Self-hypnosis can reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and change behavior like quitting smoking or drinking. The technique works as both a quick fix and something that needs repeated practice for lasting results.
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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.