To begin with, you will need to make sure that you will not be disturbed for at least half and hour, preferably an hour. Turn off phones, and tell family and friends not to bother you for a while. Find a comfortable place. Somewhere that is neat and tidy, and of a comfortable temperature. Subdue the lighting if this helps you. If you wish, you could light some candles and burn some incense. You can be seated, or lie down – whichever is most comfortable for you. Importantly make sure that your legs are not crossed, as you could end up going numb after half an hour!

• Close your eyes and take 10 slow deep breaths – in through the nose, and out through the mouth. Say to yourself the word ‘Relax’ on each out breath.

• Now imagine yourself at the top of 10 steps, with a door at the bottom. With every slow step you take down, feel yourself becoming deeper and deeper relaxed.

• When you get to the bottom open the door to your ideal place of relaxation. It could be a beach, a garden, anywhere. It could be somewhere real, or imagined.

• Try to use as many senses as you can. Take a good look around. Pause and listen to any sounds. Perhaps you can hear the call of a bird, or the breeze gently blowing. Perhaps you can smell the sweet scent of flowers, or the salt in the sea? Touch objects, and make it as real as you possibly can.

• Explore your relaxing haven, and enjoy it for as long as you wish.

This is a great technique to help relaxation, and your ability to relax will improve the more you do this. Most of us do not relax anywhere near enough, and it damages our health in many ways. Stress weakens our immune systems, causes irritability, anxiety, and unhappiness. Even if you just do relaxation work, you will massively improve your overall health in almost every area. If you are struggling with this technique, then persevere. Getting into a hypnotic state is a skill that will improve over time. Don’t expect too much, you will probably still be aware of what is going on around you. It may be worthwhile visiting a clinical hypnotherapist, or buying a recording at least once, in order to experience the feeling of a trance. When you have experienced a trance a few times, you will be more informed as to what state of mind you are seeking.

You can also take this self hypnosis a little further if you wish. You can learn to give yourself specific therapy the more you practice. Here are a few techniques you can use after you have reached number 5.

What the mind imagines, it believes has really happened. If you imagine something bad happening to you, you will feel the emotions as if it is really happening. Success breeds success, so if you visualise yourself achieving something, then it will help you to do just that. You may wish to visualise yourself slimmer, healthier or wealthier for example. Or you may wish to visualise yourself having achieved something, such as a promotion or a new job. Make the image as real as you can, use all of your senses, and do this as often as you can.

You are only limited by your imagination. In fact you should notice that your creative powers increase the more that you use self hypnosis, as your mind becomes more accustomed to utilizing its creative powers. Stick with it. What I sometimes find is that people will stop using hypnosis once they have made the necessary improvements that they wished to make. However this may enetually deny the overall benefits of the increased relaxation, as things may slowly slip back to where they started. Set a specific time to do it, even if it is only once a week. If you have specific issues that you wish to deal with, then increase this accordingly, perhaps every day for a few weeks.

I hope me sharing this technique with you will help some of you to improve your mental and physical wellbeing, and realise what a useful tool for change hypnosis is. I genuinely want to help as many people as possible to live long, healthy and happy lives. I hope this contributes in some way. Please feel free to contact me to share your success stories, or for further advice.

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Tinnitus is believed to affect 1 out of every 22 people worldwide. Now that is a lot people who are regularly hearing that high pitch ringing, buzzing or humming sound in their ear. Consider that modern medicine does not have a proven cure you can easily see how there is a great demand for a tinnitus treatment that can deliver results.

Perhaps you have visited you family doctor about your tinnitus and discovered that there is no miracle drug prescription to fix your problem. Your doctor may prescribe some medication that can only help ease the discomfort brought on by tinnitus. Well no one wants to take medicine that can’t fix the problem but only diminish it some.

The next step you may take is to look for an herbal treatment. We always hear how there are many herbal remedies and natural formulas that many say really work. Unfortunately with tinnitus most herbal medicines are based on ginko bilboa or black cohash. These herbal remedies have been around for thousands of years but they rarely ever bring end to a person’s tinnitus. The philosophy with these herbal remedies is that tinnitus is caused by high blood pressure and these herbs are used to lower a person’s blood pressure. Guess what, high blood pressure is only one of many causes of tinnitus. You could be experiencing tinnitus for a completely different reason.

Now there are many other tinnitus home remedies available but for many people they just do not bring positive results. So, with all that said there is a upcoming type of treatment for tinnitus known as tinnitus hypnotherapy. Tinnitus hypnotherapy is a rather new treatment that looks to cure a person’s tinnitus problem by getting into their subconscious with self hypnosis. You may not be very familiar with hypnosis nor alone self hypnosis but it has been around a long time. Hypnosis and yes self hypnosis has gained great popularity for treating many conditions as weight loss, smoking, drug use and just about any other type of self improvement you can think of.

With hypnosis now commonly accepted as an alternative treatment it is now wonder that such a method exist to treat tinnitus. Tinnitus hypnotherapy is a home treatment that uses a range of audio files that help reduce those nasty sounds that make up tinnitus. This is more than a sound masking treatment, it is a designed program that tinnitus consist of many steps that will pinpoint the exact cause of your tinnitus before you began any hypnotic treatment.

Even though such a program relies heavily on self hypnosis and relaxing audio’s, food and diet are still part of this treatment. The food we consume always plays a major role in our health, how we feel and the amount of energy we have. There are many factors that induce tinnitus but by monitoring the foods you eat first you can learn where you tinnitus is originating from then you can begin a diet that will insure you from further tinnitus problems.

It you are seeking an effective solution to you tinnitus consider reviewing one of the tinnitus hypnotherapy methods.

To eliminate your tinnitus condition you will need to follow an effective tinnitus treatment formula that will define the type of tinnitus you have and provide you with known causes of your tinnitus. One such type of treatment is tinnitus hypnosis.

If you want to learn self hypnosis techniques there are a number of different ways to go about it. If you’re the kind of person who learns well from books, you could start your quest with Amazon. There’s a good selection there and you can check the feedback from other people as well.

But if you prefer to learn using a mixture of reading, audios and videos then here are some suggestions for you.

1. Start with pre-recorded MP3s

These are available inexpensively and are an excellent place to start learning self hypnosis. For less than the price of a pizza, you have access to a professionally recorded self hypnosis session that tackles the precise problem you’re trying to cure. A lot of people don’t go any further than this when they realize just how easy it is to hypnotize yourself with these hypnosis downloads. But they can also be an excellent model for your own hypnosis sessions. They allow you to test out different hypnotic induction methods and see which works best for you.

2. Get hold of a pre-written script

Again, these are a great place to start as – providing you’re careful where you buy them – you can be certain that they’re professionally written and will contain the right series of commands to put you into a hypnotic trance and carry out the instructions that you want to happen. All you need then is to record the session on your computer – the built in microphone is OK for this although if you’re doing regular recordings it will pay to get a better model – and transfer the file to your iPod or burn it to CD. Your version of Windows may have some sound recording software but if it doesn’t then get hold of Audacity which is free and top quality.

3. Start writing your own inductions

The hypnotic induction is the method you use to put yourself into a hypnotic trance. These are probably the easiest place to start when you move away from pre-written scripts as the wording isn’t as critical as the main hypnosis session itself. Model your hypnotic induction on some of the recordings you’ve already bought or ones that you’ve enjoyed using. Most of the time, you’ll start with breathing deeply as this will begin to relax you. Then find a peaceful, tranquil location. Explore it, notice the feelings, sights, sounds and smells. Heighten your sense of awareness of these but also allow yourself to relax and go deeper into hypnosis. Maybe use a deeper such as going down a set of stairs and moving deeper into trance as you progress down them.

4. Move on to the main scripts

These need to be carefully worded. Make sure that any commands you place are unambiguous. Our subconscious mind has great difficulty processing negatives – if I say to you don’t think about that white rabbit racing around saying “I’m late” then you have to bring that image to mind before you can dispose of it. Keep everything positive wherever possible and make sure that there is only one potential outcome of any statement. If you begin to use negatives, go through and re-word them. This is really important!

5. Maybe start hypnotizing other people

OK, so this isn’t self hypnosis any longer but it’s the logical extension. Like everything else, it’s something you need to practice. The good news is that the other person will have their eyes closed for most of the session, so there’s nothing stopping you having some notes to refer to while you’re doing this!

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