How to do hypno at home
Find a time when you won't be disturbed*
Read the session intro
Check the track volume
Get comfortable lying down or sitting with your head supported
Gently bring to mind what you want to achieve
Click play
* If you are disturbed by a fire alarm or an urgent phone call, you can come out of trance without causing a problem. If you have a brief window while your baby is asleep, go for it - coming out is no worse than being woken up (and you’ll probably be used to that).
The sessions are all recorded with someone in the chair.
I go into trance when guiding hypnosis, and this state on the edge of conscious and unconscious brings together the techniques and the flow so the induction often goes in a direction which surprises me. This doesn’t happen if I sit at my computer and pretend to hypnotise its circuits.
Doing it right
Relax!
As long as you’re listening, you’re doing everything you need to do.
Like learning to ride a bike, it may take a few attempts to get your balance but it quickly becomes second nature. A little wobble doesn’t matter, so if thoughts cross your mind, don’t worry. You can shift your position too - we move around when asleep without breaking the trance.
Trance is a little like brushing your teeth: regular sessions are better than doing loads after a long gap. Return to it once or twice a week and the seeds you plant will take root, and the garden of your mind will bear fruit.
That said, life happens! You won’t lose it all if you miss a week, and if it is doing you good then binge away - no one ever overdosed on words.
Establishing new patterns
You should notice changes after two or three sessions, and your friends might notice too. Small changes can quickly lead to big changes but hypnosis is no wonder pill, and breaking patterns requires that you put in some time.
It may be appropriate at some points on your path to revisit the state several times a week or even daily. Fortunately, time spent in trance is lovely!
Sooner or later - after a few months perhaps - you’ll become accustomed to listening to the quiet voice inside and responding in the language it understands. From there, things can get really interesting.
New sessions added regularly - let me know what you want to explore so I can record something
Rinse and repeat
Hypnotists repeat themselves (as I often say).
So do other people, especially in their self-talk, and the most powerful voice in your head is yours.
Our internal dialogue can be insistent, and sometimes the narratives we have picked up are unhelpful, so check yourself if you find yourself repeating dark affirmations about how success happens to other people, that we're not very bright or charismatic, that no one cares about our needs, that we don’t sleep well... The list goes on and on (and on and on). We can hypnotise ourselves carelessly like this. We can create trances - boring trances. Then we inhabit them.
Working with more constructive material shifts the internal narrative, and the world can change around us overnight. It is wonderful, but sometimes parts of ourselves unfamiliar with freedom or happiness can throw spanners in the spokes. Any meditator will tell you that practice can get frustrating or boring, and resistance to change can manifest in all kinds of ways.
If (when!) you find yourself sick of my voice when listening to recordings, ask yourself: is it doing me good or not? I’ll be adding new recordings regularly to mix it up a little, but while hypnotic trance is easy, change takes some effort. If you stick with it, you may find that the frustration passes and new possibilities emerge. Sooner or later, you’ll be hypnotising yourself and creating the kinds of trance you want.
Two inductions are freely available
A Taste of Trance
Into the Mycelial Web
