Books, CDs, and articles by
Dr. Charles Henderson, a leading researcher and authority on self-hypnosis.

 

I bought your book, self-hypnosis, for the life you want, a week ago and am thoroughly enthralled with it. You answered so many questions that I have spent many an eon looking into. It is so good that I just ordered another hardbound book for my business partner.

As the author, I am happy that some of my colleagues have rated this "one of the best books on hypnosis ever written for the non-professional." But the fact is, I'm not the only author here. We all did it, everyone of the thousands over the years who volunteered for   experiments, helped with logistics and data collection and analysis, and participated in numerous other ways. Bless them all, every one!

What I tried to do with this book, our book—and according to feedback from readers I believe I succeeded—was make it a layered text that goes from light to heavy.

Here's what I mean. If all you want is to know the basics of self-hypnosis and how to apply it to the most obvious things that need changing in your life, you can do that. Or if you want to really dig into the subject (and your own psyche), all the tools are here for that, too. So you can get as lightly or as heavily involved with self-hypnosis and your own inner mental workings as you like.

In our years of research it was very clear that success at anything—losing weight, quitting smoking, memory improvement, controlling things like shyness or fear, in fact anything that depends on a person's own efforts—always requires subconscious agreement with the conscious goal.

That, then, is the primary objective of the methods presented in this book: to bring the subconscious into alignment with conscious goals. Without that agreement, failure is usually the outcome.

But with agreement, success is almost always easy. Certainly easier, anyway. And more complete and satisfying.

 Table of Contents (partial)

• Steps for Change

• Autoquestioning

• Suggestion

• Self-Hypnosis

• The Hypnotic State

• Induction Procedure

• Self-Hypnotic Induction Script

• Alternative Deepening Techniques

• Progressive Relaxation

• The Myth of Willpower

• Subliminal Perception

• Subconscious Logic

• Primary Functions of the Subconscious

• Ideomotor Techniques

• Chevreul Pendulum

• Getting Answers from the Subconscious

• Suggestion Formulation and Application

These and all the other techniques presented in this book have been proved in practice by more than 40,000 people of all ages and from all  walks of life who attended seminars I conducted all over the United States. They gave me lots of invaluable feedback.