Category Archives: Self-hypnosis

What Hypnosis is and How it Works

Self-hypnosis, Uncategorized

How hypnosis works

Ever since I trained as a hypnotherapist back in 2011 I have been fascinated by hypnosis.  I think it was one of the most useful and practical training courses that I have ever undertaken. How about you – do you understand and use self-hypnosis for your own benefit?  In this article I am going to explain my own experience using hypnosis and also introduce a video which explains what hypnosis is and how it works.

Weight loss

I have experienced the magic of hypnosis in my own life.  At one time I struggled with my weight to the point that I had given up in frustration on losing weight.  I simply could not control myself eating and ballooned to 113kgs!  When I undertook training on hypnosis I got my weight down to 86Kgs without much effort.  I actually enjoyed losing weight and lost weight so fast that people thought I was sick!  I felt great about myself and was full of energy and was so happy with my new slim build.

PhD

I also used self -hypnosis to help me attain my PhD in 2012.  Up to that point I had struggled in attaining my PhD.  However hypnosis again saved the day.  I visualised my own graduation day very vividly and captured the scene in vivid detail in a self -hypnosis audio I recorded.  From then on my graduation was inevitable.  When the big day finally came around it was as I had visualised it right down to the sights, sounds and smells.

Challenges to using self-hypnosis

I know what hypnosis is and how it works and I know that it is a very powerful tool for personal growth and change.  However I know that don’t use it enough in my own life.  I often ask myself why I don’t use self-hypnosis more.  I think it is because it takes time and effort to sit down and think about what it is that I actually want, visualise it in detail and then to record my own self-hypnosis audio.  The next challenge is to create the time to listen to the audio daily until the suggestions become absorbed by my sub-conscious mind.  Self-hypnosis is no quick fix.  It takes effort and self-knowledge and in today’s world we all want everything at the click of a button or to pop a pill to solve our problems instantly.  I need to resolve now to create more space in my day for my own self-hypnosis practice.

Learn more about Hypnosis

I hope that I have convinced you just how powerful and useful hypnosis is.  Would you like to learn more about what hypnosis is and how it works?  Please have a look at the above video which is a lecture taken from my course ‘Revinvent yourself – 30 Experiments in Personal Change’.  I hope you find the lecture helpful in explaining hypnosis.  Please feel free to share your comments/questions on the video.

Best wishes,

Tom

New Year’s Resolutions 2018 & Bridging the Knowing-Doing Gap

Goal Achievement, Planning, Psychological blind spots, Self-hypnosis

My New Year’s resolution is to bridge the knowing doing gap in my life. For example I know all about hypnotherapy and I know all about hypnosis and self-hypnosis but I’m not consistently using these powerful tools in my own life. That means that I’m not taking advantage of these brilliant tools and that is a problem because I’m recommending the same powerful tools to everybody but I’m not gaining the benefits myself. I know what needs to be done but am not implementing it!  Another example that struck me recently was that I was advising someone to invest in cryptocurrencies and when that person didn’t respond positively and did not take me seriously. I was a little bit annoyed and in particular because the value of cryptocurrencies went way up and I was thinking that if that person had listened to me he could have made about $14,000! However, did I take my own brilliant advice? No I didn’t invest money that I had sitting in my savings account in cryptocurrencies and I didn’t benefit either.  Sounds stupid – yes it is! The knowing – doing gap strikes again.

Back in 2013 I actually opened an account to buy Bitcoin and had the account verified. However did I actually buy Bitcoin? No! If I had I would be a wealth man today. In 2013 Bitcoin was trading at $100 /Bitcoin. In the past few weeks they hit $20,000 per Bitcoin. An investment of $500 in 2013 would have been worth $100,000 recently. Again the gap between knowing and doing!

So the big question I would like to ask you today is what do you know that you should do in your life? Maybe your New Year’s resolution could be to actually do it and bridge the knowing doing gap.

Best wishes for 2018!

Tom

PS

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