A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis

The hypnotic state may arrive so quietly that you don’t even know you’re in it. Melvin Powers begins by turning the familiar image of a helpless subject on its head: all hypnosis, he argues, is self-hypnosis.

Writing in the early 1960s, Powers starts not with a swinging watch but with the suggestions already shaping everyday life—from advertising to the things we read and hear. His practical guide asks you to direct that suggestibility toward your own aims, while dispelling fears that hypnosis means surrendering your will. Learning may take minutes for some and much longer for others; patience and practice matter. If you remain in control, and can guide your own thoughts, what might you teach yourself to do?

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