If you’re looking for something that can relax you, reduce anxiety and also at the same time 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 like a guided mediation. It helps you focus, relax and place your thoughts sleep.
Hypnosis sessions consist of 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 voice 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 – Once you are deeply relaxed, the hypnotist provides subliminal suggestions to your subconscious mind to help you sleep. This is where the actual hypnosis kicks in. There’s an array of techniques at the hypnotist’s disposal to help your mind associate your bedroom with sleep, form new sleep enhancing habits and break any habits which could cause insomnia.
When you’ve finished listening to your hypnosis session, you’ll remain in that state of deep relaxation 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 session, 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, although the changes will begin to take shape almost immediately.
Sleep and Insomnia Hypnosis Products
Hypnosis downloads from the Internet can be, at best, iffy. I’ve been there, purchased 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. I’ve been using self hypnosis for over 5 years and I understand the psychology behind them, so I’ve gotten pretty good at deciphering which hypnosis sessions are most effective.
Hypnosis Downloads
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 Hypnosis Pack which offers the best value of money containing these 5 hypnosis sessions:
- Fall Asleep Fast
- Drift Off To Sleep
- Sleep Like a Child
- Cure Insomnia
- Go Back to Sleep
You can buy these as part of the pack or as separate products.
Their other hypnosis downloads for sleep include include:
- Bounce Out Of Bed
- Early Bed
- Ignore Snoring
- Sleep Talking
- Sleep Walking
These hypnosis sessions are created by hypnotists who have over 15 years worth of experience and the quality of their hypnosis sessions doesn’t vary from one to the other unlike many others. I’ve used them myself and would happily recommend them.
Hypnoshop
Another company I recommend is Hypnoshop.com. They have two hypnotists, but I can only personally recommend products voiced by Donna Lee. It might just be personal taste, but I didn’t find the voice of their other hypnotist relaxing enough to fall asleep to. 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 hypnosis sessions for sleep:
First is a guided Power Nap designed to recharge your batteries in less than 30 minites.
The second helps you wake up in the morning by helping your subconscious mind associate the sound of your alarm clock with the feeling of Waking Up Fresh And Alert. It is one of the most effective hypnosis sessions I have used and is perfect if you have problems with oversleeping or getting up in the morning.
At the time of writing, both of these companies provide 90 day 100% money back guarantees on all their downloads.
I Can Make You Sleep
The final hypnosis product I recommend is the combined book and CD I Can Make You Sleep by famous hypnotist Paul McKenna. The book contains both practical sleep advice and mind programming exercises that you can use if you’re having problems getting to sleep. The CD contains a high quality self hypnosis session that you can listen to while in bed to help you relax and drift off to sleep.
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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 can have, with the added bonus of lasting change.
You should notice changes within a week of using your hypnosis session, which after that would give you 83 days to get a refund from either Hypnosis Downloads or Hypnoshop if they weren’t to your liking. Without doubt, I would say that self hypnosis is one of the most effective sleeping aids you can get. If you suffer from any type of insomnia, I would thoroughly recommend giving them a go.
