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  Picture yourself sitting on a large rock outcropping with the sea about 20 feet below... notice the roar as the ocean rushes in and hits the rock.. .smell the salt air... listen to the sea gulls chatter... notice a trail to the beach... walk down this path... take your shoes off and walk barefoot in the warm sand toward the water... dip your toes in the tepid sea... bend down and write "I love you" and the names of special people in your life ... watch as the waves carry your message out to sea. Know that your message has been delivered.

  This is just one of the many visualization techniques that you will learn in this empowering book. By quieting your mind and learning to induce a state of hypnosis, you can visualize the you that you've always dreamed of-and make this a reality! Hypnosis is more than just a set of words in a relaxing procedure. It is a way to enjoy life to the fullest-a technique for creating the reality you want for yourself now and into the future.

  Hypnosis for Beginners is food for your soul. It will not just feed you for a day, it will teach you how to fish for life.

  William W.Hewitt was a free-lance writer, the author of seven books and other materials published by Llewellyn Publications. He spent more than thirty years as a professional writer and editor in the computer, nuclear power, manufacturing and mining industries, and was a professional member of the National Writers Association. He was a certified clinical hypnotherapist and a professional astrologer. He lectured on hypnosis, mind power, self-improvement, metaphysics, and related subjects. He and his wife traveled extensively together after his retirement, and were a devoted couple enjoying their "golden years." He passed from this lifetime in November 2001.

  Reach New Levels of

  Awareness & Achievement

  William W Hewitt

  Hypnosis

  Tea Leaf Reading

  Astrology for Beginners

  Bridges to Success & Fulfillment

  The Art of Self Talk

  Psychic Development for Beginners

  Self-Hypnosis for a Better Life

  AUDIO TAPES

  Become Smoke-Free through Self-Hypnosis

  Psychic Workout through Self-Hypnosis

  Relaxation and Stress Management through Self-Hypnosis

  Your Perfect Weight through Self-Hypnosis

  This book is dedicated to my wife, Dee, to Carl and Sandra Weschcke, to Nancy Mostad, and to all men and women everywhere who do their very best every day to make the world a better place in which to live.

  INTRODUCTION

  Part I: Hypnosis and Self-Hypnosis

  CHAPTER 1 How to Be a Hypnotist

  What is hypnosis? Going into business. How to perform hypnosis exercises.

  CHAPTER 2 Hypnosis Session 1

  Hypnosis routines A, 1A, B, 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E, 1F, 1G, H, 1I, and M. Basic relaxation and hypnosis routines.

  CHAPTER 3 Hypnosis Session 2

  Hypnosis routines C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K-1, K-2, L, M, N, 0, P, and Q.Specific routines for controlling diet and eating habits and teaching self-hypnosis.

  CHAPTER 4 Hypnosis Session 3

  Hypnosis routines I, R-1, R-2, S, and T Routines to reinforce suggestions previously given and increase the depth of hypnosis.

  CHAPTER 5 Hypnosis Session 4

  Hypnosis routines U, V-1, V-2, W, X, and Y.

  Routines to help subjects develop an improved self-image.

  CHAPTER 6 Hypnosis Sessions 5 and 6

  Session 5, Session 6, and hypnosis routine Z.

  Reinforcement sessions and Mountain Trip hypnosis routine.

  Part II: Regression and Self-Regression

  CHAPTER 7 Regression

  Regression cases. Regression routine and analysis.

  CHAPTER 8 Self-Regression

  Recording scripts for four tapes to regress to the past in this current life or a previous life.

  Part III: Practical Applications and Supplemental Information

  CHAPTER 9 Suggestions

  Suggestions for a variety of purposes, including improving speaking skills, increasing selfconfidence, and improving sexual performance.

  CHAPTER 10 Other Kinds of Hypnosis

  Hypnosis for children, group hypnosis, and stage hypnosis.

  CHAPTER 11 Additional Case Histories

  Examples of techniques used for a variety of cases.

  CHAPTER 12 Additional Routines

  Seashore Trip routine, Balloon Countdown, test taking, migraines, and smoking.

  CHAPTER 13 Self-Hypnosis

  Exercises, cases, and uses of self-hypnosis.

  CHAPTER 14 Practical Applications

  Instructions for group situations, habit control, phobias, use with senior citizens and shut-ins, pain control and healing, business situations, spiritual contacts, and other situations and purposes.

  CHAPTER 15 The Next Step

  Using self-hypnosis to enter into the realm of psychic experience, and a summary.

  Hypnosis is a lot like daydreaming. When you daydream, you alter your state of consciousness to the alpha frequency region and engage in your fantasies. All the while you are conscious and aware, yet you remain oblivious to external distractions. Daydreaming is a perfectly normal, safe, and healthy phenomenon that we all engage in from time to time. Sometimes a daydream is so intense and goal-oriented that the person achieves the goal. This usually happens spontaneously and without deliberate intent.

  Hypnosis is a technique that enables you to achieve this altered state of consciousness-the daydream state-deliberately and direct your attention to specific goals in order to achieve them. Like daydreaming, hypnosis is a perfectly normal, safe, and healthy phenomenon. In hypnosis, like daydreaming, you are conscious and aware, yet remain oblivious to external distractions. In both daydreaming and hypnosis your mind adjusts to the alpha frequency range - the difference is that in hypnosis your mind is directed to specific beneficial goals you wish to achieve and not to fantasies. These beneficial goals include quitting smoking, dieting, improving self-image, overcoming phobias and fears, improving memorythe list of uses is limitless.

  When you've completed Hypnosis for Beginners, you will know how to hypnotize others or yourself for any beneficial, worthwhile purpose. Throughout this book, you will find complete word-by-word hypnosis techniques and case examples to illustrate specific points. Nothing is left for you to wonder about. You will even learn how to modify the techniques in the book to develop your own procedures.

  If you want to learn hypnosis as part of a "getrich-quick" scheme or to exercise control over others, forget it. It won't work! You will not find those procedures in this book. However, if you want to expand your awareness, reshape and enrich your life or the lives of others, and do so in a spirit of brotherhood and love, then read on.

  Hypnosis is one of the most valuable tools in the world today for the enrichment of lives. With hypnosis, you can break undesirable habits, create desirable habits, and constructively deal with and resolve every sort of human problem. You can instill true happiness and replace unhappiness.

  If all this is true, then why isn't everyone engaged in daily self-hypnosis? Lack of education and knowledge are the main reasons. Most people lack good information and possess a great deal of misinformation about hypnosis. Few places offer knowledge about hypnosis; it isn't taught in public schools and only a handful of colleges have courses in hypnosis (and many of these are superficial). A few commercial schools offer hypnosis, frequently at inflated prices.

  Hypnosis for Beginners includes my twenty-five years of firsthand knowledge, training, and experience gathered in a simple, lucid, and detailed presentation. This is a "how-to" book at the beginner's level; I present everything you need to know to master hypnosis and self-hypnosis. If you want to learn for
your own edification, the information is here. If you want to become a professional and start a full-time or parttime business, it is here. If you want to develop the skill to help others, it is here. If you want to develop your own hypnosis techniques, it is here.

  You will also find two additional bonuses in this book. First is a powerful section that teaches you how to regress into a current life as well as past lives (including exclusive scripts for performing regression on yourself). Second, this book makes you aware of how self-hypnosis can be the gateway into the realm of psychic experience.

  To understand this book and master hypnosis, all you need are an average intelligence and the ability to read. That's all! No college degree. No high school diploma. No super intelligence. In fact, this book will tell you how to start developing your own super intelligence.

  Hypnosis for Beginners strips away the shroud of mystery and ignorance that have cloaked hypnosis for centuries. What is left is a beautiful, powerful, simple, and natural skill for enriching the lives of all who embrace it.

  No other book on the market today approaches the subject of hypnosis in the depth, the specifics of procedures, and the spirit of humanity as does this one.

  MY EXPERIENCES

  For over twenty-five years I have been practicing hypnosis and have hypnotized hundreds of people in almost every conceivable situation. When I first started, I practiced part time on weekends and in the evenings with no charge to my subjects, enabling me to learn and hone my hypnosis skills. During this time, I earned my living as a technical writer; because I am an altruistic person, hypnosis gave me the chance to help others.

  In 1976, the demands on my time became so great that I decided to go into hypnosis full time as a business. At the time, I charged $25 per session, which was $10 to $25 per session less than most other hypnotists. (I have a fanatical dislike for greed, which explains my lower fees.) Nonetheless, in spite of high expenses (including rent, advertising, and phone charges) I did quite well.

  Then two events occurred within a few months of each other that destroyed the hypnosis market in my metropolitan area. Two hypnotists (one a physician, the other a psychologist) were indicted on criminal charges in non-related cases. The physician was found guilty of massive and flagrant misuse of hypnosis for personal gain to the detriment of his patients. His medical license was revoked but no jail sentence was imposed.

  In the case of the psychologist, I was the one who filed the initial charges against him with the state attorney general's office. The ensuing investigation revealed that I had only seen the tip of a huge, ugly iceberg. He was sentenced to eight years in prison.

  The media coverage of these two cases was massive-and all hypnotists were tarred with the same brush. The result was that it was nearly impossible to earn a dime as a hypnotist for quite some time.

  I went back to technical writing for a living while practicing hypnosis on the side once again. In 1992, I decided to retire (for the most part) and devote my time to freelance writing, giving an occasional workshop on psychic development, doing occasional hypnosis in special cases, and traveling for pleasure.

  MY PURPOSE

  My purpose in writing this book is to present hypnosis as the honorable, beneficial skill that it is. Whether you practice self-hypnosis in the quiet solitude of your room or with a loved one or friend, the benefits can be enormous. A husband and wife can be drawn closer together in love, harmony, and understanding than they ever dreamed possible just by practicing hypnosis together for common goals. In self-hypnosis, you can draw closer to your higher self and through that higher self to all others-there really are no negative aspects to hypnosis. If you approach it with integrity, you reap beneficial results.

  This book is divided into three parts. In Part I, you'll find out what hypnosis is, how it works, and how you can master the art of hypnosis. Chapter 1 explores the subject of hypnosis in general. You'll find a few myths about hypnosis debunked, a few do's and don'ts, and advice on initial counseling with a subject. Chapters 2 through 6 take you through six consecutive hypnosis sessions exactly as I perform them with a client for the purpose of diet control. The actual hypnosis procedures are printed out in full so you can use them. (I chose diet control as an example because it makes use of most of the procedures you need. Also, diet control is a popular subject.)

  In Part II, you'll learn how to perform regression and self-regression. Chapter 7 discusses using hypnosis to regress others into the past in this current life or a previous lifetime. I include the procedure I have successfully used. Chapter 8 contains the scripts that enable you to regress yourself into your own past in this life or in previous lives.

  In Part III, you'll find practical applications and a variety of supplementary information. Chapter 9 is a collection of hypnotic suggestions for most of the situations you are likely to encounter. Chapter 10 discusses hypnotizing children, group hypnosis, and stage hypnosis. Chapter 11 is a collection of case histories to augment those given in other chapters. The cases selected are those that illustrate specific points about hypnosis. Chapter 12 contains additional hypnosis routines for specific purposes to augment the routines in the other chapters.

  Chapter 13 deals exclusively with self-hypnosis, including how to do it to achieve virtually any goal, be it material gain, spiritual gain, healing of wounds, overcoming illness, or changing habits. This chapter brings the other chapters into sharper focus.

  Chapter 14 contains detailed instructions for a broad spectrum of practical everyday applications. Chapter 15 contains a summary of the entire subject and a brief glimpse beyond hypnosis into the area broadly defined as psychic phenomena.

  THE ROUTINES

  Each session in chapters 2 through 6 contains routines that are labeled with a letter, or a number and letter combination. (You do not, however, say these letters or combinations out loud. They are just for your records.) The numbering system has no special significance and is for easy identification.

  When I began creating routines years ago I used all the alphabet letters and had to start incorporating numbers with some of the alphabetic numbers. It was just my system for keeping track of my work. Eventually, I eliminated some routines and combined others; the ones that were left are those in this book. I recommend that you put each routine on a separate sheet of paper or a 4 x 6 inch card. This way, you can arrange them in any order for any purpose. As you will see by the time you finish this book, you can create special procedures by putting a variety of routines in a desired order.

  Italic text signifies words you speak aloud. It is good if you memorize these words, but it is perfectly all right to read them. Initially, memorize routine A (see chapter 2). It is short, and when your subject sees you are speaking from memory he tends to have more confidence in you. During routine A, you have the subject close his eyes so from that point on he doesn't know if you are reading or speaking from memory. Reading-or not reading-aloud isn't that big of an issue anyway. You will have it all memorized after a few times. Having the routines memorized does much for your confidence in yourself also.

  DEFINITION OF TERMS

  Following are the definitions of several terms used throughout this book.

  Operator: The hypnotist; the one who performs the hypnosis routines.

  Subject: The person being hypnotized; also referred to as the client.

  Gender: If the text refers to a specific case history, I use the appropriate gender (he or his; she or her). If the text does not refer to a specific case history, I use she or her. Occasionally I use "he or she" to indicate that either gender is applicable; but even when I use the female gender, the situation could equally apply to a male. The reason I use female gender is because 90 percent of my subjects have been female. In my experience, women have been more open minded and receptive to hypnosis than men have been.

  Now turn the page and begin reading, enjoying, and learning a new and valuable skill. Learning hypnosis may turn out to be one of the most beneficial experiences of you
r life.

  Nearly everyone can quickly and easily learn the techniques for hypnosis and become a hypnotist. To be a good hypnotist, however, is something else. To be a good hypnotist, you need to have integrity, honesty, and dedication. You must care about humanity. Assuming you have these personal qualities, all you need to do is memorize the techniques. Then practice, practice, and more practice, and learn each time you practice. After much practice and learning, you will be able to call yourself a hypnotist.

  WHAT Is HYPNOSIS?

  Hypnosis is a daydream-like state. In this state, the person's conscious mind becomes quiet or passive. The hypnotist introduces suggestions into the powerful subconscious mind.

  Let's take a brief, slightly technical look at how the brain operates. The brain operates on measurable frequency cycles. These frequencies correspond to certain kinds of activity.

  In 1929, Hans Berger used an EEG machine to discover that when a person's eyes were closed the brain generated regular waves in the 8 to 12 cycles per second (cps) range. He labeled these brain waves alpha waves. Subsequently, other types of brain waves were discovered and labeled theta, beta, and delta. These brain waves have been found to correlate to various mental functions, including hypnosis and psychic experience. Experts generally agree on these brain waves and their purpose, but they disagree on the exact boundaries of each kind of wave. One expert will define alpha as 8 to 12 cps; another as 7 to 14 cps, and so forth. The next four paragraphs present a general consensus concerning these brain waves.

  Delta. The frequency range of brain activity in delta ranges from 0 to about 4 cps. This is total unconsciousness. Not much is known about the delta range.

  Theta. The frequency range in theta is about 4 to 7 cps. Theta is part of the subconscious range and hypnosis can sometimes take place here. All of our emotional experiences seem to be recorded in theta. Theta is that special range that opens the door of consciousness beyond hypnosis into the world of psychic phenomena. Theta is the range where psychic experience is most likely to occur (see chapter 15).