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how do Head-Cleaners   hypnosis CDs & hypnosis tapes work   & what do I do & what do I expect? how do head-cleaners work? what are the general goals? what is the use of hypnosis in this? what are the tactics and strategies used? why aren't more hammers and whips used? what do I do? what is expected that the listener do? how often should a listener listen? what do I expect? what is a listening listener's experience like? what is a listening listener's experience like over time? how do head-cleaners work? what are the general goals? There are basically two sets of goals in every Head-Cleaners hypnosis CD and hypnosis tape 1) fostering and instilling new tendencies, perspectives, tricks, strategic ideas, etc. that are intended to right away help or achieve the basic goals of the recording (e.g., sleep, relaxation, confidence, hand warming), and 2) fostering and instilling positive attitudes, self-confidence, faith in self, self-esteem and hopefulness The primary goals are basically focused changes how things are looked at and how things are dealt with. Changes in mental mechanisms are sometimes suggested. These changes are relatively radical and can usually be expected after the first or second listening to a Head-Cleaners hypnosis CD or tape. Secondary goals are not just tossed in for filler or fun. They provide longer-lasting positive changes that promote the a sustaining of the primary changes that are the goal of the hypnosis recording (like confident performance or ability to get to sleep). Increased hopefulness, positive self-esteem, etc., make it more likely that any other positive changes will be long term positive changes. Changes in the secondary goals -- stable, long-lasting changes in self-esteem, general attitude and hopefulness -- can be expected to be slower growing and less obvious right at first. how do head-cleaners work? what is the use of hypnosis in this? Hypnosis is a state of mind, a condition of thinking, that is characterized by a special sort of an openness to new ideas at a very basic, fundamental level of thinking. This isn't an openness that would make the individual vulnerable to being taken advantage of but it is an openness that makes it possible to reason with parts of the mental machinery where ideas can become fixed even though counterproductive. Being anxious about performance, for example, happens because of a sense of danger in doing badly. Unfortunately, though, the anxiety about doing badly actually then causes the individual to do badly. But that decision about the dangerousness of performing badly happens at a deep level of thinking where it isn't so easy to be rational. One cannot generally just decide not to be anxious. At these deeper levels, however, accessible via hypnosis, it is possible to decide not to be anxious about performance. Hypnosis allows a greater degree of communication with these basic levels of thinking. Decisions about anxiety, perspective, relaxation, self-image, general hopefulness -- even how much blood flow is going to hands and feet -- can be influenced using hypnosis. Hypnosis can help with emotional and physical healing and challenges related to thoughts, reactions, recollections, attitude, perception, perspective, performance and/or urge. how do head-cleaners work? what are the tactics and strategies used? Head-Cleaners are crafted using Ericksonian indirect, permissive strategic methods and relying on cognitive-behavioral attention to perspectives and thoughts. Milton Erickson was the primary force behind including hypnosis in modern medicine. He made innumerable observations about how people think and how they are best persuaded. One of his primary rules of thumb was that people do not like to be forced and pushed to do anything -- even people that think they do. His position was that all hypnotic interventions are best presented in a manner that makes it very clear that the subject or listener has full control over whether he or she does what is suggested. He also pointed out that most people who look for help with a difficulty already know how to handle similar issues and situations and are just somehow snagged that they are not handling the issue at hand in the same way. He pointed out that it is often very helpful to simply remind people that they can do what they want to do and that they do in fact to what they want in other ways. He was also a strong advocate for the general belief that people are in general very functional and, for almost all people, anything wrong is due to small, simple glitches in their coping strategies. Erickson believed, too, that hypnosis should always be crafted in very vague terms so that the individual's own mind could fill in the blanks in a way that individualized the experience for him or her particular problems. Erickson also pioneered the use of clauses within sentences to foster imbedded suggestions and said that confusion was a positive state of mind when it came to helping people intervene in cycles of unfortunate, impractical behavior or thinking. Head-Cleaners hypnosis recordings are built of and on these beliefs and strategies -- suggesting specifically inspecific changes in ways that the listener can feel completely in control. Suggestions are for the most part very permissive (e.g., "you can imagine being able to..." rather than "you will do..."), indirect (e.g., imagining a time when you had confidence will increase confidence now), strategic (e.g., you can learn to use forgetting when it comes to performance, allowing yourself to forget to be to remember to be anxious). Sentences are spoken in long, clause-heavy, sometimes confusing ways that are intended to speak to the left side of the listener's brain while taking advantage of the right. Again and again the phrase is in one way or another repeated: "...whatever is in your best interests, whenever it is in your best interests" how do head-cleaners work? why aren't more hammers and whips used? I find it amazing how often people tell me they want help and would prefer it be via some sort of whip or a hammer. "Whip me, pound me, beat me into shape." "I want none of that cuddly, coddling, comforting crap!" They want help dieting via hypnotically turning cake into some poisonous -tasting. They want to quit smoking by having someone hypnotize them into thinking the next cigarette will explode in their throat. They want to stop being anxious by having it pounded out of them. However, as fun as being whipped and hammered might seem potentially to be to some people, I have to say it is a very hard thing to do -- making improvements using hammers and whips. It is an extention of the idea that hurting someone will make them a better person. Yes, sometimes a good spanking is just what a guy needs. Sometimes. But most times a good spanking messes with self-esteem, messes with self-confidence, messes with motivation for excellence and makes a guy motivated mostly by the idea of avoiding the spanking. Aversive consequences are very different as compared to positive consequences. They operate in different places in the thinking, in different ways, and with much different effect. And, to the extent that they do act in similar ways -- with respect to generalizing (spreading out to other things like an infection), for example, it is far healthier to have a positive suggestion generalize to similar other areas of life than to have an aversive suggestion generalize into other areas. Timing makes aversives tough, too -- very tough. Aversive things in life need to be applied with precision to keep them from causing unwanted harm. Positive, healthy things need much less precision. If you were to want to help a child learn to stop and look carefully before crossing the street, for example, and you gave a reward after seeing that the child did carefully behave properly before he went across the street, you could give the reward at the time or at any time later -- even weeks later. However, if you were to want to establish an anxious reaction in a child's mind that would cause a brief anxious alert just prior to crossing the street without looking, this would take some very careful timing. To get the child to be anxious about crossing without looking you would need to apply the aversive (e.g., a frightful scream) at the precise moment the child was in motion to cross the street with enough time prior to actually going into the street so the child could actually avoid going into the street. If you yell at him after he goofs up, your yelling gets applied in his head to whatever he was doing when you started yelling. A lot of kids, when they are being yelled at for something that happened at another time, end up learning more about the yeller and about the advisability of hanging around where the yeller can see them. The correct time to apply an aversive -- a scream -- in this instant is when the child is at the right spot and he or she will thereafter become a little anxious if they begin to go across the street without looking. Scream a few seconds too soon or too late and you make the child anxious about lawn furniture, you, or any number of unfortunate things; you mess with his self-esteem and his understanding of cause and effect. Aversiveness is a WAY harder deal than reward; negative is a WAY more tweaky thing to deal with than positive. Head-Cleaners hypnosis CDs and tapes do not use aversive techniques. what do I do? what is expected that the listener do? This is very easy. Have and use some decent headphones (some very cheap ones make the recording sound very crappy). Do not be driving machinery or doing anything (baking, child care) that requires your attention. Do not try keep yourself alert and mindful of every little thing and every word that is said. The Head-Cleaners tapes and CDs are hypnosis recordings -- not just "relaxation tapes" -- though relaxation is usually part of the reaction of each. The wording is sometimes complex and may seem to require effort to catch everything -- but you are not supposed to do any hard work at listening. You are simply supposed to be in a comfortable, safe place with nothing in your mouth. Be well rested. Have 40 to 60 minutes during which you can expect not to be interrupted by anything not an emergency. Listen and let your mind pay attention to whatever it wants. When your mind wanders, it wanders. All you need to do, with regard to concentrating, is just not be involved in any other activity that might require concentration or might require your attention. Otherwise, just listen as you want. Let yourself follow one side or the other, or listen back and forth, or don't even worry about listening at all. If you find yourself being very distracted off and on, that's okay -- it's just your mind reminding itself that it is in full control. If you find yourself unable to focus on everything presented (especially when there are two different things being said), that's fine, too -- it's even more or less supposed to happen. Many listeners find that the best time for listening is right before going to sleep -- using a comfortable pair of earphones and listening as they lay in bed awaiting sleep onset. Most people find that they sort of half wake up when the tape or CD is over and take the earphones off and go back to sleep. Though there is no evidence that having a recording on while sleeping does anything, there is some good evidence that listening to something right before going to sleep promotes a stronger effect of the material heard. Eyes can be open or closed during the listening experience. Or they can be closed, then open, then closed, etc. If you wear contacts, take them out if you want to keep your eyes open because your blinking may be reduced If you are nervous about the idea of listening to a hypnosis CD or hypnosis tape, email me - Dr. J - for the transcript and I will send you the url to the transcript of the recording your'e purchasing or thinking of purchasing. Knowing what is said makes it easier to relax and not get worried when you think you missed something. Reading the transcript will not hurt the hypnosis experience. what do I do? how often should a hypnosis CD/tape listener listen? There is also no firm guideline as to how often you listen though it is probably best not to listen to a hypnosis recording more than one time a day. Just listen as you feel comfortable with the idea of working on your goals and changes. The reason for no more than one hypnosis listening per day is so there is no counterproductive overloading that can mess up memory and processing. The personal growth aspects (see goal #2 above in the first section) of listening to a hypnosis recording grow like seedlings in the mind. The "trickier" aspects (see goal #1 above) of hypnosis effects -- just helping reduce nagging thoughts, forgetting to remember, remembering to forget, not noticing hunger pangs, feeling very positive about self control, etc. -- cannot be expected to become more intense or effective with multiple listenings in the same day. It is much more possible that listening to two recordings or one recording twice in the same day will result in a sort of overload where memory won't work as effectively as it would otherwise. what do I expect? what is a listening listener's experience like? When listening to a Head-Cleaners hypnosis CD or tape, you will be hearing two separate recordings -- one in the left channel of your headphones and one in the right. Both are the same voice (mine, Dr. J.) and they are going to be saying very similar things except for once in awhile when they talk about different things at the same time. When there are two things being said, you can expect to miss some of the words and you can expect to be a bit confused at times. It is normal at first to find yourself distracted, uncomfortable or obviously having a difficult time "getting fully into" a hypnosis experience. Some people are the first few times they listen. Others find it is only the first few minutes. Most people have some unconscious monitoring processes that seem to want to assure that no control is lost by "awakening" or distracting the listener now and then during the first listening or two to a hypnosis recording. This is just your brain making sure that there is no loss of control and that nothing tricky or heavy handed is being done. You may or may not find yourself "awakening" -- reorienting to your experience and feeling you may have fallen asleep. If you are fairly well rested it is not as likely you fell asleep, though. Many people believe they may have fallen asleep during hypnosis. This is a very common experience, though not mandatory. The term "hypnosis" more or less means "sleep-like state." Though you may believe you fell asleep, it doesn't mean you did. If you find yourself "awakening," for example, as the tape/CD player turns off, you can probably be assured that you are reorienting back to your present surroundings because you were all along listening and "awoke" when the recording said it was time to. [ Don't expect to get full effects of a hypnosis recording if you actually do fall asleep, though. If you want full effects, listen when not exhausted. On the other hand, if you go to sleep following listening to a hypnosis recording, you may actually get slightly better effects because whatever we learn just before sleep tends to get into memory storage more effectively. Many people find, too, that when very stressed it is helpful to listen to a hypnosis recording at bedtime because it aids in getting to sleep and having a deeper, more relaxing sleep -- even if some of the material on the tape or CD is missed because of sleep. ] what do I expect? what is a listening listener's experience like over time? For some things that people use hypnosis recordings for, with a listen or two, the issue is over. However, for many issues -- especially complicated issues like self-confidence, fears, depression -- it can be the case that self improvement is a process of doing better, then going awhile without improvement, then doing better. Lots of people who struggle with complex challenges like anxiousness, depression, confidence, self-esteem, etc., find that using one of the Head-Cleaners hypnosis recordings is very helpful after just one or two listenings and that it seems they benefit further from listening every day or every few days. Then, after having used their recording(s) for several days or weeks, they feel comfortable "taking time off" from the effort on self-improvement. Then, days, weeks, months or years later, one thing or another gets them stressed, anxious or upset and they pull out their recording(s) for a "booster" listen or to start a routine listening program. Users of Head-Cleaners hypnosis recordings who have purchased multiple recordings report finding that they work on self improvement, then take time off till life throws challenges and issues at them when they find that they experience an urge to re-listen to one particular recording or another for a few listenings. For any particular stress or anxiety that the individual may be dealing with, one or two of the recordings will seem like a better idea to listen to than the others and it is usually the case that it helps a lot to listen to them over a few days -- during which time there is some degree of emotional growth with each listening until the challenge has been dealt with. Then they put them away until the next time. Head-Cleaners users have reported finding their recordings helpful in making gains in self-esteem, confidence, hopefulness, etc., with each cycle of using them. Some listeners have been using their recordings at times of stress and distress for decades. head-cleaners.com home page head-cleaners for kids a catalogue of head-cleaners hypnosis CDs and tapes head-cleaners testimonials head-cleaners guarantee

TAKE NOTE: It's important to give yourself permission to consult a professional if you need one. Just as its important to get to a doctor if you're severely injured, and in borderline cases of injury it's better to waste the time it takes to go see a doctor than risk that you should have -- and just as one should not goof around with bandaids when an artery is gushing -- it's important to consult a psychologist, psychiatrist or other counselor or physician -type professional if you believe you might, in fact, need one. You might take a look at the comments on finding a therapist for some tips.

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