Easy Self Hypnosis Techniques - How to Hypnotize Yourself and Others

At its most basic, hypnosis is just a controlled day dream. Sure, it goes deeper than that, which is where using hypnosis techniques comes in. These techniques don't have to be complicated. In fact, it's often the simplest techniques that work best.The first thing to learn is how to induce a hypnotic trance. This is the state which to the untrained eye looks as though someone is actually sleeping whereas they're really just in a very relaxed state. The tips below assume you're working on someone else but you can easily record them and use them on yourself if you prefer.There are lots of different ways to induce a state of hypnosis. I find the easiest is to get your subject to take in a deep breath and then slowly exhale. Do this several times and you'll see whoever you're trying to trance out visibly relax. Then get your subject to close their eyes.The next step is to deepen the trance. At this stage, it will be quite light and easily broken. I get the person I'm hypnotizing to imagine that they're in a clearing in a forest. I ask them to notice the grass beneath their feet, listen to the birds singing, notice how the light plays through the trees in the clearing, hear a stream bubbling along.Once that's been done, I direct them to a series of steps that they've just noticed at the edge of the clearing.There are ten of these steps and I tell my hypnotic subject that each step will take them deeper into their hypnotic trance. And I then count them down the steps, reinforcing the idea of them going deeper and deeper into trance with every step downwards.Once your subject reaches the bottom step, it's time to start planting the actual hypnotic commands that you want to use. These could be absolutely anything, depending on what you're trying to achieve. So the commands could be to be more attentive to the food they're eating if the objective is weight loss - making sure that your subject doesn't just eat on auto-pilot. Or you could use a replacement for the pleasure they get from smoking cigarettes.Whatever the purpose of the session, make sure that any commands you plant in your subject's mind are phrased positively.Then the final hypnotic technique before you count them out of their trance is to get them to visualize how good things will be in the future once the hypnosis has taken effect.