What is hypnosis? Contrary to what we might think, hypnosis is not what we may have seen in our favorite movies. You don’t need a stuffy psychiatrist in an English looking sport-coat swinging a golden pocket watch back and forth in front of your face. Nor does it require a fast talking evangelist style person on a stage to put you into some kind of catatonic trance and then snap his fingers and make you quack like a duck. Those things are great for movies but in reality, thankfully, it’s a little more subtle and simple.

Hypnosis is simply the use of common relaxation techniques to enter a very deeply relaxed state. That’s it. There’s really nothing magical or complex about it. Also, while practicing and studying the arts and techniques of hypnosis can certainly help you to achieve this relaxed state faster and more effectively, you don’t need a degree or certification to be able to do it. If I had a nickel for every program out there offering certificates for hypnotherapy, needless to say, I’d have a lot of nickels! We’ll get to some techniques you can use to practice this yourself in a moment.

Why use hypnosis for building confidence? As I mentioned before, during hypnosis, you enter a deeply relaxed state. In this state, you are able to access your unconscious or subconscious mind much more effectively. Because of this, certain repetitive suggestions can powerfully affect the deep parts of your mind where you core feelings and thoughts reside. Once you are able to access your subconscious mind, often you can purge many of the stale negative thoughts that are stagnating there and replace them with positive and more helpful ideas or thoughts by using hypnotic suggestions. Several programs out there have been using these techniques quite effectively to help people achieve many forms of personal growth.

This works for building confidence the same way it might work for improving your positive outlook, combating depression, fighting stress, overcoming addiction, self esteem issues or anything else that is significantly affected by our subconscious thoughts. Using this technique can also help you eliminate self doubt and destructive negative inner dialog and thus improve your self confidence indirectly. Achieving a more positive idea of self can improve many different aspects of your life and for some people it will prove to be almost vital for any kind of success and happiness.

What not to do… You may not realize this but you likely perform negative self hypnosis on yourself on a regular basis. Most of us do. We have bad habits such as pessimism (often sold as realism,) sarcasm, cynicism and simply fearing and dwelling on the worst case scenarios in our lives.

We develop these habits into deeply rooted patterns and conduct very repetitive inner dialogs of negativity. These subtle but frequent negative suggestions begin to filter down into our subconscious mind and get comfortable there. It just feels safer to expect the worst. This is a self defense mechanism attempting to protect us from disappointment. Ignorantly, our mind feels that if it expects failure, it won’t be hurt if that failure becomes reality. In truth, your mind will seek that safety and begin to manifest failure in your life. Your mind begins to associate that feeling of safety with failure. It prefers it to the pressure and stress of facing scary situations.

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