. . .FINALLY, GET NESTING

THE final self-hypnosis technique uses visualisation. Called Nested Images, this is my ‘go to’ method if I struggle to get back to sleep when I’ve woken up in the middle of the night.

This gets you to connect with a ‘feelgood’ picture inside your mind’s eye and then amplifies it over and over again so you boost positive feelings exponentially.

Remember, by thinking or imagining anything, you affect your state of being. So, if you think about going to the dentist, you remember there is a bit of discomfort involved, so you will automatically tense up and enter a state of anxiety.

But if you recall a time when you were on holiday, or imagine what it would be like to be on a beach and you see, hear and feel all the things associated with that, you change your ‘state’ to one of relaxation.

So, if I feel a bit worried, I close my eyes and relax, I imagine how I would look if I were twice as relaxed as I am right now.

I make a picture of myself in my mind’s eye as vividly as possible and I float into that picture, seeing through the eyes of my more relaxed self, hearing my internal dialogue and feeling the greater relaxation.

Then I do it again and again.

By the third or fourth time, I feel terrific. This has a cumulative effect — each time, you are stacking your feelings of relaxation and the feelings grow tremendously until you are completely blissed out.

NESTED IMAGES TECHNIQUE

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Imagine how you would look if you were twice as relaxed as you are right now. 2

Visualise floating into that more relaxed ‘you’. See through the eyes of your more relaxed self, hear how it sounds and feel how it feels.

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From this place, imagine how you would look if you were twice as relaxed again as you are right now.

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Imagine floating into that more relaxed you. See through those eyes, hear how it sounds, and feel how it feels to be twice as relaxed.

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From this place, imagine again how you would look if you were twice as relaxed once again as you are right now. Imagine floating into that more relaxed you. See with the eyes of your more relaxed s e l f, hear the sounds, feel how it feels to be twice as calm.