Michael R Hathaway - The Everything Hypnosis Book: Safe, Effective Ways to Lose Weight, Improve Your Health, Overcome Bad Habits, and Boost Creativity

THE
EVERYTHING
HYPNOSIS
BOOK

Safe, effective ways to lose weight,
improve your health, overcome bad
habits, and boost creativity

Dr. Michael R. Hathaway, D.C.H.

Copyright 2003, F+W Publications, Inc.
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ISBN: 1-58062-737-4
eISBN: 13: 978-1-44052-247-5
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J I H G F E

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hathaway, Michael R.
The everything hypnosis book / Michael R. Hathaway.
p. cm. (An Everything series book)
ISBN 1-58062-737-4
1. Mental suggestion. I. Title. II. Everything series.
BF1156.S8 H38 2003
154.7 dc21
2002009818

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Dear Reader,

My first encounter with hypnosis wa s twent y years ago, when I was hired to play piano for a stage show. As the hypnotist and I discussed the evening, I began to feel some kind of strange pull the room started to swirl around me, and I focused hard, trying to resist. I had to learn what this hidden magic was! That quest has consumed my life ever since.

Shortly after the stage show, I began to read ever y book on hypnosis that I could find. I began to practice self-hypnosis for stress control, establishing a daily routine. I used to be a very intense person, described as having different shades of anger from ver y mad to moderately mad, but never happy. After practicing self-hypnosis, my mental attitude began to change.

In 1989 I was hit by a car. As I lay injured, I automatically entered a calming hypnotic trance. Since then I have used hypnosis on myself for better health, weight loss, stress reduction, and even eye surger y. Hypnosis is still magic to me.

It is my hope that in this book you will discover some of the magic of hypnosis.

To Carter, Brenda, Marc, Brian,and my soul mate, Penny.

Contents

Introduction

Self-hypnosis is fascinating and fun to use. You can practice it occasionally, or it can become a daily routine in your life. Instant self-hypnotic techniques allow you to enter a trance for a brief moment of relaxation that no one else will notice. Self-hypnosis can help you communicate with others and with yourself, it can enhance your focus at work and at school, and it has the potential to give you a whole new view of life.

This book is written as a complete guide to self-hypnosis. You will learn a self-hypnotic technique in the first chapter, and then as you progress, you will have the opportunity to learn how your mind works, how it is unique and different from all other minds in the world. You will understand what hypnosis is, and that it is already a natural part of your life. You will receive step-by-step instructions on how to create and use self-hypnotic trances.

You do not need any previous training in hypnosis to use TheEverythingHypnosis Book. However, this book does offer fresh concepts for professionals, who are always seeking new ideas to help their clients. You can experience this book alone or use it with others. It is intended to provide fun and easy ways to make positive changes in your life.

Hypnosis is an important tool for curbing bad habits such as overeating or smoking, and for improving or enhancing sports performance. It can help resolve stress you can create powerful hypnotic anchors that help you feel calm and relaxed as you go about your daily routines.

Hypnotherapists are now associated with many hospitals, where they assist patients in areas such as pain control, hypno-anesthesia during operations, and hypno-birthing. Several organizations for the promotion and safe practice of hypnosis offer extensive hypnosis training.

Hypnosis is used in law enforcement to help witnesses with recall. Its principles are widely practiced in sales and marketing, and its concepts are taught in communication classes. We are constantly subjected to hypnotic imagery in all forms of advertising.