Vishen LakhianiFounder of Mindvalley | NYT Bestselling Author | Transforming Lives Globally

The Best Solution to Reduce Stress & Anxiety

19 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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The speaker observes a widespread rise in anxiety and stress (including sleep disruption) and proposes self-hypnosis as a powerful, practical tool to address these issues. The video describes common uses of self-hypnosis—enhancing creativity and planning, and effecting behavior change (examples: stopping drinking or smoking)—and positions it as both a quick, simple intervention and one that can require repeated visualization for lasting change.

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We see a lot of anxiety now. In fact, if I talk to my friends who are hypnotherapists, what's the main thing you're treating people for? They'll say it's either anxiety or something related to it. People are not sleeping because they're anxious. And there just seems to me so much stress, so much unnecessary anxiety in the world. There's a great saying by Mark Twain which is, I've been through some terrible experiences in my life and some of them actually happened. And I think that's where self hypnosis becomes a really powerful tool. So a lot of people use self hypnosis to be creative, to plan things. They use it to sometimes just make a change. They'll just put a suggestion in and go, hey, I want to stop drinking vodka, or hey, I want to stop smoking. It can be as quick as that, simple as that. And then other times you have to visualize it over and over again.