Who writes this
Hypnotisia is written and maintained by [Your full name], a [your health profession — e.g. registered nurse / physiotherapist / pharmacist] and the author of a full-length practical guide to traditional and Ericksonian self-hypnosis.
The interest started as a clinical one: watching how differently people respond to the same instruction, and how much of that difference comes down to the words used rather than the technique behind them. The book came out of several years of reading the original literature, testing protocols personally, and rewriting them until they could be followed without a practitioner in the room.
This site is the open part of that work.
Two gates
Almost everything written about self-hypnosis belongs to one of two traditions, and most sources teach only one of them without telling you the other exists.
Traditional
Direct and structured. Progressive relaxation, fixed inductions, counting down, clear present-tense suggestions. It suits people who like a sequence they can follow exactly.
Ericksonian
Indirect and permissive. Metaphor, open language, and the use of whatever is already happening — including your distraction — as the way in. It suits people who resist being told what to do.
The hybrid session
In practice the useful sessions borrow from both: the structure of the first to get you down, the flexibility of the second to keep you there. Most of what you will find here is built that way.
How the content is made
- Every article is written from scratch, not assembled from other blogs.
- Techniques are described the way they appear in the source literature, and are marked as traditional, Ericksonian, or hybrid so you know what you are practising.
- Claims stay inside what the method can actually do. Self-hypnosis is a skill for attention, relaxation, and rehearsal. It is not a treatment.
- Pages carry the date they were last reviewed, and are updated rather than left to age.
- Where a problem needs a clinician, the article says so instead of offering a breathing exercise.
What is free and what is not
The guided sessions, the articles, and the practice tools are free and require no account. There is no free trial that turns into a charge.
The book and the recorded session packs are paid, and the Android app is a separate product. That is the whole business model — no subscriptions, no upsell inside a session, no email required to use anything on this site.
An honest limit
Self-hypnosis is genuinely useful for sleep onset, everyday stress, focus, rehearsal before something difficult, and small behavioural changes you already want to make. It is not a treatment for depression, trauma, psychosis, or a sleep disorder, and no page here should be read as medical advice.
If something you are dealing with is persistent, worsening, or frightening, the right next step is a qualified professional — not a longer session.
Questions, corrections, or a technique that did not work as described? Write to me — corrections get published.