Your conscious mind is very good at working things and figuring things out. It really wants to understand the whys and wherefores of anything – that is perfectly natural to want to understand something.

However, your unconscious mind is acceptable to the simplest of language and lives in the now and holds such a vast source of tools and resources for your strengths, weaknesses and tools and resources, just waiting to be recognised and utilised. Your unconscious mind holds years and years of experiences, strategies and ways of dealing with the little challenges in life in a constructive way that suits you as an individual.

Self-hypnosis (and all hypnosis is self-hypnosis!) is a perfectly natural state of mind; just like the feeling before we go to sleep on an evening and wake in the morning. There is no right or wrong way to enter hypnosis – it is often helpful – in my experience of working with clients – for you to close your eyes to cut out distractions and take deep breathes to help you get plenty of oxygen into your blood stream as you relax and feel more comfortable.

When you close your eyes, switch on your CD or MP3 player, you may wonder if you are doing this self-hypnosis thing correctly. Just let yourself go and experience comfort the best way for you, give yourself permission to relax. If at first, it feels strange to close your eyes – then keep them open. It really doesn’t matter, so long as you enjoy the experience. In time, you will develop your own personal way of going in and out of self-hypnosis.