(Part 2) Best hypnosis books according to redditors

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This is just some of my collection, any one of which would get you started, but I'd start with Dr Stevenson's stuff first:

Dr Ian Stevenson

https://www.near-death.com/reincarnation/research/ian-stevenson.html

https://www.amazon.com/Twenty-Cases-Suggestive-Reincarnation-Enlarged/dp/0813908728/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Twenty+Cases+Suggestive+of+Reincarnation&qid=1563082984&s=books&sr=1-1

https://www.amazon.com/Where-Reincarnation-Biology-Intersect-Stevenson/dp/0275951898/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Where+Reincarnation+and+Biology+Intersect&qid=1563083023&s=books&sr=1-1

Dr Loell Whitton

https://www.amazon.com/Life-Between-Joel-Whitten/dp/0446347620

Neville Randall

https://www.amazon.com/Life-After-Death-Neville-Randall/dp/0552114871/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=life+after+death+Neville+randall&qid=1563083067&s=books&sr=1-1

Dr Raymond Moody

https://www.amazon.com/Life-After-Bestselling-Investigation-Experiences/dp/006242890X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=raymond+A+Moody&qid=1563083118&s=books&sr=1-1

Helen Wambach

https://www.amazon.com/Life-Before-Helen-Wambach/dp/0553254944/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=life+before+life+helen+wambach&qid=1563083173&s=books&sr=1-1

Dr Edith Fiore

https://www.amazon.com/You-have-been-here-before/dp/0698108833/ref=sr_1_7?keywords=Dr+edith+fiore&qid=1563083204&s=books&sr=1-7

Oh, I'd also check out the 4 part documentary: Life, Death and Reincarnation

Thanks to u/malibunyc for finding a low res 640x360 version of the show on YouTube, here are the links:

ep 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9bcNeLJTv8

ep 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycwZTYHqqoM

ep 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkcljsaaFXs

ep 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5URv5xxSFpo

Hope these help. Others will chime in with theirs too I'm sure.

This is why my favourite book on therapy is this one -

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Uncommon-Therapy-Psychiatric-Techniques-Erickson/dp/0393310310

All the failures are gone through and the amount of time to resolution (sometimes years and sometimes never) openly admitted.

How Master Self Hypnosis Weekend by Rick Smith.

He teaches you self hypnosis while you are hypnotized.

I would recommend You The Healer by Jose Silva and Healing Yourself with Self-Hypnosis.

I trained myself in sleep hypnosis using a pirated version of this audiotape. This guy has a really calming voice and he leads you through some self hypnosis/meditation techniques intended to help you sleep.

At a minimum, listening to something like this could help you fall asleep just by helping your mind relax. For me, after practicing with the tapes for weeks/months, I eventually relearned how to fall asleep. Now I have no problems going to sleep any more. I was also working on becoming a lucid dreamer at the time, so you could work on something like that as well if you wanted. The self hypnosis techniques are great for that. They also teach you to control your body a lot better.

Also, I used to take these melatonin pills which work really well for me. They have some stuff in them that relaxes you really well, plus the melatonin to put you to sleep. One pill will make you sleepy, two will pretty much knock you out, assuming you are actually trying to fall asleep and are not doing stuff thats going to keep you awake no matter what.

I dont need the audiotapes or the melatonin pills anymore, and I have not for a long time. The pills are still nice if I am changing time zones or altering my sleep schedule or if I really need to fall asleep on short notice.

Finally, I have found listening to audiobooks to be an excellent way to fall asleep. Find a book that you really like, nothing too serious though, and just play it very quietly while you are trying to sleep. It gives you something to listen to/do while you are still awake, but it won't prevent you from falling asleep. These days I usually don't even make it through a chapter before I am out cold. Which makes it tough to ever finish a book because I just end up playing the same chapter over and over. But the sleep is good. And with that, I am putting on my audiobook and falling asleep.

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You need to accept you eat for reasons other than hunger and as a veggie, protein intake isn't an issue if you do some research. Did you know that thin people don't give a shit what they eat? The difference between fat and thin is why they eat.

Protein: Quorn, I know it's available in the US, find it And try it. An egg white omelet with 4 whites, a sprinkle of feta or parmesano cheese and a diced tomato, salt and pepper with a slice of the highest protein content toasted bread you can find. Slather it with hot sauce.

Stop eating too much but make sure you eat enough.

Both are huge issues for the overweight. Your body will lay every extra calorie down as fat if you routinely eat an inadequate amount of calories.

Interesting read

Self-Hypnosis And Subliminal Technology: A How-to Guide for Personal-Empowerment Tools You Can Use Anywhere!

http://www.amazon.com/Self-Hypnosis-Subliminal-Technology-How-Personal-Empowerment/dp/1401937586

https://www.amazon.com/How-Develop-Super-Power-Memory/dp/0965597318/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

I really liked this cd, I found it actually did help relax/calm my mind.

My, oh my...

"NorCal" is short for Northern California. He lives in Northern California. He included his location in his username. There isn't any sort of conspiracy to be found in his username, Golfman.

I recommend you check out this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Supercharge-Intelligence-Today-McKenna-Ph-D/dp/1401948979

Realistically? The Complete Idiot's Guide to Hypnosis is a good place to start. Does not assume you know anything about psychology or have a background in academia.

My friend, I can relate. I developed an extreme fear of flying when I was in college, thanks to a bad flight. I can now happily say, though, that I'm fairly comfortable flying. Before your first trip, go to the doctor and get a prescription for Xanex. I take some every time I fly and it essentially makes it impossible for you to have a panic attack, which is really the worst case scenario. Another thing that helped me a lot was a hypnosis CD I bought on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Overcome-Fear-Flying-Glenn-Harrold/dp/1901923371 Seriously, this shit works. Ultimately, however, the only way you will get over your fear of flying is to actually do it. And again and again and again. Trust me, though. You can do it. Feel free to PM me for more help.

I found Paul McKenna's book/CD "I Can Make You Thin" quite effective. As well as listening to the hypnosis tape, he also recommends thinking of your hunger on a scale of 1 to 10 whereby 1 is stuffed to the point where you have to vomit and 10 is so hungry you're just about ready to eat your own arm (the scale could be the other way round but I don't have the book with me to check). Anyway he suggests that you should always try to keep your appetite in the 3 to 7 range - eat something before you get ravenous and stop eating when you are number 7 amount full.

I know Reddit can be skeptical of this sort of thing, but I am currently using the ideas presented in this book to help me overcome similar motivational problems, and I am noticing progress.

Self-Empowerment through Self-Hypnosis: Harnessing the Enormous Potential of the Mind https://www.amazon.com/dp/0738719285/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_PDDwCb97AY75B

I couldn't recommend this book more. Real hands-on tools for use in your day to day life that you can put to use immediately. As well as the science behind everything you can do that affects your mood/happiness.

I'd highly recommend you check out Ainslie Meares on Meditation ( https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ainslie-Meares-Meditation-Dissolve-pain-Tap/dp/0646966936/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= ). I'd been plugging away with a couple of meditation practices over the last few years (breath awareness and mantra based techniques) with varying degrees of success, but a few weeks ago I saw a dude in this sub recommend this book. Since then I've smashed through it and started practicing the technique, and good lord I'm feeling better. My general sense of anxiety and stress has completely dissipated, giving me back my sleep, and I feel like I want to reconnect with people I've left by the wayside in recent years. Other side effects (probably due to not being stressed and getting proper sleep again) include a noticeable jump in my workouts and physical fitness, a greater sense of empathy but also critical thinking without getting sucked into cyclical thought patterns, and just a more general enthusiasm for life.

the technique itself is probably one of the simplest I've ever read about, so simple it almost seems too good to be true. I'm about to start my second read through to make sure I've got the nuances of it down. this is my new 'go to' whenever anyone asks me about getting into or deepening meditation. It's been written from the perspective of a mental health professional who did his own investigations, firstly into hypnosis and then later into meditation.

Regarding note-taking:

I've seen studies that say the mere act of note-taking itself helps you absorb some material-- even if you never go over the notes again.

Of course, some types of material are lots more difficult than others, and so you couldn't be expected to get by simply on a single pass of note-taking, and then discarding your notes (like most engineering classes, for instance).

In many technical subjects, missing a single critical point or bit of info can throw off all the rest of a class. So it helps a lot if you can get an accurate and comprehensive record of what a teacher tells the class, and writes on a chalkboard. However, most people's note taking techniques cannot keep up with the speech and writing of many teachers, who might be lightning fast in their delivery due to having presented the same material dozens of times or more. Tape recorders often don't help either, as they still require transcription to be useful, and it can be tough to find the time to sit through the original lecture a second time to do it. And you still run into the problem of being unable to transcribe as fast as the verbal speech (and in a recording, you also lose the chalkboard visuals).

I believe the rapid note-taking technique involved dropping all or most of the vowels in words as you wrote them. The resulting abbreviations were still remarkably legible, but took much less time to write-- and so you could keep up with pretty much any lecture much better than most others.

(Please see the book for details though; after 30 years I could be forgetting something important here).

Regarding hypnosis, yes, it's good to be concerned about mucking around too much with your psyche. Lots of people do this much too cavalierly with drugs (and sometimes pay a terrible price).

On the other hand, hypnosis is also pretty safe-- much safer than lots of other things many people routinely do to themselves on a daily basis-- unless maybe you're trying very hard to make it NOT so.

I have to admit I probably went too far with hypnosis personally-- because I really liked the idea of getting some of those superhuman capabilities various folks talked about, both in fiction and non-fiction related to the topic. However, in real life, what few people do attain amazing powers through things like meditation and the like usually only do so after many years, and tons of other mental and physical disciplinary measures-- plus have an expert mentor guiding them the whole way: unlike a college student (like me) as eager to jump into something as William Hurt was in the film Altered States. Yikes! That was me; and I sort of got into some things as weird and scary as Hurt did in the film.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080360/

But I went to extremes: and KNEW I was going to extremes. There's plenty of natural safeguards against going too far with hypnosis; plus more safeguards you can add manually as you go along. In my case I eventually was trying to do my best to get around all of those. Yikes! Ha, ha.

Quite a few years later I would actually get into a similar pickle with lucid dreaming, and find myself desperate to get out of it again, too.




The main book I used to get started with self-hypnosis I found in the Whole Earth Catalog: Self Hypnotism by Leslie M. LeCron. I think the link below points to the same work:

http://www.amazon.com/Self-Hypnotism-Technique-Daily-Living-Signet/dp/0451159845



I'm gradually writing up all my personal experiences online, in a list of stories which run the gamut from straightforward autobiographical, to epic science fiction. I've presently got a chronological outline of them all here (please excuse the creative presentation format: I'm also striving to make a living with them).


As to lasting benefits from the Silva Method-- it's really hard to separate out lasting effects from any particular single thing I tried along the way: for everything tends to have some sort of effect on you, good or bad, big or small. And sometimes you can't ever realize or define such an effect except under very specific circumstances; circumstances you might well never come to meet.


I do remember the Silva book sure was good at motivating the reader to do the exercises. And the mental exercises eventually became excruciatingly difficult. Sort of like weight-lifting for the brain, maybe. But I'm not sure if it offered lasting benefits or not, to be frank. But perhaps it at least had as much effect on my brain as striving hard to understand differential equations in college did.

Maybe the real answer to your question lies somewhere in my online stories. Where you could judge such effects (if any) for yourself.

I released the second edition of my hypnosis for beginners book. It's now available in paperback for the first time, and the paperback edition comes with a free copy of the ebook.

You can buy the paperback edition here and the eBook edition here.