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Originally Posted by lalemma
That's true, I guess I can just buy the CDs and have iTunes rip them. I'm just so lazy, it's terrible.
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I know exactly what you mean. It only took me a few minutes to do it (broken up by doing other things at my desk while waiting for the CDs to rip) but it still annoyed me to have to do it.
It's nice having them on the iPod, though. I have a playlist for each script, so I don't have to worry about another script that I'm not supposed to listen to starting if I fall and stay asleep.
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Originally Posted by babymonster
I am undecided.
I have a friend who swears by it, but I suspect my personality may be a little too cynical for that type of program
I might just stick with affirmations... Hmm.
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Both DH and I have past history with/academic interest in hypnosis, and I've always considered myself "un-hypnotizable", thanks to being pretty analytical/skeptical and kind of a control freak. I always thought that in order for hypnosis to count for me, I had to be unable to break through it, so I'd constantly test it, and being strong-willed, I'd always break it. The Hypnobabies stuff, though, has done a pretty good job of convincing me (despite my skepticism and awareness of what they're doing) that kind of personality will actually be better hypnotized once you choose to be hypnotized, and that it's all in the choice. All hypnosis is self-hypnosis, they say, and all self-hypnosis is a choice.
For really analytical people, they suggest that you just focus on each word as it's said, one word at a time, with an open mind, rather than worrying about feeling/visualizing anything. This does seem to help when my brain is kind of restless and starts thinking about everything too hard.
The other day, my ear was starting to hurt because I was lying on it funny, and I wanted to move my head. It felt like I couldn't move it if I sort of pushed against the feeling of not being able to move gently...but I also knew very well that I could move it if I chose to. In the end, I decided that five more minutes of not being quite as comfortable as I would like was better than showing my brain that it could break the hypnosis if it wanted, and chose to stay "under".
Looking back on that has really helped me believe that this can work for me. I'm really kind of surprised and excited about this, even though I obviously felt the program was worth a shot to the point that I paid for it. Before, I had more of a "this might work, but either way it will help me relax if nothing else" attitude toward it before, but the more I choose to go along with it, the better it seems to work, which helps me choose to go along with it more readily the next time.
Personally, I find the affirmations bring out the skeptic in me more than the actual hypnosis does.
I guess it boils down to whether or not you think you can get your skeptical mind to choose to pretend the hypnosis works for long enough to give it a chance to work. I'm still skeptical of some of the claims of the program, but I'm trying to even pretend that those will happen for me...the worst that can happen is that I'm wrong, and I'm in the same boat I would've been in anyway, but maybe with some extra ability to relax to help me along.