by Annie Brunson

In just a couple of days you can be selling a hypnosis product online and making money even while you sleep! If you are a talented hypnotist or hypnotherapist, you've got your content. The only thing remaining is knowing how to properly record a quality MP3 file or CD. In this article I'm going to show you how to create your own hypnosis or guided meditation product. I'll take you from recording your script through a way to convert it into an income stream.

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Joseph O'Connor is one of the best known and respected trainers of NLP and coaching in the world. He has taught in North and South America, Hong Kong and Singapore, (where he was awarded the medal of the National Community Leadership Institute), New Zealand and many European Countries. Joseph has been a visiting member of the faculty for NLP University in Santa Cruz, California, and a visiting trainer with NLP Comprehensive. Joseph has worked with many companies as a trainer and consultant, including BA, HP Invent, and the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) in Vienna, consulting on Industrial co-operation projects in developing countries. He is the author of seventeen books translated into twenty four languages, including many of the best selling and most respected books. He was the first author outside the United States to write an NLP book. His book, Introducing NLP has been used for over ten years as the basic reference book for NLP study and has sold over 100,000 copies. Joseph is co-founder of Lambent do Brasil. He lived in the UK for many years and now lives in Brazil.

Comment on: Conscious Cogn. 2010 Dec;19(4):1140-50.

This commentary reflects on the varieties of high hypnotizable subjects suggested in the works by Barber, Barrett, Pekala and colleagues, and Terhune and Cardeña (2010). These different studies point to the existence of different types of low, medium, and high hypnotizable subjects. However, types of high hypnotizables have received the most attention. Two main concerns are raised in this commentary: (a) drawing parallels between the suggested typologies is not without problems given methodological differences among different studies, and (b) the low base rates of these special types is likely not to appeal to a typical clinician, already resistant to testing for hypnotizability, to conduct initial assessments so as to tailor suggestion to fit specific typologies.

Conscious Cogn. 2010 Dec;19(4):1151-3; discussion 1154-5. Epub 2010 Apr 28. Kumar VK. Department of Psychology, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, West Chester, PA 19383, United States. Kkumar@wcupa.edu

The advent of real-time neurofeedback techniques has allowed us to begin to map the controllability of sensory and cognitive and, more recently, affective centers in the brain. The subgenual anterior cingulate cortex (sACC) is thought to be involved in generation of affective states and has been implicated in psychopathology. In this study, we examined whether individuals could use real-time fMRI neurofeedback to modulate sACC activity. Following a localizer task used to identify an sACC region of interest, an experimental group of eight women participated in four scans: (1) a pretraining scan in which they were asked to decrease activity in the sACC without neurofeedback; (2) two training scans in which sACC neurofeedback was presented along with instructions to decrease sACC activity; and (3) a neurofeedback-free post-training scan. An additional nine women in a yoked feedback control group saw sACC activity from the participants in the experimental group. Activity in the sACC was significantly reduced during neurofeedback training in the experimental group, but not in the control group. This training effect in the experimental group, however, did not generalize to the neurofeedback-free post-training scan. A psychophysiological interaction analysis showed decreased correlation in the experimental group relative to the sham control group between activity in the sACC and the posterior cingulate cortex during neurofeedback training relative to neurofeedback-free scans. The finding that individuals can down-modulate the sACC shows that a primary emotion center in which functional abnormality has been strongly implicated in affective disorders can be controlled with the aid of neurofeedback. Copyright © 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

Hum Brain Mapp. 2011 Jan;32(1):22-31. doi: 10.1002/hbm.20997. Hamilton JP, Glover GH, Hsu JJ, Johnson RF, Gotlib IH. Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA. paul.hamilton@stanford.edu paul.hamilton@stanford.edu

Full title: Mood color choice helps to predict response to hypnotherapy in patients with irritable bowel syndrome.

BACKGROUND: Approximately two thirds of patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) respond well to hypnotherapy. However, it is time consuming as well as expensive to provide and therefore a way of predicting outcome would be extremely useful. The use of imagery and color form an integral part of the hypnotherapeutic process and we have hypothesised that investigating color and how it relates to mood might help to predict response to treatment. In order to undertake this study we have previously developed and validated a method of presenting colors to individuals for research purposes called the Manchester Color Wheel (MCW). Using this instrument we have been able to classify colors into positive, neutral and negative shades and this study aimed to assess their predictive role in hypnotherapy.

METHODS: 156 consecutive IBS patients (aged 14-74, mean 42.0 years, 127 (81%) females, 29 (19%) males) were studied. Before treatment, each patient was asked to relate their mood to a color on the MCW as well as completing the IBS Symptom Severity Score, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression (HAD) Scale, the Non-colonic Symptom Scale, the Quality of Life Scale and the Tellegen Absorption Scale (TAS) which is a measure of hypnotisability. Following hypnotherapy all these measures were repeated with the exception of the TAS.

RESULTS: For patients with a positive mood color the odds of responding to hypnotherapy were nine times higher than that of those choosing either a neutral or negative color or no color at all (odds ratio: 8.889; p = 0.042). Furthermore,a high TAS score and the presence of HAD anxiety also had good predictive value (odds ratio: 4.024; p = 0.092, 3.917; p < 0.001 respectively) with these markers and a positive mood color being independent of each other. In addition, these factors could be combined to give an even stronger prediction of outcome. Twice as many responders (63, 77.8%) had a positive mood color or were anxious or had a high TAS score compared with 32 (42.7%) without these factors (p < 0.001).

CONCLUSION: A positive mood color, especially when combined with HAD anxiety and a high TAS score, predict a good response to hypnotherapy.

BMC Complement Altern Med. 2010 Dec 7;10:75. Carruthers HR, Morris J, Tarrier N, Whorwell PJ. Department of Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.