The tracks
are normally recorded onto a Cd, Ipod, cellphone or an Mp3
player. First the
Induction, then the particular Affirmation (stop smoking,
weight-loss) and finally the Wake-up track, in that order.
e.g. 1.
Tropical Beach hypnotic induction 2. Quit
smoking or Weight-loss, or Phobia etc. 3. Wake
up Stereo
headphones help achieve a deeper trance for the advantage of
the binaural brainwaves. Your
hypnotic trance maybe instant or progressive. Some people go
very deep in their first session, while others need some
time. This is purely genetic and has no placebo effect.
Some
people listen to the tracks in bed before going to sleep,
but I personally get more results using the sessions during
the day time, on the sofa. To deepen
any trance, listen to the tracks, and at the same time
concentrate on your breathing, making each breath the same,
try to breath using your diaphragm, easily, deep and
rhythmic. The process of thinking about your breathing is
very hypnotic, mainly because it relieves a major task from
the subconscious mind. When
listening to the tracks, try to avoid analyzing and
questioning, and become more passive to enjoy the journey
and the sounds. Turn off
the telephones, and make sure that you won't get disturbed.
If you're tense, to relax your body first starting with the
feet, tense the foot muscles for a couple of seconds and
then relax them, then onto the legs, then stomach,
shoulders, back, neck, and head in this order, finally
letting any negative tensions flow down the arms and fly off
out of the hands. If you
have 2 or more different hypnotic sessions e.g. (stop
smoking and alcoholemia) it is better to concentrate on one
session for a few weeks before using the other one. Mixing
the affirmations seems to confuse the subconscious mind and
dilutes the power and effect. A light to
medium state of hypnosis is all that is necessary to
effectively communicate the affirmations. Many people
experience excellent results while in their own minds they
are "still waiting to be hypnotized" because after the
hypnotic session they remembered everything and don't "feel"
that hypnosis really occurred. They may have only
experienced a feeling of relaxation. Regardless of how deep
the state of hypnosis, the success of the hypnotherapy is
due to its ability to bypass the "door to change" that has
been put up by the conscious mind. This bypass does not
require deep hypnosis or somnambulism. Hypnotherapy does not
require that the client be "put under" and or experience
amnesia. Some
tricks for a deeper trance: If you
want to go even deeper then you should practice with some
visualization. Try to
imagine a butterfly or some other object and watch how it
flutters, concentrate on the details. If you have difficulty
at first you could watch a butterfly on Youtube, and then
try closing your eyes now and again. Then using your others
senses, try to imagine the smell of things, like a perfume,
a salty sea breeze. etc. Imagine touching things with your
eyes closed. Imagine how it feels like to touch a rock, or a
slab of marble, putting your hand into a pale of water, a
soft fabric, or caressing a pet. You may be
wondering why there is a scary induction, which doesn't seem
so relaxing, but this induction works by increasing
adrenaline and alertness followed by the shock of the
scream. Then in less than 1 second you hear the word
"sleep". This is how some hypnotists use the rapid
inductions such as the handshake. (they push the subject
backwards to shock them, and shout "sleep")