Today I’m going to reveal a super easy self hypnosis technique which you can use whenever you go to bed to achieve a pleasant state of self hypnosis. This self hypnosis technique relies on the hypnogogic state between wakefulness and sleep: that feeling when you’re lying in bed and you haven’t fallen asleep yet, but you know you’re not entirely conscious.

During this hypnogogic state, you will likely experience random thoughts, images, and emotions that flitter in and out of your mind beyond your control. As we lay in bed trying to fall asleep, we’ll often think of events that occurred during the day, and what we’ll do tomorrow. “I wish I hadn’t argued with Steve today. I gotta remember to go to the bank tomorrow!” (not exactly like that, but you get the picture).

Eventually, these thoughts and daydreams morph into random sequences of jumbled thoughts. One second you’ll be thinking about going to the bank, the next you’ll picture a Big Mac from McDonalds. A few seconds later you might imagine two girls playing jumprope.

This is called hypnogogic imagery. If you can learn to take advantage of the hypnogogic state, you can essentially watch yourself enter into hypnosis while still remaining self aware and in control. This self hypnosis technique also a great way to achieve lucid dreaming. Many report that by simply being aware of the hypnogogic state, their bodies naturally pass over into sleep but their minds are still conscious.

With this self hypnosis technique, there is no “falling asleep” experience noted. One minute you are awake and the next you are in a dream state. It is a relatively seamless transition. Many people also use this unique state of consciousness to initiate astral projection.

Using this self hypnosis technique has one possible downside, however. As you experience the hypnogogic state, you may experience strange sensations, such as rumbling that steadily grows in volume. You also may feel what seems like “electric charges” throughout your body, or the typical “falling” sensation.

These alone are not to be feared, but they can lead to sleep paralysis in some cases. Sleep paralysis is what happens when your body falls asleep and “paralyzes” itself (which is what it naturally does while we sleep so we don’t act out our dreams), but your mind is still awake. You may find that suddenly you are unable to move. Sometimes this sensation will be accompanied by menacing hallucinations: a witch or dark figure in the room that may approach you and sit on your chest, causing a feeling of suffocation.

Usually the experience lasts no longer than a minute or two, and despite being scary, is not harmful physically.

Despite this possible scary side effect, the hypnogogic state is a fantastic self hypnosis technique that can lead you to a suggestive state of mind. Use it in conjunction with self hypnosis audio (particularly binaural beats)and you have a great recipe for self improvement.

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What are we to do? How are we to interpret all of this? Is there a way to use the power of positive thinking, positive imagery, and self hypnosis to turn all of this negativity into something we can utilize, as a motivating force to help us get out of our slump and rise above the recession?

I’ve been pondering this question lately, so I decided to put my curiosity to good use and see what I could come up with. Last year The Wall Street Journal published an article titled “More People Use Hypnosis to Deal With Financial-Market Stress”:

Hypnosis has been used for years to help clients quit smoking, lose weight or sleep better. But recently there has been a surge of business from people who want help dealing with the stress of market turmoil, according to Dwight Damon, president of the National Guild of Hypnotists.

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With hypnosis, the therapist uses calming tones and sometimes music to put clients in a deeply relaxed state. Clients are then given suggestions and recommendations on how to change their behavior, adjust their thinking and reach their goals.

It seems to me like hypnosis would be a great way to find a solution to our financial woes. I am not suggesting spending thousands of dollars on a hypnotherapist, however. I highly doubt that very many of us could afford to do so. A great alternative would be using self hypnosis audio to achieve the same results. And why not? It’s cheap, easy, and you can do it in the comfort of your own home.

Jacob Bimblich, a New York City hypnotist, knew that when the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted this fall, his business would go up. He first noticed the increase in financially fretful clients after a couple of laid-off workers from Bear, Stearns & Co., which collapsed in March and was acquired by J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., saw him this spring.

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“I have no control over the financial markets,” Mr. Bimblich tells clients. “But I can help with how you look at them.” The number of clients coming in for financial problems has “increased tenfold” he says.

It would seem from this article that more and more people are turning to hypnosis in their time of need. Whatever actions you decide to take in regards to your finances, you are unlikely to have much success until you learn to condition yourself to think positively.

If you’re not properly motivated and approaching all of your endeavours with a level of optimism and inner tranquility, it becomes easier to succumb to the negativity and let the “bad news” of the ages leak into every corner of your life. Once you’re in a hole, you won’t be able to dig yourself out until you’ve truly convinced yourself that you want to get out, and that you deserve to get out, and that it’s perfectly natural for you to not be in the hole.

Self hypnosis audio can help put you in the right frame of mind to achieve your financial goals (as well any other goals you may have).

I’ve searched the web to bring you some great self hypnosis audio downloads that may help you get out of your “recession slump”:

Coping with Job Loss

It will give you psychological tools to maximize optimism and self confidence and the space to cope more effectively with the negative emotions. Regret or bitterness about the past are natural responses to job loss, but the ‘Dealing with job loss’ download encourages you to move on with vigor and positivity.

Self Motivation

What happens when you just don’t feel motivated to do something, even when you know it is important?
Hypnosis can help you boost your unconscious motivation to move towards the things you want to achieve in life. This way, self motivation becomes almost effortless – you feel driven, rather than dragged.

Beat Job Interview Nerves & Anxiety

Being calm and relaxed enough to show the interviewers just what you can do, then you can leave the interview knowing that you did your best.

Save Money for Financial Freedom

Designed to give you the mindset to get rid of your debt problems. Every time you are tempted to buy something else, your mind will automatically ‘click’ into a different more – one that helps you save money instead of creating debt.

Courage to Find a New Job

If you are feeling under motivated it can be difficult to appreciate what you have to offer a workplace. Without regular reminders of your own skills through exciting and challenging work, you can feel as if you have little to offer.

Or perhaps you have not been working for a while and that’s why you feel you have lost confidence in the workplace and need to re-build confidence to get back into it.

Overcoming Obstacles

When you are really up against it, you need to do more than just ‘think positive’ in order to overcome obstacles. You need to be able to reach inside yourself to activate all the creativity with which nature endowed you (which is a lot). The Overcome obstacles session is tailor made to help you.

Dealing With Failure

sometimes, in our rush to escape, we can miss the gleam of treasure hidden in the dirty ore of those experiences that touch us where it matters. You can tell that failure is one of those, by the strength of the feeling it generates in you.

If you can bring yourself to stay with it (which is not the same as dwelling on it), you can find yourself dealing with failure in a whole new way.

Job Search Perseverence

Focuses very precisely on the sources of motivation and dedication that keep an individual on their chosen path until they reach their goal. It works at the unconscious level to generate a high powered inner drive that feels simply irresistible. Whatever has to be done will be done. And gladly done.

First Day at Work

This session will get you so relaxed that you’ll find it so much easier to concentrate and focus (and enjoy) your first day at work. It will prepare a blueprint in your mind for a happy, relaxed you when you go in on that first day.

Stop Negative Thinking

negative thoughts will sabotage your self belief, your confidence and your achievements.

Stop Negative Thinking teaches you a model for assessing the effects of your thoughts and changing them, plus it helps you on an unconscious level by showing you how to let negative thoughts drift by without taking any notice.

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Unfortunately, I didn’t know at the time of my own labor that there is an alternative method to approaching the birthing process: Childbirth Hypnosis, or HypnoBirthing. Hypnobirthing is a philosophy centered around the idea that FEAR is the primary cause of pain during childbirth. It uses gentle, calm self-hypnosis techniques that promote relaxation and pain management.

Let’s face it, in these modern times, women are not accustomed to pain. We’ve invented all sorts of nifty procedures and medications to make the birthing process easier. But when you really think about it, a natural birth is what our bodies were MADE to do. Childbirth Hypnosis helps to bring us back to this basic concept of womanhood and motherhood; back to our primal, natural roots.

Using self-hypnosis audio during the birthing process may not get rid of all the pain, but it’s primary aim is to calm our bodies and our minds and prepare ourselves for a process that is completely natural and beautiful, and not something to be feared and dreaded.

One of the reasons why we fear childbirth so badly is because hospitals are generally associated with pain and death. We associate labor with screaming, miserable women and frenzied nurses and beeping machines. And we’ve all heard the horror stories of what might go wrong.

But honestly, does giving birth to a child really deserve such a bad rap? It should be remembered as a beautiful, once-in-a-lifetime event in which a child, a brand new human being, is released into the world, into the loving arms of his or her mother (and father!).

So how can you prepare for this kind of birth? You can find self hypnosis audio for childbirth hypnosis to play in the background while you’re in labor. (I had my mom bring my iPod and put it on shuffle during my labor, but I hadn’t prepared the selection and ended up listening to Rage Against the Machine and Snoop Dog while I gave birth to my son! Haha.)

Steve G. Jones has a “Self Hypnosis for Natural Childbirth” CD / MP3 that you can download here. I have already ordered my copy and am keeping it stashed away until if / when the time comes for me to have another baby. The next time around, I am definitely not going to give up the opportunity to have a relaxing and enjoyable childbirth using childbirth hypnosis.

Steve G. Jones is a highly respected board certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and has an acclaimed website full of self hypnosis audio CDs and MP3s. I suggest you check him out. Of course, maybe you dream about using childbirth hypnosis sometime in the future, but you have one slight obstacle: you can’t get pregnant! For that, Steve also has a Fertility Self Hypnosis MP3. I will be writing more about fertility self-hypnosis audio soon.

Another website which offers a self hypnosis audio download for childbirth hypnosis is Hypnosisdownloads.com. You can download a Perfect Partners Combo Pack that contains Childbirth Hypnosis & Positive Pregnancy (or you can just buy the Childbirth Hypnosis MP3 alone).

Before concentrating on the birth, obviously you need to make sure that the pregnancy itself is healthy and positive, which is why I think buying the Positive Pregnancy MP3 is a great idea.

I also found that Hypnosisdownloads.com offers a Breastfeeding Relaxation MP3, which can be hugely beneficial to mothers struggling with breastfeeding. When I first attempted to breastfeed my son, it was an extremely frustrating and painful ordeal, and I came close to giving it up. I wish that I’d had a self hypnosis audio download at hand to help me gain the confidence to persevere. Again, you can buy it on its own or paired up with the Childbirth Hypnosis MP3.

Other pregnancy-related self hypnosis audio downloads from HypnosisDownloads.com:

Unborn Baby Bonding for Dads

Love Your Pregnant Body

Pregnancy After Miscarriage

Infertility Hypnosis

Morning Sickness

New Parent

And even: Coping with a Crying Baby (you may need this!)

So I hope this post has been informative and I hope I’ve perhaps answered a question or directed you to a self hypnosis audio download you were looking to find. Pregnancy and labor can be frightening and difficult, but they don’t have to be! Why don’t YOU explore a little further and commit yourself to the perfectly soothing and calming, beautiful birth that both you and your baby truly deserve?

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Swan said within a week of starting her group sessions at Franklin County Hypnosis Center in Wilton, she no longer wanted to drink soda and stopped buying it.

“I was skeptical at first. I always thought hypnosis was hocus-pocus. Not anymore. I’ve lost 10 pounds, I’m making healthy food choices and it has helped me get through my barriers,” she said. “It is miraculous.”

Good for her! This is just an example of the sort of positive results you can get from hypnosis. If you have a similar addiction to soda or other junk foods, Hypnosisdownloads.com has several self-hypnosis audio downloads that may appeal to you. Try Stop Drinking Soda  or The Healthy Lifestyle Series.

John Gee lost eight pounds in two weeks after a session and has been religiously doing daily self-hypnosis sessions at home. He says he has lost all interest in overeating.

“I am backing away from the table now. I just don’t have the desire,” he said.

Overeating is a common problem that can be solved or minimized using self-hypnosis audio. Hypnosisdownloads.com has an entire Weight Loss Hypnosis Package  jam packed full of every resource you could possibly use to stop overeating, lose weight, and gain control of your life.

Hypnosis, which dates back to ancient times, has been recognized in modern times as a technique to help people change behaviors and achieve personal goals.

It can help addictions, problems with weight, lack of self-confidence, concentration, insomnia, fears, stress and anger. In addition, it has been shown to improve academic performance and sports ability and is widely used by professional athletes, according to the National Guild of Hypnotists.

I’m going to be writing a special in-depth blog post about sports self-hypnosis soon, so keep an eye out for it. You won’t believe the kind of amazing results athletes can achieve when they use hypnosis and, in particular, self-hypnosis audio as a tool to aid in their concentration, determination, power and will. It is simply awe-inspiring.

In reality, people experience hypnotic-like states every day when they daydream, just before falling asleep or becoming full awake, and whenever that “unconscious pilot” takes over while driving a familiar road or concentrating on a task, she said.

During a session, the client is fully aware of communications, is able to respond on request and only focuses on what is relevant to the task, she said.

There is no surrender of mind or control. A person who does not want to be hypnotized cannot be hypnotized, Jepson said.

I liked reading this part of the article because it articulates the truth about hypnosis and lays waste to the common misconceptions about it. Hypnosis is not some magical force that only exists in the bizarre world of the occult. It is a NATURAL OCCURANCE. Our minds are naturally wired for it. We become, in a sense, “hypnotized” every day by different activities. You could even say we become hypnotized by an engaging movie or TV show. How many times have you found yourself gazing, trance-like, at the television screen? All too often, I’m guessing.

The power of this trance-like state can be harnessed through self-hypnosis audio to improve the quality of your life in certain areas, or simply to improve your life overall.

“It makes it easier for people to follow through on what they want to do, to make them more willing to do it and make it less of an effort, to make it more comfortable. And it gives them the momentum to keep going on their own,” she said.

You can read the full article here. If you’re not convinced yet, I recommend heading on over to Hypnosisdownloads.com to browse through their gigantic selection of self-hypnosis audio recordings. The Unexplainable Store also has a wide variety of audio recordings that use binaural beats to help you relax, meditate, and enter a hypnotic state.

 The people written about in this article have all found the value of hypnosis and self-hypnosis audio, and I’m sure you can too. There is a wealth of really great products all over the internet so it won’t be too hard to find one tailored to exactly what you need.

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This third frequency puts you in a perfect state of mind to achieve a hypnotic state. The Unexplainable Store’s hypnosis mp3 download is made up of relaxing hypnosis music, nature sounds, and binaural beats. It is absolutely guaranteed to work every time without fail (and it does– I’ve listened to it myself and I cannot recommend The Unexplainable Store’s products more!)

If you’re looking for a self-hypnosis audio download, I definitely recommend you try one with binaural beats, as it is VERY effective in achieving self-hypnosis.

The Unexplainable Store also offers binaural beat recordings to induce relaxation, lucid dreaming, endorphin release, general health, and much more!

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“If you visualise being stronger, running faster or winning, you are priming your nervous system to do just that,” says Dr Aimee Kimball, the director of mental training in sports medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. “Studies have found that the method can enhance physical performance significantly, sometimes by 20 percent or more.”

Hm… Hypnosisdownloads.com offers a mental toughness audio recording, designed to “develop supreme mental toughness for success in your sport”. Try it out and see if you can make the next Olympics.

A study in the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis suggested that women could increase the actual size of their breasts simply by imagining it.

Thirty-five women attended hypnosis sessions in which they were asked to visualise images of their breasts pulsating, with warm water flowing over them, helping them to grow. After 12 weeks, 84 percent of the women’s breasts had grown, by an average of 3cm. A stunning 46 percent of them needed a larger bra size.

Wow! Every woman’s (and man’s) dream come true. Listen to this perfect body audio recording, and achieve a body shape that is perfect for you, and fits with your natural shape.

Leading gastroenterologists are calling for hypnotherapy to be used more widely in treating irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Images such a fast-flowing river in the gut slowing down and soothing the bowel may be able to significantly improve symptoms, say researchers at King’s College London.

In one study at Withington Hospital, 12 weeks of hypnotherapy helped 71 percent of patients ease their IBS symptoms for five years after the treatment.

Hypnosisdownloads.com also offers… you guessed it! Irritable Bowel Syndrome hypnosis recording. If you suffer from this syndrome, listen to this. Hypnosis has been proven to help!

In a study at University College London, migraine sufferers reported a decrease in the intensity of their headaches after being trained in guided imagery, though electronic monitoring devices showed no change in migraine activity.

What to do: Joanne Walters says: “Breathing deeply, imagine your headache wash away as a stream of cool blue light or fluid runs through your head, dispersing the pain and calming the whole area down.”

Even migraines can be eased away using hypnosis. Listen to this and you may start feeling better (without drugs or prescriptions).

You can read the whole article here. This is simply more proof of all the amazing things that can be accomplished using self-hypnosis and hypnosis music!

Hypnosisdownloads.com offers literally hundreds of self-hypnosis audio recordings and hypnosis mp3 downloads, ranging from quitting smoking to coping with the death of a loved one, to curing bed wetting! They have a hypnosis download for pretty much any problem you can think of. So if you’re truly, seriously interested in improving an aspect of your life or solving a problem, go to this website and discover what the amazing healing power of hypnosis can do for you.

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Whether you wish to quit smoking, lose weight, gain confidence, or simply test the boundaries of your own consciousness, listening to self-hypnosis audio is a great way to do it. You won’t have to rely on drugs, complicated diets, or expensive counselling to achieve your goals. You can be completely self-reliant, counting on the power of your own brain to solve personal, physical, and emotional problems.

Wikipedia defines self-hypnosis as: “hypnosis in which a person hypnotizes himself or herself without the assistance of another person to serve as the hypnotist”. A popular and effective method of doing so is by listening to self-hypnosis audio recordings, which often consist of soothing hypnosis music accompanied by a voice repeating positive affirmations.

Science has proven that hypnosis is a real, verifiable phenomenon that can alter a person’s state of mind to make positive emotional and psychological changes. There is more to hypnosis than those silly stage acts seen on television and in Las Vegas! You can use these hypnosis mp3 downloads to harness the power of your own mind using self-hypnosis audio and hypnosis music, and watch your life change for the better!

For a better understanding of what hypnosis is and how it works, watch this video:

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