Autohypnosis (self-hypnosis, autogenic training) has the same principles of influence on the human body and consciousness as heterogypnosis, only the hypnotist itself is the object of hypnosis. The main components of any hypnotic session are trance and suggestion, the differences are the ways of entering a trance and the goals of hypnosis, which are realized at the stage of suggestion.
Instructions
Step 1
An autohypnosis session consists of two sequential stages - entering into a trance and suggestion. Affirmations are self-suggestion without trance, meditation is a state of trance without the stage of suggestion, autohypnosis combines both approaches, which explains its high efficiency in the process of working on oneself.
Step 2
The state of trance or altered consciousness during autohypnosis is based on mental self-regulation. One of the most common ways to go into a trance in an independent hypnotic session is deep relaxation by relaxing the skeletal and cutaneous muscles. At the same time, the work of all the main systems of the body is stabilized, primarily the autonomic nervous system, where active recovery processes are launched in a trance state. Breathing is leveled, heart rate variability is normalized, and the frequency of brain waves is reduced. With regular practice of autohypnosis, you can learn to consistently immerse your consciousness from the beta waves characteristic of the waking state to the alpha, theta and even delta waves, which in natural conditions are most active only during deep sleep.
Step 3
During autohypnosis, the focus of attention, concentration is narrowed, which leads to a partial depersonalization of consciousness. This process provides a reduction in the criticality of consciousness, which is necessary for the suggestion stage. In other words, the filter of the “possible” is removed. When this filter is deactivated, the brain begins to pass statements that in the normal state of consciousness it would filter out as unrealizable. For example, if it is natural for you to be convinced of the lack of literary talent, and during a session of auto-hypnosis you convince yourself of the opposite, you will soon notice changes on a conscious level and begin to express yourself more freely in creativity.
Step 4
At the stage of self-hypnosis in a trance state, at low frequencies of brain waves, the mirror neurons of the brain are activated. Mirror neurons were discovered by the Italian neuroscientist Giacomo Rizzolatti in 1992 and are known to play an important role in learning and behavioral modeling. Thanks to the activation of mirror neurons, the recording or rewriting of new verbal attitudes and visual images, positive instead of negative, is realized at the biochemical level.
Step 5
Autohypnosis also activates the processes of neurogenesis, as a result of which new neuromaps are created for the desired skills. In other words, in an autohypnosis session, you independently create the neurophysiological basis for positive changes in your behavior and thinking. The components of psychic self-regulation and the dopaminergic reward system of the brain reinforce these changes, so that they persist after the end of the hypnotic session.
