These days, people are now going back to older and natural practices because they know that the modern times have been causing them too much stress. Of all the means of relaxation out there, more and more people are looking to experience the benefits of self-hypnosis. Because of its effectiveness in terms of calming the mind and developing a person's level of intuition, self-hypnosis is now being performed not just a means of clearing the mind and inner reflection but also to help various illnesses in the mind, emotions, and physical aspects.

Self-hypnosis and its benefits

One of the most notable benefits of self-hypnosis is that it greatly helps the person's physical state. Among the physical benefits of self-hypnosis involves the heart through a deep rest because it decreases the person's metabolic rate as well as the heart rate, which leads to the decrease in workload for the heart. Also, self-hypnosis can lower the levels of an individual’s cortisol as well as dissolving the chemicals that are tightly associated with everyday stress. Other physical benefits of self-hypnosis also include less free radicals in the body by eliminating oxygen molecules that are unstable, decreases in individual’s high blood pressure, developed ability to have more resistant skin, improved air flow to the lungs to aid easy breathing, and slowed biological aging in older people.

When it comes to psychological factors, self-hypnosis helps in improving a person's brain wave coherence, decreasing anxiety levels, often irritability, deep-set depression and mood swings, improves the person's memory as well as his or her learning ability, increases the person's ability for self-actualization, increases the person's feeling of youthfulness and rejuvenation as well as vitality, leads to a positive outlook in life and joyfulness, and increases a person's emotional status and stability. Other noted benefits of self-hypnosis for an individual and his or her community include:

• relaxation to the person's the body, mind, and soul,

• rejuvenation of energy to face the heavy challenges and stress ahead,

• healing of various illnesses that are closely-associated with the mind and the body,

• making a more stable person in terms of emotions,

• developments of relaxed family life and instilling positive outlooks in life to younger people,

• enhances the person's ability to make his or her mind function properly,

• letting a person discover his or her inner self, this in turn releases the creativity in the,

• it helps people to free themselves from various vices and addictions such as alcohol and cigarettes as well as in various medications such as tranquilizers and narcotics,

• it also helps a person to gain higher self-confidence, thus, resulting to stronger power of the will,

• it can be an effective and safe way of discovering one's self instead of focusing the attention to other unhealthy practices, and

• it aids in the development of the power of the mind.

The list goes on about the benefits of self-hypnosis in a person and to his or her community. In so many instances, these are positive benefits but if self-hypnosis is not used properly, people should be aware of the side effects. To avoid this from happening, people who are planning to get serious in self-hypnosis should always consult a professional before performing the practice.