Self hypnosis to boost your confidence - A simple trick!

Hypnosis works really well for confidence… but you don’t need a hypnotist. You can do this yourself very easily.

A simple mind trick that gives you instant confidence

First off, give you entire body a good shake down and then confidently march around the room with your shoulders back, your head high and a big smile on your face.

Even if you feel terrible, after a very short time of doing this your mood will begin to shift. When most people do this for the first time they report that they feel 'silly', then they realise that feeling silly is a step up from what they were feeling and the forced smile starts to become a natural one.
As you strut around the room image that you’re wearing a cape.

When you imagine you are wearing a red cape that's dragging on
the floor behind you it instantly makes you feel more confident!
Use this trick the next time you need to feel more confident. 

I usually choose a blood red cape that drags on the floor behind me, pulling my shoulders back as I walk. My cape of choice is more like a Roman centurion than Superman and it makes me feel incredibly confident.

I've tried different coloured capes and each one seems to have a different effect. I imagine this is connected to the dominate colours associated with each chakra. Red stimulates the root chakra and it makes you feel really confident and powerful.

Years ago I used to suffer from terrible stage fright and I used this cape visualisation exercise in the wings before confidently marching out onto stage. (At the time I was a stage hypnotist) It worked perfectly.

In fact, if I go back even further, to my university days, I used to use this exact same technique to approach women in bars. My friends all thought I was some kind of social butterfly but inside I was just as petrified as they were.

But I had a trick up my sleeve. My cape gave me the confidence I needed to approach woman, and the body language, posture and charisma I also needed for them to not instantly shut me down.
Capes are incredibly powerful... but I'd stick with the imaginary kind, you're gonna look really weird approaching a hot girl or guy in a bar wearing a real one.

This trick isn’t exactly formal hypnosis but it works really well and it’s something you can do whenever you need it. Sometimes I even add a fanfare of trumpets as I march confidently and purposefully in my imaginary cape. It also helps if you slowly nod your head and imagine you are looking down on people.

Doing this regularly will increase your confidence overall. You’ll notice that in time you just naturally feel confident in any situation. Any kind of visualisation like this is sending a blueprint to your subconscious mind to tell it how you want to be. It works. And, as I said, you can do it yourself. It’s also great fun too :)

Does hypnotherapy work if you don't believe in it?

I once had a client that came to me to quit smoking, but she was scared to be hypnotised so she brought a friend along to sit with her.

Her friend wasn’t shy about telling me that hypnosis was all nonsense.

The friend was also a smoker but she wasn’t at all interested in quitting. She stayed in the room for the entire session just to make sure I wasn't doing anything that I shouldn’t with her buddy.

I used a progressive relaxation induction and combined many subtle language patterns with NLP to help the actual client become a non-smoker and her friend obviously heard everything I said.

About a week after the session the friend called me to thank me. Even though she hadn’t even wanted to quit smoking the cigarette that she’d smoked before entering my office was the last one she ever smoked.

Not only did she not believe in hypnosis but she didn’t even want the change to happen. When I was studying hypnosis I was told that the clients desire to change was the most important factor of successful therapy, obviously this is not the case.

I’ve also been told by many people that hypnosis only works if you believe in it. I think that those people don’t believe in it at all, and they think it’s all down to placebo. For me, hypnosis is very real and definitely works. Even if you don’t think it will or want it to!

Using hypnosis to give somebody diarrhoea! Yeah I know... it's wrong, and worse than you probably expect!

Back in the early 90's, while I was still learning hypnosis, I was a manager at McDonalds. So, after my shift each night it was common for me to put on a little bit of a show for the staff.

Sometimes my suggestions were a little bit erm..... wrong!

This hypnotic suggestion in particular was not a good idea...

One night, I told my work colleague that his feet were stuck to the floor. I said that with each click of my fingers he could release one foot, but as soon as he put it back down it’d stick fast and he wouldn’t be able to move. I also said that when I clapped my hands, he’d be completely free and able to move normally.

To ‘spice things up a little’ (which is usually a mistake) I also told him that he had diarrhoea and was desperate for the toilet.

I then proceeded to click my fingers very very slowly as he struggled to un-stick one foot at a time.

After a minute or so of watching him squirm I clapped my hands and he made a mad dash for the toilet.

This all happened at the end of the night, everything was packed away and we were all set to go home. So when he returned to the staff room we locked up and left. I didn’t even think about checking the toilet.

A couple of hours later, I was woken by my phone at 6am. It was my boss, the store manager. He’d just turned up to open the store and had walked into the staff toilets only to find them completely covered in **** (I’m sure you can guess!) It was all over the toilet seat, the floor and even on the walls. To say he was livid would be an understatement. Erm… whoops!

There's a couple of lessons about hypnosis to be learned here.... 

• FIRST... A hypnotised subject will often respond to your suggestion in ways you don't expect, so be careful what you tell them to do....

• SECOND... if a client ever comes to you asking if you can help to relieve their constipation, the answer is YES!!!  

Controlling blood flow with hypnosis.... not as medical as you might expect!!!

Many years ago, after work one day we were all sitting in the staff room and (as usual) my mates wanted me to do some hypnosis.

I didn't have anything prepared so I scanned the room looking for ideas. And my eyes fell onto the staple gun.....

So... without much thought to the consequences... I gave a friend the suggestion that his arm was completely anaesthetised. Then jabbed a staple into it.

Yes, I know. I’m not proud of these early experiments, and no, the staple gun wasn’t sterilised, or even clean, it was just a regular office stapler that happened to be on the table next to me when I was trying to think of something to do.

He said that he could feel it, but there was absolutely no pain. Almost as though his arm was made of clay. But the wasn't the most interesting thing....

The staple went all the way in, so that only a flat line of metal was showing. Interestingly, he didn’t bleed. Which I found a little odd. But it gave me an idea. I told him that I was going to pull the staple out, but he would not bleed. Then after 5 seconds he would bleed from the left side puncture hole, but not from the right side one.

I accept that this was a very convoluted suggestion but I just wanted to see what would happen. I pulled out the staple and nothing happened. He didn’t bleed. Everybody watching counted to five, then perfectly on cue a small beed of blood oozed out of the left side hole. The right side remained completely bloodless. Just a tiny puncture hole.

I'm glad I did these crazy little experiments. They really open your mind to new possibilities of what you can achieve with hypnosis.

If you'd like to become a hypnotist... for free... then please check out my online hypnosis course at https://freehypnosislessons.com the course is 100% and covers all areas of hypnosis.... well... almost all areas, I don't expect you to jab staples into peoples arms!!

If you click on the link above you can read what my existing students think about the course. Many of them had attended some very expensive courses before they did mine and they all agree that mine is much better. So maybe you should give it a try ;)

Can hypnosis give you X-Ray vision?

Several years ago I hypnotised a work colleague and told him that I was invisible. I had intended to spook him out by levitating things with my invisible hand but instead I thought I’d try a little experiment.

During this session he was cashing up the days takings. This involved a lot of counting, working out percentages and filling out spread sheets. All of which needed a calculator.

Just to satisfy my own curiosity, I decided to let them continue cashing up as I put my invisible hand over the calculator display.

He continued working as though I wasn’t even there. Punching numbers into the calculator, copying down answers into the spreadsheet and even adding results into the calculator memory to retrieve running totals.

We later checked all of the calculations together and they were perfect.

Was it all his subconscious mind?

At the time I assumed that their subconscious mind had done the calculations for them, then hallucinated the results onto the calculator display while negatively hallucinating my hand.
But I later read about an experiment where a hypnotist held an old pocket watch cupped in his hand onto a girls back while telling the volunteer that was standing in front of the girl that she was invisible. When the hypnotist asked the volunteer to read out the time he did so perfectly, then he read out an inscription from the watch that he couldn’t possibly have known.

Experiments like this make you think about the nature of reality. We don’t see things ‘out there’ we see them inside our mind. Our brain receives electrical signals via our optic nerve and transforms them into an image that we project out into the world. Even the physical stuff we are looking at isn’t solid, it’s just a vibration of energy. If you look at an atom through an electro-microscope it’s almost entirely empty space.

So who knows, maybe given the right suggestion we can look through the empty space of one thing to see another.

I’ve done many stage hypnosis routines where I tell the volunteer that they can see the audience completely naked. I wonder if they really can!!!

Is hypnosis real? Or are hypnotised subjects just pleasing the hypnotist?

It's amazing how many people have told me (very matter of factly!) that there is no such thing as hypnosis. 

Usually, people say it's not real because it's one of the follow:

1. Some people think it's all acting.
2. Some people say it's placebo.
3. Some people think that a hypnotised subject is just 'trying to please the hypnotist'. 

I agree that all of these are a factor in many cases, but I also believe that hypnosis is definitely real. Here's why...

The first person I ever hypnotised

When I was 18, back in 1992, I was crazy about hypnosis. I studied it religiously but I was too scared to try it, and I wasn't even sure if I actually believed it. But I knew enough about hypnotic induction scripts to give it a go. So when my sister's friend Mark saw me reading a book on hypnosis and asked me if I would hypnotise him I decided it was time to find out once and for all if it really was real. 

I used a basic progressive relaxation induction and Mark seemed to be responding well.

To begin I gave him some really simple suggestions. The kind of stuff you might expect to see at a cheesy stage hypnosis show, and he did everything exactly as instructed. 

Of course, I had no way of knowing if it was really genuine or if he was just playing along. I actually started to feel like a bit of an idiot and expected him to suddenly start laughing at me, but he didn't. Instead, something amazing happened....

Something amazing happened that proved hypnosis is real!

I gave Mark the suggestion that he was getting colder and colder.

Almost immediately he started to shiver. He was wearing a short sleeved top so I could see his bare arms and within seconds all of the tiny hairs on his arms stood on end and he got goosebumps! 

I told Mark it was getting cold and he got Goosebumps!
For me this proved that hypnosis is real! 

WOW!!! I couldn't believe it. You can't fake goosebumps! This was the real deal. Mark was actually having a physical reaction to my suggestion. I was chuffed to bits!!!

Then I switched from cold to hot and the tiny hairs all lay back down and the goosebumps vanished immediately. 

He started breathing heavily and pulling at his top around his neck. His face flushed red and within seconds there were beads of sweat running down his face.

That moment was a turning point in my life. It was all the confirmation I needed that hypnosis is indeed real. You simply can't fake such physical reactions no matter how much you want to 'please the hypnotist'. 

Before that moment I'd been obsessed with hypnosis. I had studied everything I could get my hands on about the subject. I'd even volunteered for stage hypnotic shows to see if the hypnotist whispered secret instructions to me during the induction. But seeing Marks reaction kicked my obsession up to a whole new level. I became a hypnojunky! 

Within a year of that first induction experience I was doing stage hypnotic shows in pubs and clubs around my local town. I later ventured into hypnotherapy and ran a very successful clinic from my home and over time I refined my skills and started to teach others how to hypnotise. 

I've now taught over 25,000 people how to hypnotise. And I've developed a complete course on hypnosis that I give away for free from my website at https://freehypnosislessons.com 

What are the benefits of Self Hypnosis?

To answer this question I would like to share something that one of my students once said about the benefits of self-hypnosis because I think it’s genius!!!

He said this…

“I see it like a daily vitamin I take to stay mentally and physically healthy.”

His full comment was much longer than this, but I really liked that part. It’s punchy, succinct and really hammers home the benefits of doing self hypnosis regularly. I love it!
Here’s the rest of his comment…

“Before doing Self hypnosis, I was so dragged down by seemingly everything in life. I had money trouble, family problems, health problems, you name it. I always had the "woe is me" attitude. Additionally I was basically killing my self with my horrible smoking habit. A smoking habit that was slowly ruining my career as a Broadway musician/trumpeter.

Self hypnosis seemed that it may help, but I was very skeptical. I have tried attending group hypnotic sessions to quit smoking, but I quickly learned that the only thing I learned to quit doing, was to quit wasting my money on these useless sessions. I have also tried various audio hypnosis tapes etc but nothing ever worked. So I'm sure you understand my skepticism.

I had my doubts but I thought to myself, ‘What the heck, can't hurt to try.’
Because of self hypnosis, I no longer smoke, I no longer take depression medications, and I am very optimistic about life in general.

The best part is, I didn't have to pay hundreds to someone else in order to change these negatives in my life... I did it all by myself in the privacy of my own home!

I highly self hypnosis to anyone who thinks there is no way out. In fact, I even recommend it to those who may not even have problems... it aids in relaxation, sleep and improves quality of life in general.

I see it like a daily vitamin I take to stay mentally and physically healthy.”

Sebastian Singleton, Broadway Musician.

Isn’t that an awesome description of the benefits of Self Hypnosis?

I have to say that I’ve edited this comment a little. It’s not exactly what he wrote. He kept referring to my products and books etc (usually in places where I’ve put the phrase ‘self hypnosis’) but if I left it the way he’d written it it would have looked like an advert. I’m not trying to push my books, I don’t even sell the book he read anymore. But I definitely recommend that everybody learns self hypnosis.

There are plenty of courses online that teach self hypnosis. Or you may want to just download an audio file and listen to that. This site has hundreds, of every subject you can imagine!!

If you’d like to learn how to hypnotise people I provide a completely free course on hypnosis. I talk a little about self hypnosis but the course is mainly about hypnotising other people. You can sign up for free at freehypnosislessons.com

Thank you…. and thank you to Sebastian.

“I see it like a daily vitamin I take to stay mentally and physically healthy.”

Perfect!

Oh… I loved this part too…

“The best part is, I didn't have to pay hundreds to someone else in order to change these negatives in my life... I did it all by myself in the privacy of my own home!”

That’s the REALLY beauty of self hypnosis. It gives you the power to take control of your life and sculpt it the way you want it to be. They really should teach this stuff in schools!!

How long does hypnosis last?

I remember reading a long time ago that the longest experiment for a post hypnotic suggestion (PHS) trigger was 21 years!

So that means that a hypnotist gave somebody a suggestion… such as when you hear this piece of music you’ll start dancing like Madonna… (it wasn't that by the way, that’s just an example, I have no idea what the suggestion was) then… 21 years later, the music was played and the subject started dancing like Madonna!!!

That’s pretty impressive!

I’ve been a stage hypnotist and a hypnotherapist for over 20 years and have used post hypnotic suggestions lots, as all hypnotists do. In therapy you want them to last forever. And I completely believe that they do…. however, there is a caveat:

Why do PHS’s sometimes NOT last forever? 

I think this comes down to a few reasons. But these 3 are probably the most important…

1. The skill of the hypnotist.
2. The Suggestibility of the subject.
3. Conflicting suggestions (This is the important one!)

Conflicting suggestions

Most people spend half of their day in some level of trance. You certainly don’t need a hypnotist for that. Your phone will do. Or the glowing embers of an open fire. Or a boring lecture. Or a good book…. you get the idea.

Anyway, my point is we are often in a suggestible state.
When our minds are open to suggestion, we can accept a command that conflicts with our previous accepted PHS.

Other factors can also influence this. Such as fear, shock, authoritarian figures, peer pressure, social conformity, repetition etc.

Once an idea or belief is accepted at a subconscious level (even if it’s put there by a hypnotist) it can still be changed, without the need of hypnosis. For instance… almost every child believes in Santa Claus. But hardly any adults do. But have you ever heard of anybody that needed to be hypnotised to stop believing?

A “FUTURE LIFE” hypnosis experiment I’d love to do

When I read about the PHS that had been tested over 21 years it got me thinking… is there ANY limit? What about giving a PHS today and not triggering it until the subjects NEXT life?
I was toying with the idea of visiting some pretty sick people and giving them some suggestions that they’d do something when they reach a certain age, in their next life. Like calling up a number to tell me a code I’d given them or something like that.

I didn’t do it. But I was actually considering doing this about 27 years ago when I was 18 and working as a stage hypnotist. So if I had I might already have some results. Damnnnn Procrastination!!!

It would certainly be a very interesting experiment.

In conclusion… I’d say the hypnosis is fascinating. And this is just one area that would be very interesting to experiment with. I love doing off the wall hypnotic experiments and have had a lot of fun with it over the years.

If you’d like to learn hypnosis I can teach you. I provide a completely free course. Pop over to my website at freehypnosislessons.com to see what my students have to say and sign up for my 100% free hypnosis course.

You'll love it. I promise!

P.S. Are you Dying Soon?

If anybody IS about to die, would you be interested in partaking in a little experiment for me? ;)
Thanks!

Oh…. if you'd like to know how long the trace state itself lasts, then that’s a totally different answer. Without guidance, maybe an hour at tops. It’s a bit like feeling snoozy then either going to sleep or getting on with whatever. If a hypnotist hypnotises you and then sneaks off you’ll wake up if you need to pee (or poo!) get bored, get too tired and fall asleep, get distracted or shocked etc. etc. etc.
Think of hypnosis like meditation, it’s hard to stay in a meditative state for a long time. A hypnotist (or hypnotic recording) is like having a coach that helps to keep you in that state by saying the right things. When they’ve gone it’s not easy to stay there for much longer by yourself. Unless you’re a kick-ass monk.