Self-hypnosis is your way to take charge of habitual patterns that have begun to rule your life. It can be used to deepen concentration, enhance memory, reduce fear and pain, and overcome deep-seated emotional issues that may be keeping you from your best potential. Please note that you are always in control, as you are the one directing the hypnosis. It is up to you to decide what type of self -hypnosis you want and when and where you plan to implement it. Self-hypnosis is a safe and drug-free way to reinstate positive patterning in your life.

• Start by choosing a habit. Maybe you bite your nails. In order to stop biting your nails you must somehow teach your brain that it is no longer enjoyable or beneficial for you to bite your nails.
  
  
• The process must start by deepening your relaxation through breath work, focus, and concentration, and by coming into the present moment. It can be done best by lying comfortably or sitting comfortably in a quiet space. Your eyes will close and you will begin to focus on your breath and repeat to yourself some sort of mantra.
  
  
• A mantra can be ‘everything is fine’, ‘I want change’, ‘I am relaxed’, ‘I'm feeling heavy’, or any word combination that you come up with that you think will make you find the deepest relaxation. Once fully relaxed, it is important that you begin to visualise yourself biting your nails.
  
  
• At this point you can implement a sour taste associated with your nails, like sour milk. Or you can visualise dirt or some substance under your nails that is very unsavory and causes a revolting sensation in your stomach and in your being when you smell or taste it.
  
  
• Self-hypnosis is about taking yourself into your subconscious and teaching your self that the action or thought patterning that you wish to change is no longer, and has not been, benefiting you in any way. The key to this part of self-diagnosis is association of the old habit with something that will break you from the desire to continue in the same habitual actions.
  
  
• After the visualisation that you have created for yourself, it is necessary to actualise and bring back this process into the present moment and into your daily life. As you come slowly out of your trance, see yourself without the action or habit that you are trying to overcome. Visualise yourself as a person who no longer needs this, and see what your life looks like without these limiting factors in them. Practice your self-hypnosis every day until you feel, sense and see a reduction and/or an elimination of the inhibiting properties within your life.

You can choose to write your own script and you can also choose to look online or in your local self-help bookstore to find scripts or recordings that may relate to the specific ideas you are wishing to overcome.