This website contains all the information and audios you need to understand and start using self-hypnosis for stress relief or for your own personal growth and development (i.e. self-improvement)… right away! (Note: The audios here are designed for professional – US based – hypnotherapists, for personal use or private practice to help clients. All audios are free to listen to as many times as you like. In fact, the more you practice the affirmations in the binuaral beat setting the better you’ll feel… if you’re a beginner to hypnosis or self-hypnosis). Each audio here covers a specific self-improvement issue, beginning with motivation and going all the way through meditation, weight loss and peak performance (affirmations). The affirmations, combined with the binaural beats, makes these audios very effective if you are genuinely interested in improving yourself. If you use this website everyday, you will develop better resistance to stress as well has developing better attitudes to the areas of your life you are seeking to improve in. Just listen to the relevant audio 1 to 3 times a day.
When you are deeply relaxed your tear ducts may also relax. In fact, you you relax deeply enough your tear ducts WILL relax and a tear or two… or with some people even a stream of tears is common. As you become more alert after a session your tear ducts will stop naturally. (basically if you tear up while feeling all relaxed and good… that’s normal!) Sometimes when your muscles release tension it may jerk. I have seen some overly stressed out (or wound up) individuals literally jump with the force of the release of tension in a muscle. Generally, if you do have a a tension release if short and light followed by even deeper relaxation than before. When you are in a deep "trance", that means you are highly focused on what you are doing. While in a state of "hypnosis" you have complete awareness of your actions… in self-hypnosis this awareness gets enhanced. I like to see it as a form of dhyanic meditation.
Extract from "How Hypnosis Works" from how stuff works: When you hear the word hypnosis, you may picture the mysterious hypnotist figure popularized in movies, comic books and television. This ominous, goateed man waves a pocket watch back and forth, guiding his subject into a semi-sleep, zombie-like state. Once hypnotized, the subject is compelled to obey, no matter how strange or immoral the request. Muttering "Yes, master," the subject does the hypnotist’s evil bidding. This popular representation bears little resemblance to actual hypnotism, of course. In fact, modern understanding of hypnosis contradicts this conception on several key points. Subjects in a hypnotic trance are not slaves to their "masters" — they have absolute free will. And they’re not really in a semi-sleep state — they’re actually hyperattentive.
Simple background sounds for dealing with a stressful environment from my first site Instant Stress Management.com (You can”t even think clearly when stressed out so something to relax you is necessary. If sounds work for you then this might do. More sounds available in our Insomnia Relief package)
The following video (also an original from my Stress Management site) utilizes images & sounds with progressive relaxation instructions for a sound bath that helps you relax deeply. Since this audio uses binuaral beats to help you relax to a sound effect called brainwave entrainment, it will be most effective when used with stereo headphones. Do NOT do anything else, such as operate heavy machinery like a car of anything like that, while using this audio. It is meant for relaxation ONLY.
Using EEG (electroencephalography) technology, that measures electrical activity of the brain, it has been found that we tend to be in certain brainwave states (or frequencies) during different activities. Brain Frequency distribution: 40 hertz: Gamma Waves: Active mentally, intense emotions such as anger of joy, solving problems 13 – 40 hertz: Beta Waves – Active concentration, general active lifestyle 7 – 13 hertz: Alpha Waves – Relaxed state, light meditation level, perfect for stress relief 4 – 7 hertz: Theta Waves – Deep meditation, REM sleep, dreams 0 – 3 hertz: Delta Waves – Deep dreamless sleep Practicing the meditation technique on this website will bring you down into the brainwave state of ‘Alpha’. Learning how to relax yourself into an alpha state will lead to a huge reduction of stress in your lifestyle. The great news is that you can download a free software program that uses advanced sound technology called binaural beats to help you reduce your brainwaves to the level you want. This way you can learn to reach deeper levels of meditation much much faster. Basically, if we are in an environment with fast paced music then we will tend to get more active. While if we are surrounded by slow music there will be a corresponding slow down in our mental activity. Of course, this is assuming you are listening to the music or its so loud that you can’t ignore it and are going with the flow. In other words, your brain responds to external stimuli by following along. So if you hear a regular beat then the brain will follow along after a short while i.e. it will entrain itself from it’s current frequency to the one in its environment. This is called the “frequency following response”. Scientists have discovered that you can also entrain your brain from one frequency to another using a sound technology called binaural beats. What happens is that two sounds are played at difference frequencies. One in each ear. For example 480 hrz in one ear and 490 hrz in the other. The brain perceives the difference of these two frequencies which is 10 hrz. After listening to these sounds for a while the brain begins to follow along at 10 hertz and an alpha brainwave state if achieved. Anytime you want to relax or practice meditation you can simply play a preset track on the…
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