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Using NLP and Hypnosis To Stop Nail Biting

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:40:05 +0000

Happy new year to all readers of NLP Hypnosis Secrets. It’s been awhile since I last updated the blog but this is a new year and a chance to work myself back into a regular routine. During the last few months I’ve been working on building some promotional relationships with other websites and blogs within the topic of self improvement. NLP Hypnosis Secrets is now syndicated on Hypnosis Knowledge and you may have also noticed that we now have a tab at the top of the page which takes you to a forum where you can discuss NLP, hypnosis and other related topics. The forum is hosted by the good people at HypnoBusters.

Now onto the actual topic of discussion, nail biting and how you can cure your addiction using NLP.

Addiction may seem like a strong word for habitual nail biting but if you’ve every tried to stop it you will know how hard it can be. The reason for this is that nail biting is an obsessive-compulsive disorder so you can’t just make a conscious effort to stop and expect it to work. It’s like that itch that you need to scratch.

There are two kinds of nail biters. The first are those who bite their nails without the conscious thought to do so. They are usually focusing on another activity such as watching TV or working on the computer and bite their nails as if it’s a natural thing to do. The second kind specifically decide to bite on their nails and feel a strong desire to do so whenever they look at their nails.

The reason people bite their nails is that it satisfies a subconscious urge. This urge is often intensified by stress and anxiety. When they bite their nails they gain a certain feeling of relaxation and satisfaction.

That is why the first thing to do with a client with a nail biting habit is to help them to relax more, eliminating the (intensifying) need to bite their nails. This can be done with a simple hypnotic induction and deepener. Then you can use hypnotic suggestions that make the client realize nail biting is not good for them, making them associate nail biting with chipped teeth and gum infections. You could also teach them an anchoring technique to help them satisfy their urge to bite their nails. This could consist of anchoring the feeling of relaxation with touching their chin with their forefinger and thumb. This provides a similar action to nail biting without any of the potential damage or social uncouthness.

If you would like help to quit nail biting then I recommend this Nail Biting Hypnosis MP3. Listen to it once a day for a month and you will be able to break the habit for good.

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How To Learn Hypnotism

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:40:03 +0000

Hypnotism or more commonly known as hypnosis, is a mental state or set of attitudes usually caused by a procedure known as a hypnotic induction, which is composed of a series of preceding instructions and suggestions. Hypnotic suggestions may be delivered by a hypnotist to a person or a subject (experiment), or may be self suggested (auto suggestion). In this article I’m going to share with you one of the methods used by hypnotists so that you can get to know how to learn hypnotism.

5 Steps Guide: How To Learn Hypnotism

1. Use a smooth talking voice. This won’t be your regular speaking voice but rather a tone you would use with a sleepy and tired child. The more relaxing and softer your voice, the faster you can hypnotize someone.

2. Have your subject take a deep breath, and slowly let it out. While she expels air, make her close her eyes. Then starting with the top of her body, talk to her silently so that you can bring her into a relaxed stage. For example, you can say, “Feel your shoulders. Relax your shoulders and feel them become heavier and heavier. They are loose. There is no tension in your shoulders.”

3. Praise your subject in a comfortable voice at every step as this is the most important part. Hypnotism can be pretty scary for people who don’t know what to expect next. Let your subject know everything is just fine and she’s doing everything right and correct as it will help her to stay relaxed.

4. Continue with the first three steps until you know she is hypnotized. You might have to make her relax her body parts several times as most people may take about 10 minutes to enter a hypnotic state. Signs of hypnosis are: loose, droopy muscles; slightly twitching arms or legs; changes in breathing; or eyelids that flutter.

5. Make suggestions when she is hypnotized (hypnotic suggestions). The suggestions can be serious or humorous. In this stage, please be ethical to ask something from her or someone as that person will be in a “hypnotic trance” and easier to influence. When you are ready to release her from the hypnotic state, simply say, “When I count to three, you will open your eyes and feel refreshed and active. One, two, three.”

Here’s more quick tips:

• Hypnotic suggestions are the most important part in the process of getting to know how to learn hypnotism.

• Make sure your subjects are relaxed and focused while you’re hypnotizing her or him.

• Don’t be harsh or pressure your subjects to do something while he or she is in a hypnotic trance.

• Hypnotism is also related with Hypnosis Mind Control, another powerful psychological method.

5 Hypnosis Inductions

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:20:02 +0000

There are lots of different methods of hypnosis induction. Most every hypnotist has their own favorite methods but if you’re just starting out these ideas for a hypnosis induction are a good starting place. Of course, if your patient has any preconceived ideas – for instance, if they’re a fan of old movies and think that looking at a swinging watch causes hypnosis to happen – then that may be the best form to use.

Unless you’re performing a rapid induction, it’s probably a good idea to get your subject to take a few deep breaths and then allow their eyes to close.

1. Confusion method

If you’ve bought any of Paul McKenna’s books or CDs, you’ll know this method. Our mind can’t concentrate on too many things at once. So start with asking your subject to count backwards in their head, starting at 300 and counting downwards. Count with them for the first few numbers, then put in the suggestion that they may lose count and that it doesn’t matter if that happens. While they’re concentrating on counting backwards, you continue with another induction, causing confusion in their mind and making the whole hypnotic induction process easy.

2. Forest and stream method

Talk your subject through this, making the images, sounds and feelings as vivid as possible. They will find themselves in a clearing in a forest. Ask them to notice the feeling of the grass below their feet, maybe some dew on the grass as well. Then get them to see how the light plays as it shines through the brances above them. Introduce the sound of birds singing and other animals (but nothing too scary!) around. Then they notice the stream that is babbling near them, the noise the water makes as it runs over the bed of the stream. Maybe they can dip their hand in the water to feel how cool and refreshing it is. All this leads to a state of relaxation after which you can use a deepener method to take them even further into trance.

3. Arm drop method

Start this hypnosis induction by getting your subject to raise their arm above their head. It doesn’t matter whether this is their left or right arm. Get them to stare at one of their fingers and allow their eyes to close just as soon as they are ready. Then tell them that their arm is getting heavier and heavier and that they will notice it gradually dropping down. As their arm gradually falls, they will fall into a deep hypnotic state which gets deeper and deeper until their arm has come to rest on their leg or lap.

4. Hand to face method

There is a bit of confusion in this method as well. Start as though you are going to shake your subject’s hand then, just before this happens, grab their hand (rather than shake it) and raise it to their face, telling them to close their eyes at the same time. You can use this in conjunction with the arm drop method if you like.

5. Arm levitation method

This is quite often use by stage hypnotists when they are choosing their subjects as it can be quite fun for an audience to watc.h. Tell your subject that you have tied a balloon around their wrist and that they will find that the balloon is slowly lifting their arm upwards. As their arm gets higher and higher, they’ll find themselves deeper and deeper in trance.

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Does Hypnotherapy Work For IBS?

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:00:02 +0000

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a disorder of the digestive system whose symptoms include bloating, discomfort, abdominal pain and irregular bowel habits. In turn these symptoms can lead to depression. There is no known cure for IBS however one treatment that appears to be coming to the forefront is hypnotherapy.

Hypnotherapy is a treatment that many people have heard of, but they’re not entirely sure what it is or how it works. Typically a session of hypnotherapy involves a client/patient and a hypnotherapist (or in this modern age a CD or MP3). The session will first begin with some “pre-talk” where the hypnotherapist will explain what to expect from the hypnotherapy IBS treatment. Once this has been discussed the treatment itself will begin.

The hypnotherapy will begin with a hypnotic induction and then a deepener. This ensures that the client is in a trance state. It is difficult to explain a hypnotic trance because it can vary from person to person. Some people get a tingling sensation and feel very light while others feel very still and heavy as if they are sunk into their chair. During hypnotic trance a person is still aware of what is being said to them and they are not asleep or unconscious in anyway. Hypnotic trance is often described as an altered or heightened sense of focus, much like “being in the zone” while playing a sport.

Once trance has been established the hypnotherapist will embed certain suggestions into the mind of their client. In the case of IBS treatment the suggestions may revolve around helping the client to feel less stressed (as stress often makes IBS symptoms worse), more optimistic about the situation, relieve pain and discomfort, and regulate sleep patterns depending on the situation.

It may seem amazing to think hypnotherapy can help treat all these symptoms of IBS but scientific studies suggest that hypnotherapy is the real deal, not just for IBS but for many other issues too.

Back in 1989 scientists at the Frenchay Hospital in Bristol ran a study on the effects of hypnotherapy on IBS patients. 33 patients with IBS were treated with hypnotherapy over the course of 7 weeks. Of these 33 patients only 2 patients showed no positive effects. The condition of 20 of the patients improved and 11 were completely free of all their former symptoms. With those kind of results, if hypnotherapy was a drug, then doctors wouldn’t hesitate to prescribe it! Unfortunately few doctors are well versed in complementary treatment.

It’s also interesting to note that the hypnotherapy given to the patients in the study was a group form of hypnotherapy, meaning that the sessions were not catered to individual needs. This suggests that CDs or MP3s recorded by qualified hypnotherapists are highly effective, and they are much more affordable than hiring a hypnotherapist.

To answer the question, “does hypnotherapy work as an IBS treatment?” the answer is a resounding yes! If you are a sufferer of IBS and are looking for relief from your dire symptoms then give hypnotherapy a try today.

You will be truly astonished!

About Jake Rhodes

Jake works for leading hypnosis website HypnoBusters. They offer a variety of articles, videos, MP3s and hypnosis scripts. You may be interested in their IBS Hypnosis MP3.

The Hypnotic Handshake Induction

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:10:51 +0000

Today I am going to teach you a simple hypnotic induction that you can add to your arsenal of powerful covert hypnosis tactics. As you may be aware the hypnotic handshake induction was created by Milton Erickson, perhaps the greatest hypnotist to ever live. This means you are going to be learning an easy induction created by one of the very best hypnotists. The hypnotic handshake induction is often taught in expensive NLP workshops but today the knowledge is yours for free.

As the name suggests, in this induction you will need to be shaking hands with your subject to induce a light hypnotic trance. I’m sure that right now you realise the power and potential this holds for you. Think of all the times you shake hands with someone whether it’s with a friend, a customer or a boss. If you want to, you can use the hypnotic handshake induction on anyone you meet.

The basic premise behind the hypnotic handshake induction is to shake the subjects hand and then breaking the flow of the handshake in someway. Common methods of doing this including gently grabbing the subject’s wrist or running your fingers over their palm. Allow me to explain to you why this works. Shaking hands is a behavior so well engrained in the mind that when it doesn’t go “as usual” the mind literally suspends itself in a trance, confused at the situation. The subject is left momentarily confused and this leaves them open to suggestion and direction.

There are only really two skills to this confusion tactic. One is having the nerve to use it. The other is to distract the subject while you are performing and ending the hypnotic handshake induction. You can do this by making an innocuous comment such as “Isn’t it a great day today?”. As the subject processes this comment you should notice they look a little confused and usually they will not have heard what you said so they will either smile blankly or ask you to repeat what you said. This is an excellent sign that the hypnotic handshake induction has worked.

After you have performed the induction it is time to jump in quick with a suggestion or command. What this is depends on who you are talking to and what you desire of them. If you are talking to a customer, for example, you may want to step in with a leading question such as “So what are you looking to buy from me now [Name]?”. The command or suggestion is every bit as important as the handshake induction itself so have what you want to say planned before performing the induction. As you can see from my example the question presumes that the customer is looking to buy something from me, right now. You may be able to imagine how many quick sales this can help you achieve.

The hypnotic handshake induction is something you should probably practice with a willing friend before “going public” with it. However you will find that it really doesn’t take long to master. The version I have taught you above is for using as an induction for covert hypnosis, however with some small changes it can be used during stage or street hypnosis and even hypnotherapy.

Doug Slater.

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Hypnosis Direct Review

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:40:27 +0000

HypnosisDirect.com is a popular hypnosis download site that has been online since 2006. During this time they have amassed a library of over 100 hypnosis MP3s. Hypnosis Direct lives up to its name by purely dealing in MP3s (no CDs or scripts) which are sent directly to the customers’ email address straight after purchase.

Hypnosis Direct have received some impressive publicity in the past as they have been featured in an article about hypnosis MP3s and CDs on The Guardian website – a well respected British newspaper.

The MP3s themselves are offered at the very reasonable price of $12.95. Coupled with the buy two get one free deal that Hypnosis Direct are currently running and you can get a number of MP3s for very little money.

There are however a couple of areas of concern I have regarding Hypnosis Direct.

First of all there is no information I can find on the website about the hypnotherapist that records the session. From the MP3 I have listened to they are male and sound as if they come from London, but I don’t know if this is the case for every session on the site. It raises the question of it the person behind Hypnosis Direct is a qualified hypnotherapist at all.

Secondly while Hypnosis Direct does offer a 90 day money back guarantee it is not easy to get a refund. To get a refund from HypnosisDirect.com you have to print off a refund sheet which requires quite a few details to be written in, and then fax it back to them. Many people do not have immediate access to a fax machine so I’m sure this is troublesome. Most other hypnosis download sites simply deal with refunds via email.

I have also heard (although I am unable to confirm this) that Hypnosis Direct uses the same hypnotic induction on every MP3. This shows a lack of originality and some laziness on the hypnotherapists part if true. While many hypnosis download sites will use the same induction on two or three sessions they don’t do so on every session they produce.

All in all I would say that there are much better options than Hypnosis Direct out there for hypnosis MP3s.

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The Hypnotic Handshake Induction

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:20:21 +0000

Doug Slater.