The Everything Self-Hypnosis Book: Learn to use your mental power to take control of your life

255 Pages·2009·0.93 MB·English

by  Rene A Bastaracherican

The Everything® Self-Hypnosis Book
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As a hypnotherapy instructor for many years, I have had the opportunity
to instruct students around the world to be hypnotherapists. The one
topic that always seems to amaze them is how often they actually go
into hypnosis on a daily basis.
From where I sit now, I realize that I have been both the subject as
well as the deliverer of hypnotic suggestions most of my life. I realize
that I had been hypnotizing thousands of people even before my years as
a formal hypnotherapist. I had been doing so in various occupations I
held—a U.S. Army drill instructor, a national sales trainer, an ordained
minister for many years, and even as a father raising six children.
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being hypnotized on a daily basis, but it will show you how easy it is to
effectively take control of this life-changing process and purposefully
direct it toward helping you attain your goals now.
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THE
SELF-
HYPNOSIS
BOOK
Learn to use your mental power
to take control of your life
Rene A. Bastarache, DD
Founder and Director of
The American School of Hypnosis
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To my mother Terri for her love and support.
Acknowledgments
I’d like to acknowledge my lovely partner Raluca, who has both assisted
me in researching the information for this book as well as inspired me.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: All Hypnosis Is Self-Hypnosis
Have You Been Hypnotized?
What Is Hypnosis?
Hypnosis Is Everywhere
Who Can Be Hypnotized?
Types of Hypnosis
How Hypnosis Can Work for You
Chapter 2: How the Mind Functions
Are You in Your “Right” Mind?
The Conscious Mind
The Subconscious Mind
Four Subconscious Rules to Remember
Seeing the Big Picture
Ways to Bypass the Mind
Chapter 3: How Suggestible Are You?
Have an Open Mind
An Analytical Approach
The Nonanalytical Approach
Devastating Events Can Change Suggestibility
Ten Questions to Determine Your Mindset
Other Suggestibility Tests
Chapter 4: Nine Ways to Achieve Self-Hypnosis
Use Premade CDs or Tapes
Create Your Own Recorded Sessions
Theater of the Mind
Six-Step Visualization Process
Autosuggestion Script
Read Your Way to Success
Writing Is Hypnotic
Daydreaming: Not Just a Pastime
Create Your Own Subliminals
Chapter 5: Getting the Ball Rolling
Analytical Versus Nonanalytical
Analytical Induction Process and Template
Nonanalytical Induction Process and Template
Creating Your Own Sessions
Imagination Training Equals Real Results
Follow Up for Success
Chapter 6: How Thoughts Become Reality
Imagination Versus Reality
Why Self-Talk Alone Does Not Work
Discover the Hidden Worlds Within
Understanding Brain Wave States
How to Make Changes Permanent
Twenty-One Days for Change
Chapter 7: Common Misconceptions Clarified
Myth 1: Only Weak-Minded People Can Be Hypnotized
Myth 2: Hypnosis Is Sleep
Myth 3: Hypnosis Is a Truth Serum
Myth 4: You Won’t Hear Everything Being Said
Myth 5: You’ll Be Forced to Do Things Against Your Will
Myth 6: You’ll Get Stuck in Hypnosis