William W. Hewitt - Self Hypnosis for a Better Life

About the Author

William W. Hewitt was a freelance writer, the author of eight books and other materials published by Llewellyn Publications. He spent more than thirty years as a professional writer and editor in the computer, nuclear power, manufacturing, and mining industries, and was professional member of the National Writers Association. He was a certified clinical hypnotherapist and a professional astrologer. He frequently lectured on hypnosis, mind power, self-improvement, metaphysics, and related subjects. After his retirement in 1994, he and his wife travelled extensively together, as a devoted couple enjoying their golden years. William W. Hewitt passed from this life in November of 2001.

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Self-Hypnosis for a Better Life 1997 by William W. Hewitt.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

I Love...

Color Me Love

Let Me Sow Love

The Many Faces of Love

Using Your Dreams to Solve Problems

Affirmations for Adults

Phobia and Fear Control (Tape One)

Phobia and Fear Control (Tape Two)

Insomnia Control

Work Success

Goal Setting and Willpower

Creative Visualization

Putting Self in Balance

Weight and Diet Control

General Relaxation and Stress Control

Self-Image Improvement

Smoking Habit Control

Self-Confidence and Memory Improvement

Maintaining Good Health

Self-Healing

World Peace (Tape One)

World Peace (Tape Two)

Introduction

We have the ability to solve most, if not all, of our problems in life if we know how. Self-hypnosis is one tool that can help us solve our problems and create better lives for ourselves.

This book gives actual word-for-word self-hypnosis scripts for twenty three major problem-solving situations. Most of them will most likely apply to you at some point in your life.

All you need to do is make a cassette tape recording for whichever of the situations you think will help you. Make as many, or as few, recordings as you wish. Once you make them, you have them for life to use and reuse as you wish. Then you sit down in a comfortable position, turn on the tape, close your eyes, and allow the tape recording of your own voice to hypnotize you.

Simple, is it not?

You dont need hi-fi stereo with a wide-frequency band range for this. You simply record the tape scripts in your normal speaking voice, and any inexpensive recorder will do just fine for this. The same is true for the tapes. Purchase modestly priced ones. Expensive ones wont do any more for you. Each of the twenty three tape scripts in this book will require less than thirty minutes of recording time and will fit onto one side of a sixty-minute tape.

Several of the subjects have two tape scripts (Dreams, Phobia, World Peace). You can put one script on one side of a tape and the second on the reverse, thus having just one cassette for the complete subject of dreams, phobia, or world peace.

What Self-Hypnosis Is All About

Hypnosis is a method of boring your conscious mind so that it relaxes and stops thinking, much the same as when you go to bed at night just before you actually slip into sleep.

In hypnosis, your conscious mind becomes less active, but you remain awake. At this point, your subconscious mind is especially receptive to suggestions. It is your subconscious mind that responds to suggestions and causes those suggestions to manifest themselves in your life.

The subconscious mind is like an obedient servantit just does what it is told to do. The subconscious mind doesnt think, reason, or rationalize, it only follows instructions. Conversely, your conscious mind does think, reason, and rationalizeand often argues against what you want. This is why the conscious mind needs to be relaxed and quieted so it wont argue against what you are instructing your subconscious mind to do.

This process is called hypnosis . Self-hypnosis means you hypnotize yourself. When someone else hypnotizes you, it is just called hypnosis. There is no difference in the process or results between self-hypnosis and hypnosis.

Through self-hypnosis, as described in this book and in my other hypnosis book, Hypnosis for Beginners , you are able to improve your life in any way you choose by directly instructing your subconscious mind in what you want to achieve. It is that simple.

Repetition and reinforcement of the suggestions are usually needed because hypnosis suggestion usually fades within a couple of weeks, and your subconscious mind needs to be told repeatedly what to do in order to convince it that is really what you want. This is because most people change their minds frequently, signaling the subconscious not to take them seriously.

However, once you remain consistent with the suggestions and convince your subconscious mind of what you want, watch out because it will become reality. Self-hypnosis is very powerful, so be sure of what you program your subconscious mind for, because you will get it.

The procedures in this book can enable you to work wonders in your life.

Making a Recording

At the beginning of each chapter I will first give a brief description of what the particular tape is about. Then I will have a heading titled Tape Script. Record everything after the heading Tape Script. In the script, if there are capitalized words, for example pause 30 seconds , do not record those words. These are recording instructions for you, indicating that you should stop talking, but keep the tape running. When you read the scripts, you will see why these special instructions are occasionally needed. To effectively create and use a self-hypnosis tape, follow these simple instructions.

Speak in your normal speaking voice.

Speak at a pace that will be comfortable for you to listen to. Too fast, and you will have a difficult time keeping up with the tape when you listen to it. Too slow, and you might lose your concentration.