HOW DOES HYPNOSIS WORK?
Hypnosis works by helping you reach a deeply relaxed state where your mind becomes more open to positive suggestions. During this state, everyday distractions fade into the background, making it easier to focus on the thoughts and changes you want to achieve.
While you remain aware of your surroundings and in complete control, your mind becomes more receptive to new ways of thinking. This allows helpful suggestions to be accepted more naturally, supporting positive changes in thoughts, feelings and behaviour.
As your body relaxes, tension begins to ease and your breathing slows. Many people experience a pleasant feeling of calm and wellbeing, making it easier to let go of unwanted habits, worries or negative thought patterns.
With regular listening, self-hypnosis can help strengthen positive thinking and encourage lasting change, allowing you to feel calmer, more confident and better equipped to deal with everyday life.
What Happens During Hypnosis?
During hypnosis, your body and mind enter a deeply relaxed state. As you relax, your breathing slows, muscle tension eases and your mind becomes more focused, making it easier to accept positive suggestions and support lasting change.
By simply listening to one of our self-hypnosis recordings, you will become progressively more and more relaxed until you enter a deep, relaxed, hypnotic trance state.
All the tension and stress is eliminated from the body, and as the body relaxes so does the mind. The deep relaxation process will distract the conscious part of your mind, and while this happens, positive suggestions are given directly to the unconscious part of the mind.
Once the unconscious mind is open, it is much more receptive to the information it needs to change the unwanted experience or behaviour you want to stop or change. When you’re in a deep, relaxed state of hypnosis, you will be given ‘post hypnotic anchors’, which you can use when in a conscious wakeful state, these help to activate the changes, such as feeling more self-confident, determined to lose weight, control a pain or fear or phobia or to quit smoking forever.
How long does Hypnotherapy take to work?
Everyone responds to Hypnotherapy and Self-Hypnosis differently, just as people do to any form of therapeutic intervention. Some will notice an instant change and for others it may take longer, but even when it feels that nothing at all has actually happened, you’ll be surprised at just how much has changed, but this is only noticed in retrospect, when you look back at how you were before you started using self-hypnosis. Just give it time and don’t try too hard to make it happen. You will find that the more often you use self-hypnosis, the easier it will be to achieve a very relaxed state of hypnosis, and the deeper the hypnotic trance state will become.
When should I listen to my session and how often?
Self-Hypnosis should be practiced daily for the first 5-6 days so that you become accustomed to the process and can relax as deeply as possible. Thereafter, use the session until you have achieved the level of success you need or your goal is achieved to a satisfactory level or when you feel you need to re-affirm the goal you have already achieved. You cannot use self-hypnosis too much! The only exception to this is the Virtual Gastric Band Journey which only needs listening to once. You can choose to use it more often if you wish to, but you will be repeating a surgical operation which in real life, you wouldn’t do.
You can listen to your self-hypnosis session anytime you like, but NOT when driving, operating any machinery or carrying out any activity that requires concentration. You should also make sure that you won’t be unnecessarily disturbed when you listen to your self-hypnosis session. It is important that you allow yourself 40 – 45 minutes in a safe place with peace and quiet.
Can I just stop listening and awaken whenever I want to?
Yes, most certainly, the trance state of Hypnosis can be broken at any time, you will still be able to hear everything, respond to others and be fully conscious to attend to anything that you need to.
Will I fall asleep and will it still work if I do?
If you hear the count-up at the end of the recording, then you were not asleep although it may have felt as though you were, and your subconscious mind has absorbed what it needs to. If you are unaware of the end of the recording, then it maybe that you entered into a state of sleep. If this occurs you will have absorbed the information up to the point of sleeping, but not afterwards, so try listening in future in a more upright position, in a well lit room, when you are less tired. Contrary to some misinformation offered, if you cannot hear something, you cannot absorb it!
Can I listen to more than one session in a day?
You can but we suggest that you leave at least an hour between them, so that your mind has time to assimilate and absorb the information from the earlier one. Ideally though, it would be better to resolve one issue before attending to another, as the mind can be overloaded with information and this could reduce the effectiveness. If you have purchased one of our Compilations /Programmes, treat these as you would a stand-alone session, don't listen to them one after the other, leave an hour between sessions or even longer.
Is Hypnotherapy suitable for everyone?
If you suffer from schizophrenia, paranoia, psychopathy any psychosis or are violent, then hypnotherapy cannot help you. If you suffer from persistent or chronic symptoms, such as high or low blood pressure that is not being treated, please consult your doctor or practitioner for advice.
Hypnotherapy is not a cure, it’s an aid that helps the subconscious mind change how it processes information. This allows new ideas, thoughts, sensations, visions and experiences to become embedded in the memory so that they can be recalled when needed.
Any suggestions or ideas that are unacceptable to you in wakeful state, will be just as unacceptable in a hypnotic state, therefore hypnotherapy and the state of hypnosis cannot make you say anything or do anything that you would not normally do.
Guide to Your Digital Download
Thank you so much for your purchase! We’re really pleased for you to begin using your new recording. This short guide will help you access and play your files easily.
How to Download and Open Your Files
1. Download your files
Click your personal download link below.
A folder containing your audio files will be saved to your device.
[Your Download Link]
2. Find the downloaded folder
On most devices, this will be in your Downloads folder.
The folder name will usually match the product you purchased.
3. Open (unzip) the folder
The folder is compressed and needs to be opened before you can use the audio files.
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On a computer:
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On a phone or tablet:
Tap the folder and follow the on-screen option to extract the files.
If your device doesn’t open zipped folders automatically, you can download a free app by searching for “zip file opener” in your app store.
Playing Your Audio (important for phones)
To make sure your audio continues playing when the screen turns off:
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Please play the recording using a music or audio app on your device
(for example, your phone’s music player or the free VLC app).
This is a phone setting and not a problem with the recording.
A few extra tips
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Need help?
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