If you’re looking for something that can both help relax you, clear away all thoughts, anxiety and worry, and also help train your subconscious mind to get better sleep, self hypnosis could be just what you’re looking for.
How Hypnosis Works
Self hypnosis is essentially a guided mediation, helping you focus, relax and place your thoughts on deep sleep.
Hypnosis sessions essentially contain two parts:
First – the hypnotist works to put you in a state of trance. This is basically a state of deep relaxation where you focus on nothing but the words of the hypnotist. It’s the same state of focus you enter into during mediation. The state of trance is where your subconscious mind can be most easily accessed.
Second – whilst you are in trance, the hypnotist works to provide subliminal suggestions to help you sleep. This is where the actual hypnosis kicks in. There’s an array of techniques at the hypnotists disposal, but they essentially work to help your mind associate your bedroom with sleep and form new sleep enhancing habits and break any habits which could cause insomnia.
When you’ve finished listening to your hypnosis session, you’ll be relaxed and ready to fall asleep. That’s if you’re not already asleep before the session has ended. 
The more you listen to a hypnosis download, the greater the affect it will have on you as the hypnosis’s subliminal suggestions penetrate deeper into your subconscious mind. It’s recommended to listen to the hypnosis session every night before going to sleep for the best results.
Sleep and Insomnia Hypnosis Products
Hypnosis downloads from the web can be, at best, iffy. I’ve been there, got the download and in many cases, got the refund. There’s a lot of have a go hypnotists out there so it’s hard to know who to trust.
A website I recommend exploring is HypnosisDownloads.com. They have a huge directory of hypnosis sessions and a comprehensive section dedicated to sleep.
The product I most recommend is their Insomnia Beater Pack which offers the best value of money containing 5 hypnosis sessions:
- Fall Asleep Fast – Train your mind to fall asleep fast with this hypnosis session.
- Drift Off To Sleep – Use hypnosis to help you gently drift off into deep, refreshing sleep.
- Sleep Like a Child – Get into the mindset of a care free child who silently drifts off to sleep each night.
- Cure Insomnia – Install the very best sleep habits, relax deeply and reprogram your mind to disconnect with insomnia and associate your night-times with sleep.
- Go Back to Sleep – Many people find it hard to get back to sleep after waking up. This session keeps your mind to relaxed when you wake up and helps you drift off back to sleep.
You can buy these as part of the pack or as separate products.
There other sleep products include:
- Bounce Out Of Bed – Wake up refreshed full of energy. Help your brain associate waking up with bright alertness and get the best start your day.
- Early Bed – Have trouble keeping to good sleep timings because you’re constantly late to bed? This is the hypnosis session for you.
- Ignore Snoring – Condition your mind to remove its attention from the sound of snoring. Naturally unfocus from snoring so your mind doesn’t react to it.
- Sleep Talking – Remove the triggers to sleep talking. Encourage your mind to become aware of it and stop it in its tracks.
- Sleep Walking -Trigger your mind to stop sleepwalking as soon as it starts
Unlike many other hypnosis websites, these hypnotists have over 15 years worth of experience under their belt and the quality of their hypnosis sessions doesn’t vary from one to the other unlike many out there. I’ve used them personally and would happily recommend them.
Another place I recommend is Hypnoshop.com. They have two hypnotists , but I would only recommend products voiced by Donna Lee. It might just be personal taste, but I didn’t find the voice of the other hypnotist, Barrie St John, relaxing enough to fall asleep to so I claimed their refund. Donna Lee however has such a soothing voice I found myself going from alert to deeply relaxed in record time. Very impressive!
Donna Lee has two sleep related products, these are:
- Hypnotic Power Nap – A guided power nap. A chance to de-stress and fully recharge your batteries in less than half an hour.
- Wake Up Fresh & Alert – Recommended especially for people who oversleep or find it hard to get up in the morning.
Just like HypnosisDownloads.com, Hypnoshop provides a 100% 90 day money back guarantee.
The final hypnosis product I recommend is I Can Make You Sleep by famous hypnotist Paul McKenna. It’s a book containing both great sleep advice and mind programming exercises which you can use if you’re having problems getting to sleep. The book comes with a CD containing a high quality self hypnosis session that you can listen to while in bed to help you relax and drift off to sleep.
If you’ve never tried self hypnosis before, you’re in for a real treat. It’s one of the most relaxing and revitalising experiences you could have with the bonus of lasting change, as the hypnosis session leaves its positive mark on your subconscious mind.
