Five Positive Ways Self-Hypnosis Can Shift Your Outlook On Life

To be able to handle the day-to-day pressures and stressors of life, and to learn, contribute and realise your potential, it's important to maintain good mental health and wellbeing. Self-hypnosis is an effective tool that anyone can use to manage emotions, deal with challenges, and positively shift perspective and outlook.

What is self-hypnosis?

Self-hypnosis is a complementary therapy that combines relaxation techniques and focused awareness to achieve a state of calm that invites introspection. The natural trance-like state opens your mind to suggestion, via access to your subconscious.

Self-hypnosis can help you reduce stress and anxiety, overcome limiting beliefs, and empower you to create positive changes in your life.

Self-hypnosis how to:

Sit on a comfortable chair, with your feet firmly placed on the floor.

Close you eyes, and take a few long, slow and deep breaths. Acknowledge any tension in your body and imagine it releasing with every breath.

If random thoughts begin to intrude, pay them no attention. Let them effortlessly float through your mind and disappear. Visualise yourself exploring your happy place, and enjoying feelings of serenity, joy and bliss, as you engage all your senses and connect with your physical environment.

It can be helpful to repeat a phrase like: “I am in a deeply relaxed state, and I control my consciousness and experience”, to give your mind and body permission to relax.

Once you're feeling totally relaxed, you'll be ready to explore mind control.

How self-hypnosis can benefit your life:

1. Minimise stress and anxiety

If you suffer from stress and anxiety, self-hypnosis can help you manage triggers, and to gradually identify the core of your trauma. Anxiety and panic attacks, burn-out, anger, rage, obsessive thoughts and other debilitating side-effects of stress can be managed and reduced by shifting your outlook on life with the drug-free solution of self-hypnosis.

When you're in a self-hypnosis trance state, tailor your affirmation to the specific issue that you want to release or flip. A simple affirmation that's repeated over and over again, while in a state of deep relaxation, is a powerful way to reinforce positive thoughts. Reaffirm the simple mantra of “I am safe and calm” (or your chosen words) for as long as you need to, to make the intense debilitating feelings melt away.

2. Quit unhealthy habits

Self-hypnoisis works particularly well, if you want to quit bad habits like smoking or over eating. Daily self-hypnosis practice can motivate you to commit to working towards a goal, and offer an effective way of coping with withdrawal.

Using focused relaxation techniques you can modify your behaviour, and change your current views about your habit. By re-educating your subconscious mind you can establish a healthy relationship with food or replace smoking with a new habit that promotes good health and wellbeing.

Visualise yourself enjoying life that is happy and filled with habits that support your wellbeing. Picture a scene in great detail, engaging all of your senses. Affirm your goal – “I no longer crave cigarettes” (or whatever it is) – and repeat over and over again.

Focusing on how good you feel quitting the habit, creates a memory that you can revisit when you next find yourself habitually reaching for a cigarette or vape.

3. Let go of fear

Phobias and fears can stop you from experiencing life to the fullest. Whether you have a common phobia of creepy crawlies, heights or flying, or it's an emotional fear of abandonment or rejection that negatively impacts on your outlook on life, self-hypnosis can successfully identify the core issue and permanently release it.

While a deep-seated fear may require a visit to a professional qualified hypnotherapist, you can still benefit from shifting your outlook on life with self-hypnosis practice. Use the effective techniques to help you overcome the intense emotions that are commonly triggered when you feel fearful in any situation. Letting go of fear is a positive step towards personal growth.

4. Manage physical pain

Being in a hypnotic state can relieve minor physical pain. Talking to your body while under self-hypnosis can trigger natural healing that reduces pain associated with chronic conditions like lower back pain and IBS, and swelling, inflammation or blistering.

Relax your nervous system and alter pain perception levels by visualising your body in perfect health, while repeating positive affirmations that support your new outlook and beliefs.

5. Become more confident

If you long to be more confident, assertive and outgoing, self-hypnosis can certainly give your most positive personality traits a boost. Affirming empowering statements about yourself while in a meditative state will create a shift in self-belief, self-esteem and energy vibration.

Build a positive self-image by tapping into self-hypnosis to identify the root of your self-beliefs. You can then reframe and swap negative beliefs for positive ones that acknowledge your awesomeness.

A psychic reading can also help you identify other aspects of your life that could benefit from a self-hypnosis outlook shift.