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All hypnosis is self hypnosis. Here are some suggestions that you can try on yourself. In each of the suggestions, use your full imagination into carrying it out. Actually believe that whatever is suggested is really happening while you’re experiencing it.
 
Clasp both hands together and interlock your fingers as if in prayer. Press the palms tightly together. The hands, thus locked together, are extended outward with the muscles of both forearms tightened. The operator may assist the subject, as needed, to find the correct positioning. The muscles in your hands and arms are beginning to tighten. They are getting tighter and tighter.
 
Your muscles are so tight now, your hands are locked together. Concentrate on hands and arms, every muscle is locked rigidly in place, like solid steel. You cannot take your hands apart. In fact, the more you try to take your hands apart, the tighter and more locked together they become. You cannot take them apart, no matter how hard you try. Try and pull them apart. You cannot.
 
Relax. You can take your hands apart now. All of the muscles in your hands and arms are completely relaxed. Relax your hands, they are no longer stuck. You can take them apart now.
 
Stand up, and then to turn around and look at your chair. The chair you were sitting on weighs as much as your car, several thousand pounds. You cannot lift it, no matter how hard you try. Go ahead and try to lift the chair, you can’t lift it. You will struggle in vain to pick up the chair.
 
You are now superman. You possess superhuman strength. The chair becomes very light to you. It weighs only a couple of pounds. You can lift it up easily and effortlessly. Go ahead and lift it up.
 
Sit down. Make sure both feet are flat on the floor and you are seated comfortably. Now place both arms out in front of you with your palms down. A balloon filled with helium is attached to your right wrist. It’s pulling your right arm up. It’s rising up, higher, higher, higher. Your left wrist, however, has a very heavy weight attached to it. The weight is pulling your left arm down, down, down. Open your eyes now and don’t move your arms.
 
This is how all hypnosis works. Can you see the power of suggestion? Imagine what hypnotists could do if they were to take what they use on stage and use it in the real world! They could hypnotize a businessman into becoming more successful, motivated and creative. They could cause patients to recover much faster and even reverse ailing conditions that have been plaguing the person for many years. They could get rid of people’s bad habits and obsessive compulsive disorders caused by negative suggestions that they were induced with in the past.
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Let us take for example, a case of dental hemorrhage. A young lady whom a hypnotist had helped to cure herself of asthma from which she had suffered for eight years, told him one day that she wanted to have a tooth out. As he knew her to be very sensitive, he offered to make her feel nothing of the operation. She naturally accepted with pleasure and they made an appointment with the dentist.
 
On the day they had arranged, they presented ourselves at the dentist’s and, standing opposite his patient, the hypnotist looked fixedly at her, saying “You feel nothing, you feel nothing, etc, etc.” and then while still continuing the suggestion he made a sign to the dentist. In an instant the tooth was out without her turning a hair. As fairly often happens, a hemorrhage followed, but he told the dentist that he would try suggestion without his using a haemostatic, without knowing beforehand what would happen.
 
The hypnotist then asked the lady to look at him fixedly, and suggested to her that in two minutes the hemorrhage would cease of its own accord, and they waited. She spat blood again once or twice, and then ceased. He told her to open her mouth, and he and the dentist looked and found that a clot of blood had formed in the dental cavity.
 
How is this phenomenon to be explained? In the simplest way. Under the influence of the idea: “The hemorrhage is to stop”, the unconscious had sent to the small arteries and veins the order to stop the flow of blood, and, obediently, they contracted naturally, as they would have done artificially at the contact of a haemostatic like adrenalin, for example.
 
The same reasoning explains how a fibrous tumor can be made to disappear. The unconscious having accepted the idea “It is to go” the brain orders the arteries which nourish it, to contract. They do so, refusing their services, and ceasing to nourish the tumor which, deprived of nourishment, dies, dries up, is reabsorbed and disappears.
 
Every condition that exists is the result of a suggestion. The suggestion creates the condition. We can change a condition by conditioning an opposite suggestion into the mind. When the subconscious mind takes a suggestion and runs with it, the corresponding condition will be produced.
 
We are the ones limiting ourselves. We limit ourselves by self limiting suggestions that we have accepted into our subconscious minds. We can free ourselves by freeing our subconscious minds from such suggestions. When we change the suggestion in our minds, we change the condition in our lives.[/hidepost]