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How To Stay Calm Under Pressure

How To Stay Calm Under Pressure

To stay calm under pressure, move your attention inwards to focus only on the next step. Take 3 slow, deep breaths, and use gratitude to refocus your attention. Keep yourself physically and mentally prepared by eating a healthy diet, getting adequate exercise and enough sleep, and practicing meditation. Our brains come with a wonderful mechanism … Read more

How to Reframe Negative Thoughts With Self-Hypnosis

How to Reframe Negative Thoughts With Self-Hypnosis

To reframe negative thoughts with self-hypnosis, move your awareness outside of them and find some positives. Next, practice thinking the negative thought then switching immediately to the preferred positive thoughts. Make it easy to do this by first building and anchoring a powerful resource state. One of the biggest things that holds people back from … Read more

Hypnotic Deepeners

How to Use Hypnotic Deepeners to Create Deep Trance

A hypnotic deepener is an induction that is used to deepen trance after the hypnosis subject goes into hypnosis. Hypnotic deepeners ensure that the subject remains in hypnosis for long enough for effective change, and they ensure that the subject knows they were hypnotized. One common problem that hypnotists run into when they are starting … Read more

What Is Future Pacing?

What Is Future Pacing? (NLP and Hypnosis)

Future pacing is a hypnotic process in which a person is walked through an experience of already having the future they want. This is achieved by meeting them where they are now, then having them imagine that future. Future pacing works by helping the subject to remember to do new things when they experience specific … Read more

What Is Autosuggestion?

The Power of Autosuggestion

Autosuggestion is the act of installing an idea in yourself. Modern autosuggestion techniques typically achieve this through the repetition of positive present-tense affirmations multiple times per day for at least 30 days while in a state of meditation or self-hypnosis. Wouldn’t it be awesome if there were a way that you could make profoundly positive … Read more

Pocket Watch Hypnosis

Pocket Watch Hypnosis (Eye Fixation Hypnotic Induction)

In pocket watch hypnosis, the hypnotist uses a swinging or spinning pocket watch to induce hypnosis in their subject. This is a variation on the eye fixation hypnotic induction. Pocket watch hypnosis is generally only used to meet a subject’s expectations about hypnosis or to put on a show. Look into my eyes. Or at … Read more

What is Hypnotherapy Used For?

What Is Hypnotherapy Used For?

Hypnotherapy may be used to treat issues resulting from automatic unconscious processes such as those arising from habits and beliefs. It may also be effective at working with parts of the human mind-body system that are controlled unconsciously by the brain. Hypnosis may help with sub-optimal habits, weight loss or gain, stress and anxiety, smoking … Read more

What Happens During Hypnotherapy

What Happens During Hypnotherapy

During a hypnotherapy session, a trained hypnotherapist guides the subject through a well-defined process which starts with establishing rapport. The hypnotherapist will then interview the subject to establish what outcomes they would like, and to give them an overview of what to expect during the session. After the interviewing process is complete, the subject is … Read more

What is Clean Language?

What Is Clean Language?

Clean Language is a set of questions designed to guide people towards outcomes without contaminating their thought process. Clean language questions achieve this by being largely composed of the subject’s exact words. A typical clean language session begins with eliciting the problem, then asking the question What would you like to have happen. Further clean … Read more