Beschreibung (Langtext)

Self-Hypnosis For Dummies is a hands-on guide to achieving your goals using hypnosis. Whether you want to lose weight, overcome anxiety or phobias, cure insomnia, stop smoking, or simply stop biting your nails, this guide has it covered! The reassuring and straight-talking information will help you harness the power of your mind and re-train your subconscious to think in more healthy and constructive ways, and to overcome specific issues, such as anxiety and paranoia, and break bad habits, such as smoking. The easy-to-follow style will guide you through every step of the process, empowering you to take control and start making changes right away.
 
Self-Hypnosis For Dummies includes:
 
PART I: Identifying your needs and preparing the way
 
Chapter 1: What is Hypnosis?
 
Chapter 2: Getting Your Mind and body working together
 
Chapter 3: Using Hypnosis to Achieve Your Goals
 

PART II: Harnessing the power of your mind
 
Chapter 4: Analysing your unconscious mind
 
Chapter 5: Resisting resistance and avoiding relapse
 
Chapter 6: Countering your conscious critic
 

PART III: Approaching self hypnosis
 
Chapter 7: Entering a hypnotic trance with traditional self hypnosis
 
Chapter 8: Working with words: becoming your own recording star
 
Chapter 9: Consciously directing your unconscious
 
Chapter 10: Using unconscious self hypnosis
 

PART IV: Using Hypnosis to Overcome Problems
 
Chapter 11: Putting paid to panic and Anxiety, Phobias and Fear
 
Chapter 12: Signing up to self-esteem
 
Chapter 13: Stabbing away at your pain
 
Chapter 14: Ironing out anger
 
Chapter 15: Overcoming Insomnia
 

PART V: Learning to Love a Healthy Lifestyle
 
Chapter 16: Puffing away your smoking
 
Chapter 17: Drinking in healthy drinking
 
Chapter 19: Chewing away at your eating
 
Chapter 19: Fostering good relationships
 

PART VI: The Part of Tens
 
Chapter 20: Ten creative ways to enter trance
 
Chapter 21: Ten reasons why you are in trance
 
Chapter 22: Ten reasons to visit a hypnotherapist or a doctor
 
APPENDIX: Hypnotherapy Resources