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By John Hubert

 Understanding the correlation between hypnosis and anxiety is essential to discovering a cure to this condition. You see hypnosis influences the way our subconscious fundamentally thinks and behave in almost every aspect.

If we apply hypnosis to our subconscious and give it suggestions to overcome anxiety, hypnosis and anxiety can effectively go together in order to create a cure that we might not normally believe to be possible. Whilst one shouldn’t expect a cure in the sense of getting rid of anxiety in its entirety, hypnosis can help treat the condition quite well.

Anxiety is triggered within us usually as a result of having a fear or being nervous of certain situations. As we gain life experience, it is natural to initially be nervous of certain things however later overcome them and see that there’s really no need to worry about them. Anxiety arises when, despite the fact that it makes no sense that we’re nervous of anxious about certain things, we still are.

Hypnosis itself works by guiding our minds into a deep and subconscious slumber, a sleepy state so to speak, whereby we can begin to enact certain changes in the way we behave. If we give ourselves enough positive suggestions then eventually hypnosis can be used to help overcome anxiety, almost in its entirety. Obviously, sticking to a set regimen is obviously important, and initially you may need to devote a fair amount of practice to the techniques. No one is saying that hypnosis will give you immediate results after the first session, even though it does for some people.

Give yourself realistic goals to overcoming your anxiety through hypnosis, make your initial goal to do one session of hypnosis per week, for a period of say several months, and then afterwards assess whether or not your anxiety and its triggers have been reduced. If they have, then obviously the hypnosis techniques you’re using are working, and should be maintained, if not, then perhaps you need to find another way to use anxiety and hypnosis to alleviate your psychological ailments.

Remember that practice makes perfect, as they say, and if you give up your hypnosis sessions initially then you’ll have little help of overcoming your anxiety. Make sure you stick to your plans and if need be, maybe even consider consulting the services of a professionally trained hypnotherapist who will be able to guide you on some of the better ways to use hypnosis and anxiety may very well be a thing of the past in your life. Keep at it, and eventually a cure could be within sight.

John Hubert is a a surveyor and studies various technique of learning hypnotism. He recommends his page ways of using Hypnosis And Anxiety. He runs a website that teaches you how to - Learn Hypnosis.

How To Get Rid Of Social Phobias And Build Self Confidence
By Alan Densky

 Self confidence is a psychological and emotional state of mind that responds to an individual’s need for recognition and self-acceptance. It’s one of the oldest and most studied concepts in psychology. It describes a positive but also realistic perception somebody has of himself or herself and of his or her abilities. Thus, people with self confidence usually have a better idea of what they are able to achieve and will be more likely to be successful in what they attempt. They are able to more easily admit and learn from their failures.

On the contrary, a lack of confidence may deter you from believing your actions or decisions will later work out the way you had planned. It can hence prevent the improvement of executive skills, strategic and management capacities all of which are necessary and mandatory things in today’s business world. The pre-occupation with how others will judge your work can also make you become excessively self-critical, which can distract you from tasks you would have otherwise been perfectly able to do.

Low self confidence will also affect your social life, as people with low self confidence tend to stay in their “comfort zone” and fear the risk of being rejected. This is called social phobia and presents a high degree of co-morbidity with low self confidence, but also other psychological diseases such as depression. People with low self confidence are scared of the judgment of others and will avoid meeting new people, which can result in isolation and even less self confidence. Low self confidence is a vicious circle that is difficult to break.

To the contrary, because they have faith in their own abilities, people with self confidence are able to do what they feel is right and don’t feel the need for the approval of their peers. They are also able to inspire confidence: your boss, employees, customers, friends or relatives are more likely to trust you or what you are telling them if you appear self-confident.

Many experiences can contribute to low self confidence. New research indicates that parenting style has a major impact on the development of the self confidence of a child. Corporal and mental abuses in childhood are for instance the worse for somebody’s self confidence, as well as family conflicts and divorce. Overprotective parents may also contribute to a child’s social phobia and hamper the independence necessary to develop self confidence. Failures and successes, for instance at school or in one’s professional life, also play an important role: losing a job or failing a class are among the numerous experiences that will negatively affect your self confidence.

There are however methods to overcome these bad experiences and increase self confidence. The first step to develop self confidence would be to learn to know yourself and your strengths. Acknowledging the fact that you are allowed not to be perfect and cannot be the best in everything you do will help you gain self confidence. Accepting yourself as you are is the key to gaining self confidence. But improving self confidence also requires that you start taking risks and giving yourself credit for your achievements. This is very simple advice which will help you build self confidence. You might also find several books which will claim they can help you gain self confidence, however not all of them are reliable.

Many people have low self confidence or are only capable of gaining self confidence in one or a certain number of areas of their lives because they constantly try to get other people’s approval and are afraid that they could fail. Many factors, such as childhood traumas, can explain why some people cannot have the wholesome life of a self confident person. Such persons also do not always know how to gain self confidence. But improving self confidence can now easily and effectively be done thanks to hypnosis and NLP.

As we have seen social phobia and low self confidence can be triggered by bad experiences or unconscious fears that may be difficult to overcome through self persuasion only. Confidence hypnosis and NLP on the other hand are able to get to the unconscious part of our mind and alter belief systems to boost self confidence. They are powerful tools that will help you address your fears and trust yourself to develop self confidence.

Self-Hypnosis for building self-confidence has been used for a few decades and has shown significant results in building self confidence. In a hypnotic state, reaching unconscious thoughts is a lot easier and, through hypnotic suggestion, you will be able to replace your negative thought patterns with positive ones to boost self confidence.

Alan B. Densky is a hypnotherapist and NLP Practitioner. He offers hypnosis CD’s for social phobias and self confidence. His hypnosis for self confidence CD’s were reviewed by independents in the UK. Visit his Neuro-VISION self hypnosis site to watch free hypnosis videos.

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The Key To Learn Self Hypnosis
By John Hubert

 One of the keys to try and learn self hypnosis is to understand that theory of mind. Basically our mind is divided up into two distinct portions, the subconscious and the conscious mind. Separating these two portions is what’s known as the ‘critical mind’.

The critical mind is the part of our mind that analyzes information and determines whether or not it should be passed into our subconscious. Since we can’t actively think with our subconscious (if we did, we’d be consciously thinking of the thought, hence they would no longer be in our subconscious), any thoughts that enter into it will normally play upon our minds without us being aware of it.

Some of these thoughts can be positive, such as thoughts associated with confidence and the ego to an acceptable level, however some of the thoughts can also be negative, such as those which cause us to pick up bad habits and addictions like excessive eating or smoking addiction. Even alcoholism is a problem that is associated with addiction that we can’t easily get rid of.

So what self hypnosis allows us to do, is dive down into our subconscious and perform hypnosis upon it, causing it to change its fundamental thought structure and patterns and replace them with more positive, useful thoughts. If we have a negative thought for example that is associated with eating, and we want to use hypnosis for weight loss, then we may give ourselves a suggestion such as ‘I will be confident with myself without feeling the need to eat’. This will subconsciously plant the thought that you are quite capable of living a happy, fulfilling and confident life without the need to be stuffing yourself with pastries.

As you delve deeper into the hypnosis state, you may enter into various stages known as the hypnoidal, cataleptic and finally the state of somnambulism. When we’re in somnambulism, we often experience a form of temporary amnesia. That is to say that we forget a lot of what happens whilst we’re in the hypnotic state. For this reason it might be an idea to seek the services of a hypnotherapist to guide appropriate suggestions into our subconscious, as often if we go into hypnosis too deeply, it becomes harder to give ourself positive, affirmations and suggestions.

So if you want to learn self hypnosis, then by all means, find an online course that you believe is suitable for your needs. If however you’d rather just practice self hypnosis for your own benefit then why not try finding the services of an appropriately trained hypnotherapist first, before embarking upon your journey to learn hypnosis? Whatever you decide, know that if you apply the principles you’re taught, you can use hypnosis in your every day life to help you immensely.

The author is a hypnotist and runs a site called Learn Self Hypnosis. He also recommends the blog on How To Learn Hypnosis For The Self.

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