The Complete Idiot's Guide to Hypnosis, 2nd Edition,9781592572717

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Hypnosis, 2nd Edition

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9781592572717
ISBN10: 1592572715
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Pub. Date: 2004-09-30
Publisher(s): Alpha
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Summary

Want to kick a habit or a field goal?... The secrets in this book will improve your game and your life.” —Bob Reese, Peak Performance SpecialistFrom treating cigarette addictions to losing weight, from setting career goals to getting a good night’s sleep, this updated second edition by noted psychologist and hypnotherapist Roberta Temes shows how to use hypnosis responsibly to improve one’s quality of life. Includes updated step-by-step instructions for self-hypnosis, plus clear explanations of what hypnosis is and how it works, tips for finding a reputable hypnotherapist, tips on solving problems in one’s love life, career, health, and more. • First edition is the bestselling book on hypnosis on the market • Revised and updated with more thorough step-by-step instructions for self- hypnosis

Author Biography

Roberta Temes, Ph.D., is a clinical assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at the SUNY Health Science Center in Brooklyn, New York. An author and frequent TV guest, she is editor of the first medical school textbook on hypnosis.

Table of Contents

Part 1: What Is Hypnosis?
1(54)
Hind Over Matter
3(14)
Why Would I Want to Be Hypnotized?
4(1)
Hypnosis Can Help You Have Better Health
4(1)
What Exactly Is Hypnosis, Anyway?
5(2)
Hypnosis Is Not Meditation
5(1)
Hypnosis Is Not Psychotherapy
5(1)
Hypnosis Is Not Relaxation
6(1)
Hypnosis Is Not Sleep
6(1)
Hypnosis Is a Tool
7(1)
Can I Be Hypnotized?
7(2)
Still Unsure If You Can Be Hypnotized?
9(1)
Who Cares How Hypnotizable I Am?
10(1)
How Does Hypnosis Work?
10(1)
Reframing: Making Old Pictures New
11(2)
Take This Quiz
13(4)
How Hypnotizable Are You?
13(1)
Scoring Instructions
14(3)
You Are in a Trance
17(10)
What Does It Feel Like to Be Hypnotized?
17(3)
Vanity, Vanity
20(2)
What Will I Look Like While I'm ``Under''?
20(1)
What Will I Say While I'm ``Under''?
20(1)
What Will I Do While I'm ``Under''?
21(1)
What If I Get Stuck in a Trance?
22(1)
How Long Do Suggestions Last?
22(1)
How Often Will I Be Tempted to Resume This Behavior?
23(1)
How Often Will Others Tempt Me to Resume This Behavior?
23(1)
Is Your Hypnotist a Good Communicator?
23(1)
Is Your Hypnotist Using the Right Technique for You?
24(1)
How Will I Know If It Took?
25(2)
Look into My Eyes
27(14)
Welcome to Hypnosis
27(1)
You Are Going Under
28(2)
Staying Under
30(1)
Coming Out of It
31(1)
The Hypnosis Session
32(7)
Interview
33(1)
Writing the Script
33(1)
Induction
33(2)
Deepening
35(1)
Hallucinations
35(2)
Reading the Script
37(1)
Familiar Words
38(1)
Forced Choice
39(1)
Posthypnotic Suggestions
39(1)
Reawakening
40(1)
Strange Things Are Happening
41(14)
Seeing the Future
42(3)
Examining the Past
45(4)
Undoing Trauma
45(2)
Remembering Forgotten Feelings
47(1)
Crossing the Affect Bridge
48(1)
Here and There
49(1)
Hallucinations
50(1)
It's What Time?
51(1)
Freeze!
51(1)
Finger Talking
52(1)
No Feelings
53(2)
Part 2: You're On Your Own
55(42)
The Value of Self-Hypnosis
57(10)
It's Not Magic
57(1)
The Truth About Hypnotizing Yourself
58(1)
Some Bad News
58(1)
Hypnotizing Your Friends
58(4)
Hands Up
58(1)
Speak to Your Fans
59(1)
Teeny, Tiny Movements
60(2)
Strong Thoughts
62(1)
Experts Speak
62(1)
Docs Do It
63(2)
Naomi Sarna
63(1)
Karen Olness
63(1)
Marc Oster
64(1)
Chris Haskins
64(1)
Paul Gustafson
64(1)
Interview Yourself
65(2)
Do-It-Yourself Inductions
67(14)
Why Do It Yourself?
67(3)
Calm in a Jiffy
68(1)
Enhance the Session You Had
68(1)
Where Do I Go?
69(1)
Your Price Is Right
69(1)
A Little Boost
69(1)
How Talented Are You?
70(1)
When Not to Do It Yourself
70(2)
Relationship Problems
71(1)
Emotional Illness
71(1)
Practice Makes Perfect
72(1)
Hidden Memories
72(1)
Other Treatments
72(1)
Self-Hypnosis Success
72(1)
Do You Want to Stop Your Habit?
72(1)
Just a Few Words
73(1)
Getting Ready to Do It
73(2)
Homework
73(1)
Setting Up
74(1)
Beginning the Induction
75(1)
Were You Hypnotized?
76(1)
Awakening
76(1)
Variations
76(2)
A Staircase
77(1)
A Scene of Nature
77(1)
Eye Movements
77(1)
Deepening
78(1)
Need More Proof?
78(1)
Glued Fingers
78(1)
Heavy Arm
79(1)
Progressive Relaxation
79(1)
Practice, Practice, Practice
80(1)
Before the Suggestions
80(1)
Giving Yourself Suggestions
81(16)
Sentences, Scripts, and Stories
81(1)
Sentences
82(3)
How to Build a One-Sentence Suggestion
82(2)
Your Turn
84(1)
Eyes Open
85(1)
Scripts
86(5)
What's Your Problem?
87(1)
Steps to the Solution
88(1)
Visualizing
88(1)
Details, Details
89(1)
Reawakening
89(1)
Your Turn
90(1)
Stories
91(1)
A Metaphoric Story
92(1)
What About Tapes?
93(2)
Making Your Own Tape
94(1)
The Value of Self-Hypnosis
95(2)
Part 3: The Healthy You
97(70)
You Are Feeling Sleepy
99(10)
Why Can't You Sleep?
99(2)
Is It Insomnia?
101(1)
News from the Sleep Labs
101(2)
Sleep Hygiene
101(2)
Hypnosis to the Rescue
103(3)
Visualizations
103(1)
Establishing a Bedtime Ritual
104(1)
Suggestions
104(1)
Literally Speaking
105(1)
Imagery
105(1)
Hypnosis for Nightmares
106(1)
Creating Your Personalized Sleep Script
107(2)
You Don't Want Dessert
109(14)
You and Your Genes
109(2)
The Skinny on Fat
111(2)
Habits, Habits, Habits
113(4)
Habit Pairs
115(1)
Eating When You Are Not Hungry
116(1)
Think Like a Thin Person
116(1)
Getting with the Program
117(2)
Portion Control
118(1)
Eating Like a Thin Person
118(1)
Your Personalized Weight-Loss Script
119(1)
Do-It-Yourself
120(1)
Alternate Activities
120(2)
Make a List
121(1)
What About Exercise?
121(1)
Visualizations
122(1)
A Trance a Day Keeps Cigarettes Away
123(14)
You and Your Nicotine
123(2)
Self-Medication
125(2)
Getting Ready to Quit
127(2)
Gradually Cutting Down
128(1)
Tracking Your Smoking
128(1)
Cold Turkey
129(3)
Distractions
129(2)
The Patch
131(1)
Acupuncture
131(1)
Aversion
132(1)
Your Plan
132(1)
Writing a Script Just for You
133(1)
Do-It-Yourself
134(3)
Hypnosis to Stop Drinking and Drugging
137(16)
Fred and Carol, Anthony and Tina
138(5)
Fred
138(2)
Carol
140(1)
Anthony
141(1)
Tina
142(1)
Triggers
143(1)
Hypnotic Techniques for Substance Abusers
144(2)
Audiotapes
145(1)
Age Regression
145(1)
Age Progression
146(1)
Hard Drugs
146(2)
The Power of Alcohol
148(1)
Higher Powers and Powerful Hires: AA and Hypnosis
149(1)
Hypnosis for Addiction Prevention
150(1)
Do-It-Yourself
151(2)
Nail-Biting and Other Nasty Habits
153(14)
Habits, Habits, Habits
154(1)
The Worry Habit
155(1)
Your Worry Pathway
156(2)
The Phobia Habit
158(2)
Hair-Pulling
160(1)
Nail-Biting
161(1)
Literally Speaking
161(1)
Do-It-Yourself
162(1)
More Habits
162(1)
Developing the Exercise Habit
163(1)
Indirect Suggestions
163(1)
Habit Pair
164(1)
Writing Your Personal Habit Script
164(3)
Part 4: The New You
167(82)
Learning to Spell While Under the Spell
169(14)
How Do You Learn?
170(1)
Hypnotic Suggestions for Your Learning Style
171(2)
The Kinesthetic Learner
171(1)
The Visual Learner
172(1)
The Linguistic Learner
172(1)
Tests
173(3)
Studying
173(1)
Staying Calm
174(2)
Classmates
176(4)
Who Took the Grater?
176(1)
Stop That Teasing!
177(1)
The Unspeakable
178(2)
Talking to Teachers
180(3)
Wide-Eyed at Work
183(14)
Getting the Job
184(2)
Keeping the Job
186(2)
Public Speaking
188(1)
Enjoying Yourself at Work
189(5)
Writer's Block
190(2)
Dancer's Droop
192(2)
Getting Along with Your Co-Workers
194(3)
Having Fun Automatically
197(12)
Friendships
197(5)
Making Friends
198(3)
Keeping Friends
201(1)
Social Situations
202(2)
Intimate Gatherings
202(1)
Large Crowds
203(1)
Serious Shyness
204(3)
Hypnotic Suggestions to Enjoy Socializing
207(2)
Becoming Game at Your Game
209(12)
Hypnosis on the Field
210(1)
Visualizations
211(1)
Hypnotic Suggestions for Your Game
212(2)
Peak Performance
214(4)
Football
215(1)
Skiing
216(1)
Golf
217(1)
Indoor Games
218(1)
Jeopardy!
219(2)
Throw Out the Viagra
221(14)
Mixed Messages
221(3)
Improving Your Sex Life
224(4)
Expanding Your Options
228(2)
Too Much of a Good Thing
230(1)
Dr. Whipple Speaks
231(4)
Suggestions for a Better Sex Life
233(2)
Be a Better Parent
235(14)
Imagination
235(1)
Saying No to ``Yes, Master''
236(1)
Parents and Hypnosis
236(2)
Hypnotic Communications
237(1)
Parents in the Hypnotist's Office
237(1)
Kids in the Hypnotist's Office
238(3)
Groups of Kids
239(1)
Children One at a Time
239(2)
Confusion and Distraction
241(2)
Inductions for Children
243(2)
Child, Heal Yourself
245(4)
Part 5: Get Well Soon--and Stay That Way
249(70)
Hypnosis and Medical Research
251(10)
Clinical Trials
252(1)
Treatment Plans
252(1)
Finding Answers
252(1)
Current Research
253(1)
Hypnosis Instead of Anesthesia?
253(1)
No More Muscle Tension?
253(1)
Research Results
254(1)
Your Bones
254(1)
The Experiment
254(1)
The Procedure
255(1)
The Results
255(1)
Your Stomach
255(1)
Your Skin
256(2)
Warts
257(1)
Getting Your Doc Up-To-Date
257(1)
House Call
258(3)
Words That Heal
258(1)
Images That Heal
258(1)
Name Game
259(1)
Touch the Towel
259(2)
Hypnosis and Patient Care
261(12)
Procedures and Programs
261(4)
Trouble with Your Lungs?
262(1)
Getting Through Procedures
262(1)
Need an MRI?
263(2)
Emergency Medicine
265(1)
Nurses
266(3)
Burns
269(1)
Rehabilitation
270(1)
Musical Script
270(1)
Mental Rehearsal
271(1)
Using Hypnosis in Cancer Treatment
271(2)
Pregnancy and Childbirth
273(10)
Getting Pregnant
274(1)
How Can Hypnosis Help You Get Pregnant?
274(1)
Congratulations, You're Pregnant
275(2)
No More Nausea
275(2)
No More Premature Babies
277(1)
No More High Blood Pressure
277(1)
No More Extra Weight
277(1)
Childbirth
277(5)
Hypnotic Preparation
278(2)
Learning How to Deliver
280(2)
The Late Baby
282(1)
In the Operating Room
283(14)
Your Thoughts Can Affect Your Body
284(2)
Relax Before Surgery
284(1)
Relax During Surgery
285(1)
Going Home
285(1)
Communicating with Your Surgeon
286(2)
Every Word Counts
288(1)
Dr. Elvira Lang
288(1)
They Do It in Belgium
289(1)
Communicating in the Operating Room
289(2)
Hypnotic Suggestions
291(1)
More Presurgical Suggestions
292(1)
Relief from Anxiety
292(1)
Relief from Bad Memories
293(1)
Benefits of Hypnosis
293(2)
Home from the Hospital
295(2)
Hypnosis and Pain Control
297(10)
The Mysteries of Hypnosis
297(1)
What Is Pain, Anyway?
298(1)
Pain and Suffering
299(2)
Using Hypnotic Suggestions to Eliminate Pain
301(5)
Analgesia
301(1)
Transformation of Pain
301(2)
Age Regression
303(1)
Age Progression
303(1)
Reframing Your Pain
304(1)
Computer Model
304(1)
Glove Anesthesia
305(1)
Visualization
305(1)
Bombardment
306(1)
Case Studies
306(1)
Open Wide
307(12)
Scared of the Dentist?
307(4)
Dan Goes Kayaking
308(2)
Carolyn Goes Numb
310(1)
Rapid Inductions
311(2)
In the Dentist's Chair
313(1)
Children in the Dentist's Chair
314(1)
Try This and Amaze Your Dentist
314(1)
Do You Grind Your Teeth?
315(1)
Suggestions
316(3)
Part 6: Another Side of Hypnosis
319(44)
Quack Like a Duck
321(14)
Up on the Stage
322(1)
Screening the Audience
323(3)
Arm Levitation
323(1)
Eye--Roll Exercise
324(1)
Eyelid Glue
324(1)
Embedded Commands
324(1)
Enthusiastic Volunteers
325(1)
Watch Out! I Was a Stage Volunteer
326(2)
Gladys Sings a Song
326(1)
Ellen Is Puzzled
327(1)
Stuie Crawls, Hops, and Whistles
327(1)
Lois Reacts to a Pinch
327(1)
The Dangers of Stage Hypnosis
328(1)
A Lawsuit
329(1)
Hypnotizing a Group
330(2)
Are They Faking?
332(2)
Michael C. Anthony
332(1)
Trance Logic
333(1)
Hypnosis on the Big Screen
334(1)
You Once Were a Duck
335(28)
How Many Lives Have You Lived?
335(2)
Age Regression
337(1)
Remembering Too Much
338(1)
Can You Create Memories?
339(2)
I Saw It, I Know I Saw It
341(1)
After the Fact
342(1)
Recovering Hidden Memories
343(1)
Are There Any Dangers in Hypnosis?
343(1)
When the Unbelievable Is Believed
344(1)
The Ingram Family
345(3)
What Really Happened?
345(1)
How Could This Happen?
346(2)
Hypnosis and the Law
348(1)
Parting Words
349(2)
Appendixes
A Hypnosis Resources
351(4)
B Locating a Good Hypnotist
355(2)
C Glossary
357(4)
D Hypnosis Through the Ages
361(2)
Index 363

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