Hypnosis - Anyone tried it?
 

I have always been fascinated with hypnosis, and like the idea of going under it to work on my motivation and self-confidence. I'm curious if any TFPer has gone under hypnosis and, if so, what their results were. Also, if you know of any good books or sites on the subject, I would appreciate knowing that as well. Thanks.

I personally have never been under hypnosis, but I know a few people that have. They have told me it was a dreamy state and when they got out of it, they felt like that had slept 8 hours.

I believe hynosis can never make you do something out of nature. It only helps you realize your nature more.

For instance if you're a really motivated person, but currently are not motivated, hypnosis might be able to help you identify the source of your anti-motivation. It will help you eliminate that and you'll regain motivation. However, if you are innately unmotivated, it probably wouldn't do much good.

My brother went for hypnosis to quit smoking. It actually worked for almost a year, but his wife smokes and he smokes pot....so smoking cigarettes again seemed like an inevitability.

http://www.warpmymind.com/
I found that in tilted paranoia yesterday. It's pretty cool.. the relaxation tape worked, I think. put me into a trance, like he said he would, in the tape.

I'm afraid to listen to those.

In particular, the instant urination one.

Yeah some of them sound pretty scary. i'm listening to the stop procrastination one, but I can't get into trance state. Maybe i'll try a few intro ones first.

I've tried it 4 or 5 times for health reasons. Did not work for me, I kept wanting to laugh at various times.

I bought a book and a cd-rom on how to hypnotize someone, but hasn't worked yet. I'll try some of those from that site and see what happens.

I tried it once and nothing happened. The woman said that, in her 20 years of doing hypnosis, she could count the number of people she couldn't hypnotize on the fingers of one hand - but I was one of them.

On the plus side - she gave me my money back.

I've been hypnotized many times during psychotherapy and it has worked well for me, esp. in the treatment of panic attacks. I went initially to quit smoking (it worked well). My therapist, Helen, used it on me for regression to deal with childhood problems (abuse & abandonement) and other family issues. It was very effective because I trusted her completely and she is a licensed professional. I got over some serious fears and felt healed & able to forget what a 'panic attack' felt like. They used to keep me from being able to function normally.

The best part is when you finish a session, you feel like you are awaking from a deep peaceful sleep and you are so well rested, happy & relaxed. I didn't even remember the abuse activities but apparently I described it to Helen clear enough under hypnosis -that this information helped her treat my problems accurately. Good stuff.

So
take a deep breath
and
listen to the sound of my voice....close your eyes....

Someone once told me that the more you believe that you cannot be hypnotized the easier it is for someone to accomplish it. I don't know if it's true but I think I'd like to avoid someone trying unless I know I can completely trust them.

Stompy: do the relaxation one first, it'll help put you in a trance state.

does anyone know whether the hypnosis files on that site actually work?

My uncle went to one of those "mass-hypnosis" sessions they hold in a hotel lobby in order to stop smoking. Over two years later, he's still smoke free. My father and step-mother, encouraged by his success, went to one about a year later. It's actually been over a year now, and they are still smoke free too.

I'm curious - how do people who go through the hypnosis to stop smoking deal with the physical symptoms of withdrawel. I can't imagine the hypnosis helping that. The first time my brother tried stopping he dealt with stomach upset and coughed up so much black it drove him crazy. It was partly (not completely) the withdrawel symptoms that drove him to start again.

A bunch of guys from my High School (when I was still in it) got hypnotized on our Senior overnight. It was pretty funny. The lady had them doing all kinds of crazy stuff.

I remember one of the kid's dad was all uptight about his kid being hypnotized and he was like, "if someone says this to him is he going to do what he did?"

I heard that in order to be hypnotized, you have to want it to happen. Even though I'd want to believe that it could work, I think I'd still be skeptical in the back of my head. I'd be interested in trying it, though.

We've done self-hypnosis.
It can be learned and you can make tapes to put yourself into a hypnotic state.

It works with practice. It's worth the effort. We used it for general well-being and positive reinforcement.

Same thing happened just a few days ago. The guy had a couple people going but a cojple others were faking and acted the entire time. The hypnotist just had the people thinking they were hot, then cold, then naked, and various stuff.