Self-Hypnosis For Dummies

Self-Hypnosis For Dummies is a hands-on guide to achieving your goals using hypnosis. Whether you want to lose weight, overcome anxiety or phobias, cure insomnia, stop smoking, or simply stop biting your nails, this guide has it covered! The reassuring and straight-talking information will help you harness the power of your mind and re-train your subconscious to think in more healthy and constructive ways, and to overcome specific issues, such as anxiety and paranoia, and break bad habits, such as smoking. The easy-to-follow style will guide you through every step of the process, empowering you to take control and start making changes right away. Self-Hypnosis For Dummies includes: PART I: Identifying your needs and preparing the way Chapter 1: What is Hypnosis? Chapter 2: Getting Your Mind and body working together Chapter 3: Using Hypnosis to Achieve Your Goals PART II: Harnessing the power of your mind Chapter 4: Analysing your unconscious mind Chapter 5: Resisting resistance and avoiding relapse Chapter 6: Countering your conscious critic PART III: Approaching self hypnosis Chapter 7: Entering a hypnotic trance with traditional self hypnosis Chapter 8: Working with words: becoming your own recording star Chapter 9: Consciously directing your unconscious Chapter 10: Using unconscious self hypnosis PART IV: Using Hypnosis to Overcome Problems Chapter 11: Putting paid to panic and Anxiety, Phobias and Fear Chapter 12: Signing up to self-esteem Chapter 13: Stabbing away at your pain Chapter 14: Ironing out anger Chapter 15: Overcoming Insomnia PART V: Learning to Love a Healthy Lifestyle Chapter 16: Puffing away your smoking Chapter 17: Drinking in healthy drinking Chapter 19: Chewing away at your eating Chapter 19: Fostering good relationships PART VI: The Part of Tens Chapter 20: Ten creative ways to enter trance Chapter 21: Ten reasons why you are in trance Chapter 22: Ten reasons to visit a hypnotherapist or a doctor APPENDIX: Hypnotherapy Resources