Why You Should Be Hypnotizing Yourself All The Time (Yes, Really)

The bottom line is that hypnosis is extremely powerful and likely the most effective self-development tool you haven’t tried yet. It can be used to transform any limiting habits, beliefs, or emotions in your life, including anything and everything that is hindering your creativity. It’s thrilling and rewarding work, especially because of how quickly you can see results.

We begin by removing the two biggest blocks to creativity: stress and self-doubt.

While deactivating the blaring alarm of survival mode (aka the stress state) won’t necessarily allow you to see or prove the creative forces flowing through you, it will absolutely help you to notice when inspiration arrives and cultivate it immediately.

Next, we have to make sure self-doubt doesn’t sabotage your discovery of this new, delicate piece of inspiration. We need to get out of our own way, relax, and trust the whispers to see where they lead. Not every idea needs to be perfect or groundbreaking, but shutting ideas down or being overly negative about your talents and abilities is a feedback loop that leads right back to higher levels of stress, making it very difficult to hear the next whisper.

These are the six steps I use to help my clients break out of this stress/self-doubt cycle and open up to an endless wave of creativity.

Relax your entire body, especially your jaw and shoulders. The psychophysiological connection is really powerful. By actively relaxing our bodies, we’re sending a message to our minds that it’s safe to relax.

A deepening technique in hypnotherapy is what allows us to access the theta brainwave state. This is our most creative state, one where problem-solving becomes effortless and new ideas flow freely, without criticism from ego. Take a few deep breaths to tune out the surrounding noise and enter this state.

The truth is, our subconscious is always trying to help us. It just sometimes falls way short by thinking that a neurotic behavior, limiting belief, or out-of-whack emotional response is actually benefiting us in some way. Once you are relaxed, start internally telling your stress that it’s hurting you and not helping you and provide your subconscious with a healthy alternative.

For unleashing creativity, I love visualizing a fountain or a faucet turning on—one that continues to flow and flow and flow with ideas. All you need to do is fill up your pail, carry it back to desk or studio, and see where these new ideas lead you. Imagine both accessing new ideas as well as following through with their execution easily and effortlessly, all the while being kind to yourself. For many of you, this will be the first time you ever create something with a fully supportive mental narrative running in the background, and it will be life-changing.

This step is what strengthens everything that came before it. We repeat, repeat, repeat, giving those new neural connections lots of nourishment so that they can overpower the old way of thinking and behaving.

Now it’s your turn to experience these six steps in action. The power of hypnotherapy awaits along with the joy that comes from silencing unnecessary survival mode alarms, transforming self-doubt into curiosity, and letting those ideas continue to flow day and night.