| Chapter 1 You Are Getting Sleepy 1 -- Mystique of Hypnosis 2 -- Development of Hypnosis in the Twentieth Century 3 -- Trance States 5 -- Hypnosis Concerns 6 -- Suggestibility Tests 7 -- Stage Hypnosis 10 -- Hypnosis Inductions 11 -- A Relaxation Exercise 12 -- Chapter 2 Your Mental Makeup 17 -- Mind Is Like a Computer 18 -- Sense of Sight 18 -- Sense of Hearing 20 -- Sense of Touch 21 -- Sense of Taste 22 -- Sense of Smell 23 -- Importance of Sensory Imagery 24 -- Relaxation Exercise 27 -- Chapter 3 Your Conscious and Unconscious 29 -- Conscious and Unconscious 30 -- Communication and Storage 31 -- Time Zones of the Mind 31 -- Recalling the Past 32 -- Projecting into the Future 33 -- Living in the Present 37 -- Flooding Technique 39 -- Sleep on It 41 -- Universal Consciousness 42 -- Chapter 4 Instant Hypnosis 43 -- External and Internal Influences 44 -- Posthypnotic Suggestions 45 -- Self-Hypnotic Anchors 46 -- Recognize Negative Anchors 47 -- Develop Positive Anchors 48 -- Benefits of Instant Self-Hypnosis 49 -- Automatic Response Exercises 50 -- Surround Yourself with External Anchors 53 -- Chapter 5 Building a Model for Change 57 -- Thinking Models 58 -- What Works for You? 58 -- What Is Your Comfort Zone? 62 -- What Doesn't Work for You? 63 -- Comparing Negative and Positive Models 64 -- Other Self-Hypnosis Tools 65 -- Big Picture, Little Picture 67 -- Permission to Treat Yourself Positively 69 -- Chapter 6 Changing a Bad Habit 71 -- Identifying Your Habits 73 -- Reasons to Change a Habit 75 -- Imagine Yourself without the Habit 77 -- Ecology Check 80 -- Installing the Change 80 -- Reinforcing the Change 81 -- A Case Study: Changing a Habit 82 -- Chapter 7 Hypnosis and Stress 85 -- Effects of Stress 86 -- Internal and External Stress 89 -- Identifying Stress 90 -- Resolving Stress 92 -- Unresolved Past Stress 95 -- Current Stress 96 -- Future Stress 97 -- Keeping Stress Under Control 97 -- Chapter 8 Stop Smoking with Hypnosis 99 -- History of Tobacco 100 -- Addiction 100 -- Word Quit 101 -- Benefits of a Smoking Lifestyle 102 -- What Do You Dislike about Smoking? 103 -- Going Back to the Roots 104 -- Begin to Change Your Habit 105 -- Model for Change 108 -- Chapter 9 Weight Loss 111 -- Word Diet 112 -- Eating Trance 112 -- Examine Your Eating Habits 113 -- Who Controls the Food You Eat? 114 -- Understand the Food You Eat 115 -- Reframe Your Eating Habits 119 -- Balance Your Mind, Body, and Soul 122 -- Chapter 10 Improving Your Health 123 -- Establish Your Wellness Habit 124 -- Hypnosis and Pain Control 127 -- Hypnosis and Surgery 130 -- Depth Testing 132 -- Hypnosis and Oncology 134 -- Hypnosis and Other Areas of Medicine 134 -- Chapter 11 Overcoming a Fear or Phobia 137 -- Social Phobias 138 -- Specific Phobias 138 -- Phobia Habit 139 -- Roots of a Phobia 140 -- Resolving a Phobia 144 -- Cognitive Behavior Therapy 144 -- Interrupting the Phobic Trance 146 -- Benefits of Fear 147 -- Chapter 12 Improving Your Sports Performance 149 -- Hypnosis and Sports Psychology 150 -- Working with Your Natural Abilities 151 -- Your Mental Makeup 152 -- Self-Hypnotic Imagery Relaxation Exercise 154 -- Self-Hypnosis Mental Training Model 157 -- Make a Habit of Mental Training 159 -- In the Sports Zone 161 -- Chapter 13 Developing Your Creative Abilities 163 -- Creativity: A Gift or a Curse? 164 -- What Are Your Talents? 164 -- Your Creative Strengths 166 -- Your Creative Weaknesses 169 -- Develop Your Creative Gifts 170 -- Where Does Creativity Come From? 172 -- Enhance Your Creativity 174 -- Strike a Balance 175 -- Chapter 14 Becoming a Better Student 177 -- How Do You Know What You Know? 178 -- Learning Environment 181 -- Parent's Role in Learning 183 -- Teacher's Role in Learning 184 -- Student's Role in Learning 185 -- Self-Hypnotic Learning Trance 186 -- Chapter 15 Hypnosis and Work 189 -- Hypnosis at Work for You 190 -- Mental Makeup of Others 191 -- Working with Other People 194 -- Self-Hypnosis and Your Work 195 -- A Career Is Not Just a Job 198 -- Self-Hypnosis and Career Goals 199 -- Using the Imagery of Hypnosis at Work 200 -- Chapter 16 Improving Your Personal Relationships 203 -- Sailing the Waters of Life 204 -- Family Relationships 205 -- Clean Up the Clutter 206 -- Social Relationships 208 -- Rejection of Human Relationships 209 -- Your Soul Mate 210 -- Understanding Relationships 212 -- Self-Hypnosis for a Balanced Relationship 214 -- Chapter 17 Understanding Your Past Lives 217 -- Do You Believe in Past Lives? 218 -- Influences of Past Life Soul Memories 220 -- Childhood Memories 222 -- Cycles of Souls and Karma 223 -- Past Life Regressions 223 -- Deepening the Past Life Regression 225 -- Chapter 18 Increasing Your Psychic Ability 229 -- Psychics Through History 230 -- Who Is Psychic? 231 -- Psychic Ability and the Senses 233 -- Psychic Trance Tools 235 -- Receiving Information 236 -- Past, Present, and Future 236 -- What to Do with Too Much Information 237 -- Recognizing Your Psychic Trances 238 -- White-Light Psychic Trance 239 -- Chapter 19 Writing Your Own Hypnosis Scripts 243 -- Hypnosis Scripts 244 -- Scripting Your Goal 247 -- Connecting with Guides, Angels, or Universal Mind 250 -- Scripts for Pain Control and Stress Relief 250 -- Scripts for the Universal Mind 251 -- Scripts for Your Life's Work 252 -- Past Life Scripts 253 -- Continual Scripts 253 -- Chapter 20 Hypnosis: A Way of Life 255 -- Everything Hypnosis 256 -- River of Life Self-Hypnosis Meditation 260 -- You Are Now a Self-Hypnotist 263 -- Should You Hypnotize Others? 263 -- Hypnosis Is a Lifelong Study 264 -- Just Imagine 265. |
