This is an excellent audiobook for anyone hoping to make a change in their lives, habits, or simply to achieve greater relaxation. Topics: limb (issues you can see like overeating), trunk (make issues worse like increased stress equals more eating), Root (what you can't see like lack of self-worth) Brain: Reptilian (posture), limbic (anxiety) and neocortex (learn new language) People who engage in hypnosis regularly are 32% happier, 29% more content and 27% more satisfied, also 51.5% less likely to procrastinate 1958 is the year hypnotherapy became a certified holistic health practice Journey of Souls by Michael Newton - a recommended book about past life regressions After 6 sessions talk therapy has a 78% success rate while hypnosis has a 93% rate you can listen to a hypnosis track while you sleep and it will have the same effect as when awake 1/3 of our developed habits are in direct rebellion against our parents and 2/3 reflect our parents I also really enjoyed the self-hypnosis audio accompaniment readily available online! Nice touch. This book was a great introduction to demystifying hypnosis. If I was totally new to hypnosis, and started experimenting with the techniques in the book, I might be disappointed. I have used many other recordings on her "Gracespace" website and app and I find the ones that have longer relaxation set ups and use more story and imagery to be much more effective. They are relatively short sessions and they seem to be mostly driven by hypno-affirmations. However, my only caveat is that the self-hypnosis exercises in the book do not work for me. The book is a good primer because she explains the history and science of hypnosis, and I know that it is probably unfamiliar to most people. I am giving her book four stars because I support what she is doing and I encourage people to try hypnosis if they are struggling with habits and/or anxiety. And not only did I find Grace to be a pleasure to work with, I was also accidentally hypnotized! So I know that her techniques work! Not exactly bad if you don't know the first basic thing about meditation, and if you're the kind of person who enjoys ending meditation sessions by fist-pumping the air and yelling "YES!!!" (yet another specific instruction from the book), but utterly useless if either of these things don't apply to you.įull disclosure: I was the field producer on the Doctors shoot Grace refers to in the book. It then gets further points off for all the "hypnotic suggestions" at the end of each chapter being silly nonsense straight out of a Saturday Night Live Stuart Smalley sketch (believe me, there's no way on Earth you're ever going to hear me saying to myself, "Every day and in every way, I am more and more proud of myself"), and in general just padding the manuscript out by delving into a bunch of specific topics (depression, addiction, work-related stress) that may or may not apply to you. That's not so bad when divorced from context, but the reason I'm giving it a low score is because I already know how to meditate, and picked up this book hoping to learn how to put myself into the kind of deeply suggestive subconscious state that people get into when hypnotized by an outside trained professional, which Smith basically admits in this book is impossible if you're an amateur doing it to yourself. Even Grace Smith admits in the introduction of Close Your Eyes, Get Free that self-hypnosis is little more than "meditation with a goal " and that's exactly what this book reads like, just another generic guide to meditation that just happens to also include New Agey affirmations you're supposed to tell yourself while meditating.
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