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Here’s a transcript of a self hypnosis technique I’ve just found for lucid dreaming*. This has been taken from the book Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge Ph.D & Howard Rheingold which is a how-to guide on lucid dreaming containing a number of different techniques as well as self hypnosis, and can be found at Amazon.

* Lucid dreaming is a dream in which one is aware they are dreaming. Typically this also involves ‘controlling’ the content of the dream, although this is not always the case.

1. Relax completely

While lying in bed, gently close your eyes and relax your head, neck, back, arms and legs. Completely let go of all muscular and mental tension, and breathe slowly and restfully. Enjoy the feeling of relaxation and let go of your thoughts, worries, concerns and plans. If you have already awakened from sleep, you are probably already sufficiently relaxed. Otherwise you may use a progressive muscle relaxation exercise.

2. Tell yourself that you will have a lucid dream

While remaining deeply relaxed, suggest to yourself that you are going to have a lucid dream, either later the same night or on some other night in the near future. Avoid putting intentional effort into your suggestion. Do not strongly insist with statements like “Tonight I will have a lucid dream!” You might find that if you don’t succeed after a night or two following such misplaced certainty, you will rapidly lose faith in yourself. Instead, attempt to put yourself in the frame of mind of genuinely expecting that you will soon have a lucid dream tonight or sometime soon. Let yourself think expectantly about the lucid dream you are about to have. Look forward to it, but be willing to let it happen all in good time.

Has it gotten so bad that you are now counting every cigarette or an even more severe scenario counting each and every pack that you smoke everyday? Has the thought of succumbing to either lung cancer or heart disease forced you to rethink you’re journey into stopping smoking? We are happy to hear that! Let’s get one thing straight and get straight right here and now and that is that it is never too late to quit because if you quit and six months later you succumb to lung cancer at least you had those six months.

While that may be a hard to accept reality and risk of smoking the last time we checked smoking was a voluntary act and no one is putting a gun to your head to suck on the cancer sticks! There is hope though and that hope revolves around me telling you how to use hypnosis to stop smoking.

Hope Springs Eternal

I know what you’re saying you’re questioning whether hypnosis training really can help and the answer is an unequivocal yes. The real factor and the real addiction lies in your subconscious and this is where hypnosis has won some of its best battles. If you want to make something change it has to happen in the subconscious because this is what controls our actions and thoughts.

Hypnosis Training

The specialists that have hypnosis training under their belt and are considered masters are able to use that training to alter this perception in the subconscious minds of their clients and individuals who purchase their training manuals because they have a deep belief in the power of the subconscious mind. A good point to bring up now is that although the specialists, who have hypnosis training do their fair share of the work load, you have to do yours as well and that is first approached by admitting that you have a problem and you have the desire to stop smoking.

You Must Make the Search

If you really want to stop smoking now is the time for you to start searching for a hypnosis training specialist. That hypnosis specialist will not know what is wrong with you until you decide to seek them out and explain to them your problem and issue with smoking and how you want to quit. From that point on they can schedule your first session and you are in the game and they are in your subconscious and together you can quit smoking.

First Session

The first session begins with you being told to sit on a chair or lie down on the floor. You will then be told to relax and to try to forget about everything that is currently happening around you and focus all your attention and all your energy on the sound of their voice. Once the specialist sees that you are ready and in a state of acceptability you will be offered a keyword and that keyword is the key to stopping smoking. That keyword is spoken many times till the end of the session and each session builds upon itself until you have completed the goal of cessation of smoking.

Not Smoke-Free First Session

Is it as easy as that and in only one little session and then you are smoke-free? Positively not in fact the way it actually works is that when you hear the keyword your subconscious mind will suddenly remember not to smoke and thus you will not have the urge to smoke. You may still want to smoke even after the first session but after a few sessions that desire to smoke and the strength of the keyword will have been so tightly threaded into your subconscious mind that you will be eventually free of one of the nastiest habits of them all, smoking.

You Will Succeed

The keywords or a hypnotic suggestion that keeps popping-up in this review of hypnosis training are going to be the items that are there to help you quit smoking and are the backbone of all hypnosis smoking cessation activities. The keywords that are selected are chosen by random and are in a collaborative effort between yourself and the hypnosis specialist. Since many people have quit smoking thanks to the power of hypnosis therapy there is a very good chance that this can happen to you as well. If this method of smoking cessation does not work for you all you have to do is fall back on either patches or nicotine gum or quitting cold turkey but the end result is the same you will quit smoking.

100% Truth

That’s only being real with you and telling you the 100% truth but we strongly believe that your chances of success with hypnosis as an aid is one of the strongest methods available for the sensation of quitting smoking. Just make sure that when you are searching for a specialist that you check their credentials and see if they have previously worked with someone with your smoking problem before or better-yet if you’re a heavy smoker with a smoking issue as strong as yours. Quite naturally you want specialists that are accustomed to your level of addiction.

Smoking is an Addiction

Hypnosis training can help you stop and quit smoking. You just have to be open to the power of hypnotic suggestion because this is the most important aspect of this technique. Once you are smoke free, the very least you can do is help others kick the habit. Live and let live.

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This slim volume is a clear-cut guide to the hypnotically permissive manner of encouraging clients to uncover their own solutions.

O’Hanlon distinguishes this solution-oriented hypnotherapy from what he calls the traditional approach with its emphasis on treating the “causes” of problems and the outside-in focus of the hypnotherapist telling the client what to do to overcome her pathology.

“Ericksonian or solution-oriented hypnosis holds no such assumption of pathology, problem, damage, or deficit. Instead, we are oriented to people’s abilities and resources. Therefore, we use the hypnotic process to discover and connect to [to the person's inner] resources.”

This “permissive” approach is in direct contrast to the old way of conducting a session of hypnotherapy. Instead of speaking of “shoulds” and “musts” the hypnotist speaks of “perhaps” and “maybes”. The idea is both to meet the client where he or she is and to allow solutions to their problems to arise from within them.

Despite the author’s demarcation of his approach as being radically different to traditional hypnotherapy in practice surely most of us incorporate something of both methods?

Just the other day, for instance, when a Christian client spoke of herself as being immature, I said perhaps that’s true but she is moving forward and as St Paul said. “When I was a child…” and continued with the Biblical quote that was meaningful and relevant to her. Meeting the client where she is now.

O’Hanlon rightly warns (in regard to using the client’s vocabulary) “it is important to be careful here and not come across as mocking or disrespectful…”

I certainly don’t want to be “mocking or disrespectful” about this Guide but here are four items that raised my eyebrows:

1. I find the cover, with its big dog looking down at a cat, puzzling for a book about human hypnosis.

2. On almost every page there is a rubber-stamp type black and white image of an animal or bird. Contrary to the author’s assertion that such designs make the book easier to read and memorable I find these images distracting. At first glance, the book appears to be a book about pets or for children. It is neither.

3. Some of the suggested “therapeutic” behaviors are downright comical. For example, what would you think about a hypnotherapist who bounces around, speaking into your left ear while emphasizing “you can make those changes you really want to make.”

4. What have become known as NLP [Neuro-Linguistic Programming] techniques are, in my opinion, manipulative and dishonest. This one, from page 31, is both. And funny:

“The hypnotist sometimes mirrors the person’s posture or movements as a way of joining and connecting. For example, when a person crosses and uncrosses his legs, the hypnotist also crosses and uncrosses her legs. Another way to match body behavior is to vary some part of your behavior when the person changes his body behavior. That is, every time he blinks, you nod.”

Despite such hilarious portions of the book, the main thrust provides invaluable instruction for hypnotherapists – particularly those hitherto inclined to bark orders at their clients.

To this end, Bill O’Hanlon provides many specific examples of what to say and how to say it. Much of this is derived from the genius of the late Milton Erickson whose (at that time) unorthodox methods of hypnotherapy have become dogma for some devotees.

Unfortunately, you can’t package genius. How Erickson dealt with people arose from his unique talents. We can be inspired by him, we can imitate his respectful approach but we stifle the very essence of his permissive attitude when we seek to encapsulate his methods into rigid rules.

Nevertheless, the synthesis of the Ericksonian approach that O’Hanlon details at the end of the book is masterful.

Hypnotherapists new to the field and those previously stuck in the “traditional” mode will find these instructions enlightening. Especially the chapter, “Bad Trance/ Good Trance” with its table of “Symptomatic Trance vs. Healing Trance.”

It’s been said that people pay more attention to nonverbal communication than the verbal kind. If this is indeed true then, without doubt, taking the time to master your own body language is time well spent.

This is particularly true of attracting women with your body language. Women typically respond well to men they deem to appear strong, assertive, confident and in control. So how do you make yourself appear that way? Well here are a few pointers on body language that will make you appear more attractive to any woman.

1.  Slow down. A slow, steady pace of verbal and nonverbal communication is closely associated with confidence in mating psychology. Think about whenever you see someone who’s talking at a hundred miles per hour and tapping their foot and twitching. They look nervous and edgy. Slow down your speech and movements and you will immediately look confident and in control.

2. Hand gestures. Think about all the best orators in history and how they used hand gestures to engage people when they talked. Practice using hand gestures while you talk to people, but as I said below, make sure your movements are slow and confident.

3. Create your own space. Whenever you’re in a room, especially if there’s quite a number of people there, create your own space where you have a couple of feet all around you where no-one else is standing. This shows that you are confident enough to mark your territory.

4. Lean back. Rather than leaning in when you talk to a woman you should actually lean back a little. This makes them lean in to listen to you and puts you in control of the situation.

5.  Open up. Stand with your legs slightly apart and your arms at your sides (not crossed) so you appear more relaxed and open. You should also directly face the person you are talking to.

6. Control your posture. Imagine that you’re the President of America. Are you going to be walking around with your head held high, shoulders back, chest out and back straight? Of course you are, you’d be the most powerful man in the world! Just because you’re not the President doesn’t mean you can’t act like you’re not. Women respect power.

7.  Remain controlled. Never act as if you’re excited to talk to someone. That doesn’t mean not to act friendly but if you let your emotions take control then women will lose respect for you and think you’re needy.

I hope these tips will help you to improve your body language and attract more women.

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