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Hypnosis
Hypnosis or trance is a natural process. Every night as you drift into sleep, medically, this is termed a hypnogogic state. Every morning (since the dawn of human history, everyone on this planet) passes through the hypnopompic state – showing its close relation to hypnosis.
If you drive, you’ve had the experience of reaching your destination with no recollection of driving there...
Or perhaps you can relate to our experience a couple of months ago, when driving past a supermarket, Elaine slowed to let a waiting car join the traffic. Elaine waved the driver out. No reaction. Elaine muttered, “Come on then”. The driver of the other car, was staring at us through side window. No reaction. Our car is stopped now, waiting…
Woman still staring blankly at us…
Yes, we’ve all done that, haven’t we?
Remember that time you were walking down the pavement, when there’s a hand on your arm, and your friend exclaims,
“Hey, you walked straight past me!”
...Sorry, I was in a world of my own!
How about when doing something you love, for example, reading a book, when your attention becomes so focused that the outside world disappears?
Or how about this. You are with a friend, who asks you a question… after you haven’t responded they notice your eyes are glazed, staring into the distance…
Your friend waves a hand in front of your face… Asking,
Hello? Where are you?
Such experiences of daydream or reverie are commonplace.
Conclusion: Trance or ‘naturalistic hypnosis’ is a normal, natural everyday event. We do it all the time, so much so that we don’t realise we are doing it.
But… most of us just do it unconsciously.
Would it be useful to gain some control over this state?
Only if you want to become more creative, or master stress, or sleep better or...
Learning ‘how to’ do self hypnosis is very helpful because it gives you greater access to that nine tenths of the unconscious mind which is like the unseen part of the iceberg below the surface.
I taught myself (from a book) how to do this in my mid twenties. If you’d like to try this, a good way to start, would be to:
Practise Self Hypnosis
1. Prepare a time and place where you won’t be disturbed. Sit in a comfortable chair, with your head supported. If you lie down it’s too easy to fall asleep.
2. Make yourself physically relaxed by tensing then relaxing each muscle group as follows:
Tense the muscles in your feet. Scrunch up your toes as though you were gripping the floor. Hold for five seconds…. And now relax. Now tense the muscles again, hold for one, two, three, four and five, relax. One more time, tense the muscles again, hard as you can, one, two, three, four, five and relax.
Now move up to your calf muscles. Tensing the calves, one, two, three, four, five and relax.
Repeat twice more.
Now move up to the thighs
Buttocks
Stomach
Shoulders and back
Upper arms
Forearms (by clenching the fists)
Throat and neck
Facial muscles
Now do what I call, ‘The wave breath’ This is where you synchronise a long slow deep inhalation while progressively tensing the body, from the feet to the head.
Tense the feet as you begin to inhale, then tense the calves, thighs, buttocks (lungs about half full now) stomach, shoulders and back, arms, throat, face….
Hold the breath for five seconds, every muscle vibrating with energy…
Then let it go, exhale slowly, pursed lips, big sigh but in a controlled manner, relaxing each muscle group in the reverse order.
3. Now listen to the stress buster self hypnosis programme and mimic what we are saying, to you repeat mentally to yourself,
“I am counting backwards from twenty to one and on the count of one I will be twice as deeply relaxed...
Have fun with practising self hypnosis!
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