The Top 7 Benefits of Practicing Self-Hypnosis Regularly

Auto-hypnosis offers many profits: reduced anxieties and stress levels, improved focus and attention. However, the benefits of self-hypnosis are something much more than just “deep relaxation”. In hypnotic trance, you can work with your subconscious mind on a profound level. And the key to achieving many benefits of self-hypnosis is regular practice.

Improving Focus and Concentration with Auto-Hypnosis

One of the benefits of self-hypnosis is the clear mind that you get after trance. While in that state, you program yourself to focus on a task, that needs to be finished. After returning to your normal self, it’s way easier to discard all distractions.

But that doesn’t mean you can use auto-hypnosis only to focus on one, certain task. If you perform it regularly, you will notice improved concentration on many similar duties.

For example: you hypnotize yourself to better focus on writing an essay for college. And it helps you short-term with that task.

There is high possibility that (if you perform regularly) you will have easier time concentrating on stuff like: writing e-mails, finishing reports, creating written-based content.

That’s because your subconscious mind will create connotation between similar task. Once you are perfectly focused on your main goal, akin jobs will profit as well.

That’s probably one of the most popular benefits of self-hypnosis.

Hypnotic Trance as a Tool to Self-Esteem Boost

That benefit of auto-hypnosis is best explained on example. Let’s take public speeches. After all, is there anyone, who didn’t struggle with them?

Keeping in mind training rule, your hypnosis routine might look like this:

1. Putting yourself in trance and preparing for a speech before your small team in a workplace.
2. You made the speech and it was great – good job!
3. Then you prepare for the next, bigger goal: a speech before directors and managers.
4. Once again, use auto-hypnosis. But now you have practical experience and one success, so you can go bigger while in trance.
5. After another successful speech, you prepare for one before CEO.

Many benefits of self-hypnosis build up with time if practiced regularly. And confidence is one of them. You can’t just create it with one hypnotic trance and one public speech.

But if you regularly challenge yourself and practice auto-hypnosis, your self-esteem will boost in no time!

Unleash Your Potential: Fighting Off Procrastination

One of my top from benefits of self-hypnosis and what actually set me on that journey. Procrastination is a big problem for many of us. We know what to do, we know how to do, and we want to do – but we don’t.

Procrastination has many reasons, some of them being:

• fear of being judged;
• fear of success;
• fear of failure;
• perfectionism;
• decision paralysis;
• immediate gratification bias.

The problem is: you rarely know which one of the reason is the main blockade for you. And that’s what making auto-hypnosis such a powerful tool.

By regularly “talking” to your subconscious mind, you can see what’s actually blocking. Usually we have one biggest stopper and a few smaller ones. Dealing with the main resolves like 60-70% of your procrastination problems.

However, it doesn’t always work like that. Then, use hypnotic trance regularly to check every time what’s happening inside of you. With that, you can combat procrastination from different angles.

That is a huge profit of performing hypnosis regularly if you have some goal in life, but can’t get it!

Bulletproof Emotional Resilience

This is one of the benefits of self-hypnosis that seems rarely mentioned. Which is a shame, because it’s a missed opportunity if you don’t use it!

Different situations trigger different emotional responses. And you cannot control what’s going around: on a street, in a park, in a gym, in a workplace. You can, however, control your emotions, and thus, reactions to those stimuli.

With auto-hypnosis, you are able to re-live many situations in order to see not only WHAT you felt, but also WHY you felt then.

For example: you felt suddenly overwhelmed, when the boss asked you to book a restaurant for you and your team. He/she wasn’t scary, demanding. Kind of the contrary: he/she was really polite and asked if everything is fine.

If that’s your job responsibility, well, you cannot avoid it. But you can look inside you why did you felt overwhelmed. After all, it wasn’t anything scary.

You can do that with almost all situations in your life. The thing is: it’s best to take one situation for one session of hypnotic trance. If you take too many of them at once, the effects might not be as good as expected.

And that’s when regularity comes in. It’s better to make short, but regular sessions to check on your feelings. With that, you will build bulletproof emotional resilience!

This is one of the benefits of self-hypnosis that shines as the time passes. 

Self-Hypnosis: Starting Point to Changing Habits

Habits are behaviors (simplifying) that we perform without thinking about them. They can be both good and bad.

Waking up and stretching instead of scrolling social media – that’s a good one. Smoking each time you are stressed in office – that’s a bad one.

Benefits of self-hypnosis also stretch to changing habits. How you do it? You basically look at your habits in hypnotic trance and see the reasons behind them.

Maybe you…

• smoke, because that’s what your father used to do when stressed?
• play with the phone before sleep, because you are afraid to be alone with your thoughts?
• eat junk food, because you associate cooking with ‘wasted time’?

When you just sit and think about habits, it’s hard to see the reasons behind them. But dismantling habits in hypnotic trance is easier and more effective.

However, this is also one of the benefits of self-hypnosis that’s best seen if performed regularly. The reason is: we have many habits that we don’t even know we do.

And if you perform auto-hypnosis on a regular basis, you can ‘scan’ your behaviors. See the reasons behind them, analyze them.

Only when you truly understand the reasons behind certain behaviors, you can change those behaviors.

Enhance Sport Performance with Auto-Hypnosis

We often associate benefits of self-hypnosis only with mental performance. However, hypnosis has been shown to support physical performance as well.

For example, hypnosis can help:

• in learning and improving technique;
• relieve fatigue and restore energy;
• reduce stress before performance;
• improve sleep quality.

You can learn more about that in an article called The Application of Hypnosis in Sport.

Those profits of hypnosis might be achieved with auto-induced trance. It’s especially useful once you hit the wall and, despite trying hard, cannot overcome it.

That kind of experience happens to a lot of athletes. Their bodies are theoretically ready for a next step, e.g. lifting 440 pounds in dead-lift. The whole warm-up and pre-workout are great, but once they grab the bar, it just doesn’t feel right.

There are, of course, many exercises and techniques to go around such problems. But hypnosis (with self-hypnosis included) offer insight to why you might not be ready mentally for the challenge.

I highly recommend experimenting a little on your own here. If you have some obstacles in your sport, check out if you are mentally prepared for them.

There is a high chance that with just a few sessions of auto-hypnosis you will break the wall!

Unlock the Inner Artist with Creative Flow

The last one from benefits of self-hypnosis is dedicated to all fellow writers, and other artists. Hypnosis is also proven to boost creativity. And of course: you can achieve that with auto-hypnosis as well.

Hypnotic trance facilitates creative thinking by:

1. Living in your artistic world – there are hypnotic techniques that involve ‘getting’ into your artistic world. For example: you enter the realm of elves in your fantasy book or re-live the scene from your painting.
2. Enhancing imagination – similarly to the previous one, you can use visualization and imagery techniques to stimulate your artistic soul.  
3. Overcoming mental blocks – many of us were told that ‘art does not pay off’. And that subconscious belief is often stopping us from creating. With self-hypnosis, you can realize that and create a better, stronger belief, that will dismantle the former one.
4. Relaxing and focusing – last but not least: when creating, we often get distracted easily. Especially if you feel like you ‘must’ finish something from work. Self-hypnosis allows you to enter a relaxed state of flow, when you focus only on your art.

I like to use short-medium sessions of auto-hypnosis before writing. While of course it takes some time, it allows me to use it more efficiently while I’m actually working on my books.

And it’s not only about efficiency!

Once I enter my Forest of the Mists in my subconscious mind, I put on paper much more vivid, living and beautiful world than I could without it.

That’s why it’s my favorite benefit of self-hypnosis.