A Wonderful Book

I'm only halfway through and I can already recommend this book highly.

Sadly, hypnotherapy suffers from a tragic lack of legitimacy among many people, who link it to mind control, manipulation, and hocus pocus. Even among those better informed, there are difficulties. Hypnotic techniques work in subterranean ways that remain challenging to understand and difficult to credit, even when they very clearly work. Even old hands are regularly astonished at its effectiveness, and there’s a lot we still don’t know.

What’s increasingly beyond doubt is that hypnosis is incredibly effective and efficient in relieving pain and helping us create decisive shifts of many kinds. We need books just like this one - accessible, simple to follow, and enjoyable to use.

For skeptics, the issue of manipulation is moot here, because with self-hypnosis we become the source of our own "strategic self-deception." The book does a good job of helping the analytic part of us understand, and there's a healthy sprinkling of experiential evidence delivered via its interactive format. For example, early on we see how simply ‘allowing in’ an idea as potentially true can alter our state (nervous system, emotions, physical comfort) and our behaviour. The evidence builds in part through our recognition of the changes we see in ourselves as we practice. And the committed reader WILL see changes. Quickly.

As a bonus, Anthony's voice is lovely to listen to. The perspectives he offers are fresh and convincing. Nothing here is overstated and much is quotable. The author hopes to reposition hypnosis to its rightful place. That place, he argues, is alongside meditation, mindfulness, chanting, dance, prayer, song and storytelling --among the many methods of comfort and empowerment that have been valued parts of human cultural practice for millenia. That is exactly right, in my opinion. Well done!!

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