remember, garbage in, garbage out. And I have to say this also. If your level of commitment to make meaningful change in your life is $9, then you’re dealing with a whole new challenge here. A well designed, and well executed Self Hypnosis session can be so highly effective that its value is beyond question.
Again, you can see that I get kind of excited about all of this because it is important. If you knew that you had a winning lottery ticket and you couldn’t find it, would you be upset? That beautiful piece of human real estate sitting up there in your head is more valuable than any lottery ticket because it can create for you everything that the cash from that lottery ticket could, including the cash. And lots more. Get committed to getting to know your brain a lot better and your brain will reward you grandly.
OK, so you now have a bit of an idea of what hypnosis is, also what self-hypnosis is, and why and how they work. We will get much more detailed as we progress through the book, but this has been a good start. The most important piece of information you can take away from this first section is this. You are a person who can create anything you choose to create, largely because you have been gifted with a limitless mind and a generous human spirit. Fortunately, you can access that limitless mind easily and quickly through the use of Self Hypnosis. Hold that thought in your mind for a moment. Imagine your ideal life sitting squarely in your hand, close your eyes and savor that possibility. As a human being with a limitless mind, you are a also genius. You are going to learn throughout this book how to nurture and encourage your inner genius to guide you to your highest outcomes.
CHAPTER 3
HISTORY OF HYPNOSIS
I’m not going to spend too much time on this topic because frankly, it’s not critically important to your success. I do think it is important to have a bit of context on the origins of Hypnosis, so I’m going to mention the 5 or 6 key players and give you a bit of background.
MESMER
Known as the Father of Hypnosis, Mesmer presented a paper called The Influence of the Stars and Planets as Curative Powers to the University of Vienna in 1773. Mesmer claimed that the planets affected humans thru an invisible fluid he called Animal Magnetism. He believed that this substance could be derived from a magnet, and that all cellular structures had an affinity for it. He left Vienna and worked in Paris with great success, running Mesmer’s Haven, a place where he demonstrated Hypnosis in an unusual way. After living a life of affluence, he lost favor; things went downhill and he returned to Vienna a pauper.
MARQUIS DE PYSEGUR
De Pysegur, a former student of Mesmer, began to hypnotize peasants for his amusement. He discovered Artificial Somnambulism, which demonstrated the first contention of Hypnosis, which is that a state analogous to sleep can be produced artificially in an entirely awake individual. He believed that while in that state, the thoughts and actions of the client are under the control of the Hypnotist.
FATHER GASSNER
Father Gassner, a Jesuit priest in Southern Germany, demonstrated Hypnosis in a frightening way by hypnotizing a young peasant girl to death. He succeeded in bringing her back, and in the process, her damaged leg was healed, causing quite a stir. Father Gassner hypnotized many others before and after this event with similar results.
DR. JAMES BRAID
Dr. Braid, an English surgeon, is known as the father of the scientific evaluation of Hypnosis, for challenging the mystic claims of Mesmer and his followers. He was a scientist, and gave us the word Hypnosis from the Greek word Hypnos. He postulated that excess nerve energy not consumed by thought processes during sleep, had a cumulative action. Therefore, Hypnotic sleep resulted from an overabundance of unused nerve force.
BURCQ
In the late 1800's , Burcq, a French Physicist experimented with Hypnosis for 25 years. On his deathbed, he asked his friend Claude Bernard to present his finding to the French Biological Society which formed a commission to investigate Hypnosis, and which published a favorable report on the subject.
CHARCOT
Charcot was a French neurologist who in 1878 became fascinated by Burcq’s findings, Charcot and his students succeeded in proving that there are several stages of hypnotic sleep, and that the hypnotized subject is capable of manifesting varying symptoms in each stage. He also believed that Metalotherapy was the answer to the physician’s prayers.
These gentlemen have each added knowledge and experience to the current process of Hypnosis through their work hundreds of years ago. We consider Mesmer the father of Hypnosis because he was the first one to publicly research the use of hypnosis-inducing activities. Based on our understanding of hypnosis today, he was not engaging in hypnosis at that time but a form a hysteria-induced peer pressure. Nonetheless, his name is part of our language today as a testament to his work in the 1700’s. There are other noteworthy individuals in recent times who affected the growth and development of Hypnosis, but rather than spend more time in the past, let's move onto the next chapter.
CHAPTER 4
HYPNOTIC INFLUENCES
We live in a world that is full of hypnotic influence. Hypnotherapists joke that our job isn’t hypnotizing people; it’s waking them up. Look around you the next time you are outside your home and pay close attention to all the influencers you see. Look at the billboards and advertisements on buses, on airport shuttles, in store windows, and on bus stop benches. Inside your home you have your TV with non-stop commercials, your computer with ads for goods, services, software, more computers, bigger and better electronics and Web 2.0. Shop in a supermarket and you are bombarded with store ads, flyers, coupons, bulletin boards and more. We are constantly being hit with more and more information. Some of that information has what I call hypnotic influence, capable of evoking an emotional response from viewers and sometimes creating a decision to take an action based on what was seen or heard. That sure sounds hypnotic to me.
And if that’s not enough, we are self-influencing all the time. Some of the self-influencing is positive and some is not. The typical human being engages in the act of criticizing him/herself out loud to others, and also engages in negative self-talk that may well be on automatic pilot. Sometimes individuals have disagreements with other individuals that can erupt into interactions with high hypnotic influence, sometimes negative. Keep reading. You may see yourself in some of these situations.
Everyday Language
For the purposes of this discussion, let’s think of Hypnosis as a behavior modification tool that involves either entering or inducing in others, an altered state that is concurrently a high learning state. It is more than that, however. Self Hypnosis or Hypnosis is a process that operates to some extent, some of the time that we are in a conscious state.