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