Self-Hypnosis CD’s – Do They Work?

March 21, 2011 by moi 

Hypnosis CDs carry instructions for entering trance, along with a prepared script to help the peaceful listener achieve their own goals. Generally, these scripted instructions have the goal of helping the listener manage or resolve familiar troubles. These include addictions like smoking, or things like   weight loss , pain reduction, self-improvement and relief of anxiety .

In a proper hypnotic therapy session conducted in person by licensed mental health and medical professionals, the hypnotic induction and conversation are personalized to the needs and goals of the particular patient. In my own practice, for example, I assemble the induction to match the style of the person I’m attempting to treat . The “script” is matched to their own goals and the words and phrases I choose often include images from the patient’s own speech .

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I record all my hypnotic work and send the audio files to the patient the following day. So, the individual in hypnotic psychotherapy sessions can listen to the session again . They can also, and this is vital, use the tones of my voice and the experience of trance to interrupt the growth of the problems they’re suffering from . Everything from smoking to anxiety benefit from this available treatment, used as needed, and in the amounts useful to the patient.

For my own CDs, like The Hypnosis Experience, or, Preparing for Uncertainty, for example, I built the hypnotic conversation from real and spontaneous sessions with patients as well as from teaching workshops for colleagues. They were not just “invented” while sitting at home. This verisimilitude, this lifelikeness , makes the CD’s very much like face-to-face sessions in tone, pacing , content, effect..

A reviewer wrote :

“The programs work for hypnotherapy novices or experienced subjects….The discs could be sent home with clients for practice and growth .  The clinician could use them that way, too.”

The unique sense of the person listening to a CD is helped by the relationship with the hypnotherapist. CD’s that encourage this relationship are more effective than those that are uninteresting or robotic to a listener. So much of the usefulness of hypnosis lies with the listener’s response to the story of the trance. find hypnotherapist

Here’s what one person said :

“At your recorded instruction I began to take your words as a medicine, going to the hurt places and it helped all of me function easily , at my own pace .  I was astonished!  I felt good everywhere and have had no ill effects ever since .  If I feel bad later I’ll just listen to you again.”

What makes a hypnotic session on CD different than listening to a good story? Here’s where hypnotic trance comes in!  Hypnotic conversation reaches a person’s unconscious mind, and the good effects of reaching your goals are often arrived at outside your conscious mind’s skepticism and scrutiny of all that you do.

The reviewer wrote this:

“I use and teach this material, and I approached the CDs with the intent of listening critically, without giving myself over to the experience of trance.  Even so my (conscious) remembrance of listening is often cloudy and sometimes even absent . Had I not taken notes , I wouldn’t have been able to write this review.”

Just judging by my own experience, through patient feedback and reviews, I can firmly state that hypnosis therapy CD’s, when taken from an individualized, tailored approach , can have a extraordinary effect on the individual listener going through the treatment. 

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