What if there was a way to program your mind so you could stop smoking, or eat more healthy ? What if you could find permanent happiness simply by purposefully reprogramming your subconscious mind ? Is it possible to use self guided hypnotherapy to reprogram your brain to think differently ? Our minds are our greatest asset - or can be our biggest problem. Everything we do is the result of what our brain tells us - and for most people their lives are a constant tug of war between their conscious and subconscious thoughts. How many times have you wondered why you did something despite consciously knowing you didn't want to do it? Smoking, overeating, underachieving, anger, depression - no one forces us to suffer from these serious issues. No one makes the decision for us to eat that tub of ice cream or act out in rage over a small thing a neighbour or friend did. It all comes from how our mind interprets its current surrounding and how it tells us to behave.

1. Self-Guided Hypnotherapy
This Report is From: http://SelfGuidedHypnoTherapy.blogspot.com
The Author: Wright Bridget
What if there was a way to program your mind so you could stop smoking, or eat more
healthy ? What if you could find permanent happiness simply by purposefully
reprogramming your subconscious mind ? Is it possible to use self guided hypnotherapy
to reprogram your brain to think differently ?
Our minds are our greatest asset - or can be our biggest problem. Everything we do is the
result of what our brain tells us - and for most people their lives are a constant tug of war
between their conscious and subconscious thoughts.
How many times have you wondered why you did something despite consciously knowing
you didn't want to do it? Smoking, overeating, underachieving, anger, depression - no one
forces us to suffer from these serious issues. No one makes the decision for us to eat that tub
of ice cream or act out in rage over a small thing a neighbour or friend did. It all comes from
how our mind interprets its current surrounding and how it tells us to behave.
For example, researchers have long known that poor eating habits had little to do in most
cases with actual feelings of hunger. Instead people for a wide variety of deeply embedded
psychological reasons - stress being one of the most common - eat to soothe deep emotions in
their subconscious mind - and thus the term comfort food.
The premise behind self guided hypnosis is that it is possible through suggestive techniques
to change how the subconscious mind manifests itself in conscious thought. The debate on
whether or not hypnosis actually works dates back to the time of the Egyptians and continues
today. As with many alternative therapies, medical science struggles to quantify the actual
success rate in hypnotherapy treatment.
As researchers strive to understand how the human mind works, the psychiatric community is
learning more and more about the power of hypnosis and the two layers of the human mind.
The subconscious mind is a complicated series of memories, emotions and beliefs - and plays
a key role in how a person’s personality develops. The key to self guided hypnosis is to
reprogram those elements in a matter that you consciously choose.
For example - if you want to feel a more permanent sense of happiness - it is quite possible to
reprogram your subconscious mind to focus on happiness - after all - what is happiness
and where does it come from if not from the mind of the person who either feels happy or
unhappy ?
How Self Guided Hypnotherapy Works…
Self Guided hypnotherapy in most cases involves the use of recorded sound tracks listened
to through headphones. Typically there are three stages of the hypnotic process.

2. 1. The first stage is to relax the body through controlled breathing and a conscious effort
to relax the muscles which in turn allows the brain to slow its thought processing
allowing it to be open to suggestion.
2. The second stage is to use autosuggestion to program both the conscious and
subconscious mind. This can be achieved through methodical speech, using carefully
prepared scripts and emphasis on certain words in the recorded therapy session. It is in
this stage where hypnosis gets it’s biggest challenge from those that don’t understand
it - but there is nothing mystical or magical about hypnosis or self guided
hypnotherapy - it is the simple science of programming the brain to think a certain
way.
3. The final stage is most often called the “Return Stage“ where the patient is brought
back from the state of relaxation ( called a trance ) to the conscious alert world.
Research has shown that there is no negative side effects from hypnotherapy - the worst
that can happen is no results are achieved at all.
Does Hypnotherapy Actually Work ?
For many individuals, hypnotherapy has been a true blessing - while others claim it has had
no effect. One of the most important starting points for a person to gain full benefit from
hypnotherapy is found in a person's willingness or openness to the actual treatment. If a
person goes into a hypnotherapy session with the firm belief that this is a foolish endeavour
and won’t work - the patient creates a self fulfilling conclusion - and there is very little chance
that it will work for them or that they will receive full benefit from the hypnotherapy
session.
If on the other hand the patient is open to the hypnotherapy session and releases their
conscious mind so the subconscious mind can be open to suggestion and programming - the
results can be quite spectacular. With no resistance holding the mind back from being open to
change and suggestion - the therapy can take almost immediately.
It should also be noted that wanting the hypnotherapy session to work with a great deal of
desire can actually hinder the results as the mind doesn’t relax enough to accept the
suggestive process. This is due to the patient staying in a state of alertness not conducive to
the programming of the subconscious mind.
Hypnosis and hypnotherapy fall under the classification of Neuro Linguistic
Programming ( NLP ) which involves the process of creating a model of behaviour and then
applying a series of techniques to match the subject or patient's behaviour and personality
traits to that prototype - thus you will often hear the term “modelling “ when discussing NLP
techniques.
Hypnotherapy Treatments for Physical Ailments
As the Hypnotherapy industry grows, it is being used not just for conditions of mental
conditioning - but also for treating diseases and afflictions such as irritable bowel syndrome,
acid reflux, muscle tension and a host of other ailments doctors suspect are being caused not
by physical problems in the body - but by the way the patient’s mind controls the body.

3. For example - a person who is experiencing migraines may in fact be found to be continually
grinding their teeth - a condition that can be caused by stress or worry. Stress has long been
known to affect the digestive tract - and has been closely linked to heart disease. People who
complain of chronic neck pain have been treated not for an actual problem with the spine or
muscles - but the tension being caused by the mind putting undue stress on the muscles
themselves, resulting in a state of rigid tightness.
Hypnotherapy for Treating Addictions.
For several decades now alternative medicine practitioners have been using hypnotherapy to
assist people with addictions to smoking and alcoholism. The premise is that despite these
addictions manifesting themselves in actual serious physical withdrawal symptoms - the
patient can reverse these symptoms through hypnotherapy.
The root element of all of these treatments is the strengthening of the resolve in the conscious
mind being provided by the subconscious mind. It is rare that a person going into the
hypnotherapy session expecting the treatment to simply cure their desire to smoke, that it will
take. Instead, the premise is that the patient through the hypnotherapy treatment will increase
their resolve both in conscious thought as well as subconscious primary thought.
Hypnotherapy for Treating Weight Loss and Eating Disorders
Hypnotherapy has proven to be highly effective in treating obesity as well as anorexia both of which have had their causes traced to psychological behaviour, beliefs and habits.
Patients using hypnotherapy in addition to professional medical therapy and counselling have
found the results to be much more significant than simple counselling alone.
One of the reasons hypnotherapy works so well for eating issues is that by its nature, it
reprograms the subconscious mind to change it’s wants and desires. For people that overeat
the cause of their eating is often found in the fact they find comfort when consuming
particular foods. This is of course only a secondary factor to the real root cause which can be
anything from suppressed memories to a way for dealing with stress that returns them
psychologically to a time when they were younger and the stress wasn’t present - or their
parents were there to make the problem go away.
For patients suffering from eating disorders such as bulimia or anorexia, their aversion to
eating is often rooted in a desire to look thinner but again this is only a cause and effect
symptom indicating deeper psychological issues.
In both cases though, hypnotherapy has been shown to help the patient make progress in the
healing process.
Programming for Success
Another area where hypnotherapy has become an important role player is in human
performance. This is a wide spectrum of consideration - encompassing everything from
athletes to executives but the goal is always the same - to gain maximum efficiency from their

4. efforts.
Golf is a sport where the mind plays a vital role in the success of the player in both the
accurate repetition of their golf club swing, as well as their mental approach to the game in
high pressure situations such as major tournaments where millions of dollars can depend on a
single putt or swing of a club. On the amateur level, golfers have been using hypnotherapy for
decades to help them control their minds - and therefore their game.
Many professional teams across major leagues have started to employ psychologists and
psychotherapists to assist their players in reaching their goals. The value of this type of
performance programming was never more evident than in the recent 2010 Vancouver Winter
Olympics where the Canadian Government approved the use of advanced performance
counselling for their athletes which included hypnotherapy - and the result was that for the
first time in their history, they won the most Gold Medals of all the participating countries. In
comparison, in 2006 they finished with 7 Gold Medals - and 2010 14 Gold Medals - a full
100% improvement in results.
Hypnotherapy for Everyday Life.
It is said you are the captain of your own mind - and you can either guide your vessel to safe
waters filled with prosperity, or you can abdicate the responsibility and let fate decide the
outcome. All elements of the human experience can be improved upon using hypnotherapy
and this website is about helping others achieve their potential in life.