Lose Weight, Stop Fingernail Biting, and Make More Money!

Those are just a few of the things this book promises you can do.

I have to admit, when a friend first handed me this book, I thanked her and pretended to be interested, but my mind was really thinking “oh geez, do people really believe in this stuff?” I know I didn’t.

I took the book home and tossed it on my shelf and forgot about it. Or I tried to anyway. My friend is a very determined person and she kept asking me about it and, for a while, I kept making excuses for why I hadn’t read it yet. Eventually, I gave in and read it just so I could tell my friend I had and get her to leave me alone. It wasn’t enough. Once I read it, she pestered me to actually TRY it.

Reluctantly, I agreed and decided to try the script to end fingernail biting. I’ve been a fingernail biter since I was a kid. My mom tried everything she could think of to break me of the habit. Nothing worked. I just kept right on doing it. I don’t do it on purpose. It’s an  unconscious habit that occurs when I’m intensely focused on something else. I don’t even realize I’m doing it. For most of my life, fingernails of any length have been non-existent for me. I certainly didn’t believe this little book would change anything.

I decided to go the route of recording the script myself on my computer and making an mp3 out of it, so I could listen to it every day on my mp3 player instead of reading it out of the book. It seemed like the easiest way to do it and I, certainly, wasn’t going to waste money buying a commercial self-hypnosis tape.

I listened to that silly mp3 every day for two weeks and didn’t notice any change in myself at all, so I quit doing it. I satisfied my friend’s request to try it and that was it. End of story.

At least, I thought so.

Move ahead about a month or so later and I’m having lunch with that same friend. We’re chatting away when suddenly she gasps and says “You have fingernails! When did you start growing your fingernails?”

Completely bewildered, I look down at my hands and, yes, I have fingernails. Not exactly something unusual. Everybody grows fingernails. I point out that fact of nature to her only to have her remind me that I’ve always bitten my nails, for as long as she’s known me.

That’s when it hit me. I had STOPPED biting my fingernails. COMPLETELY. I never even realized it. It just happened. Listening to that silly mp3 for just 2 weeks had put an end to a bad habit that I’d had for years and it didn’t take an ounce of willpower on my part to do it. In that moment, I was amazed. I was also convinced. Self hypnosis CAN work.

Even more surprising, and this really shocked my friend, is that it worked so completely after listening to my recording for such a short period of time. My friend spends a lot of money buying professional recordings and listening to them day after day for months on end. She does get results, but not as quickly as I did and they don’t last if she stops listening.

I wondered about this and started doing a little research. I didn’t find much information out there but I did find a few articles that suggest self-recorded scripts work better and have more dramatic results because your subconscious mind accepts your own voice with more authority than the voice of a stranger. It certainly seems true in my case.

If you have a habit you’d like to break or some changes you’d like to make in your life, I suggest you give Instant Self Hypnosis a try. It’s a relatively inexpensive book, so you don’t have much to lose and if you want to try recording your own mp3, you can download a free audio recording/editing  program called Audacity, which is easy to use and does the job perfectly.

I’d love to hear stories from others who’ve had experiences with hypnosis or self-hypnosis. Did it work for you? Please leave a comment and tell me your story.