FAQs | Ripples Hypnotherapy

How to listen...

You can lay down in savasana or remain upright in a comfortable chair, ideally a little reclined so your muscles aren't 'working'. Ensure your head and neck are supported and airways are clear.
You're not expected to sit or lie perfectly still. In fact, moving around helps the energy move. It's normal to need to make adjustments throughout the experience.
Set the scene — the experience is what you make it. Dim the lights. Add some aromas if you like. Ensure you won't be disrupted for the duration of the recording.
If you're holding lots of energy in the body and can't settle, you can try stretching throughout the intro to release some energy. What is your body asking for?
After the recording, spend a few moments connecting your feet to the floor (ideally barefoot on the Earth) to ground yourself, and stretch the body as required. You might also like to take a moment to self-massage any areas of focus to help move the energy physically.
Try to take 5 - 10 minutes following the recording to simply be, noticing your energy, before moving onto the next thing.

When to listen...

Select your hypnosis according to your current mood/main concern of the day. Again, trust what you're drawn to.
Each recording has a suggested frequency on the product page, but adjust as needed. If you want to do it — do it. Sometimes a recording is not the mood one day and just the thing the next.
If you're feeling stuck on a looping thought pattern, try putting on a recording in the background. Notice if and how your energy changes as a result of loosely focussing on uplifting messages.
If you listen just before bed, you'll likely fall asleep — which is just as restorative.

Repeat as needed

You will sense whether it's time to re-experience the recording.

What is hypnosis like?

It's like a guided meditation or a yoga Nidra experience. My voice will guide you, but it's natural to drift off and come back. Practicing softly focused attention on what is emerging within you is what we're doing in sessions and hypnosis recordings.

Implanting suggestions

While the essence of hypnosis is suggestion, you needn't worry about being controlled or unduly influenced — the force in which the subconscious rejects ideas it doesn't agree with is quite absolute in hypnosis. It will bypass and dismiss irrelevant details quickly and absolutely.

It's not logical

Through visualisation and somatic experiencing, hypnosis activates the limbic brain — the gateway to the subconscious. This processing centre of the brain is an entirely different processing centre to the language/logical areas of the brain. It processes data as feelings, imagery, sensation and symbols.

As such, there's no need to try to figure it out, or try to make sense of what happens during and/or after the experience. The intention of hypnosis is healing and relief, so the more you can settle in and allow, the better the reverberating effects. This is the benefit of having recordings that you can revisit — with each experience, you relax (and discover) even more.

And, also note that although the hypnosis experience isn't logical, the science backing them is sound, and much research goes into formulating these experiences based actual findings and peer reviewed work. (You can learn more about recent discoveries on the Blog or Patreon)

What if I fall asleep?

It happens a lot, especially if you're overworked or your body is overloaded with stress. Be open to the idea of absorbing the benefits of the experience regardless of whether you remain totally present or not — with intent, the subconscious remains aware. You'll likely drift in and out if you've got a lot on your mind, and that's okay. You won't miss anything.

I still fall asleep quite often. The subconscious gets what it needs.

How do I know if it worked?

If you felt relief for a moment — it worked.

If you received one insight to help with next steps — it worked.

If you feel a little more at peace or a little more spacious — it worked.

If your perspective has shifted slightly — it worked.

Not for everyone

My style of hypnosis is not for everyone. If you find you don't resonate with my approach, I can certainly recommend some talented colleagues.

Terminology

You may notice reference to 'The Universe' or 'energy' in some of the recordings on this website — if this language doesn't resonate with you, you can trust your subconscious will easily substitute your preferred term in place, or easily bypass that section of the experience.

Terms

Please read the terms of use before undergoing a hypnosis experience..

There is no 'mind control'

"I can only hypnotise you, by you hypnotising yourself. I can only help you by you helping yourself." — Michael Yapko

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