Or if you are afraid of water, then you may not want to try and use the beach imagery to fall asleep with. So pick what sounds and imagery that will appeal to you and finally find the sleep you need. You will see that after using one of these self hypnosis audio tapes or Cds that you can get more things done during the daytime and are much more productive. When you use both during your self hypnosis session you will imprint these healthy changes into your mind. This will make it so much easier for you to make these healthy decisions and changes during your alert mind set. Wouldn t it be nice to sit down at a restaurant and when looking at the menu your mind tells you that the healthy choices look appealing and the unhealthy one look disgusting? Say to yourself in your mind what you need to for your mind to make the distinction and to draw the line mentally between hypnosis and alert. One thing you can say to yourself is that I am going to count backwards from 5 and when I reach 1 I will become alert. Then proceed to count backwards slowly from 5 to 1. Employee #1 is the encoding and it is that employees job to type up everything that you give him and then hand it over to employee #2. Employee #2 is the storage and it is his job to take the typed up information and place it into the appropriate filing cabinet. Employee #3 is the retrieval and it is his job to go and get the file out of the filing cabinet when you the boss need it. Joe Smith of Mind Gate holds seminars in Temple, Pennsylvania that cover stop smoking and weight loss. Joe Smith holds classes that will teach your everything you need to know about hypnosis and self hypnosis. These experts have spent a large part of their live to learning as much as they could about hypnosis and self hypnosis. At first it was under scrutiny but in 1954 it was recognized as a valid form of therapy. This paved the way for the many other trends in hypnosis that we would soon see coming. Stage show hypnotist made there way into the limelight and have provided the public with some fun and entertaining shows using hypnosis.