Self Hypnosis as a Self Help Tool – Finding Motivation!
If you are determined to make changes in your life, then I would strongly recommend giving audio hypnosis recordings a try. These can become extremely valuable resources in your selfhelp toolkit! I was always a bit skeptical about hypnosis and about recordings such as these in particular – a friend and I once came across some in a public library, and we would laugh about the magical orange liquid we were told would remove all the poisons from our bodies! However, years later, I stumbled upon something which seemed a lot more up to date, in the form of Glenn Harrold’s Building your Motivation, and as I had been having a bit of a rough trot, and was lacking in motivation to face up to a couple of challenges in particular, I thought I would give the CD a try. This was not long after I had started to read Susan Jeffers’s Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway, so my mind was possibly already programmed with a few conscious positive ideas!
In any case, that evening I lay down with my headphones on to start listing to this hypnotherapy CD. It was certainly an interesting experience – Glenn Harrold’s voice and accent were at first quite strange and not at all what I’d expected, quite a broad Cockney, but I soon got used to it and fell into the experience. The calming techniques, relaxing background music, rhythmical “diaphragmatic” breathing technique, and visualisation all helped me to go into a state that in fact did feel very different from normal waking consciousness, even though I didn’t feel “out of it” – I certainly felt I had drifted into some other level, a different state of thinking and feeling. The CD took me through a motivational visualisation which left me feeling totally satisfied after completing a difficult journey, and then I was fed some layered affirmations which repeated again and again in my mind. The calming music and special sound effects on the CD were instrumental in helping me relax, rather like listening to a nice piece of music, and when I finally came back up, I did feel a little different, but not astoundingly. The CD actually contains 2 tracks, and I listed to the second one straight away – it is a shorter version of the first, probably useful for booster sessions.
At this time in my life, there were a number of things I wanted to do, both personally and in my business, that I had kept putting off, and I was also struggling with my perennial lack of confidence. Although this CD was supposed to help with my motivation, it would turn out to have several knock on effects. The next day, a Sunday, instead of dragging myself out of bed at 11 to be ready to go out into the country with my folks at 1pm, I was up at 9 and straight back into my self help books! I thought I might as well make use of an extra couple of hours! I detected an extra spring in my step and felt much more positive about things in general. At the park, my mum and dad (unfortunately he passed away last year) commented that I was much more lively than usual, and while before I suffered from mild social phobia and some small version agoraphobia, I leapt at the opportunity to go into the cafe for our order (which I would normally leave to Dad as I did not wish to face the counter staff). I really did feel more confident in myself, but also a lot more motivated to take on challenges, to do new things, to put a stop to my negative thinking and to do some of the things I’ve always wanted to do but had been afraid to try. I have since used a few more Glenn Harrold hypnotherapy recordings which I will look at on this site, as I go with you on your self help journey – and can honestly say in the main that they have been much more effective than I ever expected at first, and from that day I recognised the power and potential that hypnosis had as a self help tool, and realised it was going to be a valuable resource that I could enlist to help me in my quest for self development!
Of course hypnotherapy recordings don’t work for everyone, and sometimes it’s necessary to visit a professional therapist (and unfortunately not even that works for everyone!), but I can honestly say that Glenn Harrold’s Ultimate Guide to Building Your Motivation did a great job for me, and I still listen to it on a regular basis when I need a boost, or feel my motivation slipping!
At the time, I managed to do the 2 things I had been avoiding for years, and wow, I am thankful that I did them, there was no turning back after that 